äly — meaning in English
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English meaning
- acumen noun The ability to make quick, accurate judgments and decisions, especially in a particular field.
- brain noun The organ inside the skull that controls thought, memory, emotion, and the rest of the nervous system.
- intellect noun The mental capacity for reasoning, understanding, and abstract thought.
- intelligence noun The ability to learn, understand, and apply knowledge effectively.
Senses
äly is used for these senses in English:
- brain (in the plural) Intellect.
- intellect (uncountable) The faculty of thinking, judging, abstract reasoning, and conceptual understanding; the cognitive faculty.
- intelligence (mostly, uncountable) The quality of making use or having made use of such capacities: depth of understanding, mental quickness.
brain — full definition
- noun The organ inside the skull that controls thought, memory, emotion, and the rest of the nervous system.
- noun A person's intelligence or mental ability.
- noun An especially intelligent person, or the person supplying the ideas behind a plan.
- verb Informal: to hit someone hard on the head.