Definition of branch in English:

branch

noun brɑːn(t)ʃbræn(t)ʃ

1A part of a tree which grows out from the trunk or from a bough.
Sophie was in the branches of a tree eating an apple
Example sentencesExamples
- Five large hippo-like creatures were grazing on tall, violet flowers growing out from the branches of nearby trees.
- Again and again, chronologers applied the same techniques to the materials they assembled along the tree's trunk and branches.
- In other cases, growing trees had their branches cut regularly on one side, because they leaned on to private property; the trees grew up lopsided and leaned far on to the roads.
- Most people are likely to think of winter landscapes as pictures made up of stark contrasts, of dark tree trunks and branches against white snow.
- Open-grown or widely spaced trees have larger-diameter dead branches than trees grown at narrower spacing.
- People are collecting the branches and boughs of trees smashed down by the icy snow.
- Little hooks line the trunk and branches of the tree, on which children can hang their creations or the drawings of their dreams and wishes.
- In a branched system, a single pipe feeds smaller pipes along the way much like a tree trunk feeds the branches.
- A profusion of mosses, liverworts, lichens and ferns cover the woodland floor and festoon tree trunks and branches.
- They grow on the tree branches and bloom for two months only, during July and August.
- Twenty or thirty large, gently fluted pods grow directly from the tree's trunk and branches, dangling like holiday ornaments.
- The position is similar to that where branches of trees growing on neighbouring property encroach across the boundary.
- The curling movement of the smoke is echoed in the arabesques formed by the curving trunks and branches of two trees, which are also reflected in a pond in the foreground.
- Tucked away in the forest, and only accessible to those with local knowledge, its old contorted paperbark trees exhibited gnarly branches, trunks and burls.
- The steel columns holding up the roof will resemble the trunks and branches of trees.
- As a result, student work will improve if they try drawing trees that show branches growing toward them and - to a lesser extent - away from them.
- And my friend told me that you can graft an apple branch into a peach tree, but the branch will still grow apples.
- Of special interest are the bromeliads that grow on trunks and along branches of big trees.
- This time he sang for his tree to grow thick branches and leaves to shelter him in this forbidding place.
- Most species find food while climbing on tree trunks or branches.
Synonyms
bough, limb, arm, offshoot
1. 1.1 A lateral extension or subdivision extending from the main part of a river, road, railway, etc.
  a branch of the Clinton River
  Example sentencesExamples
  Beyond a collection of compact, stone cottages, which were contemporaries of the Seadog's Roost, a minor branch of the road curved to the left.
  Private GEO-TV said the bus was traveling along the Karakoram highway in Kohistan when it left the road and fell into a branch of the Indus river.
  But this map also clearly shows that the river has many canals, streams, branches and tributaries.
  Shakadang Stream is a branch of the Liwu River, which cuts through rock layers 9 million years old to carve the Taroko Gorge.
  Several small branches of the corridor extend north and south of the main corridor.
  Georgia was also on one of the branches of the Silk Road, which carried trade from China and India to Europe.
  At this point they took the eastern branch of the road and walked for another five days.
  The mid-April snow storm will provide significant moisture for increased streamflow on the southern branch of the Platte River in Colorado.
  They took the western branch of the road to begin with.
  In the Rio Negro, it inhabits the large swamps that form where tributaries meet the main branch of the river.
  That hill led to the back of another sight, and that sight was connected to a branch of the main road.
  He's going to come to a number of branches in the road, where he will choose, or events will choose, which road is taken.
  A mistake at a university in Laval and a railway branch built by the Canadian National changed things.
  It is not officially a branch, but rather an extension of the main line first named the Oshawa Subdivision and re-named the Belleville Subdivision.
  From there it will be carried up into the largest vein of the body and into the right side of the heart, then into the main branches of the arteries to the lung, where it will impact, blocking the blood flow.
  The main station is being built at Ondangwa where the railway branches to Oshakati and to Oshikango.
  My original intent was to ride all three branches of Metro North's New Haven Line in Connecticut.
  Farther upstream, two branches of the river offer wilder rainbows and brook trout.
  Second, Goondiwindi's water park incorporates the Serpentine Creek, a branch of the Macintyre River.
  We walked through endless marble corridors that twisted and turned with many branches leading from the main thoroughfare.
  Synonyms
  tributary, feeder, side stream
2. 1.2 A division or office of a large business or organization, operating locally or having a particular function.
  he went to work at our Birmingham branch
  Example sentencesExamples
  As the leading bank for businesses, with a network of over 1600 branches and 1400 business managers, no one is better placed to help businesses succeed.
  Experienced branch managers will operate the elevators.
  Instead of being located in branches, business bank managers are being rehoused in three centralised sites in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Inverness.
  It ran a big trading business and had branch offices in many locations such as Osaka, Kobe and Hokkaido.
  The idea is to make it easier for small businesses and branch offices to manage security risks more efficiently by using a single appliance.
  The branch managers and compliance officers failed in their duty.
  This program aims at strengthening the influence of the branch organizations and helping the harmonization of the local legislation with that of the Union.
  In most cases of loan default, the axe always falls on the branch manager and middle-level officers.
  The unions, which function as virtual corporate branch offices, immediately got the message.
  The layoffs affected 14 employees locally and 11 in branch offices.
  This organization replaced an association of NGOs working for alcohol abstinence and had branch offices operating on regional and local levels.
  He said he had an opportunity to open a branch office for an established document-imaging business that two friends of his had started in another state.
  The arrangement breaks down the division between headquarters and branch offices.
  Not only is the branch post office of essential use to the people of the community, but it also is a centre of vital community communication and a social meeting place.
  Remote workers, branch offices and small businesses have all been persuaded of the advantages of the appliance route.
  He was surprised by the willingness of branch managers to merge businesses and share common facilities without head office intervention.
  In the Rangoon division, 18 out of 40 branch offices are now operating, with nine permitted to put up their old signboards.
  Postbank operates 30 branches and 93 offices across the country and is represented in about 2300 post offices in Bulgaria.
  Twenty-eight locally registered banks and six branches of foreign banks operate in the country.
  Post Office bosses say there are too many branches chasing too little business.
  Synonyms
  division, subdivision, section, subsection, department, sector, part, side, wing
  area, sphere, discipline, field
  office, bureau, agency
  affiliate, subsidiary, offshoot, satellite
  chapter, lodge
3. 1.3 A conceptual subdivision of a family, subject, group of languages, etc.
  a branch of mathematics called graph theory
  Example sentencesExamples
  The family now had branches firmly settled in Michigan and Massachusetts.
  Because in India, family bonding is still strong, and marriage is one occasion where distant branches of the family are remembered and invited.
  It belongs to the Tibeto-Burman branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family.
  I have a feeling you and I are from different branches of the same family!
  The Estonian language is a branch of the Baltic-Finnish group of the Finno-Ugric family, related to Finnish.
  Otherwise, the tongues spoken in Indonesia belong to several branches of the Austronesian language family.
  Thus, Sanskrit, instead of being the mother of all Indo-European languages, became just a branch of their huge family.
  Now I must explain that my family - or branches thereof - have lived in South Africa for 154 years.
  All the national languages, with the exception of the official language, English, are Bantu, a branch of the Niger-Congo language family.
  Serbo-Croatian belongs to the Slavic branch of the Indo-European language family.
  Family branches take turns to host the ceremony, with the expenditure shared by the whole village.
  There are many differences between these two branches of the language, and this word is one instance.
  And we will head out to my great-grandmother's place to meet with the branch of the family I'd rather not meet.
  Hungarian belongs to the Ugor branch of the Finno-Ugric language family.
  A new branch of the English language has emerged to describe the shady practice, with phishing, pharming, keylogging and spyware among the recently coined words.
  Over the years some branches of the family have been blighted by a congenital heart defect but Mrs Pike's illness was coincidental, say friends, because she was adopted.
  Which of us, after all, has grown up in an apartment block specifically built to house, on each of its eight floors, a different branch of our own family?
  Two branches of the family came out to Australia together in 1878.
  Russian is one of three East Slavic languages of the Slavic branch of the Indo-European language family.
  Greyhounds, red dragons and portcullises belonging to heraldry of various family branches finish off the decorations.

verb brɑːn(t)ʃbræn(t)ʃ

[no object]

1(of a road or path) divide into one or more subdivisions.
follow this track south until it branches into two
Example sentencesExamples
- Every path they searched branched into more paths, which branched into more paths.
- Approximately halfway between the mayor's house and the village, the path branched.
- Every so often Erik would stop and feel against the wall, and every time he did they changed direction into a new passage that branched into the previous one they were traveling down.
- It is an insidious cancer of the lymphatic system, which branches into all the organs.
- There was a conservatory situated a small distance behind the house, and a small path branched from the driveway to the door.
- The route branched through some of the most difficult terrain of western China and arrived 9600 km west, then north, to Shaanxi.
- To explore this loop road, turn left at the Main Junction and follow the road branching south.
- A wide cobblestone path flowed through the park, along with several branching pathways.
- Draw the lines into the future, imagine the ways in which they'd split and branch, imagine a million hearts that will never flutter into life.
- However, their arms are very highly forked and branched, and even more flexible than those of brittle stars.
- At this point, it branches into the cephalic vein on the lateral aspect of the biceps muscle and the basilic vein on the medial side of the muscle.
- You don't have the freedom to go everywhere, but you must often select from branching paths.
- I glanced to my right, where the road had many branching paths that led to houses down the way, including my own.
- The methionine biosynthesis pathways differ also at the point where threonine and methionine biosynthesis pathways branch.
- Soon the crack widened, however, and their path branched down into the darkness.
- In the centre of the village, a small side road branched away and climbed a steep brae beyond the houses and back gardens.
- Here, the cobbled street branched to form the perimeter of a paved rectangle containing two ornate fountains and a statue of a mounted king which had been hauled down and partly dismembered.
- When the main path bears slightly right towards a bench, leave it via a path branching to the left of the main path and running uphill through the trees.
- He rose to his feet, and then leapt back when a loud roar issued from one of the many passages branching from the cavern.
Synonyms
fork, bifurcate, divide, subdivide, split, separate, go in different directions
technical furcate, divaricate
diverge from, deviate from, depart from, turn aside from, shoot off from, split off from, go off at a tangent from
fan out from, ray out from, radiate from
technical ramify
1. 1.1branch off Diverge from the main route or part.
  the road branched off at the market town
  Example sentencesExamples
  A more adventurous method would be to simply explore each road radiating from the main junction or branching off into narrow arteries, and you'll be bound to hit the same spots, more or less.
  She'd noticed some liver spots on his cheeks, forehead and hands in the last few years, deep lines like streams cascading down his face, with others forming, branching off a main tributary.
  As I passed into an unfamiliar area of the town, a small alley that branched off of the main street, I heard a cry.
  I pointed along a narrow dirt path that branched off the main access road.
  Nestle into one of several campsites at the base of the 300-foot-tall amphitheater, and explore the many slots and dry waterfalls branching off from Labyrinth's main canyon.
  For walkers, a narrow, rocky path, with steps in places, branches off the main track before the last bridge, and follows the Greta beneath the A66.
  Twelve long tendrils stretched out from a central mountain, with smaller mounds branching off from the main stem in a leaf-like pattern and eventually tapering down to become one with the landscape.
  Feedback has so far been extremely positive about the exterior of the glass-fronted building and its internal design, which features an indoor avenue that branches off to the four main galleries.
  It branched off the main path and was rarely used.
  However, paths branched off the main one and led through the various beds of flowers and bushes.
  Streets are carved out of the landscape as veins branching off a main artery, with framed vistas across the harbor.
  The trail around the tarn is a favourite for families, with plenty of play opportunities in water and woodland, and lots of optional tracks branching off from the main path.
  In one instance, a fourth and much smaller tunnel appears as the deepest tier owing to branching off from a main tunnel.
  We continued more sedately through open country of varying steepness to the crossover point where routes branch off to different villages in the Prättigau valley.
  Some RTC buses branched off from the main roads to find emergency escape routes like by-lanes, already jammed by cars and two-wheelers!
  Another path branches off from the main one, but they walk past it.
  They backtracked far into the cave, away into one of the tunnels that branched off from the main one, and finally into a small cavern.
  I led the way into one of the back halls that branched off the main room.
  Building styles from throughout the country branch off from a main square, showing the visitor a miniature Spain.
  At a certain point, we saw several people branching off from the main march and, along with other Council activists, we went to see what was happening.
  Synonyms
  swerve, career, skew, swing, sheer, weave, wheel
2. 1.2branch out Extend or expand one's activities or interests in a new direction.
  the company is branching out into Europe
  Example sentencesExamples
  The company was looking to expand and to branch out from large metropolitan areas.
  Certainly, they branch out in different directions in attitudes to football management.
  As you may have heard, he has been branching out from talk radio into jurisprudence and constitutional law.
  Not one to rest on his laurels, the last few years have seen the front man branch out with two diverse releases of his own.
  From these locations different groups branched out in various directions with different levels of success.
  The company started life as a shuttle service linking Dublin Airport with the main hotels in the city centre, before branching out beyond Dublin.
  We knew in the early 1990s that we needed to diversify and branched out into a lot of different areas.
  But even with its rise in popularity, instead of branching out its warehouses to bigger cities, the company says its heart lies firmly in Rossendale.
  Suddenly, the auto maker seems to be branching out in all directions at once.
  I think I would be more interested in branching out and making other types of pop culture.
  I've gotten a lot of new opportunities I wouldn't have gotten unless I was branching out and doing new things.
  She has certainly branched out into more interesting work in recent years.
  But what she's really excited about is her plan to branch out into directing.
  What's so attractive about diversifying from the insurance business and branching out into personal loans?
  With five victories and 13 poles, his interests branched out.
  Acting is still a great love of mine, but I thought it was time to branch out and expand my world.
  He said the tour has given the band the chance to branch out and explore different directions and to satisfy their eclectic tastes.
  He should spend more time expanding the commercial side of the market before branching out.
  With this confidence, I branched out into other fitness activities, such as kickboxing and Spinning.
  Originally a Reiki practitioner, she has during the years branched out in several directions and is still learning.
  Synonyms
  expand, spread out, open up, extend
  diversify, spread/stretch one's wings, broaden one's horizons
2(of a tree or plant) bear or send out branches.
this rose has a tendency to branch and spread at the top
the branching heads of large yellow daisies
Example sentencesExamples
- She peered up at the tree that branched over them, watched the leaves turn, slip by each other as they passed.
- Plants show similar repetitive structures in, for example, the veins on a leaf or a tree's branching limbs.
- Pinching or shearing new growth forces the plant to branch where you cut it and to build up a strong undercarriage that supports heavier top growth later in the season.
- The basal stems can be confused with those of L. mucronata, but that species has branched basal stems that are prostrate and petiolate basal leaves.
- Pinch the growing tip out of tall-growing plants to encourage branching and shorter growth.
- High up in one of the larger and more densely branched trees in the area, a man crouched, cursing his luck.
- Increased size also allowed more branching and thus more termini per plant.
- These plants are branched, and carry flowers on strong stems.
- Pinch off stem tips regularly to force side branching and keep the plant dense and bushy.
- Sporangia are cylindrical and branched, which also distinguishes this plant from all other Rhynie Chert taxa.
- The chickpea is a delicate, graceful plant that branches near the ground and is usually about 2 feet high.
- The vascular cambium is a cylindrical region running through the entire stem of the plant, and branching into every twig and limb.
- Think of a plant that naturally forms branching stems as a sort of balancing act in slow green motion.
- The upright stems branched from creeping branching horizontal rhizomes that bore delicate hair-like roots.
- In contrast, shrubs are small woody plants, usually with several perennial stems branching at the base.
- However, cutting or incomplete pulling can cause the perennation of the plant such that it branches and becomes enlarged.
- Carved from a solid piece of wood, it is clear that the sculptor utilized and perhaps exploited a section of the tree that branched into two areas for the splayed legs.
- They bring to mind trees, flowers and branching foliage breaking into bloom before our eyes.
- Mosses branched from the common ancestor of vascular plants around 400 MYA.
- Bladderworts, whose intricately branched, bladder-bearing stems are completely submerged, send up small aerial stems with inch-long yellow flowers.

Derivatives

branchlet

noun ˈbrɑːn(t)ʃlətˈbræn(t)ʃlət

The shoots grow off of longer horizontal or drooping branchlets.
Example sentencesExamples
- Overlap one branchlet or bundle over the cut ends of the last to hide them and the wire.
- Here we introduce a new procedure, branchlet shaking, and compare it with chemical knockdown.

branch-like

adjective

Shanghai is the most important location for branch-like activities, such as manufacturing, assembly/processing, and raw material sourcing.
Example sentencesExamples
- As noted, other depictions of antlered animals in Driftless Area rock art have straight, branch-like antlers that rise either directly above the head or are angled back over the body.
- What is the philosophy behind your branch-like savings cafés?
- To further draw the eye to the outside, Anne-Marie makes use of a bench that runs from the living room to the portico by placing several highly-coloured, branch-like forms cast from resin on either side of the glass partition.
- For example, she replaces bold geometrics with abstracted natural patterns in floor-coverings and uses branch-like forms overhead to make ceilings reminiscent of tree canopies.

branchy

adjective ˈbrɑːn(t)ʃiˈbræn(t)ʃi

The brain, at least from afar, looks like a plate of macaroni, its branchy veins rivers of red pepper sauce.
Example sentencesExamples
- It is a branchy, brushy, rooty tree, without leaves.
- I began raking up the leaves and branches I'd trimmed, and clearing out a lot of debris that had collected in and around the branchy bush.
- The Russian network of modern New York is as thick and branchy as a Siberian fir-tree.
- Making his way back to the dinghy he took off his jacket and boots, shirt and trousers, stowed them in the dinghy, went down to the waterline where a small, branchy dead tree lay and heaved and shoved it out into the water.

Origin

Middle English: from Old French branche, from late Latin branca 'paw'.

Rhymes

blanch, Blanche, ranch, tranche

Definition of branch in US English:

branch

nounbran(t)SHbræn(t)ʃ

1A part of a tree which grows out from the trunk or from a bough.
Example sentencesExamples
- Five large hippo-like creatures were grazing on tall, violet flowers growing out from the branches of nearby trees.
- In a branched system, a single pipe feeds smaller pipes along the way much like a tree trunk feeds the branches.
- As a result, student work will improve if they try drawing trees that show branches growing toward them and - to a lesser extent - away from them.
- A profusion of mosses, liverworts, lichens and ferns cover the woodland floor and festoon tree trunks and branches.
- Little hooks line the trunk and branches of the tree, on which children can hang their creations or the drawings of their dreams and wishes.
- Most people are likely to think of winter landscapes as pictures made up of stark contrasts, of dark tree trunks and branches against white snow.
- Most species find food while climbing on tree trunks or branches.
- In other cases, growing trees had their branches cut regularly on one side, because they leaned on to private property; the trees grew up lopsided and leaned far on to the roads.
- This time he sang for his tree to grow thick branches and leaves to shelter him in this forbidding place.
- The position is similar to that where branches of trees growing on neighbouring property encroach across the boundary.
- The curling movement of the smoke is echoed in the arabesques formed by the curving trunks and branches of two trees, which are also reflected in a pond in the foreground.
- Tucked away in the forest, and only accessible to those with local knowledge, its old contorted paperbark trees exhibited gnarly branches, trunks and burls.
- Twenty or thirty large, gently fluted pods grow directly from the tree's trunk and branches, dangling like holiday ornaments.
- The steel columns holding up the roof will resemble the trunks and branches of trees.
- Of special interest are the bromeliads that grow on trunks and along branches of big trees.
- And my friend told me that you can graft an apple branch into a peach tree, but the branch will still grow apples.
- Again and again, chronologers applied the same techniques to the materials they assembled along the tree's trunk and branches.
- People are collecting the branches and boughs of trees smashed down by the icy snow.
- They grow on the tree branches and bloom for two months only, during July and August.
- Open-grown or widely spaced trees have larger-diameter dead branches than trees grown at narrower spacing.
Synonyms
bough, limb, arm, offshoot
1. 1.1 A lateral extension or subdivision extending from the main part of something, typically one extending from a river, road, or railway.
  a branch of the Susquehanna River
  Example sentencesExamples
  At this point they took the eastern branch of the road and walked for another five days.
  The main station is being built at Ondangwa where the railway branches to Oshakati and to Oshikango.
  We walked through endless marble corridors that twisted and turned with many branches leading from the main thoroughfare.
  The mid-April snow storm will provide significant moisture for increased streamflow on the southern branch of the Platte River in Colorado.
  But this map also clearly shows that the river has many canals, streams, branches and tributaries.
  A mistake at a university in Laval and a railway branch built by the Canadian National changed things.
  From there it will be carried up into the largest vein of the body and into the right side of the heart, then into the main branches of the arteries to the lung, where it will impact, blocking the blood flow.
  Several small branches of the corridor extend north and south of the main corridor.
  My original intent was to ride all three branches of Metro North's New Haven Line in Connecticut.
  That hill led to the back of another sight, and that sight was connected to a branch of the main road.
  In the Rio Negro, it inhabits the large swamps that form where tributaries meet the main branch of the river.
  Shakadang Stream is a branch of the Liwu River, which cuts through rock layers 9 million years old to carve the Taroko Gorge.
  It is not officially a branch, but rather an extension of the main line first named the Oshawa Subdivision and re-named the Belleville Subdivision.
  Second, Goondiwindi's water park incorporates the Serpentine Creek, a branch of the Macintyre River.
  They took the western branch of the road to begin with.
  He's going to come to a number of branches in the road, where he will choose, or events will choose, which road is taken.
  Georgia was also on one of the branches of the Silk Road, which carried trade from China and India to Europe.
  Farther upstream, two branches of the river offer wilder rainbows and brook trout.
  Private GEO-TV said the bus was traveling along the Karakoram highway in Kohistan when it left the road and fell into a branch of the Indus river.
  Beyond a collection of compact, stone cottages, which were contemporaries of the Seadog's Roost, a minor branch of the road curved to the left.
  Synonyms
  tributary, feeder, side stream
2. 1.2 A division or office of a large business or organization, operating locally or having a particular function.
  he went to work at our Boston branch
  Example sentencesExamples
  Postbank operates 30 branches and 93 offices across the country and is represented in about 2300 post offices in Bulgaria.
  Experienced branch managers will operate the elevators.
  This organization replaced an association of NGOs working for alcohol abstinence and had branch offices operating on regional and local levels.
  Post Office bosses say there are too many branches chasing too little business.
  This program aims at strengthening the influence of the branch organizations and helping the harmonization of the local legislation with that of the Union.
  Twenty-eight locally registered banks and six branches of foreign banks operate in the country.
  The idea is to make it easier for small businesses and branch offices to manage security risks more efficiently by using a single appliance.
  The layoffs affected 14 employees locally and 11 in branch offices.
  Instead of being located in branches, business bank managers are being rehoused in three centralised sites in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Inverness.
  As the leading bank for businesses, with a network of over 1600 branches and 1400 business managers, no one is better placed to help businesses succeed.
  Remote workers, branch offices and small businesses have all been persuaded of the advantages of the appliance route.
  The branch managers and compliance officers failed in their duty.
  It ran a big trading business and had branch offices in many locations such as Osaka, Kobe and Hokkaido.
  He said he had an opportunity to open a branch office for an established document-imaging business that two friends of his had started in another state.
  In most cases of loan default, the axe always falls on the branch manager and middle-level officers.
  He was surprised by the willingness of branch managers to merge businesses and share common facilities without head office intervention.
  The arrangement breaks down the division between headquarters and branch offices.
  The unions, which function as virtual corporate branch offices, immediately got the message.
  In the Rangoon division, 18 out of 40 branch offices are now operating, with nine permitted to put up their old signboards.
  Not only is the branch post office of essential use to the people of the community, but it also is a centre of vital community communication and a social meeting place.
  Synonyms
  division, subdivision, section, subsection, department, sector, part, side, wing
  office, bureau, agency
3. 1.3 A conceptual subdivision of something, especially a family, group of languages, or a subject.
  a branch of mathematics called graph theory
  Example sentencesExamples
  There are many differences between these two branches of the language, and this word is one instance.
  Two branches of the family came out to Australia together in 1878.
  Otherwise, the tongues spoken in Indonesia belong to several branches of the Austronesian language family.
  The family now had branches firmly settled in Michigan and Massachusetts.
  Which of us, after all, has grown up in an apartment block specifically built to house, on each of its eight floors, a different branch of our own family?
  It belongs to the Tibeto-Burman branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family.
  I have a feeling you and I are from different branches of the same family!
  Thus, Sanskrit, instead of being the mother of all Indo-European languages, became just a branch of their huge family.
  A new branch of the English language has emerged to describe the shady practice, with phishing, pharming, keylogging and spyware among the recently coined words.
  Now I must explain that my family - or branches thereof - have lived in South Africa for 154 years.
  Greyhounds, red dragons and portcullises belonging to heraldry of various family branches finish off the decorations.
  All the national languages, with the exception of the official language, English, are Bantu, a branch of the Niger-Congo language family.
  And we will head out to my great-grandmother's place to meet with the branch of the family I'd rather not meet.
  Because in India, family bonding is still strong, and marriage is one occasion where distant branches of the family are remembered and invited.
  Family branches take turns to host the ceremony, with the expenditure shared by the whole village.
  The Estonian language is a branch of the Baltic-Finnish group of the Finno-Ugric family, related to Finnish.
  Hungarian belongs to the Ugor branch of the Finno-Ugric language family.
  Russian is one of three East Slavic languages of the Slavic branch of the Indo-European language family.
  Over the years some branches of the family have been blighted by a congenital heart defect but Mrs Pike's illness was coincidental, say friends, because she was adopted.
  Serbo-Croatian belongs to the Slavic branch of the Indo-European language family.
4. 1.4Computing A control structure in which one of several alternative sets of program statements is selected for execution.
  Example sentencesExamples
  To achieve highly accurate branch prediction, it is necessary not only to allocate more resources to branch prediction hardware but also to improve the understanding of branch execution characteristics.
  If you play with this experimental branch, please send some feedback!
  The second table, called the global predictor, predicts the branch direction based on the actual path of execution to reach the branch.
  This processor uses dynamic execution, a combination of improved branch prediction, speculative execution and data flow analysis.

verbbran(t)SHbræn(t)ʃ

[no object]

1(of a road or path) divide into one or more subdivisions.
Example sentencesExamples
- Draw the lines into the future, imagine the ways in which they'd split and branch, imagine a million hearts that will never flutter into life.
- However, their arms are very highly forked and branched, and even more flexible than those of brittle stars.
- The route branched through some of the most difficult terrain of western China and arrived 9600 km west, then north, to Shaanxi.
- You don't have the freedom to go everywhere, but you must often select from branching paths.
- I glanced to my right, where the road had many branching paths that led to houses down the way, including my own.
- Every so often Erik would stop and feel against the wall, and every time he did they changed direction into a new passage that branched into the previous one they were traveling down.
- It is an insidious cancer of the lymphatic system, which branches into all the organs.
- Here, the cobbled street branched to form the perimeter of a paved rectangle containing two ornate fountains and a statue of a mounted king which had been hauled down and partly dismembered.
- He rose to his feet, and then leapt back when a loud roar issued from one of the many passages branching from the cavern.
- To explore this loop road, turn left at the Main Junction and follow the road branching south.
- At this point, it branches into the cephalic vein on the lateral aspect of the biceps muscle and the basilic vein on the medial side of the muscle.
- There was a conservatory situated a small distance behind the house, and a small path branched from the driveway to the door.
- Every path they searched branched into more paths, which branched into more paths.
- In the centre of the village, a small side road branched away and climbed a steep brae beyond the houses and back gardens.
- The methionine biosynthesis pathways differ also at the point where threonine and methionine biosynthesis pathways branch.
- Approximately halfway between the mayor's house and the village, the path branched.
- A wide cobblestone path flowed through the park, along with several branching pathways.
- Soon the crack widened, however, and their path branched down into the darkness.
- When the main path bears slightly right towards a bench, leave it via a path branching to the left of the main path and running uphill through the trees.
Synonyms
fork, bifurcate, divide, subdivide, split, separate, go in different directions
diverge from, deviate from, depart from, turn aside from, shoot off from, split off from, go off at a tangent from
1. 1.1 (of a tree or plant) bear or send out branches.
  the common sea lavender can be identified by its branched stem
  Example sentencesExamples
  The chickpea is a delicate, graceful plant that branches near the ground and is usually about 2 feet high.
  Plants show similar repetitive structures in, for example, the veins on a leaf or a tree's branching limbs.
  The basal stems can be confused with those of L. mucronata, but that species has branched basal stems that are prostrate and petiolate basal leaves.
  The vascular cambium is a cylindrical region running through the entire stem of the plant, and branching into every twig and limb.
  She peered up at the tree that branched over them, watched the leaves turn, slip by each other as they passed.
  Bladderworts, whose intricately branched, bladder-bearing stems are completely submerged, send up small aerial stems with inch-long yellow flowers.
  Mosses branched from the common ancestor of vascular plants around 400 MYA.
  They bring to mind trees, flowers and branching foliage breaking into bloom before our eyes.
  Pinch off stem tips regularly to force side branching and keep the plant dense and bushy.
  Think of a plant that naturally forms branching stems as a sort of balancing act in slow green motion.
  These plants are branched, and carry flowers on strong stems.
  The upright stems branched from creeping branching horizontal rhizomes that bore delicate hair-like roots.
  Increased size also allowed more branching and thus more termini per plant.
  Carved from a solid piece of wood, it is clear that the sculptor utilized and perhaps exploited a section of the tree that branched into two areas for the splayed legs.
  In contrast, shrubs are small woody plants, usually with several perennial stems branching at the base.
  Pinch the growing tip out of tall-growing plants to encourage branching and shorter growth.
  Pinching or shearing new growth forces the plant to branch where you cut it and to build up a strong undercarriage that supports heavier top growth later in the season.
  Sporangia are cylindrical and branched, which also distinguishes this plant from all other Rhynie Chert taxa.
  High up in one of the larger and more densely branched trees in the area, a man crouched, cursing his luck.
  However, cutting or incomplete pulling can cause the perennation of the plant such that it branches and becomes enlarged.
2. 1.2branch off Diverge from the main route or part.
  the road branched off at the town
  figurative Ellington was constantly branching off with new musical styles
  Example sentencesExamples
  Building styles from throughout the country branch off from a main square, showing the visitor a miniature Spain.
  Nestle into one of several campsites at the base of the 300-foot-tall amphitheater, and explore the many slots and dry waterfalls branching off from Labyrinth's main canyon.
  At a certain point, we saw several people branching off from the main march and, along with other Council activists, we went to see what was happening.
  She'd noticed some liver spots on his cheeks, forehead and hands in the last few years, deep lines like streams cascading down his face, with others forming, branching off a main tributary.
  They backtracked far into the cave, away into one of the tunnels that branched off from the main one, and finally into a small cavern.
  Some RTC buses branched off from the main roads to find emergency escape routes like by-lanes, already jammed by cars and two-wheelers!
  Feedback has so far been extremely positive about the exterior of the glass-fronted building and its internal design, which features an indoor avenue that branches off to the four main galleries.
  Twelve long tendrils stretched out from a central mountain, with smaller mounds branching off from the main stem in a leaf-like pattern and eventually tapering down to become one with the landscape.
  The trail around the tarn is a favourite for families, with plenty of play opportunities in water and woodland, and lots of optional tracks branching off from the main path.
  It branched off the main path and was rarely used.
  As I passed into an unfamiliar area of the town, a small alley that branched off of the main street, I heard a cry.
  We continued more sedately through open country of varying steepness to the crossover point where routes branch off to different villages in the Prättigau valley.
  In one instance, a fourth and much smaller tunnel appears as the deepest tier owing to branching off from a main tunnel.
  I led the way into one of the back halls that branched off the main room.
  Streets are carved out of the landscape as veins branching off a main artery, with framed vistas across the harbor.
  I pointed along a narrow dirt path that branched off the main access road.
  A more adventurous method would be to simply explore each road radiating from the main junction or branching off into narrow arteries, and you'll be bound to hit the same spots, more or less.
  For walkers, a narrow, rocky path, with steps in places, branches off the main track before the last bridge, and follows the Greta beneath the A66.
  Another path branches off from the main one, but they walk past it.
  However, paths branched off the main one and led through the various beds of flowers and bushes.
  Synonyms
  swerve, career, skew, swing, sheer, weave, wheel
3. 1.3branch out Extend or expand one's activities or interests in a new direction.
  the company is branching out into Europe
  Example sentencesExamples
  I think I would be more interested in branching out and making other types of pop culture.
  But what she's really excited about is her plan to branch out into directing.
  With five victories and 13 poles, his interests branched out.
  The company started life as a shuttle service linking Dublin Airport with the main hotels in the city centre, before branching out beyond Dublin.
  Certainly, they branch out in different directions in attitudes to football management.
  The company was looking to expand and to branch out from large metropolitan areas.
  Suddenly, the auto maker seems to be branching out in all directions at once.
  I've gotten a lot of new opportunities I wouldn't have gotten unless I was branching out and doing new things.
  But even with its rise in popularity, instead of branching out its warehouses to bigger cities, the company says its heart lies firmly in Rossendale.
  With this confidence, I branched out into other fitness activities, such as kickboxing and Spinning.
  Not one to rest on his laurels, the last few years have seen the front man branch out with two diverse releases of his own.
  She has certainly branched out into more interesting work in recent years.
  As you may have heard, he has been branching out from talk radio into jurisprudence and constitutional law.
  From these locations different groups branched out in various directions with different levels of success.
  Acting is still a great love of mine, but I thought it was time to branch out and expand my world.
  Originally a Reiki practitioner, she has during the years branched out in several directions and is still learning.
  He said the tour has given the band the chance to branch out and explore different directions and to satisfy their eclectic tastes.
  We knew in the early 1990s that we needed to diversify and branched out into a lot of different areas.
  He should spend more time expanding the commercial side of the market before branching out.
  What's so attractive about diversifying from the insurance business and branching out into personal loans?
  Synonyms
  expand, spread out, open up, extend

Origin

Middle English: from Old French branche, from late Latin branca ‘paw’.

单词	branch
释义	Definition of branch in English: branch noun brɑːn(t)ʃbræn(t)ʃ 1A part of a tree which grows out from the trunk or from a bough. Sophie was in the branches of a tree eating an apple Example sentencesExamples Five large hippo-like creatures were grazing on tall, violet flowers growing out from the branches of nearby trees. Again and again, chronologers applied the same techniques to the materials they assembled along the tree's trunk and branches. In other cases, growing trees had their branches cut regularly on one side, because they leaned on to private property; the trees grew up lopsided and leaned far on to the roads. Most people are likely to think of winter landscapes as pictures made up of stark contrasts, of dark tree trunks and branches against white snow. Open-grown or widely spaced trees have larger-diameter dead branches than trees grown at narrower spacing. People are collecting the branches and boughs of trees smashed down by the icy snow. Little hooks line the trunk and branches of the tree, on which children can hang their creations or the drawings of their dreams and wishes. In a branched system, a single pipe feeds smaller pipes along the way much like a tree trunk feeds the branches. A profusion of mosses, liverworts, lichens and ferns cover the woodland floor and festoon tree trunks and branches. They grow on the tree branches and bloom for two months only, during July and August. Twenty or thirty large, gently fluted pods grow directly from the tree's trunk and branches, dangling like holiday ornaments. The position is similar to that where branches of trees growing on neighbouring property encroach across the boundary. The curling movement of the smoke is echoed in the arabesques formed by the curving trunks and branches of two trees, which are also reflected in a pond in the foreground. Tucked away in the forest, and only accessible to those with local knowledge, its old contorted paperbark trees exhibited gnarly branches, trunks and burls. The steel columns holding up the roof will resemble the trunks and branches of trees. As a result, student work will improve if they try drawing trees that show branches growing toward them and - to a lesser extent - away from them. And my friend told me that you can graft an apple branch into a peach tree, but the branch will still grow apples. Of special interest are the bromeliads that grow on trunks and along branches of big trees. This time he sang for his tree to grow thick branches and leaves to shelter him in this forbidding place. Most species find food while climbing on tree trunks or branches. Synonyms bough, limb, arm, offshoot 1.1 A lateral extension or subdivision extending from the main part of a river, road, railway, etc. a branch of the Clinton River Example sentencesExamples Beyond a collection of compact, stone cottages, which were contemporaries of the Seadog's Roost, a minor branch of the road curved to the left. Private GEO-TV said the bus was traveling along the Karakoram highway in Kohistan when it left the road and fell into a branch of the Indus river. But this map also clearly shows that the river has many canals, streams, branches and tributaries. Shakadang Stream is a branch of the Liwu River, which cuts through rock layers 9 million years old to carve the Taroko Gorge. Several small branches of the corridor extend north and south of the main corridor. Georgia was also on one of the branches of the Silk Road, which carried trade from China and India to Europe. At this point they took the eastern branch of the road and walked for another five days. The mid-April snow storm will provide significant moisture for increased streamflow on the southern branch of the Platte River in Colorado. They took the western branch of the road to begin with. In the Rio Negro, it inhabits the large swamps that form where tributaries meet the main branch of the river. That hill led to the back of another sight, and that sight was connected to a branch of the main road. He's going to come to a number of branches in the road, where he will choose, or events will choose, which road is taken. A mistake at a university in Laval and a railway branch built by the Canadian National changed things. It is not officially a branch, but rather an extension of the main line first named the Oshawa Subdivision and re-named the Belleville Subdivision. From there it will be carried up into the largest vein of the body and into the right side of the heart, then into the main branches of the arteries to the lung, where it will impact, blocking the blood flow. The main station is being built at Ondangwa where the railway branches to Oshakati and to Oshikango. My original intent was to ride all three branches of Metro North's New Haven Line in Connecticut. Farther upstream, two branches of the river offer wilder rainbows and brook trout. Second, Goondiwindi's water park incorporates the Serpentine Creek, a branch of the Macintyre River. We walked through endless marble corridors that twisted and turned with many branches leading from the main thoroughfare. Synonyms tributary, feeder, side stream 1.2 A division or office of a large business or organization, operating locally or having a particular function. he went to work at our Birmingham branch Example sentencesExamples As the leading bank for businesses, with a network of over 1600 branches and 1400 business managers, no one is better placed to help businesses succeed. Experienced branch managers will operate the elevators. Instead of being located in branches, business bank managers are being rehoused in three centralised sites in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Inverness. It ran a big trading business and had branch offices in many locations such as Osaka, Kobe and Hokkaido. The idea is to make it easier for small businesses and branch offices to manage security risks more efficiently by using a single appliance. The branch managers and compliance officers failed in their duty. This program aims at strengthening the influence of the branch organizations and helping the harmonization of the local legislation with that of the Union. In most cases of loan default, the axe always falls on the branch manager and middle-level officers. The unions, which function as virtual corporate branch offices, immediately got the message. The layoffs affected 14 employees locally and 11 in branch offices. This organization replaced an association of NGOs working for alcohol abstinence and had branch offices operating on regional and local levels. He said he had an opportunity to open a branch office for an established document-imaging business that two friends of his had started in another state. The arrangement breaks down the division between headquarters and branch offices. Not only is the branch post office of essential use to the people of the community, but it also is a centre of vital community communication and a social meeting place. Remote workers, branch offices and small businesses have all been persuaded of the advantages of the appliance route. He was surprised by the willingness of branch managers to merge businesses and share common facilities without head office intervention. In the Rangoon division, 18 out of 40 branch offices are now operating, with nine permitted to put up their old signboards. Postbank operates 30 branches and 93 offices across the country and is represented in about 2300 post offices in Bulgaria. Twenty-eight locally registered banks and six branches of foreign banks operate in the country. Post Office bosses say there are too many branches chasing too little business. Synonyms division, subdivision, section, subsection, department, sector, part, side, wing area, sphere, discipline, field office, bureau, agency affiliate, subsidiary, offshoot, satellite chapter, lodge 1.3 A conceptual subdivision of a family, subject, group of languages, etc. a branch of mathematics called graph theory Example sentencesExamples The family now had branches firmly settled in Michigan and Massachusetts. Because in India, family bonding is still strong, and marriage is one occasion where distant branches of the family are remembered and invited. It belongs to the Tibeto-Burman branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family. I have a feeling you and I are from different branches of the same family! The Estonian language is a branch of the Baltic-Finnish group of the Finno-Ugric family, related to Finnish. Otherwise, the tongues spoken in Indonesia belong to several branches of the Austronesian language family. Thus, Sanskrit, instead of being the mother of all Indo-European languages, became just a branch of their huge family. Now I must explain that my family - or branches thereof - have lived in South Africa for 154 years. All the national languages, with the exception of the official language, English, are Bantu, a branch of the Niger-Congo language family. Serbo-Croatian belongs to the Slavic branch of the Indo-European language family. Family branches take turns to host the ceremony, with the expenditure shared by the whole village. There are many differences between these two branches of the language, and this word is one instance. And we will head out to my great-grandmother's place to meet with the branch of the family I'd rather not meet. Hungarian belongs to the Ugor branch of the Finno-Ugric language family. A new branch of the English language has emerged to describe the shady practice, with phishing, pharming, keylogging and spyware among the recently coined words. Over the years some branches of the family have been blighted by a congenital heart defect but Mrs Pike's illness was coincidental, say friends, because she was adopted. Which of us, after all, has grown up in an apartment block specifically built to house, on each of its eight floors, a different branch of our own family? Two branches of the family came out to Australia together in 1878. Russian is one of three East Slavic languages of the Slavic branch of the Indo-European language family. Greyhounds, red dragons and portcullises belonging to heraldry of various family branches finish off the decorations. verb brɑːn(t)ʃbræn(t)ʃ [no object] 1(of a road or path) divide into one or more subdivisions. follow this track south until it branches into two Example sentencesExamples Every path they searched branched into more paths, which branched into more paths. Approximately halfway between the mayor's house and the village, the path branched. Every so often Erik would stop and feel against the wall, and every time he did they changed direction into a new passage that branched into the previous one they were traveling down. It is an insidious cancer of the lymphatic system, which branches into all the organs. There was a conservatory situated a small distance behind the house, and a small path branched from the driveway to the door. The route branched through some of the most difficult terrain of western China and arrived 9600 km west, then north, to Shaanxi. To explore this loop road, turn left at the Main Junction and follow the road branching south. A wide cobblestone path flowed through the park, along with several branching pathways. Draw the lines into the future, imagine the ways in which they'd split and branch, imagine a million hearts that will never flutter into life. However, their arms are very highly forked and branched, and even more flexible than those of brittle stars. At this point, it branches into the cephalic vein on the lateral aspect of the biceps muscle and the basilic vein on the medial side of the muscle. You don't have the freedom to go everywhere, but you must often select from branching paths. I glanced to my right, where the road had many branching paths that led to houses down the way, including my own. The methionine biosynthesis pathways differ also at the point where threonine and methionine biosynthesis pathways branch. Soon the crack widened, however, and their path branched down into the darkness. In the centre of the village, a small side road branched away and climbed a steep brae beyond the houses and back gardens. Here, the cobbled street branched to form the perimeter of a paved rectangle containing two ornate fountains and a statue of a mounted king which had been hauled down and partly dismembered. When the main path bears slightly right towards a bench, leave it via a path branching to the left of the main path and running uphill through the trees. He rose to his feet, and then leapt back when a loud roar issued from one of the many passages branching from the cavern. Synonyms fork, bifurcate, divide, subdivide, split, separate, go in different directions technical furcate, divaricate diverge from, deviate from, depart from, turn aside from, shoot off from, split off from, go off at a tangent from fan out from, ray out from, radiate from technical ramify 1.1branch off Diverge from the main route or part. the road branched off at the market town Example sentencesExamples A more adventurous method would be to simply explore each road radiating from the main junction or branching off into narrow arteries, and you'll be bound to hit the same spots, more or less. She'd noticed some liver spots on his cheeks, forehead and hands in the last few years, deep lines like streams cascading down his face, with others forming, branching off a main tributary. As I passed into an unfamiliar area of the town, a small alley that branched off of the main street, I heard a cry. I pointed along a narrow dirt path that branched off the main access road. Nestle into one of several campsites at the base of the 300-foot-tall amphitheater, and explore the many slots and dry waterfalls branching off from Labyrinth's main canyon. For walkers, a narrow, rocky path, with steps in places, branches off the main track before the last bridge, and follows the Greta beneath the A66. Twelve long tendrils stretched out from a central mountain, with smaller mounds branching off from the main stem in a leaf-like pattern and eventually tapering down to become one with the landscape. Feedback has so far been extremely positive about the exterior of the glass-fronted building and its internal design, which features an indoor avenue that branches off to the four main galleries. It branched off the main path and was rarely used. However, paths branched off the main one and led through the various beds of flowers and bushes. Streets are carved out of the landscape as veins branching off a main artery, with framed vistas across the harbor. The trail around the tarn is a favourite for families, with plenty of play opportunities in water and woodland, and lots of optional tracks branching off from the main path. In one instance, a fourth and much smaller tunnel appears as the deepest tier owing to branching off from a main tunnel. We continued more sedately through open country of varying steepness to the crossover point where routes branch off to different villages in the Prättigau valley. Some RTC buses branched off from the main roads to find emergency escape routes like by-lanes, already jammed by cars and two-wheelers! Another path branches off from the main one, but they walk past it. They backtracked far into the cave, away into one of the tunnels that branched off from the main one, and finally into a small cavern. I led the way into one of the back halls that branched off the main room. Building styles from throughout the country branch off from a main square, showing the visitor a miniature Spain. At a certain point, we saw several people branching off from the main march and, along with other Council activists, we went to see what was happening. Synonyms swerve, career, skew, swing, sheer, weave, wheel 1.2branch out Extend or expand one's activities or interests in a new direction. the company is branching out into Europe Example sentencesExamples The company was looking to expand and to branch out from large metropolitan areas. Certainly, they branch out in different directions in attitudes to football management. As you may have heard, he has been branching out from talk radio into jurisprudence and constitutional law. Not one to rest on his laurels, the last few years have seen the front man branch out with two diverse releases of his own. From these locations different groups branched out in various directions with different levels of success. The company started life as a shuttle service linking Dublin Airport with the main hotels in the city centre, before branching out beyond Dublin. We knew in the early 1990s that we needed to diversify and branched out into a lot of different areas. But even with its rise in popularity, instead of branching out its warehouses to bigger cities, the company says its heart lies firmly in Rossendale. Suddenly, the auto maker seems to be branching out in all directions at once. I think I would be more interested in branching out and making other types of pop culture. I've gotten a lot of new opportunities I wouldn't have gotten unless I was branching out and doing new things. She has certainly branched out into more interesting work in recent years. But what she's really excited about is her plan to branch out into directing. What's so attractive about diversifying from the insurance business and branching out into personal loans? With five victories and 13 poles, his interests branched out. Acting is still a great love of mine, but I thought it was time to branch out and expand my world. He said the tour has given the band the chance to branch out and explore different directions and to satisfy their eclectic tastes. He should spend more time expanding the commercial side of the market before branching out. With this confidence, I branched out into other fitness activities, such as kickboxing and Spinning. Originally a Reiki practitioner, she has during the years branched out in several directions and is still learning. Synonyms expand, spread out, open up, extend diversify, spread/stretch one's wings, broaden one's horizons 2(of a tree or plant) bear or send out branches. this rose has a tendency to branch and spread at the top the branching heads of large yellow daisies Example sentencesExamples She peered up at the tree that branched over them, watched the leaves turn, slip by each other as they passed. Plants show similar repetitive structures in, for example, the veins on a leaf or a tree's branching limbs. Pinching or shearing new growth forces the plant to branch where you cut it and to build up a strong undercarriage that supports heavier top growth later in the season. The basal stems can be confused with those of L. mucronata, but that species has branched basal stems that are prostrate and petiolate basal leaves. Pinch the growing tip out of tall-growing plants to encourage branching and shorter growth. High up in one of the larger and more densely branched trees in the area, a man crouched, cursing his luck. Increased size also allowed more branching and thus more termini per plant. These plants are branched, and carry flowers on strong stems. Pinch off stem tips regularly to force side branching and keep the plant dense and bushy. Sporangia are cylindrical and branched, which also distinguishes this plant from all other Rhynie Chert taxa. The chickpea is a delicate, graceful plant that branches near the ground and is usually about 2 feet high. The vascular cambium is a cylindrical region running through the entire stem of the plant, and branching into every twig and limb. Think of a plant that naturally forms branching stems as a sort of balancing act in slow green motion. The upright stems branched from creeping branching horizontal rhizomes that bore delicate hair-like roots. In contrast, shrubs are small woody plants, usually with several perennial stems branching at the base. However, cutting or incomplete pulling can cause the perennation of the plant such that it branches and becomes enlarged. Carved from a solid piece of wood, it is clear that the sculptor utilized and perhaps exploited a section of the tree that branched into two areas for the splayed legs. They bring to mind trees, flowers and branching foliage breaking into bloom before our eyes. Mosses branched from the common ancestor of vascular plants around 400 MYA. Bladderworts, whose intricately branched, bladder-bearing stems are completely submerged, send up small aerial stems with inch-long yellow flowers. Derivatives branchlet noun ˈbrɑːn(t)ʃlətˈbræn(t)ʃlət The shoots grow off of longer horizontal or drooping branchlets. Example sentencesExamples Overlap one branchlet or bundle over the cut ends of the last to hide them and the wire. Here we introduce a new procedure, branchlet shaking, and compare it with chemical knockdown. branch-like adjective Shanghai is the most important location for branch-like activities, such as manufacturing, assembly/processing, and raw material sourcing. Example sentencesExamples As noted, other depictions of antlered animals in Driftless Area rock art have straight, branch-like antlers that rise either directly above the head or are angled back over the body. What is the philosophy behind your branch-like savings cafés? To further draw the eye to the outside, Anne-Marie makes use of a bench that runs from the living room to the portico by placing several highly-coloured, branch-like forms cast from resin on either side of the glass partition. For example, she replaces bold geometrics with abstracted natural patterns in floor-coverings and uses branch-like forms overhead to make ceilings reminiscent of tree canopies. branchy adjective ˈbrɑːn(t)ʃiˈbræn(t)ʃi The brain, at least from afar, looks like a plate of macaroni, its branchy veins rivers of red pepper sauce. Example sentencesExamples It is a branchy, brushy, rooty tree, without leaves. I began raking up the leaves and branches I'd trimmed, and clearing out a lot of debris that had collected in and around the branchy bush. The Russian network of modern New York is as thick and branchy as a Siberian fir-tree. Making his way back to the dinghy he took off his jacket and boots, shirt and trousers, stowed them in the dinghy, went down to the waterline where a small, branchy dead tree lay and heaved and shoved it out into the water. Origin Middle English: from Old French branche, from late Latin branca 'paw'. Rhymes blanch, Blanche, ranch, tranche Definition of branch in US English: branch nounbran(t)SHbræn(t)ʃ 1A part of a tree which grows out from the trunk or from a bough. Example sentencesExamples Five large hippo-like creatures were grazing on tall, violet flowers growing out from the branches of nearby trees. In a branched system, a single pipe feeds smaller pipes along the way much like a tree trunk feeds the branches. As a result, student work will improve if they try drawing trees that show branches growing toward them and - to a lesser extent - away from them. A profusion of mosses, liverworts, lichens and ferns cover the woodland floor and festoon tree trunks and branches. Little hooks line the trunk and branches of the tree, on which children can hang their creations or the drawings of their dreams and wishes. Most people are likely to think of winter landscapes as pictures made up of stark contrasts, of dark tree trunks and branches against white snow. Most species find food while climbing on tree trunks or branches. In other cases, growing trees had their branches cut regularly on one side, because they leaned on to private property; the trees grew up lopsided and leaned far on to the roads. This time he sang for his tree to grow thick branches and leaves to shelter him in this forbidding place. The position is similar to that where branches of trees growing on neighbouring property encroach across the boundary. The curling movement of the smoke is echoed in the arabesques formed by the curving trunks and branches of two trees, which are also reflected in a pond in the foreground. Tucked away in the forest, and only accessible to those with local knowledge, its old contorted paperbark trees exhibited gnarly branches, trunks and burls. Twenty or thirty large, gently fluted pods grow directly from the tree's trunk and branches, dangling like holiday ornaments. The steel columns holding up the roof will resemble the trunks and branches of trees. Of special interest are the bromeliads that grow on trunks and along branches of big trees. And my friend told me that you can graft an apple branch into a peach tree, but the branch will still grow apples. Again and again, chronologers applied the same techniques to the materials they assembled along the tree's trunk and branches. People are collecting the branches and boughs of trees smashed down by the icy snow. They grow on the tree branches and bloom for two months only, during July and August. Open-grown or widely spaced trees have larger-diameter dead branches than trees grown at narrower spacing. Synonyms bough, limb, arm, offshoot 1.1 A lateral extension or subdivision extending from the main part of something, typically one extending from a river, road, or railway. a branch of the Susquehanna River Example sentencesExamples At this point they took the eastern branch of the road and walked for another five days. The main station is being built at Ondangwa where the railway branches to Oshakati and to Oshikango. We walked through endless marble corridors that twisted and turned with many branches leading from the main thoroughfare. The mid-April snow storm will provide significant moisture for increased streamflow on the southern branch of the Platte River in Colorado. But this map also clearly shows that the river has many canals, streams, branches and tributaries. A mistake at a university in Laval and a railway branch built by the Canadian National changed things. From there it will be carried up into the largest vein of the body and into the right side of the heart, then into the main branches of the arteries to the lung, where it will impact, blocking the blood flow. Several small branches of the corridor extend north and south of the main corridor. My original intent was to ride all three branches of Metro North's New Haven Line in Connecticut. That hill led to the back of another sight, and that sight was connected to a branch of the main road. In the Rio Negro, it inhabits the large swamps that form where tributaries meet the main branch of the river. Shakadang Stream is a branch of the Liwu River, which cuts through rock layers 9 million years old to carve the Taroko Gorge. It is not officially a branch, but rather an extension of the main line first named the Oshawa Subdivision and re-named the Belleville Subdivision. Second, Goondiwindi's water park incorporates the Serpentine Creek, a branch of the Macintyre River. They took the western branch of the road to begin with. He's going to come to a number of branches in the road, where he will choose, or events will choose, which road is taken. Georgia was also on one of the branches of the Silk Road, which carried trade from China and India to Europe. Farther upstream, two branches of the river offer wilder rainbows and brook trout. Private GEO-TV said the bus was traveling along the Karakoram highway in Kohistan when it left the road and fell into a branch of the Indus river. Beyond a collection of compact, stone cottages, which were contemporaries of the Seadog's Roost, a minor branch of the road curved to the left. Synonyms tributary, feeder, side stream 1.2 A division or office of a large business or organization, operating locally or having a particular function. he went to work at our Boston branch Example sentencesExamples Postbank operates 30 branches and 93 offices across the country and is represented in about 2300 post offices in Bulgaria. Experienced branch managers will operate the elevators. This organization replaced an association of NGOs working for alcohol abstinence and had branch offices operating on regional and local levels. Post Office bosses say there are too many branches chasing too little business. This program aims at strengthening the influence of the branch organizations and helping the harmonization of the local legislation with that of the Union. Twenty-eight locally registered banks and six branches of foreign banks operate in the country. The idea is to make it easier for small businesses and branch offices to manage security risks more efficiently by using a single appliance. The layoffs affected 14 employees locally and 11 in branch offices. Instead of being located in branches, business bank managers are being rehoused in three centralised sites in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Inverness. As the leading bank for businesses, with a network of over 1600 branches and 1400 business managers, no one is better placed to help businesses succeed. Remote workers, branch offices and small businesses have all been persuaded of the advantages of the appliance route. The branch managers and compliance officers failed in their duty. It ran a big trading business and had branch offices in many locations such as Osaka, Kobe and Hokkaido. He said he had an opportunity to open a branch office for an established document-imaging business that two friends of his had started in another state. In most cases of loan default, the axe always falls on the branch manager and middle-level officers. He was surprised by the willingness of branch managers to merge businesses and share common facilities without head office intervention. The arrangement breaks down the division between headquarters and branch offices. The unions, which function as virtual corporate branch offices, immediately got the message. In the Rangoon division, 18 out of 40 branch offices are now operating, with nine permitted to put up their old signboards. Not only is the branch post office of essential use to the people of the community, but it also is a centre of vital community communication and a social meeting place. Synonyms division, subdivision, section, subsection, department, sector, part, side, wing office, bureau, agency 1.3 A conceptual subdivision of something, especially a family, group of languages, or a subject. a branch of mathematics called graph theory Example sentencesExamples There are many differences between these two branches of the language, and this word is one instance. Two branches of the family came out to Australia together in 1878. Otherwise, the tongues spoken in Indonesia belong to several branches of the Austronesian language family. The family now had branches firmly settled in Michigan and Massachusetts. Which of us, after all, has grown up in an apartment block specifically built to house, on each of its eight floors, a different branch of our own family? It belongs to the Tibeto-Burman branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family. I have a feeling you and I are from different branches of the same family! Thus, Sanskrit, instead of being the mother of all Indo-European languages, became just a branch of their huge family. A new branch of the English language has emerged to describe the shady practice, with phishing, pharming, keylogging and spyware among the recently coined words. Now I must explain that my family - or branches thereof - have lived in South Africa for 154 years. Greyhounds, red dragons and portcullises belonging to heraldry of various family branches finish off the decorations. All the national languages, with the exception of the official language, English, are Bantu, a branch of the Niger-Congo language family. And we will head out to my great-grandmother's place to meet with the branch of the family I'd rather not meet. Because in India, family bonding is still strong, and marriage is one occasion where distant branches of the family are remembered and invited. Family branches take turns to host the ceremony, with the expenditure shared by the whole village. The Estonian language is a branch of the Baltic-Finnish group of the Finno-Ugric family, related to Finnish. Hungarian belongs to the Ugor branch of the Finno-Ugric language family. Russian is one of three East Slavic languages of the Slavic branch of the Indo-European language family. Over the years some branches of the family have been blighted by a congenital heart defect but Mrs Pike's illness was coincidental, say friends, because she was adopted. Serbo-Croatian belongs to the Slavic branch of the Indo-European language family. 1.4Computing A control structure in which one of several alternative sets of program statements is selected for execution. Example sentencesExamples To achieve highly accurate branch prediction, it is necessary not only to allocate more resources to branch prediction hardware but also to improve the understanding of branch execution characteristics. If you play with this experimental branch, please send some feedback! The second table, called the global predictor, predicts the branch direction based on the actual path of execution to reach the branch. This processor uses dynamic execution, a combination of improved branch prediction, speculative execution and data flow analysis. verbbran(t)SHbræn(t)ʃ [no object] 1(of a road or path) divide into one or more subdivisions. Example sentencesExamples Draw the lines into the future, imagine the ways in which they'd split and branch, imagine a million hearts that will never flutter into life. However, their arms are very highly forked and branched, and even more flexible than those of brittle stars. The route branched through some of the most difficult terrain of western China and arrived 9600 km west, then north, to Shaanxi. You don't have the freedom to go everywhere, but you must often select from branching paths. I glanced to my right, where the road had many branching paths that led to houses down the way, including my own. Every so often Erik would stop and feel against the wall, and every time he did they changed direction into a new passage that branched into the previous one they were traveling down. It is an insidious cancer of the lymphatic system, which branches into all the organs. Here, the cobbled street branched to form the perimeter of a paved rectangle containing two ornate fountains and a statue of a mounted king which had been hauled down and partly dismembered. He rose to his feet, and then leapt back when a loud roar issued from one of the many passages branching from the cavern. To explore this loop road, turn left at the Main Junction and follow the road branching south. At this point, it branches into the cephalic vein on the lateral aspect of the biceps muscle and the basilic vein on the medial side of the muscle. There was a conservatory situated a small distance behind the house, and a small path branched from the driveway to the door. Every path they searched branched into more paths, which branched into more paths. In the centre of the village, a small side road branched away and climbed a steep brae beyond the houses and back gardens. The methionine biosynthesis pathways differ also at the point where threonine and methionine biosynthesis pathways branch. Approximately halfway between the mayor's house and the village, the path branched. A wide cobblestone path flowed through the park, along with several branching pathways. Soon the crack widened, however, and their path branched down into the darkness. When the main path bears slightly right towards a bench, leave it via a path branching to the left of the main path and running uphill through the trees. Synonyms fork, bifurcate, divide, subdivide, split, separate, go in different directions diverge from, deviate from, depart from, turn aside from, shoot off from, split off from, go off at a tangent from 1.1 (of a tree or plant) bear or send out branches. the common sea lavender can be identified by its branched stem Example sentencesExamples The chickpea is a delicate, graceful plant that branches near the ground and is usually about 2 feet high. Plants show similar repetitive structures in, for example, the veins on a leaf or a tree's branching limbs. The basal stems can be confused with those of L. mucronata, but that species has branched basal stems that are prostrate and petiolate basal leaves. The vascular cambium is a cylindrical region running through the entire stem of the plant, and branching into every twig and limb. She peered up at the tree that branched over them, watched the leaves turn, slip by each other as they passed. Bladderworts, whose intricately branched, bladder-bearing stems are completely submerged, send up small aerial stems with inch-long yellow flowers. Mosses branched from the common ancestor of vascular plants around 400 MYA. They bring to mind trees, flowers and branching foliage breaking into bloom before our eyes. Pinch off stem tips regularly to force side branching and keep the plant dense and bushy. Think of a plant that naturally forms branching stems as a sort of balancing act in slow green motion. These plants are branched, and carry flowers on strong stems. The upright stems branched from creeping branching horizontal rhizomes that bore delicate hair-like roots. Increased size also allowed more branching and thus more termini per plant. Carved from a solid piece of wood, it is clear that the sculptor utilized and perhaps exploited a section of the tree that branched into two areas for the splayed legs. In contrast, shrubs are small woody plants, usually with several perennial stems branching at the base. Pinch the growing tip out of tall-growing plants to encourage branching and shorter growth. Pinching or shearing new growth forces the plant to branch where you cut it and to build up a strong undercarriage that supports heavier top growth later in the season. Sporangia are cylindrical and branched, which also distinguishes this plant from all other Rhynie Chert taxa. High up in one of the larger and more densely branched trees in the area, a man crouched, cursing his luck. However, cutting or incomplete pulling can cause the perennation of the plant such that it branches and becomes enlarged. 1.2branch off Diverge from the main route or part. the road branched off at the town figurative Ellington was constantly branching off with new musical styles Example sentencesExamples Building styles from throughout the country branch off from a main square, showing the visitor a miniature Spain. Nestle into one of several campsites at the base of the 300-foot-tall amphitheater, and explore the many slots and dry waterfalls branching off from Labyrinth's main canyon. At a certain point, we saw several people branching off from the main march and, along with other Council activists, we went to see what was happening. She'd noticed some liver spots on his cheeks, forehead and hands in the last few years, deep lines like streams cascading down his face, with others forming, branching off a main tributary. They backtracked far into the cave, away into one of the tunnels that branched off from the main one, and finally into a small cavern. Some RTC buses branched off from the main roads to find emergency escape routes like by-lanes, already jammed by cars and two-wheelers! Feedback has so far been extremely positive about the exterior of the glass-fronted building and its internal design, which features an indoor avenue that branches off to the four main galleries. Twelve long tendrils stretched out from a central mountain, with smaller mounds branching off from the main stem in a leaf-like pattern and eventually tapering down to become one with the landscape. The trail around the tarn is a favourite for families, with plenty of play opportunities in water and woodland, and lots of optional tracks branching off from the main path. It branched off the main path and was rarely used. As I passed into an unfamiliar area of the town, a small alley that branched off of the main street, I heard a cry. We continued more sedately through open country of varying steepness to the crossover point where routes branch off to different villages in the Prättigau valley. In one instance, a fourth and much smaller tunnel appears as the deepest tier owing to branching off from a main tunnel. I led the way into one of the back halls that branched off the main room. Streets are carved out of the landscape as veins branching off a main artery, with framed vistas across the harbor. I pointed along a narrow dirt path that branched off the main access road. A more adventurous method would be to simply explore each road radiating from the main junction or branching off into narrow arteries, and you'll be bound to hit the same spots, more or less. For walkers, a narrow, rocky path, with steps in places, branches off the main track before the last bridge, and follows the Greta beneath the A66. Another path branches off from the main one, but they walk past it. However, paths branched off the main one and led through the various beds of flowers and bushes. Synonyms swerve, career, skew, swing, sheer, weave, wheel 1.3branch out Extend or expand one's activities or interests in a new direction. the company is branching out into Europe Example sentencesExamples I think I would be more interested in branching out and making other types of pop culture. But what she's really excited about is her plan to branch out into directing. With five victories and 13 poles, his interests branched out. The company started life as a shuttle service linking Dublin Airport with the main hotels in the city centre, before branching out beyond Dublin. Certainly, they branch out in different directions in attitudes to football management. The company was looking to expand and to branch out from large metropolitan areas. Suddenly, the auto maker seems to be branching out in all directions at once. I've gotten a lot of new opportunities I wouldn't have gotten unless I was branching out and doing new things. But even with its rise in popularity, instead of branching out its warehouses to bigger cities, the company says its heart lies firmly in Rossendale. With this confidence, I branched out into other fitness activities, such as kickboxing and Spinning. Not one to rest on his laurels, the last few years have seen the front man branch out with two diverse releases of his own. She has certainly branched out into more interesting work in recent years. As you may have heard, he has been branching out from talk radio into jurisprudence and constitutional law. From these locations different groups branched out in various directions with different levels of success. Acting is still a great love of mine, but I thought it was time to branch out and expand my world. Originally a Reiki practitioner, she has during the years branched out in several directions and is still learning. He said the tour has given the band the chance to branch out and explore different directions and to satisfy their eclectic tastes. We knew in the early 1990s that we needed to diversify and branched out into a lot of different areas. He should spend more time expanding the commercial side of the market before branching out. What's so attractive about diversifying from the insurance business and branching out into personal loans? Synonyms expand, spread out, open up, extend Origin Middle English: from Old French branche, from late Latin branca ‘paw’.
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