Crossword clues for brainchild
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
brainchild \brainchild\ n. a product of one's creative thinking and work; as, the project was the brainchild of the director.
Syn: inspiration.
Wiktionary
n. A creation, original idea, or innovation, usually used to indicate the originators
WordNet
n. a product of your creative thinking and work; "he had little respect for the inspirations of other artists"; "after years of work his brainchild was a tangible reality" [syn: inspiration]
[also: brainchildren (pl)]
Wikipedia
Brainchild may refer to:
- Brainchild (band), a local supergroup from Youngstown, Ohio, 1969–1972
- Brainchild (Society of Soul album), 1996
- Brainchild (Circle of Dust album), 1994
- Fictional comic characters in the Marvel Universe:
- Brainchild (comics)
- Brain-Child,
- Brainchild, a project related to the industrial band Circle of Dust
- Brainchild, a 1981 novel by Andrew Neiderman
Brainchild is the debut and only album by Society of Soul. The group consists of the production team Organized Noize, singer Esparonza Brown and poet Big Rube. The album was released on LaFace Records in 1995.
Brainchild is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.
Brainchild was a Youngstown, Ohio-based supergroup formed in 1969. Original members consisted of vocalist Joe Pizzulo, guitarist Larry Paxton, bassist Bill Bodine, drummer John Grazier, and keyboardists Ronny Lee and Danny Marshall. Later members were vocalist/drummer Dave Freeland, and vocalist "Odie" Crook. They disbanded at the end of 1972.
Keyboardist Ronny Lee would later join another group from Youngstown called Law, who would become the opening act for The Who.
Vocalist Joe Pizzulo went on to achieve massive success in the early/mid-1980s as a member of Sergio Mendes' band, providing lead vocals on the smash hits " Never Gonna Let You Go" and "Alibis," among others.
Nearly 30 years after their break up Brainchild members reunited in 2002 for a series of charity concerts.
Brainchild is the second studio album by the industrial metal band Circle of Dust, released in 1994 through R.E.X. Music.
Usage examples of "brainchild".
It was a sneaky plan, obviously the brainchild of the older, more experienced Zoariyi.
Probably Wal had been the brainchild of Uncle Zoariyi, and the sorcerer's hesitation suggested that he might even be aware of that.
We hoped the bus tour, the brainchild of Susan Thomases and David Wilhelm, would keep the excitement and momentum of the convention going.
The brainchild of Millard Fuller, a friend of ours from Renaissance Weekend, Habitat uses volunteers to build houses for and with poor people, who then pay for the cost of the materials.
The advent of the Industrial Revolution - and the imagery of the romantic lone inventor toiling on his brainchild in a basement or, later, a garage - gave rise to the patent.
Accepted only the year before, the Proteans were the brainchild of Hester L.
The system had been designed by the Advanced Technology Research Board, a board formed in reaction to the "GalTech" group, and was the brainchild of the former Ground Forces High Commander.
The previous October, President Truman had fired William Donovan, disbanding his brainchild, the OSS.
Using Donovan's brainchild, the Random Intervention Surveillance Sweep, which we now keep on every active field operative's home base, the Janitors picked up a phone call to Maroc's apartment at 5:57, local time.
She stopped when she came to the chop, the signature seal of the "official of the highest rank" whose brainchild the Hong Kong operation was.
I cannot expect to live for very much longer, but I hope that some of my brainchildren can.
And to help those brainchildren attain something approaching long life, it is just as well if I relax my rules and allow others to make use of them and reinvigorate them.
It appears to those who work with their minds and imagination, however, that to steal one brainchildren is almost as heinous a crime, and so , “ in English, has come to mean the stealing of the ideas, forms, or words by someone who then puts them forth as his or her own.
In his experience, most inventors were wildly eager to show off their brainchildren.
Those were rarer than one might have thought, and from his own experience, Simpson recognized the mental flexibility involved in acknowledging that someone else had actually made one of your own brainchildren better.