English Dictionary

branch

/bɹɑːntʃ/

verb

(intransitive) To arise from the trunk or a larger branch of a tree. / (intransitive) To produce branches. / (transitive, intransitive) To (cause to) divide into separate parts or subdivisions.

She decided to branch out and start her own business.

意味（1）

(intransitive) To arise from the trunk or a larger branch of a tree.

意味（2）

(intransitive) To produce branches.

The tree throve and branched so heavily that the windows of Lower West and the Doll's Flat were darkened.

意味（3）

(transitive, intransitive) To (cause to) divide into separate parts or subdivisions.

意味（4）

(intransitive, computing) To jump to a different location in a program, especially as the result of a conditional statement.

意味（5）

(transitive, colloquial) To discipline (a union member) at a branch meeting.

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.