Crossword clues for brainiac
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"very smart person," 1982, U.S. slang, from brain (n.) + ending from ENIAC, etc. Brainiac also was the name of a comic book villain in the Superman series and a do-it-yourself computer building kit, both from the late 1950s, and the word may bear traces of either or both of these.
Wiktionary
n. (context slang sometimes derogatory English) a very intelligent and usually studious, erudite person.
Wikipedia
Brainiac may refer to:
- Brainiac (band), an American indie rock band
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Brainiac: Science Abuse, a British television programme
- Brainiac: History Abuse, a spin-off of the above
- The Brainiac, a 1962 Mexican horror film directed by Chano Urueta
- "Brainiac" (Dark Angel), an episode of the television series Dark Angel
- Function BRAINIAC, an energy drink
- Brainiac: Adventures in the Curious, Competitive, Compulsive World of Trivia Buffs , a book written by Ken Jennings
- Brainiac techniques for improving computer performance
Brainiac is a fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics, commonly as an adversary of Superman. The character first appeared in Action Comics #242 (July 1958), and was created by Otto Binder and Al Plastino.
Brainiac is typically depicted as an extraterrestrial android. He is one of Superman's primary enemies, and is responsible for shrinking and stealing Kandor, the capital city of Superman's home planet Krypton. Due to multiple revisions of DC's continuity, several variations of Brainiac have appeared. Most incarnations of Brainiac depict him as a green-skinned being in humanoid form. He is bald, with a set of linked electrode-like objects (sometimes glowing) protruding from his skull.
The character's name appears to be a portmanteau of the word brain and the initialism ENIAC, the name of an early computer. In 2009, Brainiac was ranked as IGN's 17th Greatest Comic Book Villain of All Time.
Brainiac (sometimes stylized as 3RA1N1AC) was an American Indie rock band formed in 1992, and disbanded after the sudden death of lead singer Tim Taylor in 1997.
"Brainiac" is a five-issue comic book story arc written by Geoff Johns and illustrated by Gary Frank, that was published in Action Comics #866-870 by DC Comics in 2008. The story is notable for several major plot developments regarding Superman: the death of Superman's adopted father Jonathan Kent, the return of the pre- Crisis bottled city of Kandor, and the return of the original Silver Age incarnation of the supervillain Brainiac. It also serves as a prelude to the "Superman: New Krypton" storyarc.
Usage examples of "brainiac".
We thought that Brainiac Who Will Actually Make Something of Her Life and Not End Up Managing a 7-Eleven and Artist Who Will Contribute More to This World Than Misspelled Graffiti sounded so much better.
To be a teenage brainiac was completely uncool, especially for a girl.
Pineville could bed the class Brainiac, then evolved into a genuine longing.
Jessica Darling, textbook goody-goody and Class Brainiac asking him to help me do something very unlike the me everyone thinks I am, myself included.
It was weird to see us in our Most Likely to Succeed and Class Brainiac pictures, the two of us not knowing what would happen between us this year.
Theo is a scholarship winner and a brainiac who definitely has the power to help him.
Gilbert chemistry set, the Electroman electricity set, the Brainiac computer set, the Walt Disney comics, the old schoolbooks with their enigmatic graffiti, the lenses and knives and coins and combs and pencils and matchbooks and pieces of wax.
Joe was a total brainiac with a PhD in archeology and she was a high school dropout.
I hear the Navy got their hands on some whatchamacallit that has Doc Carlson and the other brainiacs all worked up.
Sarah and Caitlin were the uptight brainiacs, so it was only natural for them to get all caught up in this thing.
I hear the Navy got their hands on some whatchamacallit that has Doc Carlson and the other brainiacs all worked up.
McNealy predicts that within a decade, future versions of Brainiac will convert simple verbal instructions elicited from questions it asks its owners into errorless software code more efficient than almost any human could write.