Adjacent Words

Branching definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

BR'ANCHING, ppr. Shooting in branches; dividing into several subordinate parts.
BR'ANCHING,a. Furnished with branches; shooting out branches.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: having branches [syn: branched, branching, ramose, ramous, ramate]
2: resembling the branches of a tree n
1: the act of branching out or dividing into branches [syn: branching, ramification, fork, forking]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Branching Branch"ing, n. The act or state of separation into branches; division into branches; a division or branch. The sciences, with their numerous branchings. --L. Watts.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Branch Branch, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Branched; p. pr. & vb. n. Branching.] 1. To shoot or spread in branches; to separate into branches; to ramify. 2. To divide into separate parts or subdivision. To branch off, to form a branch or a separate part; to diverge. To branch out, to speak diffusively; to extend one's discourse to other topics than the main one; also, to enlarge the scope of one's business, etc. To branch out into a long disputation. --Spectator.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Branching Branch"ing, a. Furnished with branches; shooting our branches; extending in a branch or branches. Shaded with branching palm. --Milton.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. n. Ramification, arborescence. II. a. Arborescent, arboriform, dendriform, dendroid, dendritic.

Moby Thesaurus

V-shaped, Y-shaped, arboreal, arborescence, arborescent, arboriform, arborization, bifidity, biforked, biforking, bifurcate, bifurcated, bifurcation, bipartition, bisected, bisection, bowery, branched, branching off, branchlike, branchy, by two, cleft, cloven, crotched, cutting in two, dendriform, dendritic, dichotomous, dichotomy, dimidiate, dimidiation, divarication, divided, division, foliaged, foliate, foliated, foliose, forked, forking, forklike, furcate, furcation, halved, halving, in half, leafy, leaved, leavy, pronged, ramate, ramification, ramified, ramose, ramous, riven, split, subdivision, tree-shaped, treelike, treelikeness, tridentlike, trifurcate, trifurcated, trifurcation, twiggy