Definition of Branch

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Branch

A shoot or secondary stem growing from the main stem, or from a principal limb or bough of a tree or other plant.

Any division extending like a branch; any arm or part connected with the main body of thing; ramification; as, the branch of an antler; the branch of a chandelier; a branch of a river; a branch of a railway.

Any member or part of a body or system; a distinct article; a section or subdivision; a department.

One of the portions of a curve that extends outwards to an indefinitely great distance; as, the branches of an hyperbola.

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

A warrant or commission given to a pilot, authorizing him to pilot vessels in certain waters.

Diverging from, or tributary to, a main stock, line, way, theme, etc.; as, a branch vein; a branch road or line; a branch topic; a branch store.

To shoot or spread in branches; to separate into branches; to ramify.

To divide into separate parts or subdivision.

To divide as into branches; to make subordinate division in.

To adorn with needlework representing branches, flowers, or twigs.

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Branch Quotations

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.
Thomas Jefferson

First I shake the whole Apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each branch and then each twig, and then I look under each leaf.
Martin Luther

What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?
James Madison

The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law.
George W. Bush

Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.
Victor Hugo

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.
Frank Zappa

We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.
Woodrow Wilson

I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.
Yasser Arafat

Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government.
Richard M. Nixon

Branch Translations

branch in Afrikaans is afdeling, vak, tak
branch in Danish is afdeling, gren, filial
branch in Dutch is tak, aftakking
branch in Finnish is oksa, lokero
branch in German is springen, verzweigen, Branche, Abteilung, Sprung
branch in Italian is filiale, ramo
branch in Latin is stipes
branch in Norwegian is gren, avdeling
branch in Portuguese is ramo, filial
branch in Spanish is bifurcar, ramo, ramificar, rama, sucursal
branch in Swedish is gran, filial, bransch

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