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say it: branch
branch is a noun and verb meaning "a division of some larger or more complex organization". It is pronounced /ˈbɹæntʃ/ — branch. It carries 8 recorded senses.
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”
a part of a forked or branching shape
“he broke off one of the branches”
a natural consequence of development
a stream or river connected to a larger one
any projection that is thought to resemble a human arm
“the arm of the record player”
“an arm of the sea”
“a branch of the sewer”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for branch come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.