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Branch   /bræntʃ/   Listen
Branch

noun
(pl. branches)
1.
A division of some larger or more complex organization.  Synonyms: arm, subdivision.  "Botany is a branch of biology" , "The Germanic branch of Indo-European languages"
2.
A division of a stem, or secondary stem arising from the main stem of a plant.
3.
A part of a forked or branching shape.  Synonyms: leg, ramification.
4.
A natural consequence of development.  Synonyms: offset, offshoot, outgrowth.
5.
A stream or river connected to a larger one.
6.
Any projection that is thought to resemble a human arm.  Synonyms: arm, limb.  "An arm of the sea" , "A branch of the sewer"
verb
(past & past part. branched; pres. part. branching)
1.
Grow and send out branches or branch-like structures.  Synonym: ramify.
2.
Divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork.  Synonyms: fork, furcate, ramify, separate.



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"Branch" Quotes from Famous Books



... went straight from Lake Baikal to Vladivostok it would be very much shorter, and would confer a very great benefit on the north-eastern provinces of the Celestial Empire. This benefit, moreover, might be greatly increased by making a branch line to Talienwan and Port Arthur, which would some day be united with Peking. Gradually Li-Hung-Chang and other influential Chinese officials were induced to sympathise with the scheme, and a ...
— Russia • Donald Mackenzie Wallace
... zealously attached members of the Church of England need not to be reminded of a truth which is frequently brought before them in the circle of its daily service. They know that "it is better to trust in the Lord than to put any confidence in princes." They are sure that, if theirs is a living branch of Christ's Holy Catholic Church, many a weapon will be formed against it, but yet "no weapon that is ...
— Australia, its history and present condition • William Pridden
... and was like to tear his clothes and weep for vexation. Then they went away from him, and when it was the hour of noon, up came his mistress, trailing her skirts and swaying in her gait, as she were a cassia-branch in a garden. She was yet more richly dressed and adorned and more bewitching[FN263] in her symmetry and grace than on the previous day, so that she made the passers stop and stand in ...
— Tales from the Arabic Volumes 1-3 • John Payne
... into the haven of a well-chosen apartment, sharing his intimacy only with Arthur Ferris, the brisk-eyed advocate whose curt office missive always enforced the lagging collections of the New York branch. ...
— The Midnight Passenger • Richard Henry Savage
... recompense him with our shade. And since his kindness saw us prun'd so well, We will requite him with our fragrant smell; In winter (as in gratitude is meet) We'll strew our humble leaves beneath his feet. Nay, in each tree, root, trunk, branch, all will be Proud to serve him and ...
— On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, • Samuel Felton


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