Branch

Definition

branch /brɑ:ntʃ; US bræntʃ/ n ၁။ အကိုင္း။ He climbed up the tree and hid among the branches. ၂။ (႐ံုး၊ ဘဏ္၊ ဆိုင္) ခြဲ။ ဗဟို၊ ပင္မ၏အခြဲ။ The bank has branches in all parts of the country. ❍ We have five branch offices in the USA alone. ၃။ (ျမစ္)လက္တက္။ (လမ္း)ခြဲ။ (ေတာင္)စြယ္။ a branch of the Rhine ❍ a branch line (ie a division of a main railway line, serving country areas). ၄။ (မိသားစု၊ ပညာရပ္၊ ဘာသာစကားတစ္ခု၏) အတက္အလက္။ His uncle's branch of the family emigrated to Australia. ❍ Gynaecology is a branch of medicine. v လမ္းျဖာထြက္သည္၊ ခြဲထြက္သည္။ The road branches in a couple of miles. ❏ branch off [ PHRV ] (ကား) လမ္းခြဲအတိုင္း ေကြ႕ဝင္သြား သည္။ (လမ္း) ခြဲထြက္သည္။ The car in front of us suddenly branched off to the left. ❍ The road to the village branches off on the right. ❏ branch out (into sth) [ PHRV ] (အလုပ္အကိုင္၊ စိတ္ဝင္စားမႈစသည္) နယ္ပယ္သစ္ တိုးခ်ဲ႕သည္။ The company began by specializing in radios but has now branched out into computers. ❍ She's leaving the company to branch out on her own.

Examples

1. The wind rustled the bare branches of the trees.
2. There was a bird perched on the topmost branch.
3. The store has branches in over 50 cities.
4. A branch manager
5. The president of the Glasgow branch of the AA
6. The branch secretary/treasurer
7. The anti-terrorism branch of Scotland Yard
8. [branch of] : Mechanics is a branch of physics.
9. The branch of medicine that treats ailments of the stomach
10. [branch of] : One branch of Jane’s family lives in San Francisco.
11. [branch of] : The larger branches of the Mekong River