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# brainstorm

«brainstorm» in Mova's school dictionary: **To think of lots of ideas quickly, in a group or alone…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (brainstorm, brainstorms, brainstormed, brainstorming); noun (a brainstorm, brainstorms)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (verb) To think of lots of ideas quickly, in a group or alone, writing them all down before choosing the best. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brainstorm/#m1)

2) (noun) A session of doing this. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brainstorm/#m2)

3) (noun, UK, informal) A moment of confusion when you suddenly cannot think. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brainstorm/#m3)

4) (noun, US, informal) A sudden clever idea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brainstorm/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In school, before writing a story, children brainstorm ideas in a mind map or spider diagram. In work and science projects, teams brainstorm solutions. Phrase: brainstorm ideas.

### examples

- Let's brainstorm ideas for our story. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brainstorm/#x1)
- We brainstormed names for the class pet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brainstorm/#x2)
- Our group did a brainstorm on the board. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brainstorm/#x3)
- I had a brainstorm and forgot my own phone number. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brainstorm/#x4)
- She had a brainstorm: why not sell lemonade? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brainstorm/#x5)
- Brainstorm all the words you know about the sea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brainstorm/#x6)

### note

One word. In brainstorming, all ideas are accepted at first; you choose later.

### In the corpora

- [Teachers often allow AI for brainstorming but not for writing your work; ask first when unsure.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/10-using-ai-to-learn-not-to-copy/12/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «brainstorm» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brainstorm/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.