Word Finder - branch

definition

The woody part of a tree arising from the trunk and usually dividing.

definition

Any of the parts of something that divides like the branch of a tree.

example

the branch of an antler, a chandelier, or a railway

definition

A creek or stream which flows into a larger river. (compare Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia run, and New York and New England brook.)

definition

One of the portions of a curve that extends outwards to an indefinitely great distance.

example

the branches of a hyperbola

definition

A location of an organization with several locations.

example

Our main branch is downtown, and we have branches in all major suburbs.

definition

A line of family descent, in distinction from some other line or lines from the same stock; any descendant in such a line.

example

the English branch of a family

definition

A local congregation of the LDS Church that is not large enough to form a ward; see Wikipedia article on ward in LDS church.

definition

An area in business or of knowledge, research.

definition

A certificate given by Trinity House to a pilot qualified to take navigational control of a ship in British waters.

definition

A sequence of code that is conditionally executed.

definition

A group of related files in a source control system, including for example source code, build scripts, and media such as images.

definition

A branch line.

definition

To arise from the trunk or a larger branch of a tree.

definition

To produce branches.

definition

To (cause to) divide into separate parts or subdivisions.

definition

To jump to a different location in a program, especially as the result of a conditional statement.

definition

To discipline (a union member) at a branch meeting.

I've been studying culinary arts for a few years and recently decided to branch out on my own.

It's the closest city with a World Wide branch to Parkside.

The snap of a branch pulled her from her misery.

He'd extended an olive branch and come back empty-handed.

But his branch of the militia wasn't equipped to help refugees.

She rubbed the lumpy scar on her arm, her attention caught by the sight of a jaguar dropping from a tree branch to the edge of the park and the forest a short distance away.

Toby gasped as the branch picked him up then waited.

At this point the right branch of the river is only 500 ft.

The branch obliged him and passed him upwards to another, which stretched him as far up as it could reach.  Then dropped him.  Toby yelped as he fell.  Another branch caught him and lifted him upwards again.

The central public baths in Infirmary Street, with branch establishments in other parts of the town, including Portobello, are largely resorted to, and the proximity of the Firth of Forth induces the keener swimmers to visit Granton every morning.

There is a branch line from Inverurie to Old Meldrum, 54 m.

It is served by the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St Louis, the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton, the Cincinnati Northern (New York Central system), and a branch of the Cincinnati, Lebanon & Northern (Pennsylvania system) railways.

Macleay indeed never pretended to a high position in this branch of science, his tastes lying in the direction of Entomology; but few of their countrymen knew more of birds than did Swainson and Vigors; and, while the latter, as editor for many years of the Zoological Journal, and the first secretary of the Zoological Society, has especial claims to the regard of all zoologists, so the former's indefatigable pursuit of Natural History, and conscientious labour in its behalf-among other ways by means of his graceful pencil-deserve to be remembered as a set-off against the injury he unwittingly caused.

Later he removed to New York City to establish a branch of the firm.

Every branch of physics gives rise to an application of mathematics.

Its most important branch is the Red Lake River, and both are navigable for vessels of light draught at high water.

The valley portion is level and contains several settlement centres, the largest of which, a busy industrial village (manufactures of cotton and paper), bears the same name as the township, and is on a branch of the Boston and Albany railroad.

Navigation on the Siberian rivers has developed both as regards the number of steamers plying and the number of branch rivers traversed.

From Tyumen the road proceeds to Omsk, Tomsk, Krasnoyarsk and Irkutsk, sending off from Kolyvan a branch south to Barnaul in the Altai and to Turkestan.

Returning westwards, Chelyabinsk has been connected with Ekaterinburg (153 m.); and a branch line has been built from the main Siberian line to Tomsk (54 m.).

The Siberian branch of the Russian Geographical Society was founded at the same time at Irkutsk, and afterwards became a permanent centre for the exploration of Siberia; while the opening of the Amur and Sakhalin attracted Maack, Schmidt, Glehn, Radde and Schrenck, whose works on the flora, fauna and inhabitants of Siberia have become widely known.

The usual attributes of Athena were the helmet, the aegis, the round shield with the head of Medusa in the centre, the lance, an olive branch, the owl, the cock and the snake.

Each half consists of many lobes which may branch, and the whole takes up a considerable proportion of FIG.

The dorsal branch sends a blind twig into each of the diverticula of the dorsal mantle-sinus, the ventral branch supplies the nephridia and neighbouring parts before reaching the ventral lobe of the mantle.

Abeokuta is the headquarters of the Yoruba branch of the Church Missionary Society, and British and American missionaries have met with some success in their civilizing work.

The theories of determinants and of symmetric functions and of the algebra of differential operations have an important bearing upon this comparatively new branch of mathematics.

In the same year the branch of the Via Aemilia connecting Bononia with Arretium was constructed by him.

In Englishspeaking countries the ore is commonly known as magnetite, and pieces which exhibit attraction as magnets; the cause to which the attractive property is attributed is called magnetism, a name also applied to the important branch of science which has been evolved from the study of phenomena associated with the magnet.

Thomson in 1897 and 1898 4 resulted in the establishment of the electron theory, which has already effected developments of an almost revolutionary character in more than one branch of science.

As capital of an arrondissement, Bastia is the seat of a tribunal of first instance and a sub-prefect, while it is also the seat of the military governor of Corsica, of a court of appeal for the whole island, of a court of assizes, and of a tribunal and a chamber of commerce, and has a lycee, a branch of the Bank of France, and a library with between 30,000 and 40,000 volumes.

In the advancement of almost every branch of pure mathematics Lagrange took a conspicuous part.

It was his just boast to have transformed mechanics (defined by him as a "geometry of four dimensions") into a branch of analysis, and to have exhibited the so-called mechanical "principles" as simple results of the calculus.

To this entire branch of knowledge, in short, he successfully imparted that character of generality and completeness towards which his labours invariably tended.

It is the terminal station of a branch of the London & North-Western railway coming southward from Shrewsbury, and is a station on the main line of the Great Western running to Fishguard; it is also the terminus of a branch-line of the Great Western running to Newcastle-Emlyn.

Dunkirk is the seat of a sub-prefect; its public institutions include tribunals of first instance and of commerce, a board of trade-arbitrators, an exchange, a branch of the Bank of France and a communal college; and it has a school of drawing, architecture and music, a library and a rich museum of paintings.

It is joined to the trunk railway from Port Elizabeth to the Transvaal by a branch line from Smaldeel, 28 m.

One of the Brazilian birds whose habits have attracted much interest is the Joao de Barro (Clay John) or oven bird (Furnarius rufus), which builds a house of reddish clay for its nest and attaches it to the branch of a tree, usually in a fork.

These explorations cover every branch of natural science and resulted in publications of inestimable scientific value.

The first was the chaotic confusion of the finances resulting from the maladministration of the national resources since the deposition of Dom Pedro II., and the corruption that had crept into every branch of the public service.

It also has tribunals of first instance and of commerce, a chamber of commerce, a board of trade-arbitrators, an exchange and a branch of the Bank of France.

He made himself master of practically every branch of medieval learning, and had a thorough knowledge of the sources and the bibliography of his subject.

Avezzano is on the main line from Rome to Castellammare Adriatico; a branch railway diverges to Roccasecca, on the line from Naples to Rome.

A fourth range also diverges from Giant's Castle and ramifies in various branches over a large tract "of country, one branch running by Pietermaritzburg to the Berea hills overlooking Durban.

From Ladysmith a branch line runs north-west into the Orange Free State, crossing the Drakensberg at Van Reenen's Pass.

Two lines branch off from Pietermaritzburg.

Cattle-breeding is probably the most lucrative branch of stock-farming, the country being pre-eminently adapted for horned cattle.

A branch of this canal called Uj Csatorna or New Channel, extends from Kis-Sztapar, a few miles below Zombor, to Ujvidek, opposite Petervarad.

The intellectual improvement which Helen has made in the past two years is shown more clearly in her greater command of language and in her ability to recognize nicer shades of meaning in the use of words, than in any other branch of her education.

The Guaira river, a branch of the Tuy, traverses the plain from west to east, and flows past the city on the south.

Tomsk is now connected with the main line by a short side branch.