Definition of brainstorm
brainstorm 
verb - ambitransitive
- to invent ideas and solutions, usually by coming up with as many as possible while not rejecting any out of hand.
Citation from "Baby Monitor", Raising Hope (TV), Season 1 Episode 21 (2011) blacked out to resolve Google's penalty against this site.
Citation from "Chapter 12", Eastbound & Down (TV), Season 2 Episode 6 (2010) blacked out to resolve Google's penalty against this site.- See more words with the same meaning: business (related to).
- See more words with the same meaning: school (related to).
Last edited on Dec 20 2011. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Oct 09 2011.
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Other terms relating to 'business (related to)': | |
| Definitions include: to start one's work shift. | |
| Definitions include: the main source of income for a business. | |
| Definitions include: to take something vertical, i.e. to upper management. | |
| Definitions include: a person's primary skill. | |
| Definitions include: to take something vertical, i.e. to upper management. | |
| Definitions include: a couch on which prospective employees are expected to provide sexual favors in order to secure the position. | |
| Definitions include: to write a spec (specification.) | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "another bloody cathedral" or "another bloody church". | |
| Definitions include: a pejorative term for both the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) and RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America), likening them to the mafia. | |
| Definitions include: a bathroom break. | |
| Definitions include: work (in a professional or educational setting) that is designed to keep a person busy, but to not permit that person to accomplish anything of note. | |
| Definitions include: to hit. | |
| Definitions include: The Salvation Army. | |
| Definitions include: According to Oxford University Press Blog: | |
| Definitions include: "specification". | |
Other terms relating to 'school (related to)': | |
| Definitions include: an all-night period of awakedness to finish a task. | |
| Definitions include: university. | |
| Definitions include: said upon fooling someone. | |
| Definitions include: abbreviated form of "trigonometry". | |
| Definitions include: to be absent from school without permission. | |
| Definitions include: pejorative term for a male in a fraternity, or a male who acts like a male in a fraternity. | |
| Definitions include: homework. | |
| Definitions include: "homework." | |
| Definitions include: an introductory (or especially easy) astronomy course at a college. | |
| Definitions include: a beginner's course. | |
| Definitions include: to prepare for school. | |
| Definitions include: alternate spelling of "school". | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "big man on campus". | |
| Definitions include: abbreviated form of "professor". | |
| Definitions include: related to or similar to a fraternity. | |
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Other terms relating to 'brain': | |
| Definitions include: to beat severely. | |
| Definitions include: an unintelligent person. | |
| Definitions include: unintelligent. | |
| Definitions include: to kill via a gunshot to the head. | |
| Definitions include: to hit someone in the head quite hard. | |
| Definitions include: A protective helmet, often used by skaters. | |
| Definitions include: n. a condition when one's mind is elsewhere and something is forgotten or done incorrectly because of it. | |
| Definitions include: n. a condition when one's mind is elsewhere and something is forgotten or done incorrectly because of it. | |
| Definitions include: unintelligent. | |
| Definitions include: unintelligent, unwise, inefficient, etc. | |
| Definitions include: the departure of intelligent people from a company, organization, country, etc. | |
| Definitions include: the act of telling a person or group everything one knows about a particular topic. | |
| Definitions include: noun, to be hit upside the head when not thinking clearly, to "knock the dust off your brain." | |
| Definitions include: a condition when one's mind is elsewhere and something is forgotten or done incorrectly because of it. | |
| Definitions include: a temporary headache caused by consuming something very cold. | |
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Other terms relating to 'storm': | |
| Definitions include: a terrible mess, literally or figuratively. | |
| Definitions include: to have sex. | |
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