英语词汇“branch”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	branch
释义	branch I. \ˈbranch, -aa(ə)-, -ai-, -ȧ-\ noun (-es) Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English braunche, from Old French branche, from Late Latin branca paw 1. : a stem growing from the trunk or from a limb of a tree; specifically : a shoot or secondary stem growing from the main stem 2. : something that extends from, enters into, or is an offshoot of a main body or source: as a. (1) : a stream that flows into another usually larger stream : affluent, tributary (2) South and Midland : creek 2 (3) : an effluent stream < a delta branch > (4) : a reentrant stream : by-channel, anabranch (5) : a fork of a tidal river (as of the Severn river in Maryland) b. : a side road or way < a logging railroad whose branches spread through thousands of square miles — American Guide Series: Minnesota > c. (1) : a slender projection (as the tine of an antler or arm of a candelabrum) (2) : a rib in Gothic vaulting; especially : one of the smaller ribs in a complicated vault (3) : either side of a horseshoe (4) : a pipe joined to and diverging from the barrel of another pipe; also : a forked pipe connection d. archaic : scion, descendant e. (1) mathematics : one of the portions of a curve (as a hyperbola) (2) : either of the two partial series of lines in a spectral band that proceed in opposite directions from the zero line of the band 3. : a part of a complex body: as a. : a division of a family descending from a particular ancestor as distinguished from those descending from his relations < the Connecticut branch of an old Boston family > b. : an area of knowledge that may be considered or studied apart from related areas < pathology is a branch of medicine > c. (1) : a section, department, or division of an organization < a branch of the armed service > < the two branches of Congress > (2) : a subordinate or dependent part of a central system or organization < a neighborhood branch of a city library > < a branch bank in a suburb > d. (1) : a primary division of the animal kingdom — see phylum (2) in the classification of languages of the eastern hemisphere : a number of related languages forming a category less inclusive than a family or subfamily < the Germanic branch of the Indo-European language family > 4. : a warrant or commission given to a pilot authorizing him to pilot ships in certain waters < a branch pilot > II. verb (-ed/-ing/-es) Etymology: Middle English braunchen, from braunche, n. *intransitive verb* 1. : to put or hold forth branches : ramify < a great elm branching over the roof > 2. : to spring off or out (as from a main stem or root) : diverge < streets branching from either side of the highway > — often used with off < his mind kept branching off into the contemplation of silly things — Liam O'Flaherty > 3. : to become derived : be an outgrowth — used with from < poetry that branched from Baudelaire — Douglas Stewart > 4. : to extend activities : enlarge or develop by taking up something different or by adding on something new — usually used with out < car manufacturers branched out into tank and cannon manufacture > *transitive verb* 1. : to ornament with designs of branches or foliage < branch velvet > 2. : to divide up : arrange, section < branching his treatment of the problem into three equal parts > Synonyms: ramify, divaricate, fork, furcate, bifurcate: branch (often used with off, from, out) is applicable to any developing or projecting comparable to the sending out of a branch by a tree or to a split growth comparable to the main fork of a tree trunk < roads branching off the main highways > < little streams branching from the river > < branching out from building houses to selling real estate > < the river branches to form the various delta channels > ramify may suggest an intricate dividing or subdividing, sometimes to the extent of interconnecting, permeating, or affecting a whole area < the system of arteries and veins ramifying over the whole body > < an inquiry into the nature of the genres and the boundaries of the arts ramifies out in every direction — Irving Babbitt > < a ramifying network of social relations, with every chance that its force may be multiplied or deflected in the devious process of transmission — Max Lerner & Edwin Mims > divaricate is a technical term indicating splitting into two main branches < elm tree trunks often divaricate > fork indicates a splitting or development at a specific point into what may be likened to tines or branches < the river forks forming an island > < the main road forks into two smaller roads > furcate, now uncommon, and bifurcate, explicitly indicating a division into two, are more learned synonyms for fork < though Islam bifurcated into the sects of the Sunnis and the Shi'is as the Christian Church bifurcated into the Catholic and Orthodox Churches — A.J.Toynbee > < the inevitable moment when the channel bifurcated and a choice had to be made — C.S.Forester > III. noun : a part of a computer program executed as a result of a program decision IV. intransitive verb : to follow one of two or more branches (as in a computer program)
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