outbranch
outbranch noun: a branch of a tree, bush, or shrub that extends outward; offshoot.
Noun
outbranch (plural outbranches)
- A branch of a tree, bush, or shrub that extends outward; offshoot.
- It may have been under one of those old Penshurst oaks, measuring a hundred and fifty feet from outbranch to outbranch (I know them well), that in the fnlness of a father's grief for his 'early ripe,' he wrote,—1855, Sharpe's London Magazine of Entertainment and Instruction
- Once, on the wood's further edge, he heard a splintering crack and leapt backwards as a torn limb hurtled towards him through the darkness. An outbranch from it caught his knee, and it even seemed that in the sudden swift pain there was a strange joy, […]1955, John Keir Cross, The dancing tree, page 185
- A branch of a path, stream, vessel, duct, etc. that carries whatever travels along the patch, etc away from the main path etc.
- In the experience which I have had in these cases —I suppose such as all of you have had—where the injury to the inner ear results in deafness, we make the award which the particular schedule schedule which we have calls for; but where the injury goes to the outbranch of the nerve and has nothing...1929, Bulletin of the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, page 74
- In 1703 Peter ordered the construction of the Vyshnii Volochek Canal, a 2-mile passage to connect the Tversta river (an outbranch of the Volga) and the Msta (on which a transit to the Neva could be made via Lake Ilmen, the Volkhov, and Lake Ladoga).1992, William C. Fuller, Strategy and Power in Russia, 1600-1914, page 62
- One of several edges in a directed graph that has an endpoint in a specified vertex and for which the direction of the edge goes from the specified vertex to another vertex.
- For each stem, we identify gates fanning out from the stem and not contained in the list fanins (i.e., outbranches).1996, 1996 International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design, page 165
- the outbranch is communicated to the peers who wait on the corresponding inbranch.2010, David Clarke, Gul Agha, Coordination Models and Languages, page 157
- A branch of a business that has been spun off from the parent company.
- Members of the society service some 300,000 nursing beds across the country and represent the foremost practitioners of the specialty of consultant pharmacy, a professional outbranch which grew from the Medicare extended care facility conditions of participation and which has become a more...1975, United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging. Subcommittee on Long-Term Care, Trends in Long-term Care
- It was founded as one of several outbranches of the mother company to provide the five sons of Ng Chee's director with own companies after the latter retired.1994, Wolfgang Jamann, Chinese Traders in Singapore, page 207
- An offshoot or outgrowth; something that develops from something else.
- There was the Red Gang, for instance, which originated some time in the fifteenth century, while the Green Gang was an outbranch of the Buddhist religion at about the same time.1937, Courtney Ryley Cooper, Here's to Crime, page 329
- The most popular alternative major, though, was sports medicine, an outbranch of the Physical Education and Kinesiology departments.2001, Corks and Curls - Volume 113, page 443
- Something that results from a law, ruling, or record, but which is separate from that law, ruling, etc.
- The same contention was pressed in an earlier outbranch of the case in the supreme court.1897, Atlantic Reporter - Volumes 37-38, page 671
- A suit on a bond given on appeal is not an original suit, but an outbranch of the suit in which the bond was given, and the jurisdiction of the original suit gives jurisdiction over the subject-matter of the suit on the bond.1915, Peyton Boyle v, The Federal Reporter - Volume 223, page 281
Verb
outbranch (third-person singular simple present outbranches, present participle outbranching, simple past and past participle outbranched)
- To form an outbranch; to branch out or spin off.
- This wise little book has an illustration, after the pattern of a family tree, showing that love to man has its root in love to God, and that the virtues naturally outbranch in a tree thus planted.1898, Woman's Missionary Friend - Volume 30, page 417
- From Udine two lines outbranch—one to Cormons south-easterly and the other north-easterly to Cividale, where it touches the fringe of the mountains, and both lines end close to the frontier.1915, The Sphere: An Illustrated Newspaper for the Home
- To form more branches than.
- In the quest for market share, institutions tried to outbranch each other, and major lenders tried to establish nationwide markets.1987, Outlook of the Federal Home Loan Bank System
Examples of outbranch in a sentence
- He stooped to squint again at Double who's partly hidden now by an outbranch of bushes beyond as he voids nature's course in a stream of the Rhine.1987, Xam Wilson Cartiér, Be-Bop, Re-Bop, page 39:
- Receptors of one kind each assemble in curvy outbranches of the endosomal compartment and pinch off allowing the receptors to return to the cell surface for another round of duty.1992, Rudolf Clarenburg, Physiological Chemistry of Domestic Animals, page 107:
- The metanephros develops from an outbranch of the wolffian duct called the ureteric bud that extends into a mass of undifferentiated metanephric mesenchyme.2011, Christine A. Gleason, Sherin Devaskar, Avery's Diseases of the Newborn, page 1165:
- If so, this outbranch represents a feasible solution.2014, Leping Yang, Yanwei Zhu, Xianhai Ren, On-Orbit Operations Optimization: Modeling and Algorithms, page 35:
Forms of outbranch
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | outbranches |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | outbranches |
| present participle | outbranching |
| past participle | outbranched |
| past | outbranched |
Questions about outbranch
- What does outbranch mean?
- Outbranch means a branch of a tree, bush, or shrub that extends outward; offshoot.
- How do you use outbranch in a sentence?
- He stooped to squint again at Double who's partly hidden now by an outbranch of bushes beyond as he voids nature's course in a stream of the Rhine.
- What part of speech is outbranch?
- Outbranch can be a noun or a verb.
- What is the plural of outbranch?
- The plural of outbranch is outbranches.
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