Meaning of brain storm | Babel Free

Definitions

A seizure, convulsion, or similar incident of abnormal brain activity.

Examples

“He was so puffing and fuming that he had to pull up for breath, and take his hat off to ease the smoking hot pressure of a brainstorm.”

“The most honored one has had a brain storm — minor, but there was a second one past midnight.”

“Such communication is normally regulated by an appropriate amount of electricity but when the amount is very high (rate of 500 times per second), this results in a brain storm known as epilepsy.”

“To expand his mind would exhaust what little strength he still had and ignite the brain storm that had finally passed.”

“And where were you when Josh came up with this brain storm?”

“That was when I had it--a virtual brain storm. This whole episode, I could see, was a perfect answer.”

“In such a brain storm creativity may be stimulated by for instance looking at nature, products of competitors, alternative materials or delivery systems [36], or by focusing on improvement strategies outlined from section 3.2 onwards.”

“In choosing to begin my presentation with a sequence of diary musings, a brain storm on reasons for studying knowledge as social scientists, and a teasing out of usages of 'knowledge' from two chance newspaper extracts I deliberately intend to start building a field that is not exclusive as to academic disciplines and language.”

CEFR level