branch
/bɹænt͡ʃ/ verb B1- To arise from the trunk or a larger branch of a tree.
- To produce branches.
- To (cause to) divide into separate parts or subdivisions.
- To jump to a different location in a program, especially as the result of a conditional statement.
- To strip of branches.
- To discipline (a union member) at a branch meeting.
He/she/it branches · Past branched · Past participle branched · -ing form branching
Verb forms
- Base form
- branch
- He/she/it
- branches
- Past
- branched
- Past participle
- branched
- -ing form
- branching
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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“I’ve seen hatters before,” she said to herself; “the March Hare will be much the most interesting, and perhaps as this is May it won’t be raving mad—at least not so mad as it was in March.” As she said this, she looked up, and there was the Cat again, sitting on a branch of a tree.
Directly in front of him, holding on by a low branch, stood a naked brown baby who could just walk--as soft and as dimpled a little atom as ever came to a wolf’s cave at night.
Bagheera would lie out on a branch and call, “Come along, Little Brother,” and at first Mowgli would cling like the sloth, but afterward he would fling himself through the branches almost as boldly as the gray ape.
Now, I have seen men thrust a dry branch into that stuff, and presently the Red Flower blossomed at the end of it.
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