English Dictionary

branch

IPA（発音記号）

/bɹɑːntʃ/

動詞

自動詞 他動詞 口語

(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.

日本語の意味

(自動詞) 幹や大きな枝から枝分かれする / (自動詞) 枝を生じる / (他動詞・自動詞) 分かれて独立の部分や区分に分割する

In spring, new shoots branch from the old oak trunk, creating a dense canopy.

春になると、新芽が古いオークの幹から枝分かれして濃い葉冠を作ります。

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.

branches （ present singular third-person ）

branching （ participle present ）

branched （ participle past ）

branched （ past ）