(n.) A shoot or secondary stem growing from the main stem, or from a principal limb or bough of a tree or other plant.
(n.) Any division extending like a branch; any arm or part connected with the main body of thing; ramification; as, the branch of an antler; the branch of a chandelier; a branch of a river; a branch of a railway.
(n.) Any member or part of a body or system; a distinct article; a section or subdivision; a department.
(n.) One of the portions of a curve that extends outwards to an indefinitely great distance; as, the branches of an hyperbola.
(n.) A line of family descent, in distinction from some other line or lines from the same stock; any descendant in such a line; as, the English branch of a family.
(n.) A warrant or commission given to a pilot, authorizing him to pilot vessels in certain waters.
(a.) Diverging from, or tributary to, a main stock, line, way, theme, etc.; as, a branch vein; a branch road or line; a branch topic; a branch store.
(v. i.) To shoot or spread in branches; to separate into branches; to ramify.
(v. i.) To divide into separate parts or subdivision.
(v. t.) To divide as into branches; to make subordinate division in.
(v. t.) To adorn with needlework representing branches, flowers, or twigs.
Example Sentences:
(1) He added: "There is a rigorous review process of applications submitted by the executive branch, spearheaded initially by five judicial branch lawyers who are national security experts and then by the judges, to ensure that the court's authorizations comport with what the applicable statutes authorize."
(2) The adjacent gauge was separated from the ischemic segment by one large nonoccluded diagonal branch of the left anterior descending artery.
(3) Subsequently, the study of bundle branch block and A-V block cases revealed that no explicit correlation existed between histopathological changes and functional disturbances nor between disturbances in conduction (i.e.
(4) This result demonstrates that branching enzyme belongs to a family of the amylolytic enzymes.
(5) One rare case of blind-ending branch originating in the upper third of the ureter are described.
(6) An anatomic study of the peroneal artery and vein and their branches was carried out on 80 adult cadaver legs.
(7) According to the national bank, four Russian banks were operating in Crimea as of the end of April, but only one of them, Rossiisky National Commercial Bank, was widely represented, with 116 branches in the region.
(8) The present study was done in order to document the ability of the eighth cranial nerve of the bullfrog (Rana catesbeiana) to regenerate, the anatomic characteristics of the regenerated fibers, and the specificity of projections from individual endorgan branches of the nerve.
(9) Mechanisms by which a defect in the synthesis of dolichol-oligosaccharides might alter the degree of beta-1,6 branching in N-linked carbohydrates are discussed.
(10) Arterial-type flows produced a pair of vortex sinks downstream of the branching port.
(11) The ACoA branches were divided into the small and the large.
(12) It is possible that the elements provide common precursor proteins that reach the secretory intermediate lobe cells through their dendritic branches.
(13) Limitations include the facts that the tracer inventory requires a minimal survival period, can only be done postmortem, and has low resolution for cuts of the vagal hepatic branch.
(14) So we concluded that duplications and accessories should be thought to have similar meanings with the ordinary branching patterns of MCA in the occurrence of aneurysms.
(15) In the case with a more distally situated VSD, the bundle branches skirted the anterior and distal walls of the defect.
(16) Our results show that stenosis of about one-third of the original external diameter of the artery and vein of the pedicle in our model did not have any significant influence on the survival of the flap and ligation of the femoral artery distal to the branch to the flap did not produce any statistical difference in the viability of the flap.
(17) Autopsy revealed a primary intimal sarcoma with osteogenic elements arising in the posterior leaflet of the pulmonary valve and obstructing the main pulmonary artery and its right branch.
(18) Three cases with intermittent left bundle branch block were studied by means of an intracavitary electrode, which allowed the potential of the bundle of His to be measured, and was also used for the extrastimulus method of study.
(19) 500-MHz H-NMR spectroscopy of the oligosaccharides derived from gamma-seminoprotein, a human seminal plasma glycoprotein, revealed considerable microheterogeneity both with respect to the degree of branching and with regard to the peripheral sugars.
(20) The behavior of the retrograde H deflection in respect to the first extra beat following the premature QRS complex helped in excluding bundle branch reentry.
Elephant
Definition:
(n.) A mammal of the order Proboscidia, of which two living species, Elephas Indicus and E. Africanus, and several fossil species, are known. They have a proboscis or trunk, and two large ivory tusks proceeding from the extremity of the upper jaw, and curving upwards. The molar teeth are large and have transverse folds. Elephants are the largest land animals now existing.
(n.) Ivory; the tusk of the elephant.
Example Sentences:
(1) The hymen was not penetrated as a result of intromission and therefore the site of ejaculation would have been in the urogenital canal of the 4 primigravid elephants.
(2) In June, a notorious elephant poacher led a gang of bandits in an attack on the Okapi wildlife reserve in DRC, killing seven people.
(3) Spending time with the baby elephants was very special; the best bit was watching them have a mud bath and occasionally joining in!
(4) Some of these are functions that would once have been taken on through squatting – and sometimes still are, as at Open House , a social centre recently and precariously opened in London's Elephant & Castle, an area torn apart by rampant gentrification, where estates are flogged off to developers with zero commitment to public housing and the aforementioned "shopping village" is located in a derelict estate.
(5) In December he smashed apart the Roman forces in the north, assisted by his awesome elephants, the tanks of classical warfare.
(6) Yang Feng Glan is accused of smuggling 706 elephant tusks worth £1.62m from Tanzania to the far east.
(7) Prince William is due to make a speech about conservation at an elephant sanctuary in China on 4 March.
(8) We haven’t ascertained how much of the forests it has taken over, but a significant portion may in reality be unpalatable weeds and effectively unusable from an elephant’s perspective.
(9) We’ve sent one of our writers to Kenya to meet the elephants, and some of the people who seek to look after them, just as news breaks that elephant numbers are dramatically down.
(10) It’s home to a quarter of a million people, about 150 elephants and a host of other wild animals ranging from bears and tigers to flycatchers and martens.
(11) Kenya's president has set fire to more than five tonnes of elephant ivory worth £10m to draw attention to poaching deaths.
(12) On the other hand the government and the police have got a duty to ensure that people in the Department of Defence are not breaching national security by giving stuff to you.” The Greens senator Scott Ludlam, who provided his own circumvention tips during the Senate debate on Tuesday, said Turnbull’s explanation indicated data retention could be a “$300m white elephant”.
(13) Through the year, a herd of elephants may move over a very large area in search of food and water – sometimes more than 1,000 square kilometres.
(14) At 5pm each night, local TV stations broadcast the locations of all elephants on the plateau.
(15) Sudanese poachers were responsible for the recent mass slaughter of 26 elephants at world heritage Dzanga-Ndoki national park in the CAR.
(16) We have a few quotations from a compendium of jokes of the first emperor Augustus (not all brilliant: "When a man was nervously giving him a petition and kept putting his hand out, then drawing it back, the emperor quipped, 'Hey, do you think you're giving a penny to an elephant?'").
(17) … the party wants to run a highly disciplined election campaign – there can be no place for a rogue elephant."
(18) In January, poachers shot down a helicopter in Tanzania and killed its British pilot during an operation to track down elephant killers while, in October last year, 14 elephants were poisoned by cyanide in Zimbabwe .
(19) It would be kind of a big elephant to have missed."
(20) A realistic elephant might serve as a memento to the hundred elephants killed for their ivory every day.