brainwave
a sudden idea or inspiration
TRANSLATION
brainwave = der Gedankenblitz brainwaves = die Gehirnströme --- GOOGLE INDEX brainwave: approximately 8,000,000 Google hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
That's when local farmer Atul Salunkhe, 31, had a BRAINWAVE. How about using Facebook to contact other turmeric growers across the country?
(Times of India)
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As people in emerging markets innovate, America will find it ever more useful to have so many citizens who can tap into the latest BRAINWAVES from Mumbai and Shanghai.
(The Economist)
(Times of India)
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As people in emerging markets innovate, America will find it ever more useful to have so many citizens who can tap into the latest BRAINWAVES from Mumbai and Shanghai.
(The Economist)
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brainwave
noun
- a sudden clever idea (US: brainstorm)
brainwave
- any of several patterns of electrical activity in the brain
(Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
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Brainwaves can change the world. Major inventions such as the steam engine, the telephone, electricity, the computer and the Internet were all the result of an idea that over time resulted in an innovation that changed the way we live.
The more common brainwaves are those that occur on a daily basis. Most of them don't have a great impact, but on occasion life-changing brainwaves happen, either for the better or worse. Following are two good examples.
In 2007, two London football fans who dreamed of playing at the international level had a brainwave. Why not find the world's worse national football team and offer to play for them? Their search led them to the national team of Pohnpei, a tiny island in the Pacific and statistically-speaking home to the world's worst national side.
Because regulations required the men to live on the island for at least 5 years before being allowed to play for the tiny country, authorities asked if they could coach the team instead. The two men then spent 18 months putting together and training a team that eventually beat their arch-rival Guam 7 to 1.
In Sunderland, England in 2006, another brainwave ended up with a less than happy ending. Paramedics found a man lying on the ground, suffering injuries that included a scorched colon. The 22-year-old had inexplicably inserted a fireworks rocket in his back side, lay down on his front side, and then lit the fuse in an attempt to make the rocket fly up into the air.
The only problem was that the rocket was pointing the other way! The chairman of the regional firework association issued the understatement of the century when he said, "This sort of thing is beyond belief."
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SYNONYMS
brainstorm, a stroke of genius, bright idea
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"Luckily John had a brainwave that helped us eventually find a solution."
noun
- a sudden clever idea (US: brainstorm)
brainwave
- any of several patterns of electrical activity in the brain
(Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
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Brainwaves can change the world. Major inventions such as the steam engine, the telephone, electricity, the computer and the Internet were all the result of an idea that over time resulted in an innovation that changed the way we live.
The more common brainwaves are those that occur on a daily basis. Most of them don't have a great impact, but on occasion life-changing brainwaves happen, either for the better or worse. Following are two good examples.
In 2007, two London football fans who dreamed of playing at the international level had a brainwave. Why not find the world's worse national football team and offer to play for them? Their search led them to the national team of Pohnpei, a tiny island in the Pacific and statistically-speaking home to the world's worst national side.
Because regulations required the men to live on the island for at least 5 years before being allowed to play for the tiny country, authorities asked if they could coach the team instead. The two men then spent 18 months putting together and training a team that eventually beat their arch-rival Guam 7 to 1.
In Sunderland, England in 2006, another brainwave ended up with a less than happy ending. Paramedics found a man lying on the ground, suffering injuries that included a scorched colon. The 22-year-old had inexplicably inserted a fireworks rocket in his back side, lay down on his front side, and then lit the fuse in an attempt to make the rocket fly up into the air.
The only problem was that the rocket was pointing the other way! The chairman of the regional firework association issued the understatement of the century when he said, "This sort of thing is beyond belief."
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SYNONYMS
brainstorm, a stroke of genius, bright idea
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"Luckily John had a brainwave that helped us eventually find a solution."
