academic vs brain

academic

noun
  • A member of the Academy; an academician. 

  • A senior member of an academy, college, or university; a person who attends an academy; a person engaged in scholarly pursuits; one who is academic in practice. 

  • A follower of Plato, a Platonist. 

  • Academic studies. 

  • Academic dress; academicals. 

adj
  • Having a love of or aptitude for learning. 

  • Belonging to the school or philosophy of Plato 

  • So scholarly as to be unaware of the outside world; lacking in worldliness; inexperienced in practical matters. 

  • Belonging to an academy or other higher institution of learning, or a scholarly society or organization. 

  • Conforming to set rules and traditions; conventional; formalistic. 

  • Having little practical use or value, as by being overly detailed and unengaging, or by being theoretical and speculative with no practical importance. 

  • In particular: relating to literary, classical, or artistic studies like the humanities, rather than to technical or vocational studies like engineering or welding. 

  • Subscribing to the architectural standards of Vitruvius. 

brain

noun
  • An intelligent person. 

  • A part of the brain, especially associated with particular mental functions, abilities, etc. 

  • Mind. 

  • A loose compartment of a backpack that straps on over the top opening. 

  • An intellectual or mental capacity. 

  • A person who provides the intelligence required for something. 

  • By analogy with a human brain, the part of a machine or computer that performs calculations. 

  • Oral sex. 

  • Intellect. 

  • The control center of the central nervous system of an animal located in the skull which is responsible for perception, cognition, attention, memory, emotion, and action. 

verb
  • To strike (someone) on the head. 

  • To destroy; to put an end to. 

  • To dash out the brains of; to kill by smashing the skull. 

How often have the words academic and brain occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )