brainwork

Examples

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• Everyone else in Sherlock's life is quite surprised when he shows up with John because Sherlock typically does all of his brainwork alone.

  Blog text (31)

• Who did all the brainwork here?

  Eight Men Out (1988)

• No, I always did the brainwork.

  Scooby-Doo (2002)

• I did all the brainwork.

  A Tale of Two Cities (1935)

• I've never forgotten what fun it was to write pages for IE4, how much more stuff you could do with a bit of JavaScript and some brainwork than you could in the Netscape of the day.

  Blog text (24)

• We discovered a spot where an enormous tree had fallen, exposing the gnarled brainwork of its roots, and another two acres where there were no trees but only smooth sand hills.

  Fiction book (2002)

• "After I did all the brainwork, Schrödinger went and told my cat-in-the-box paradox to some guy named Einstein as if he'd thought it up himself.

  Fiction book (2001)

• The team put in considerable brainwork to come up with innovative solutions for their client.

• After much brainwork, she found the answer to the puzzle that had stumped everyone.

Synonyms

T

thinking

vsbrainwork

872 1.8

Careful use of your mind to consider something

is focused on active effort and problem solving rather than mere thought

B

brainpower

vsbrainwork

8 3.4

Mental ability to think and solve problems

is the active mental effort and activity rather than static ability

M

mental energy

vsbrainwork

4 3.9

The ability to think clearly and focus on a task

is the actual effort or activity produced when that capacity is used

H

headwork

vsbrainwork

1 5.8

Careful thinking that helps solve a problem

is broader mental activity that includes reasoning beyond careful problem solving

Antonyms

I

idleness

8 4.5

A time when someone is not working or active

How Mentally Demanding

brainwork

1 3.9

thinking

872 1.8

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology