 11 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
branch
noun
1: an administrative division of some larger or more complex
organization; "a branch of Congress" [syn: {subdivision},
{arm}]
2: a division of a stem, or secondary stem arising from the
main stem of a plant
3: a part of a forked or branching shape; "he broke off one of
the branches"; "they took the south fork" [syn: {fork}, {leg},
{ramification}]
4: a natural consequence of development [syn: {outgrowth}, {offshoot},
{offset}]
5: a stream or river connected to a larger one
6: any projection that is thought to resemble an arm; "the arm
of the record player"; "an arm of the sea"; "a branch of
the sewer" [syn: {arm}, {limb}]
verb
1: grow and send out branches or branch-like structures; "these
plants ramify early and get to be very large" [syn: {ramify}]
2: divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork; "The
road forks" [syn: {ramify}, {fork}, {furcate}, {separate}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Branch \Branch\, noun; 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.
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.
Most of the branches, or streams, were dried up.
--W. Irving.
3. Any member or part of a body or system; a distinct
article; a section or subdivision; a department.
''Branches of knowledge.'' --Prescott.
It is a branch and parcel of mine oath. --Shak.
4. (Geom.) One of the portions of a curve that extends
outwards to an indefinitely great distance; as, the
branches of an hyperbola.
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.
His father, a younger branch of the ancient stock.
--Carew.
6. (Naut.) A warrant or commission given to a pilot,
authorizing him to pilot vessels in certain waters.
{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.
Syn: Bough; limb; shoot; offshoot; twig; sprig.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Branch \Branch\, adjective
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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Branch \Branch\, verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Branched}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Branching}.]
1. To shoot or spread in branches; to separate into branches;
to ramify.
2. To divide into separate parts or subdivision.
{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.
To branch out into a long disputation. --Spectator.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Branch \Branch\, verb (used with an object)
1. To divide as into branches; to make subordinate division
in.
2. To adorn with needlework representing branches, flowers,
or twigs.
The train whereof loose far behind her strayed,
Branched with gold and pearl, most richly wrought.
--Spenser.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
351 Moby Thesaurus words for "branch":
L, V, 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, 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, variety, vary, veer, version, wadi,
watercourse, waterway, widen, wing, wishbone, zag, zig, zigzag
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
branch
1. An {edge} in a {tree}.
2. A {jump}.
(1998-11-14)
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Branch, AR (city, FIPS 8440)
Location: 35.30606 N, 93.95626 W
Population (1990): 299 (132 housing units)
Area: 6.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 72928
Branch, LA
Zip code(s): 70516
Branch, MI
Zip code(s): 49402
Branch, MN (city, FIPS 7318)
Location: 45.51459 N, 92.95757 W
Population (1990): 2400 (720 housing units)
Area: 88.4 sq km (land), 0.9 sq km (water)
From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz-place]:
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.
Headwords:
Branch, AR
Branch
From U.S. Gazetteer Counties (2000) [gaz-county]:
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
Headwords:
Branch
Branch, MI
Branch County
Branch County, MI
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [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.
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