Branch

(noun.) a division of some larger or more complex organization; 'a branch of Congress'; 'botany is a branch of biology'; 'the Germanic branch of Indo-European languages'.

(noun.) a stream or river connected to a larger one.

(noun.) a division of a stem, or secondary stem arising from the main stem of a plant.

(noun.) a part of a forked or branching shape; 'he broke off one of the branches'.

(verb.) divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork; 'The road forks'.

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• Economic history deals with the activities, the career, and fortunes of the common man as does no other branch of history. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• An important branch of the textile art is cloth finishing, whereby the rough surface of the cloth as it comes from the loom is rendered soft and smooth. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• The cutting away when there's anything wrong, and the eating all the wittles when there's everything right; is that his branch? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• This move was made without a single casualty in either branch of the service. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• No leaf will decay because we are removed, nor any branch become motionless although we can observe you no longer! 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• His goods, said Mr. Cruncher, after turning it over in his mind, is a branch of Scientific goods. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• In this branch house of ours, Handel, we must have a-- I saw that his delicacy was avoiding the right word, so I said, A clerk. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• Hence I was led to dry the stems and branches of ninety-four plants with ripe fruit, and to place them on sea-water. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Of the public Works and Institution which are necessary for facilitating particular Branches of Commerce. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• As allied branches of the photographic art, photo-engraving, photo-lithographing, and half-tone engraving are important developments of the Nineteenth Century. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• The ancient customs were divided into three branches. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The first railroads to be built were principally branches of the Liverpool and Manchester one, and chiefly located in the mining and manufacturing county of Lancaster. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• A part of the second floor is devoted to the storage and the shipping of parts to branches and agents. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Collateral with the development of the printing press are three important branches of the art--stereotyping, paper making, and type setting. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• In British Guiana the name is given to another large, much-branched tree, and there are also other varieties in Para and along the Rio Negro, which is a tributary of the Amazon River. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• We arrived, as he said those words, at a place where the highway along which we had been walking branched off into two roads. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Rows of doors, garnished with boots of every shape, make, and size, branched off in every possible direction. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Here, indeed, dwell human beings, but so few, and in alleys so thick branched and overarched, they are neither heard nor seen. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• The vineyards were thin and bare-branched too and all the country wet and brown and dead with the autumn. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• In front of the white garden-palings the path branched into three like a broad arrow. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Every one knows how the horns of stags become more and more branched, and the plumes of some birds become more finely developed, as they grow older. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• A stone-flagged passage, with the kitchens branching away from it, led by a wooden staircase directly to the first floor of the house. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• Slipping quietly through this opening I discovered a maze of winding corridors, branching and turning in every direction. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• The branching and diverging dotted lines of unequal lengths proceeding from (A), may represent its varying offspring. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• In certain genera of star-fishes, the very combinations needed to show that the pedicellariae are only modified branching spines may be found. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• The young tadpole has branching external gills that wave in the water; then a gill cover grows back over them and forms a gill chamber. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Mixed minerals will often intercrystallize in blobs or branching shapes that are very suggestive of simple plant or animal forms. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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