branch

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /bɹɑːnt͡ʃ/    美 /bɹænt͡ʃ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The woody part of a tree arising from the trunk and usually dividing.
    — Selfe loue, to him ſelf tender, to the reſt tough, / Is, of iuſt iuſtice, neither roote, braunce, nor bough. / Loue (namely ſelfe loue) corruptibly growyng, / Is cheefe lodeſter of lets, in iuſtice ſhowing.
  2. Any of the parts of something that divides like the branch of a tree.
    — the branch of an antler, a chandelier, or a railway
  3. A creek or stream which flows into a larger river. Southern-US
    — branch water
  4. One of the portions of a curve that extends outwards to an indefinitely great distance.
    — the branches of a hyperbola
  5. A location of an organization with several locations.
    — Our main branch is downtown, and we have branches in all major suburbs.
  6. A line of family descent, in distinction from some other line or lines from the same stock; any descendant in such a line.
    — the English branch of a family
  7. A local congregation of the LDS Church that is not large enough to form a ward; see Wikipedia article on ward in LDS church. Mormonism
  8. An area in business or of knowledge, research.
    — We live our lives in three dimensions for our threescore and ten allotted years. Yet every branch of contemporary science, from statistics to cosmology, alludes to processes that operate on scales outside of human experience: the millisecond and the nanometer, the eon and the light-year.
  9. A certificate given by Trinity House to a pilot qualified to take navigational control of a ship in British waters.
  10. A sequence of code that is conditionally executed.
  11. A group of related files in a source control system, including for example source code, build scripts, and media such as images.
  12. A branch line.
  13. A path of vertices of degree 2, ending at vertices whose degree is not 2.
动词 v.
  1. To arise from the trunk or a larger branch of a tree. intransitive
  2. To produce branches. intransitive
    — The tree throve and branched so heavily that the windows of Lower West and the Doll's Flat were darkened.
  3. To (cause to) divide into separate parts or subdivisions. ambitransitive
  4. To jump to a different location in a program, especially as the result of a conditional statement. intransitive
  5. To strip of branches. transitive
    — They cut down a young pear-tree, branch it, and carry it home.
  6. To discipline (a union member) at a branch meeting. colloquial,transitive
    — His staff were 'not journalists, but Communists', he maintained. Nonetheless, in 1948 his vigorous editorship took the paper's circulation to 120,000 a day. The following year, he was 'branched' by the National Union of Journalists for an intemperate attack on Fleet Street.

词形变化

branches plural braunch alternative,obsolete branches present,singular,third-person branching participle,present branched participle,past branched past braunch alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

近义词
ramify
反义词
crotch
下位词
anabranch asymptotic giant branch branch line branch of government bundle branch cadet branch earthly branch Everett branch executive branch Farmers Branch hemibranch horizontal branch judicial branch language branch legislative branch Long Branch main branch microbranch monkey-branch multibranch nanobranch North Branch olive branch olive-branch pinebranch pleurobranch pluribranch principal branch South Branch Special Branch sub-branch subbranch terrestrial branch tree-and-branch tree-branch underbranch West Branch
衍生词
branched branchery branchful branchless branchlet branchlike branchling branchwise branchwork branchy The Branch
相关词
bourbon and branch branch banking branch current method branch-decomposition branch manager branch office branch pilot branch predictor branch register branch stacking Branch Sunday branch tee branch water branch-water branchway bundle branch block charm a bird off a branch fall out of the ugly tree and hit every branch interbranch private branch exchange pseudobranch root and branch root-and-branch saw off the branch one is sitting on summer branch drop the highest branch is not the safest roost branch off branch out debranch disbranch rebranch
并列词
branch cut prebranch root trunk
部分词
branchpoint sprig twig

词源

词源 1
From Middle English branche, braunche, bronche, from Old French branche, branke, from Late Latin branca (“footprint”, later also “paw, claw”) (whence Middle High German pranke, German Pranke (“paw”)), of unknown origin.
Perhaps of Celtic origin, from a hypothetical Gaulish *vranca, from Proto-Indo-European *wrónk-eh₂. If so, then Indo-European cognates include Old Norse rá, vró (“angle, corner”), and possibly Lithuanian rankà (“hand”), Old Church Slavonic рѫка (rǫka, “hand”), Albanian rangë (“yardwork”).
The verb is from Middle English braunchen, from the noun.
词源 2
From Middle English branche, braunche, bronche, from Old French branche, branke, from Late Latin branca (“footprint”, later also “paw, claw”) (whence Middle High German pranke, German Pranke (“paw”)), of unknown origin.
Perhaps of Celtic origin, from a hypothetical Gaulish *vranca, from Proto-Indo-European *wrónk-eh₂. If so, then Indo-European cognates include Old Norse rá, vró (“angle, corner”), and possibly Lithuanian rankà (“hand”), Old Church Slavonic рѫка (rǫka, “hand”), Albanian rangë (“yardwork”).
The verb is from Middle English braunchen, from the noun.
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