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ум — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • brain noun The organ inside the skull that controls thought, memory, emotion, and the rest of the nervous system.
  • brains noun Mental ability or intelligence.
  • esprit noun Spirit, enthusiasm.
  • intellect noun The mental capacity for reasoning, understanding, and abstract thought.
  • intelligence noun The ability to learn, understand, and apply knowledge effectively.
  • mind noun The part of a person responsible for thought, awareness, memory, and reasoning.
  • wit noun The ability to say clever, funny things quickly.

Senses

ум is used for these senses in English:

  • brain (in the plural) Intellect.
  • brains (informal, with "the") The intelligent person or people in a group: the director, planner, administrator, etc.
  • esprit A wit.
  • intellect (uncountable) The faculty of thinking, judging, abstract reasoning, and conceptual understanding; the cognitive faculty.
  • intellect (uncountable) The capacity of that faculty (in a particular person).
  • intelligence (mostly, uncountable) The quality of making use or having made use of such capacities: depth of understanding, mental quickness.
  • mind The capability for rational thought.
  • wit Intellectual ability; faculty of thinking, reasoning.

brain — full definition

  1. noun The organ inside the skull that controls thought, memory, emotion, and the rest of the nervous system.
  2. noun A person's intelligence or mental ability.
  3. noun An especially intelligent person, or the person supplying the ideas behind a plan.
  4. verb Informal: to hit someone hard on the head.

brains — full definition

  1. noun Mental ability or intelligence.
  2. noun The person or people responsible for the ideas and planning behind something.

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