branch
Definition of branch:
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part of speech: noun
BRANCHLESS, BRANCHY.
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part of speech: verb
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part of speech: noun
The shoot of a tree or plant; an arm; any part of a body or system; a descendant from a common parent.
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part of speech: verb
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part of speech: verb
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part of speech: noun
A shoot or arm- like limb of a tree: anything like a branch: any offshoot or subdivision.
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Common misspellings:
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- branc (2.1%)
- barnch (2.1%)
- l (2.1%)
- banch (4.2%)
- brance (7.3%)
- bracnh (4.2%)
- brnach (2.1%)
- branche (11.5%)
- beanch (1.0%)
- brach (63.5%)
Usage examples for branch:
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That's what comes of thinking too much on one branch of your subject.
"Revenge!" – by Robert Barr -
It seems to me that he must have some knowledge of this Meynell branch and therefore thinks himself strong enough to act alone, and to throw me over the bridge.
"Charlotte's Inheritance" – M. E. Braddon -
Life Knox ascended the tree again, seated himself on a branch and proceeded to watch the " Cornfeds."
"A Lieutenant at Eighteen" – Oliver Optic -
He walked to the foot of the tree and climbed it branch by branch
"More Tales in the Land of Nursery Rhyme" – Ada M. Marzials