Word Meanings - BRANCH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A shoot or secondary stem growing from the main stem, or from a principal limb or bough of a tree or other plant. 2. Any division extending like a branch; any arm or part connected with the main body of thing; ramification; as, the branch of an

Additional info about word: BRANCH

A shoot or secondary stem growing from the main stem, or from a principal limb or bough of a tree or other plant. 2. 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. Most of the branches , or streams, were dried up. W. Irving. 3. Any member or part of a body or system; a distinct article; a section or subdivision; a department. "Branches of knowledge." Prescott. It is a branch and parcel of mine oath. Shak. (more info) branca claw of a bird or beast of prey; cf. Armor. brank branch,

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of BRANCH)

• Department
• Section
• division
• portion
• function
• office
• branch
• province
• line
• Descendant
• Offspring
• progeny
• stock
• scion
• seed
• issue
• house
• family
• lineage
• Ramification
• Branching
• offshoot
• divergence
• subdivision
• Scion
• Slip
• cadet
• child
• Twig
• Sprig
• spray
• shoot

Related words: (words related to BRANCH)

• CHILDSHIP
  The state or relation of being a child.
• CHILDISHNESS
  The state or quality of being childish; simplicity; harmlessness; weakness of intellect.
• STOCKER
  One who makes or fits stocks, as of guns or gun carriages, etc.
• BRANCHIOSTOMA
  The lancelet. See Amphioxus.
• CHILDED
  Furnished with a child.
• SECTIONALITY
  The state or quality of being sectional; sectionalism.
• CHILDBIRTH
  The act of bringing forth a child; travail; labor. Jer. Taylor.
• STOCKWORK
  A system of working in ore, etc., when it lies not in strata or veins, but in solid masses, so as to be worked in chambers or stories.
• OFFICEHOLDER
  An officer, particularly one in the civil service; a placeman.
• SPRIGHTLY
  Sprightlike, or spiritlike; lively; brisk; animated; vigorous; airy; gay; as, a sprightly youth; a sprightly air; a sprightly dance. "Sprightly wit and love inspires." Dryden. The sprightly Sylvia trips along the green. Pope.
• STOCK-BLIND
  Blind as a stock; wholly blind.
• PORTIONIST
  One of the incumbents of a benefice which has two or more rectors or vicars. (more info) 1. A scholar at Merton College, Oxford, who has a certain academical allowance or portion; -- corrupted into postmaster. Shipley.
• DIVISIONARY
  Divisional.
• SECTIONALIZE
  To divide according to gepgraphical sections or local interests. The principal results of the struggle were to sectionalize parties. Nicilay & Hay .
• BRANCHLESS
  Destitude of branches or shoots; without any valuable product; barren; naked.
• HOUSEWIFE
  A little case or bag for materials used in sewing, and for 3. A hussy. Shak. Sailor's housewife, a ditty-bag. (more info) 1. The wife of a householder; the mistress of a family; the female head of a household. Shak. He a good husband, a good
• DEPARTMENT
  1. Act of departing; departure. Sudden departments from one extreme to another. Wotton. 2. A part, portion, or subdivision. 3. A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like; appointed sphere or walk; province. Superior to Pope in Pope's
• SHOOTING
  1. The act of one who, or that which, shoots; as, the shooting of an archery club; the shooting of rays of light. 2. A wounding or killing with a firearm; specifically , the killing of game; as, a week of shooting. 3. A sensation of darting pain;
• FAMILY
  A groupe of organisms, either animal or vegetable, related by certain points of resemblance in structure or development, more comprehensive than a genus, because it is usually based on fewer or less pronounced points of likeness. In zoölogy
• SCION
  A shoot or sprout of a plant; a sucker. 2. Hence, a descendant; an heir; as, a scion of a royal stock.
• DISPROPORTIONALLY
  In a disproportional manner; unsuitably in form, quantity, or value; unequally.
• TECTIBRANCHIA
  See TECTIBRANCHIATA
• NUDIBRANCHIATA
  A division of opisthobranchiate mollusks, having no shell except while very young. The gills are naked and situated upon the back or sides. See Ceratobranchia.
• IMPROPORTIONATE
  Not proportionate.
• ABRANCHIAL
  Abranchiate.
• PYGOBRANCHIA
  A division of opisthobranchiate mollusks having the branchiæ in a wreath or group around the anal opening, as in the genus Doris.
• PACKHOUSE
  Warehouse for storing goods.
• POST OFFICE
  See POST
• WAREHOUSE
  A storehouse for wares, or goods. Addison.
• GODCHILD
  One for whom a person becomes sponsor at baptism, and whom he promises to see educated as a Christian; a godson or goddaughter. See Godfather.
• POSTHOUSE
  1. A house established for the convenience of the post, where relays of horses can be obtained. 2. A house for distributing the malls; a post office.
• HENHOUSE
  A house or shelter for fowls.
• PODOBRANCH
  One of branchiæ attached to the bases of the legs in Crustacea.
• DISPROPORTIONABLE
  Disproportional; unsuitable in form, size, quantity, or adaptation; disproportionate; inadequate. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*ble*ness, n. Hammond. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*bly, adv.
• DISPROPORTIONALITY
  The state of being disproportional. Dr. H. More.
• ASPIDOBRANCHIA
  A group of Gastropoda, with limpetlike shells, including the abalone shells and keyhole limpets.