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Verb
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branches, plural;
  1. (of a road or path) Divide into one or more subdivisions

  2. (of a tree or plant) Bear or send out branches
    • - the common sea lavender can be identified by its branched stem
  3. Diverge from the main route or part
    • - the road branched off at the town
    • - Ellington was constantly branching off with new musical styles
  4. Extend or expand one's activities or interests in a new direction
    • - the company is branching out into Europe
Noun
  1. A part of a tree that grows out from the trunk or from a bough

  2. A lateral extension or subdivision extending from the main part of something, typically one extending from a river, road, or railway
    • - a branch of the Susquehanna River
  3. A division or office of a large business or organization, operating locally or having a particular function
    • - he went to work at our Boston branch
  4. A conceptual subdivision of something, esp. a family, group of languages, or a subject
    • - a branch of mathematics called graph theory
  5. A control structure in which one of several alternative sets of program statements is selected for execution

  1. (branch) 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"
  2. (branch) ramify: grow and send out branches or branch-like structures; "these plants ramify early and get to be very large"
  3. (branch) a division of a stem, or secondary stem arising from the main stem of a plant
  4. (branch) divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork; "The road forks"
  5. (branch) a part of a forked or branching shape; "he broke off one of the branches"
  6. (branch) outgrowth: a natural consequence of development
  7. Branches is a novel-in-verse by American author Mitch Cullin, with illustrations by the Japanese artist Ryuzo Kikushima. It is the second installment of the writer's Texas Trilogy that also includes the coming-of-age football novel Whompyjawed and the surrealistic novel Tideland.
  8. A branch (or) or tree branch (sometimes referred to in botany as a ramus) is a woody structural member connected to but not part of the central trunk of a tree (or sometimes a shrub). Large branches are known as boughs and small branches are known as twigs.
  9. (Branch (academia)) An academic discipline, or field of study, is a branch of knowledge that is taught and researched at the college or university level. ...
  10. (Branch (banking)) A branch, banking center or financial center is a retail location where a bank, credit union, or other financial institution (and by extension, brokerage firms) offers a wide array of face-to-face and automated services to its customers.
  11. (Branch (bridle)) The bit shank is the side piece or cheekpiece of a curb bit, part of the bridle, used when riding on horses. The bit shank allows leverage to be added to the pressure of the rider's hands on the bit. ...
  12. (Branch (Christ)) The Branch Davidians (also known as "The Branch") are a Protestant sect that originated in 1955 from a schism in the Davidian Seventh Day Adventists ("Davidians"), a so-called reform movement that began within the Seventh-day Adventist Church ("Adventists") around 1930. ...
  13. (branch) The woody part of a tree arising from the trunk and usually dividing; Something that divides like the branch of a tree; A location of an organization with several locations; A local congregation of the LDS Church that is not large enough to form a ward; see Wikipedia article on ward in ...
  14. (Branch) Any part of a drain system other than the main, riser, or stack.
  15. (Branch (מטה mateh, Strong's #4294)) This word is used for the branch of a tree, whether on the tree or cut off of the tree. This word is also used for a staff which is a branch cut from a tree. This word is also used for a tribe as a branch of a family lineage.
  16. (BRANCH) The organizational level having functional or geographic responsibility for major parts of incident operations. The Branch level is organizationally between Section and Division/Group in the Operations Section, and between Section and Units in the Logistics Section. ...
  17. (branch) (1) A special form of vitrified sewer tile and cast-iron pipe used for making connections to a sewer or water main. The various types are called T, Y, T-Y, double Y and V branches, according to their shapes. (2) Any part of a piping system other than a main or stack.
  18. (branch) A basic block that can be selected for execution based on a program construct in which one of two or more alternative program paths is available, e.g. case, jump, go to, ifthen-else.
  19. (Branch) A subordinate or division office of ABC Company, as opposed to an affiliate, agent, subsidiary or underwritten firm associated with the Company.
  20. (branch) a conditional transfer of control from any statement to any other statement in a component
  21. (Branch) The lateral extension(s) of the main bloom stem that produces additional flowers.
  22. (Branch) Another name for the light-bearing part of a chandelier, also known as an arm.
  23. (branch) A tree node that rolls up to nodes above it in the hierarchy, as defined in PeopleSoft Tree Manager.
  24. (Branch) A congregation that is smaller than the typical size. It is presided over by a branch president and two counselors, rather than a bishop and counselors.
  25. (Branch) A transfer of control from one instruction to another in a computer program that is not part of the normal sequential execution of the instructions of the program.