Definition of branch

adjective (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. (adjective)

  source: webster1913

noun (n)

• a division of some larger or more complex organization (noun.group)

  Synonym: arm, subdivision
  

  Example:
  A branch of Congress.
  Botany is a branch of biology.
  The Germanic branch of Indo-European languages.
  

  source: wordnet30
• a division of a stem, or secondary stem arising from the main stem of a plant (noun.plant)

  source: wordnet30
• a part of a forked or branching shape (noun.shape)

  Synonym: leg, ramification
  

  Example:
  He broke off one of the branches.
  

  source: wordnet30
• a natural consequence of development (noun.phenomenon)

  Synonym: offset, offshoot, outgrowth
  

  source: wordnet30
• a stream or river connected to a larger one (noun.object)

  source: wordnet30
• any projection that is thought to resemble a human arm (noun.artifact)

  Synonym: arm, limb
  

  Example:
  A branch of the sewer.
  

  source: wordnet30
• A shoot or secondary stem growing from the main stem, or from a principal limb or bough of a tree or other plant. (noun)

  source: webster1913

verb (v)

• grow and send out branches or branch-like structures (verb.change)

  Synonym: ramify
  

  source: wordnet30
• divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork (verb.change)

  Synonym: fork, furcate, ramify, separate
  

  source: wordnet30
• To shoot or spread in branches; to separate into branches; to ramify. (verb)

  source: webster1913
• To divide as into branches; to make subordinate division in. (verb)

  source: webster1913

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