Dictionary Entry
branch
branch is a 6-letter English word with 19 senses as noun, adjective, intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A shoot or secondary stem growing from the main stem, or from a principal limb or bough of a tree or other plant. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 15 · 19 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A shoot or secondary stem growing from the main stem, or from a principal limb or bough of a tree or other plant.
- 2noun
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.
- 3noun
Any member or part of a body or system; a distinct article; a section or subdivision; a department.
- 4noun
One of the portions of a curve that extends outwards to an indefinitely great distance; as, the branches of an hyperbola.
- 5noun
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.
- 6noun
A warrant or commission given to a pilot, authorizing him to pilot vessels in certain waters.
- 7adjective
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.
- 8intransitive verb
To shoot or spread in branches; to separate into branches; to ramify.
- 9intransitive verb
To divide into separate parts or subdivision.
- 10transitive verb
To divide as into branches; to make subordinate division in.
- 11transitive verb
To adorn with needlework representing branches, flowers, or twigs.
- 12noun
any projection that is thought to resemble a human arm
"the arm of the record player"
"an arm of the sea"
- 13noun
a division of some larger or more complex organization
"a branch of Congress"
"botany is a branch of biology"
Synonyms
- 14noun
a stream or river connected to a larger one
- 15noun
a natural consequence of development
- 16noun
a division of a stem, or secondary stem arising from the main stem of a plant
- 17noun
a part of a forked or branching shape
"he broke off one of the branches"
Synonyms
- 18verb
divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork
"The road forks"
- 19verb
grow and send out branches or branch-like structures
"these plants ramify early and get to be very large"
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