branch

Selfe loue, to him ſelf tender, to the reſt tough, / Is, of iuſt iuſtice, neither roote, braunce, nor bough. / Loue (namely ſelfe loue) corruptibly growyng, / Is cheefe lodeſter of lets, in iuſtice ſhowing.

1556, John Heywood, chapter 7, in The Spider and the Flie. […], London: […] Tho[mas] Powell, →OCLC; republished as A[dolphus] W[illiam] Ward, editor, The Spider and the Flie. […] (Publications of the Spenser Society, New Series; 6), Manchester: […] [Charles E. Simms] for the Spenser Society, 1894, →OCLC, page 50:

And they played softly in the Aeolian mode a music that was like the wailing of wind through bare branches on a moonless night, and the Red Foliot leaned forth from his high seat and recited this lamentation: […]

1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros, London: Jonathan Cape, page 31:

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

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

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

branch water

(chiefly Southern US) A creek or stream which flows into a larger river.

the branches of a hyperbola

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

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

A location of an organization with several locations.

the English branch of a family

his father, a younger branch of the ancient stock

1609, Richard Carew, The Survey of Cornwall. […], new edition, London: […] B. Law, […]; Penzance, Cornwall: J. Hewett, published 1769, →OCLC:

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

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

We live our lives in three dimensions for our threescore and ten allotted years. Yet every branch of contemporary science, from statistics to cosmology, alludes to processes that operate on scales outside of human experience: the millisecond and the nanometer, the eon and the light-year.

2012 January 22, Robert L. Dorit, “Rereading Darwin”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 2012-11-14, page 23:

An area in business or of knowledge, research.

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

(computing) A sequence of code that is conditionally executed.

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

(graph theory) A path of vertices of degree 2, ending at vertices whose degree is not 2.

fall out of the ugly tree and hit every branch

the highest branch is not the safest roost

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part that divides like the branch of a tree

haara

geometry: one of the portions of a curve that extends to infinity

haara

computer architecture: conditional sequence of code

From Middle English branche, braunche, bronche, from Old French branche, branke, from Late Latin branca (“footprint”, later also “paw, claw”) (whence Middle High German pranke, German Pranke (“paw”)), of unknown origin.
Perhaps of Celtic origin, from a hypothetical Gaulish *vranca, from Proto-Indo-European *wrónk-eh₂. If so, then Indo-European cognates include Old Norse rá, vró (“angle, corner”), and possibly Lithuanian rankà (“hand”), Old Church Slavonic рѫка (rǫka, “hand”), Albanian rangë (“yardwork”).
The verb is from Middle English braunchen, from the noun.

unk

unknown


branch

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

The tree throve and branched so heavily that the windows of Lower West and the Doll's Flat were darkened.

1944, Emily Carr, “Life Loves Living”, in The House of All Sorts:

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

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

They cut down a young pear-tree, branch it, and carry it home.

1890, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 2, page 55:

His staff were 'not journalists, but Communists', he maintained. Nonetheless, in 1948 his vigorous editorship took the paper's circulation to 120,000 a day. The following year, he was 'branched' by the National Union of Journalists for an intemperate attack on Fleet Street.

2003, Paul Routledge, The Bumper Book of British Lefties, page 199:

(transitive, colloquial) To discipline (a union member) at a branch meeting.

en-verb

branch (third-person singular simple present branches, present participle branching, simple past and past participle branched)

branches (present singular third-person)
branching (participle present)
branched (participle past)
branched (past)
braunch (alternative)

разклонявам се

to arise from the trunk or a larger branch of a tree

opdele

to divide into separate parts or subdivisions

разклонявам се

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

unk

unknown