Egghead - English meaning

adjective

Relating to education and scholarship.

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Academic achievement

noun

A teacher or scholar in a university or other institute of higher education.

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The eu offers grants to academics for research on approved projects

adjective

Relating to schools, esp. colleges and universities, or connected with studying and thinking and not with useful skills

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Which diamond ring you like more is purely academic, because i can’t afford either one.

noun

An intellectual or literary woman.

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A victorian bluestocking

noun

A person who enjoys reading.

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As a serious bookworm, i missed browsing at the library

noun

Infml someone who likes to read books

noun

An organ of soft nervous tissue contained in the skull of vertebrates, functioning as the coordinating centre of sensation and intellectual and nervous activity.

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A brain tumour

verb

Hit (someone) hard on the head with an object.

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She brained me with a rolling pin

noun

A person who is very knowledgeable about or skilful in a particular area.

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An expert in healthcare

adjective

Having or involving a great deal of knowledge or skill in a particular area.

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He had received expert academic advice

noun

A person having a high level of knowledge or skill in a particular subject

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He is the administration’s foreign-policy expert for eastern europe., she’s an expert swimmer.

noun

Exceptional intellectual or creative power or other natural ability.

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She was a teacher of genius

adjective

Very clever or ingenious.

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A genius idea

noun

Very great and rare natural ability or skill, especially in a particular area such as science or art, or a person who has this

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(an) artistic/creative/musical genius, einstein was a (mathematical) genius., from the age of three…

adjective

Intellectual or rarefied in taste.

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Innovatory art had a small, mostly highbrow following

noun

A highbrow person.

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She considered all those without television as highbrows, intellectual snobs, or paupers

adjective

(of literature, art, music, films, or plays) serious and intended for intelligent educated people who know a lot about these forms of art, or (of people) intelligent and knowing a lot about such things

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Highbrow entertainment, a highbrow intellectual

noun

The faculty of reasoning and understanding objectively, especially with regard to abstract matters.

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He was a man of action rather than of intellect

noun

A person’s ability to think and understand esp. ideas at a high level

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[ c ] the stroke left her partially paralyzed, but her intellect was not affected.

adjective

Relating to the intellect.

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Children need intellectual stimulation

noun

A person possessing a highly developed intellect.

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A prominent political thinker and intellectual

adjective

Relating to the ability to think and understand ideas at a high level, or involving ideas

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He was among the political and intellectual leaders of his time.

noun

A person with an outstanding intellect.

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An eminent musical mastermind

verb

Plan and direct (an ingenious and complex scheme or enterprise).

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He was accused of masterminding a gold-smuggling racket

verb

To plan and direct a difficult activity

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Oliver masterminded the takeover of his top business competitor., the mastermind behind the escape …

noun

A person of wide knowledge or learning.

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A renaissance polymath

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A person who knows a lot about many different subjects

noun

A young person with exceptional qualities or abilities.

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A russian pianist who was a child prodigy in his day

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A child who shows a great ability at a young age

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A child prodigy on the piano

noun

An aromatic plant whose greyish-green leaves are used as a culinary herb, native to southern europe and the mediterranean.

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Other culinary herbs, like sage, rosemary and thyme, are native to mediterranean regions where the …

adjective

Profoundly wise.

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They nodded in agreement with these sage remarks

adjective

Wise, esp. as a result of long experience

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Sage advice

noun

A specialist in a particular branch of study, especially the humanities.

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A hebrew scholar

noun

A person with great knowledge, usually of a particular subject

noun

A person who studies a subject in great detail, especially at a university

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A classics/history scholar, dr miles was a distinguished scholar of russian history.

noun

A person who thinks deeply and seriously.

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She was not a thinker, but she had common sense

noun

Someone who considers important subjects or produces new ideas

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He’s a creative thinker and a good administrator.

verb

Move at a regular pace by lifting and setting down each foot in turn, never having both feet off the ground at once.

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I walked across the lawn

noun

An act of travelling or an outing on foot.

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He was too restless to sleep, so he went out for a walk

noun

A route recommended or marked out for recreational walking.

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There are picnic places and waymarked walks

verb

Move quickly through the air with a whistling or buzzing sound.

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The missiles whizzed past

noun

A whistling or buzzing sound made by something moving fast through the air.

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I can add whizzes, bangs and sparkles really easily.

noun

Someone who is very good and successful at something

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A whizz at/on/with sth you don't have to be a whizz at computers in this job., a computer/financial…

noun

(in legends and fairy tales) a man who has magical powers.

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To do that he requires a rod of dragon control, and hopes to get his hands on the one the empress u…

adjective

Wonderful; excellent.

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How absolutely wizard!

noun

A man who is believed to have magical powers and, esp. in stories, uses them to help or harm people

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A financial wizard