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Part of a tree or railway
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branch
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Gazetteer
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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 ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.] (Bot.) A shoot or secondary stem growing from the main stem, or from a principal limb or bough of a tree or other ...
Wikipedia
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A branch is an instruction in a computer program that can cause a computer to begin executing a different instruction sequence and thus deviate from its default behavior of executing instructions in order. Branch (or branching , branched ) may also refer ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, braunch , "limb of a tree" (also used of things analogous to it, especially geographic features), from Old French branche "branch, bough, twig; branch of a family" (12c.), from Late Latin branca "footprint," later "a claw, paw," which is of unknown ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. grow and send out branches or branch-like structures; "these plants ramify early and get to be very large" [syn: ramify ] divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork; "The road forks" [syn: ramify , fork , furcate , separate ]
Usage examples of branch.
Gu suggested that each Lodge should affiliate with the branch of the province in which it was located.
She stalked on and shortly came to the Tube branch leading to her allotment, and went down to see how her own crops were doing.
The sexual organs are developed in groups at the apices, the antheridial group usually terminating the main axis while the archegonia are borne on a lateral branch.
She yanked out the rest of the flowers in the arrangement and started from scratch, using a single crimson anthurium and three nearly bare branches.
Uncle Sam was called to fight for humanity, and only an approximation of the condition can be made, for about two-thirds of the National Guard had been taken into the regular service incident to the trouble with Mexico, when the Guardsmen were summoned to the border to protect the country, and recruiting was proceeding in all branches of the service to bring all the regiments up to a war footing.
Follow the main arroyo, take the first right-hand branch you come to, and wait there for me.
It has required that appointees be representative of a political party, of an industry, of a geographic region, or of a particular branch of the Government.
By studying both fossil and living archosaurus, paleontologists have shown that the archosaurs split into two branches, or lineages, in the Early Triassic.
Branch or no Branch, if someone more cunning than she had gained access then they could debate their cleverness with Assh and Frey first.
Block Fixings -- Astragal Joints -- Pipe Fixings -- Large Branch Joints -- Large Underhand Joints -- Solders -- Autogenous Soldering or Lead Burning -- Index.
She was also tutored at the appropriate age in astrography, galactic history, various branches of the physical sciences, the workings of the Vegan civic administrational structure, and basic legal precepts.
She kept up with the discussions, but to her this branch of astrophysics was like a French Impressionist painting of a cow: suggestive, artful maybe, but some things never looked quite right and it was in the end not a reliable source of nourishing milk.
From his right hand sprouted thin branches hung with miniature autumnal leaves.
This stairway forked at the top, a small flight leading to the door of an entrance into the cave dwelling, while two or three steps branched outward to a ledge skirting the stone balustrade of the balcony.
Trailing shoots of the bougainvillea swayed in the night breeze, and a branch of Banksia roses struck him, the clusters of blossom making a scented rain upon his face.