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

1. noun. A shoot or secondary stem growing from the main stem, or from a principal limb or bough of a tree or other plant.
2. noun. 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.
3. noun. Any member or part of a body or system; a distinct article; a section or subdivision; a department.
4. noun. One of the portions of a curve that extends outwards to an indefinitely great distance; as, the branches of an hyperbola.
5. noun. 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.
6. noun. A warrant or commission given to a pilot, authorizing him to pilot vessels in certain waters.
7. adjective. 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.
8. intransitive verb. To shoot or spread in branches; to separate into branches; to ramify.
9. intransitive verb. To divide into separate parts or subdivision.
10. transitive verb. To divide as into branches; to make subordinate division in.
11. transitive verb. To adorn with needlework representing branches, flowers, or twigs.
12. noun. any projection that is thought to resemble a human arm

    "the arm of the record player"

    "an arm of the sea"

    Synonyms: arm, limb

13. noun. a division of some larger or more complex organization

    "a branch of Congress"

    "botany is a branch of biology"

    Synonyms: arm, subdivision

14. noun. a stream or river connected to a larger one
15. noun. a natural consequence of development

    Synonyms: offset, offshoot, outgrowth

16. noun. a division of a stem, or secondary stem arising from the main stem of a plant
17. noun. a part of a forked or branching shape

    "he broke off one of the branches"

    Synonyms: leg, ramification

18. verb. divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork

    "The road forks"

    Synonyms: fork, furcate, ramify, separate

19. verb. grow and send out branches or branch-like structures

    "these plants ramify early and get to be very large"

    Synonyms: ramify

Synonyms

arm, limb, subdivision, offset, offshoot, outgrowth, leg, ramification, fork, furcate, ramify, separate

Common word forms

branched, brancher, branches, branchful, branching, branchless

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