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A division or office of a large business or organization
“Not only is the branch of essential use to the people of the community, but it also serves as a social meeting place.”
A part of a tree which grows out from the trunk or from a bough
“And my friend told me that you can graft an apple branch into a peach tree, but the branch will still grow apples.”
A lateral extension or subdivision extending from the main part of a river, road, railway, etc
“Shakadang Stream is a branch of the Liwu River, which cuts through rock layers 9 million years old to carve the Taroko Gorge.”
A branch or division of a company or organization
The main stem of a herbaceous plant
An area in business or of knowledge, research
A lesser road leading off a main road
The act of prolonging
A part of the trunk or a large branch of a tree that has fallen or been cut off
A branch or meeting place of an organization such as the Freemasons
Breakaway group
Something that grows out of something else
Something intended to reconcile or connect two seemingly incompatible things
An object on which a bird alights or roosts, typically a branch or horizontal bar
A narrow strip of water or land projecting from a larger body
The leaf of a fern, especially a compound leaf
A division into three branches
An amount or section which, when combined with others, makes up the whole of something
Something made (perhaps incidentally) during the production of something else
A compact growth on a plant that develops into a leaf, flower, or shoot
An advisory, deliberative, or administrative body of people formally constituted and meeting regularly
The quality or nature of something
A building or group of buildings where goods are manufactured or assembled chiefly by machine
Short branched extension of a nerve cell
A spike or point on an implement or tool, such as a fork or a comb
An alternative route for use by traffic when the usual road is temporarily closed
A sharp bend in a road
A small, narrow river
A descendant of a notable family
The intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behaviour of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment
A layer or a series of layers of rock in the ground
Derived form
To arise from the trunk or a larger branch of a tree
“The methionine biosynthesis pathways differ also at the point where threonine and methionine biosynthesis pathways branch.”
To spread or extend outwards from, or as if from, a central point
To make (a difference between two groups) smaller or less significant
Disperse or radiate from a central point to cover a wide area
Less important than but related or supplementary to something
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