branch
1. a division of some larger or more complex organization (Freq. 19)
- a branch of Congress
- botany is a branch of biology
- the Germanic branch of Indo-European languages
• Syn:
subdivision, arm
• Hypernyms:
division
• Hyponyms:
post office, local post office, executive branch, Executive Office of the President, legislative branch, judicial branch
2. a division of a stem, or secondary stem arising from the main stem of a plant (Freq. 15)
• Derivationally related forms:
branchy
• Hypernyms:
stalk, stem
• Hyponyms:
deadwood, limb, tree branch, branchlet, twig, sprig
• Part Meronyms:
bark
3. a part of a forked or branching shape (Freq. 5)
- he broke off one of the branches
• Syn:
leg, ramification
• Derivationally related forms:
ramify (for: ramification), branchy
• Hypernyms:
subfigure
• Hyponyms:
bifurcation, brachium, fork, crotch
• Part Holonyms:
furcation, forking
4. a natural consequence of development
• Syn:
outgrowth, offshoot, offset
• Hypernyms:
consequence, effect, outcome, result, event,
issue, upshot
5. a stream or river connected to a larger one
• Hypernyms:
stream, watercourse
• Hyponyms:
billabong, distributary, feeder, tributary, confluent, affluent
6. 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, limb
• Hypernyms:
projection
1. grow and send out branches or branch-like structures
- these plants ramify early and get to be very large
• Syn:
ramify
• Derivationally related forms:
ramification (for: ramify)
• Hypernyms:
grow
• Verb Group:
ramify, fork, furcate, separate
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
2. divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork
- The road forks
• Syn:
ramify, fork, furcate, separate
• See Also:
branch out
• Derivationally related forms:
furcation (for: furcate), fork (for: fork), forking (for: fork), ramification (for: ramify)
• Hypernyms:
diverge
• Hyponyms:
arborize, arborise, twig, bifurcate, trifurcate
• Verb Group:
ramify
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
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