Ramify
['ræmɪfaɪ] or ['ræmə,fai]
Definition
(verb.) grow and send out branches or branch-like structures; 'these plants ramify early and get to be very large'.
Editor: Ricky--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To divide into branches or subdivisions; as, to ramify an art, subject, scheme.
(v. i.) To shoot, or divide, into branches or subdivisions, as the stem of a plant.
(v. i.) To be divided or subdivided, as a main subject.
Typist: Lolita
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Separate into branches.
v. n. Branch, divaricate, shoot into branches.
Editor: Woodrow
Definition
See under Ramus.
Inputed by Delia
Examples
- It is closely related to most of the interests of life--ramifying into industry, into the family, health, play, art, religion. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- So far his power ramified. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Every activity, however specific, is, of course, general in its ramified connections, for it leads out indefinitely into other things. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- To-day the telegraph is the great nerve system of the nation’s body, and it ramifies and vitalizes every part with sensitive force. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
Checked by Annabelle