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cabeça — 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.
  • head noun The part of the body containing the brain, eyes, and mouth.
  • nipple noun The small raised point on a breast through which a mother's milk can flow.
  • skull noun The bony structure that forms the head, enclosing the brain.

Senses

cabeça is used for these senses in English:

  • brain (plurale tantum) A person who provides the intelligence required for something.
  • brain (informal) An intelligent person.
  • head A headdress; a covering for the head.
  • headstock The part of a lute-type string instrument, such as a guitar, that holds the tuning pegs or tensioning screws of the strings.
  • nipple (cycling) An internally threaded piece which holds a bicycle spoke in place on the rim. [from 20th c.]
  • skull (figuratively) The mind or brain.

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.

head — full definition

  1. noun The part of the body containing the brain, eyes, and mouth.
  2. noun A person in charge; a leader.
  3. verb To be in charge of, or to move in a particular direction.
  4. adj Chief or foremost in rank.

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