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adjective

Branching adj. Furnished with branches; shooting our branches; extending in a branch or branches. "Shaded with branching palm."

verb

Branch v. t.

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

To adorn with needlework representing branches, flowers, or twigs. "The train whereof loose far behind her strayed, Branched with gold and pearl, most richly wrought."

Branch v. i. (past & past part. branched; pres. part. branching)

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

To divide into separate parts or subdivision.

To branch off, to form a branch or a separate part; to diverge.

To branch out, to speak diffusively; to extend one's discourse to other topics than the main one; also, to enlarge the scope of one's business, etc. "To branch out into a long disputation."

noun

Branching n. The act or state of separation into branches; division into branches; a division or branch. "The sciences, with their numerous branchings."

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Etymology of 'Branching'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Branching" Quotes from Famous Books

... to two scions of each seedling reached sufficient size and vigor to survive the following winter without damage. None of the scions branched in 1944, and all failed to show symptoms of the disease. Early in 1945 profuse branching occurred on the one surviving scion of seedling number 39.03-P2, and by midsummer excessive proliferation of the buds of primary shoots had resulted in the formation of a mistletoe-like growth characteristic of the disease. Scions of the two other seedlings, ...

— Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Forty-Second Annual Meeting • Northern Nut Growers Association

... October and November 1914, structural remains thought to be Roman, including 'an old Roman fireplace, circular in shape, with stone flues branching out', were noted in the garden of St. Mary's vicarage. The real meaning of the find ...

— Roman Britain in 1914 • F. Haverfield

... hypothesis of the transmutation of species, partly by his general cosmological and geological views; partly by the conception of a graduated, though irregularly branching, scale of being, which had arisen out of his profound study of plants and of the lower forms of animal life, Lamarck, whose general line of thought often closely resembles that of De Maillet, made a great advance upon the crude and merely speculative ...

— The Origin of Species - From 'The Westminster Review', April 1860 • Thomas H. Huxley

... to the village passed at the back of the wood. Branching off from it, an old path leading through the trees and round the edge of the lake had once been frequently used as a short cut from the village to the house, but was now badly grown up and indeed superseded by the new drive from the western ...

— Helena • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... bristling boar's head, Delian Maid, to thee, With branching antlers of a sprightly stag, Young Micon offers: if his luck but hold, Full-length in polished marble, ankle-bound With purple ...

— The Bucolics and Eclogues • Virgil

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