Branch
[brɑːn(t)ʃ] or [bræntʃ]
Definition
(noun.) a division of some larger or more complex organization; 'a branch of Congress'; 'botany is a branch of biology'; 'the Germanic branch of Indo-European languages'.
(noun.) a stream or river connected to a larger one.
(noun.) a division of a stem, or secondary stem arising from the main stem of a plant.
(noun.) a part of a forked or branching shape; 'he broke off one of the branches'.
(verb.) divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork; 'The road forks'.
Checker: Lorrie--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A shoot or secondary stem growing from the main stem, or from a principal limb or bough of a tree or other plant.
(n.) Any division extending like a branch; any arm or part connected with the main body of thing; ramification; as, the branch of an antler; the branch of a chandelier; a branch of a river; a branch of a railway.
(n.) Any member or part of a body or system; a distinct article; a section or subdivision; a department.
(n.) One of the portions of a curve that extends outwards to an indefinitely great distance; as, the branches of an hyperbola.
(n.) A line of family descent, in distinction from some other line or lines from the same stock; any descendant in such a line; as, the English branch of a family.
(n.) A warrant or commission given to a pilot, authorizing him to pilot vessels in certain waters.
(a.) Diverging from, or tributary to, a main stock, line, way, theme, etc.; as, a branch vein; a branch road or line; a branch topic; a branch store.
(v. i.) To shoot or spread in branches; to separate into branches; to ramify.
(v. i.) To divide into separate parts or subdivision.
(v. t.) To divide as into branches; to make subordinate division in.
(v. t.) To adorn with needlework representing branches, flowers, or twigs.
Typist: Vern
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Bough, limb, shoot.[2]. Offshoot, ramification, arm, projecting part.[3]. Section, subdivision, part, portion, article, member.
v. n. Diverge, ramify, spread in branches, shoot off, branch off.
Edited by Eva
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Member, bifurcation, bough, limb, offspring, shoot, spray, sprig, twig,ramification, offshoot, relative, scion
ANT:Trunk, stock, stem, race, family, house
Edited by Candice
Definition
n. a shoot or arm-like limb of a tree: anything like a limb of a tree: any offshoot or subdivision a section or department of a subject: any subordinate division of a business &c. as a branch-bank or pawn-shop.—v.t. to divide into branches.—v.i. to spread out as a branch (with out off from).—adj. Branched.—ns. Branch′er a young hawk or other bird when it leaves the nest and begins to take to the branches; Branch′ery branches collectively.—adjs. Branch′ing furnished with or shooting out branches; Branch′less.—ns. Branch′let a little branch; Branch′-pī′lot one who holds the Trinity House certificate; Branch′-work ornamental figured patterns.—adj. Branch′y.—Root and branch thoroughly—used also adjectively as in a 'root-and-branch' policy.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
It betokens, if full of fruit and green leaves, wealth, many delightful hours with friends. If they are dried, sorrowful news of the absent.
Edited by Barrett
Examples
- Economic history deals with the activities, the career, and fortunes of the common man as does no other branch of history. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- An important branch of the textile art is cloth finishing, whereby the rough surface of the cloth as it comes from the loom is rendered soft and smooth. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The cutting away when there's anything wrong, and the eating all the wittles when there's everything right; is that his branch? Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- This move was made without a single casualty in either branch of the service. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- No leaf will decay because we are removed, nor any branch become motionless although we can observe you no longer! Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- His goods, said Mr. Cruncher, after turning it over in his mind, is a branch of Scientific goods. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- In this branch house of ours, Handel, we must have a-- I saw that his delicacy was avoiding the right word, so I said, A clerk. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Hence I was led to dry the stems and branches of ninety-four plants with ripe fruit, and to place them on sea-water. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Of the public Works and Institution which are necessary for facilitating particular Branches of Commerce. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- As allied branches of the photographic art, photo-engraving, photo-lithographing, and half-tone engraving are important developments of the Nineteenth Century. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The ancient customs were divided into three branches. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The first railroads to be built were principally branches of the Liverpool and Manchester one, and chiefly located in the mining and manufacturing county of Lancaster. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- A part of the second floor is devoted to the storage and the shipping of parts to branches and agents. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Collateral with the development of the printing press are three important branches of the art--stereotyping, paper making, and type setting. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- In British Guiana the name is given to another large, much-branched tree, and there are also other varieties in Para and along the Rio Negro, which is a tributary of the Amazon River. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- We arrived, as he said those words, at a place where the highway along which we had been walking branched off into two roads. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Rows of doors, garnished with boots of every shape, make, and size, branched off in every possible direction. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Here, indeed, dwell human beings, but so few, and in alleys so thick branched and overarched, they are neither heard nor seen. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The vineyards were thin and bare-branched too and all the country wet and brown and dead with the autumn. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- In front of the white garden-palings the path branched into three like a broad arrow. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Every one knows how the horns of stags become more and more branched, and the plumes of some birds become more finely developed, as they grow older. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- A stone-flagged passage, with the kitchens branching away from it, led by a wooden staircase directly to the first floor of the house. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Slipping quietly through this opening I discovered a maze of winding corridors, branching and turning in every direction. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- The branching and diverging dotted lines of unequal lengths proceeding from (A), may represent its varying offspring. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- In certain genera of star-fishes, the very combinations needed to show that the pedicellariae are only modified branching spines may be found. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- The young tadpole has branching external gills that wave in the water; then a gill cover grows back over them and forms a gill chamber. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Mixed minerals will often intercrystallize in blobs or branching shapes that are very suggestive of simple plant or animal forms. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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