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A part of a tree which grows out from the trunk or from a bough
“I've been told that you can graft an apple branch into a peach tree, but the branch will still grow apples.”
Any of the parts of something that divides from a main section or line
“Coming to a branch in the road, the Jeep steers to the left.”
A lateral extension or subdivision extending from the main part of a body of water
“Shakadang Stream is a branch of the Liwu River, which cuts through ancient rock layers to carve the Taroko Gorge.”
A section or part, especially of a company or organization
“This branch of government includes our state courts and judges.”
A local office for a company or organization
“Gaskell spent time in Saint John in the early 1940s trying to establish a local branch of this organization.”
A specific domain in business, knowledge, or research
“Nevertheless, it seems that, mostly, there is one dominant theory in each branch of science.”
That which is connected or extends from something else
“The branch of physics that is now referred to as black hole physics was born as a full-blooded scientific discipline at the junction of the theory of gravitation.”
The type, category or rank of something
“The subject, so far as the improvements themselves are concerned, is purely a technical one, which belongs to the highest branch of engineering science.”
A turn off a road, trail or path
“Why else would I have half my trucks go down a branch in the road that leads to nothing?”
The main stem of a herbaceous plant
A part of the trunk or a large branch of a tree that has fallen or been cut off
A local chapter of a fraternity
Breakaway group
Something intended to reconcile or connect two seemingly incompatible things
(geography) A bay or inlet off a main body of water
An object on which a bird alights or roosts
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
A compact growth on a plant that develops into a leaf, flower, or shoot
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
The action or process of enlarging or extending something
An alternative route for use by traffic when the usual road is temporarily closed
A stream or minor tributary of a river
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 split or fork out from a straight line
“Shortly after you pass Haslach, the road will branch off towards Fischerbach.”
To spread or extend outwards from, or as if from, a central point
“As Steven's hand ran along the edge of the tree, small beams of colored light would branch out from its leaves.”
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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