'Branch' definitions:
Definition of 'branch'
From: WordNet
noun
A division of some larger or more complex organization; "a branch of Congress"; "botany is a branch of biology"; "the Germanic branch of Indo-European languages" [syn: branch, subdivision, arm]
noun
A division of a stem, or secondary stem arising from the main stem of a plant
noun
A part of a forked or branching shape; "he broke off one of the branches" [syn: branch, leg, ramification]
noun
noun
A stream or river connected to a larger one
noun
Any projection that is thought to resemble a human arm; "the arm of the record player"; "an arm of the sea"; "a branch of the sewer" [syn: arm, branch, limb]
verb
Grow and send out branches or branch-like structures; "these plants ramify early and get to be very large" [syn: ramify, branch]
verb
Definition of 'Branch'
From: GCIDE
- Branch \Branch\, n.; pl. Branches. [OE. braunche, F. branche, fr. LL. branca claw of a bird or beast of prey; cf. Armor. brank branch, bough.]
- 1. (Bot.) A shoot or secondary stem growing from the main stem, or from a principal limb or bough of a tree or other plant. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Any division extending like a branch; any arm or part connected with the main body of thing; ramification; as, the branch of an antler; the branch of a chandelier; a branch of a river; a branch of a railway. [1913 Webster]
- Most of the branches, or streams, were dried up. --W. Irving. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Any member or part of a body or system; a distinct article; a section or subdivision; a department. "Branches of knowledge." --Prescott. [1913 Webster]
- It is a branch and parcel of mine oath. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Geom.) One of the portions of a curve that extends outwards to an indefinitely great distance; as, the branches of an hyperbola. [1913 Webster]
- 5. A line of family descent, in distinction from some other line or lines from the same stock; any descendant in such a line; as, the English branch of a family. [1913 Webster]
- His father, a younger branch of the ancient stock. --Carew. [1913 Webster]
- 6. (Naut.) A warrant or commission given to a pilot, authorizing him to pilot vessels in certain waters. [1913 Webster]
- Branches of a bridle, two pieces of bent iron, which bear the bit, the cross chains, and the curb.
- Branch herring. See Alewife.
- Root and branch, totally, wholly. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Bough; limb; shoot; offshoot; twig; sprig. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Branch'
From: GCIDE
- Branch \Branch\, a. Diverging from, or tributary to, a main stock, line, way, theme, etc.; as, a branch vein; a branch road or line; a branch topic; a branch store. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Branch'
From: GCIDE
- Branch \Branch\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Branched; p. pr. & vb. n. Branching.]
- 1. To shoot or spread in branches; to separate into branches; to ramify. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To divide into separate parts or subdivision. [1913 Webster]
- To branch off, to form a branch or a separate part; to diverge.
- To branch out, to speak diffusively; to extend one's discourse to other topics than the main one; also, to enlarge the scope of one's business, etc. [1913 Webster]
- To branch out into a long disputation. --Spectator. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Branch'
From: GCIDE
- Branch \Branch\, v. t.
- 1. To divide as into branches; to make subordinate division in. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To adorn with needlework representing branches, flowers, or twigs. [1913 Webster]
- The train whereof loose far behind her strayed, Branched with gold and pearl, most richly wrought. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Branch'
From: Easton
- Branch a symbol of kings descended from royal ancestors (Ezek. 17:3, 10; Dan. 11:7); of prosperity (Job 8:16); of the Messiah, a branch out of the root of the stem of Jesse (Isa. 11:1), the "beautiful branch" (4:2), a "righteous branch" (Jer. 23:5), "the Branch" (Zech. 3:8; 6:12).
- Disciples are branches of the true vine (John 15:5, 6). "The branch of the terrible ones" (Isa. 25:5) is rightly translated in the Revised Version "the song of the terrible ones," i.e., the song of victory shall be brought low by the destruction of Babylon and the return of the Jews from captivity.
- The "abominable branch" is a tree on which a malefactor has been hanged (Isa. 14:19). The "highest branch" in Ezek. 17:3 represents Jehoiakim the king.
Synonyms of 'branch'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- adolescent stream,
- affiliate,
- affiliation,
- affluent,
- angle,
- angle off,
- apparentation,
- appendage,
- arm,
- arroyo,
- bayou,
- bear off,
- beck,
- bend,
- bifurcate,
- billabong,
- bine,
- biotype,
- birth,
- bisect,
- blood,
- bloodline,
- body,
- booking office,
- bough,
- bourn,
- box office,
- bracket,
- braided stream,
- branch off,
- branch office,
- branch out,
- branchedness,
- branchiness,
- breed,
- brook,
- brooklet,
- burgeon,
- burn,
- by two,
- cabinet,
- cable railway,
- caste,
- category,
- chambers,
- chancellery,
- chancery,
- change the bearing,
- channel,
- chapter,
- church,
- clan,
- class,
- cleave,
- closet,
- cog railway,
- common ancestry,
- communion,
- community,
- confluent,
- confluent stream,
- consanguinity,
- consulate,
- corporate headquarters,
- crank,
- creek,
- crick,
- crook,
- crotch,
- crutch,
- curve,
- cut in two,
- deadwood,
- delta,
- den,
- dendritic drainage pattern,
- denomination,
- depart from,
- department,
- deploy,
- derivation,
- descent,
- detour,
- deviate,
- dichotomize,
- digress,
- dimidiate,
- direct line,
- disperse,
- distaff side,
- divagate,
- divaricate,
- diverge,
- diversify,
- divide,
- division,
- effluent,
- el,
- elbow,
- electric railway,
- elevated,
- elevated railway,
- embankment,
- embassy,
- estate,
- executive office,
- expand,
- extend,
- extraction,
- faction,
- family,
- fan,
- fan out,
- feeder,
- feeder line,
- fellowship,
- female line,
- filiation,
- fission,
- flagellum,
- flare,
- flowing stream,
- fluviation,
- fork,
- fresh,
- freshet,
- frond,
- furcate,
- furcula,
- furculum,
- genotype,
- genus,
- gill,
- grade,
- gravity-operated railway,
- groin,
- group,
- grouping,
- halve,
- hand,
- head,
- heading,
- headquarters,
- heel,
- home office,
- hook,
- horse railway,
- house,
- imp,
- in half,
- inguen,
- joint,
- junction,
- kill,
- kin,
- kingdom,
- L,
- label,
- lazy stream,
- leg,
- legation,
- level,
- light railroad,
- limb,
- line,
- line of descent,
- lineage,
- link,
- lobe,
- lobule,
- local,
- lodge,
- main line,
- main office,
- male line,
- meandering stream,
- member,
- metro,
- midchannel,
- midstream,
- millstream,
- monorail,
- moving road,
- navigable river,
- office,
- offset,
- offshoot,
- open,
- open up,
- order,
- organ,
- organization,
- outspread,
- outstretch,
- overgrow,
- overrun,
- part,
- party,
- persuasion,
- phylum,
- pigeonhole,
- pinion,
- position,
- post,
- predicament,
- prong,
- race,
- racing stream,
- rack railway,
- rack-and-pinion railway,
- rail,
- rail line,
- railroad,
- railway,
- ramage,
- ramification,
- ramify,
- rank,
- rating,
- religious order,
- river,
- rivulet,
- roadbed,
- roadway,
- rubric,
- run,
- rundle,
- runlet,
- runnel,
- runner,
- sarment,
- schism,
- school,
- scion,
- sect,
- sectarism,
- section,
- seed,
- segment,
- sept,
- series,
- service,
- set,
- sheer,
- shift,
- shoot,
- shop,
- side,
- sidetrack,
- siding,
- sike,
- slip,
- society,
- spear,
- spear side,
- species,
- spill stream,
- spin-off,
- spindle side,
- splay,
- split in two,
- spraddle,
- sprangle,
- sprawl,
- spray,
- spread,
- spread like wildfire,
- spread out,
- sprig,
- sprit,
- sprout,
- spur,
- station,
- status,
- stem,
- stirps,
- stock,
- stolon,
- strain,
- stratum,
- stream,
- stream action,
- streamlet,
- street railway,
- streetcar line,
- study,
- subclass,
- subdivide,
- subdivision,
- subfamily,
- subgenus,
- subgroup,
- subkingdom,
- suborder,
- subsidiary,
- subspecies,
- subterranean river,
- subtribe,
- subway,
- succession,
- sucker,
- superclass,
- superfamily,
- superorder,
- superspecies,
- swerve,
- switch,
- switchback,
- sword side,
- tack,
- tail,
- tendril,
- terminal,
- terminus,
- thallus,
- ticket office,
- title,
- track,
- tram,
- tramline,
- transect,
- trend,
- trestle,
- tribe,
- tributary,
- trident,
- trifurcate,
- trolley line,
- trunk,
- trunk line,
- tube,
- turn,
- turn aside,
- turnout,
- twig,
- underground,
- unfold,
- V,
- variety,
- vary,
- veer,
- version,
- wadi,
- watercourse,
- waterway,
- widen,
- wing,
- wishbone,
- zag,
- zig,
- zigzag
Branch, AR -- U.S. city in Arkansas
From: Gazetteer 2000
Name :
Branch, AR -- U.S. city in Arkansas
Population (2000) :
357
Housing Units (2000) :
155
Land area (2000) :
3.565727 sq. miles (9.235191 sq. km)
Water area (2000) :
0.001730 sq. miles (0.004480 sq. km)
Total area (2000) :
3.567457 sq. miles (9.239671 sq. km)
FIPS code :
08440
Located within :
Arkansas (AR), FIPS 05
Location :
35.308482 N, 93.955690 W
ZIP Codes (1990) :
72928
Note :
some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Branch -- U.S. County in Michigan
From: Gazetteer 2000
Name :
Branch -- U.S. County in Michigan
Population (2000) :
45787
Housing Units (2000) :
19822
Land area (2000) :
507.412060 sq. miles (1314.191146 sq. km)
Water area (2000) :
12.078135 sq. miles (31.282225 sq. km)
Total area (2000) :
519.490195 sq. miles (1345.473371 sq. km)
Located within :
Michigan (MI), FIPS 26
Location :
41.926246 N, 85.051147 W
Words containing 'Branch'
- Branched,
- Branches,
- Branching,
- To branch off,
- To branch out,
- branch out,
- Branch County,
- Branch herring,
- Branch pilot,
- Branch, AR,
- Branch, MI,
- Branches of a bridle,
- Drakes Branch,
- Fall Branch,
- Farmers Branch,
- Flowery Branch,
- Fort Branch,
- Fort Branch, IN,
- Hamilton Branch,
- Long Branch,
- North Branch,
- Olive Branch,
- Plum Branch,
- Root and branch,
- Village of the Branch,
- Wells Branch,
- West Branch,
- branch line,
- branch water,
- branched chain,
- executive branch,
- judicial branch,
- legislative branch,
- special branch,
- tree branch,
- Branch County, MI,
- Drakes Branch, VA,
- Fall Branch, TN,
- Farmers Branch, TX,
- Flowery Branch, GA,
- Hamilton Branch, CA,
- Long Branch, NJ,
- Long Branch, PA,
- North Branch, MI,
- North Branch, MN,
- Olive Branch, MS,
- Plum Branch, SC,
- Village of the Branch, NY,
- Wells Branch, TX,
- West Branch, IA,
- West Branch, MI,
- West Long Branch,
- branched chain ketoaciduria,
- james branch cabell,
- long-branched,
- stiff-branched,
- thick-branched,
- well-branched,
- Root-and-branch men,
- West Long Branch, NJ