What part of speech is branching?

Branching can be categorized as a noun, a verb and an adjective.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. branching is a verb, gerund of branch (infinitive).
  • 2. branching is a noun, singular of branchings.
  • 3. branching is an adjective.

Inflections

Verb

Noun

Adjective

  • Positive
    Comparative
    Superlative
  • more branching
    most branching
  • Positive: branching 
  • Comparative: more branching
  • Superlative: most branching

What does branching mean?

Definitions

Adjective

branching - resembling the branches of a tree
branching - having branches

Verb

branch - divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork; "The road forks"
branch - grow and send out branches or branch-like structures; "these plants ramify early and get to be very large"

Noun

branching - the act of branching out or dividing into branches

Examples of branching

#   Sentence  
1. verb Branching out to other people is one of the hardest things for some of his patients to do.
2. verb Looks like the Japanese maple is finally branching.
3. verb Branching and merging are two basic operations of revision control.
4. verb The road began branching off in many directions.
5. verb It seems as if he is finally branching out from his specialist subject area.
6. verb He stops, and from Achates hastes to seize / his chance-brought arms, the arrows and the bow, / the branching antlers smites, and lays the leader low. / Next fall the herd; and through the leafy glade / in mingled rout he drives the scattered train, / plying his shafts.
7. verb For a charming week we wandered up the Valley of the Rhone, and then, branching off at Leuk, we made our way over the Gemmi Pass, still deep in snow, and so, by way of Interlaken, to Meiringen.
8. verb The binary logarithm also frequently appears in the analysis of algorithms, not only because of the frequent use of binary number arithmetic in algorithms, but also because binary logarithms occur in the analysis of algorithms based on two-way branching.
9. verb This is the first evidence from this time period of a bipedal crocodylomorph, a branching, diverse group of animals that includes crocodilians and their extinct relatives.
10. verb The alveolar ducts are one small part of the branching airways in the human lung.
11. verb We decided to branch out into selling some foodstuffs.
12. verb The company aims to branch out into China.
13. verb It's possible to branch out from computing to jobs in banking, accountancy and so on.
14. verb The waterways branch out across the plain.
15. noun A branch of Congress.
16. noun Botany is a branch of biology.
17. noun The Germanic branch of Indo-European languages.
18. noun A branch of the sewer.
19. noun They also killed Shaikh Hamid 'Akkab, a clan elder of a branch of the Dulaim tribe in Tikrit.
20. noun For banks incorporated in a non-approved jurisdiction, it may be possible for them to trade out of a branch located in an approved jurisdiction (i.e. U.S. and U.K. branches).
21. noun And the basic idea behind the Checks and Balances we have is that if one branch of the Government goes crazy, the other two can hold it down.
22. noun But Samuel Alito believes in a little-known Constitutional theory - called the "Unitary Executive Theory" - which says that the President should have complete control over the Executive Branch, and that the Executive Branch should be in charge of almost everything that the Government actually does, including the functions of the Independent Agencies which were designed to be free of Presidential control, and the Military, which exists, which is regulated, and which is funded by specific authority given by the Constitution to Congress, not to the President.
23. noun The Military is not part of the Executive Branch: it is a separate entity.
24. noun "Commander In Chief" doesn't mean that he is the boss of the Military, merely that he is the Administrator, just as he is the Administrator of the Executive Branch, charged with "executing faithfully" all the laws passed by Congress and all the Decisions rendered by the Supreme Court.
25. noun The lamp was suspended from the branch of a tree.
26. noun Patty was so short that she couldn't get at the branch.
27. noun Many birds are on the branch.
28. noun I cut a branch from the tree.
29. noun The large chain store created a new branch.
Sentence  
verb
Branching out to other people is one of the hardest things for some of his patients to do.
Looks like the Japanese maple is finally branching.
Branching and merging are two basic operations of revision control.
The road began branching off in many directions.
It seems as if he is finally branching out from his specialist subject area.
He stops, and from Achates hastes to seize / his chance-brought arms, the arrows and the bow, / the branching antlers smites, and lays the leader low. / Next fall the herd; and through the leafy glade / in mingled rout he drives the scattered train, / plying his shafts.
For a charming week we wandered up the Valley of the Rhone, and then, branching off at Leuk, we made our way over the Gemmi Pass, still deep in snow, and so, by way of Interlaken, to Meiringen.
The binary logarithm also frequently appears in the analysis of algorithms, not only because of the frequent use of binary number arithmetic in algorithms, but also because binary logarithms occur in the analysis of algorithms based on two-way branching.
This is the first evidence from this time period of a bipedal crocodylomorph, a branching, diverse group of animals that includes crocodilians and their extinct relatives.
The alveolar ducts are one small part of the branching airways in the human lung.
We decided to branch out into selling some foodstuffs.
The company aims to branch out into China.
It's possible to branch out from computing to jobs in banking, accountancy and so on.
The waterways branch out across the plain.
noun
A branch of Congress.
Botany is a branch of biology.
The Germanic branch of Indo-European languages.
A branch of the sewer.
They also killed Shaikh Hamid 'Akkab, a clan elder of a branch of the Dulaim tribe in Tikrit.
For banks incorporated in a non-approved jurisdiction, it may be possible for them to trade out of a branch located in an approved jurisdiction (i.e. U.S. and U.K. branches).
And the basic idea behind the Checks and Balances we have is that if one branch of the Government goes crazy, the other two can hold it down.
But Samuel Alito believes in a little-known Constitutional theory - called the "Unitary Executive Theory" - which says that the President should have complete control over the Executive Branch, and that the Executive Branch should be in charge of almost everything that the Government actually does, including the functions of the Independent Agencies which were designed to be free of Presidential control, and the Military, which exists, which is regulated, and which is funded by specific authority given by the Constitution to Congress, not to the President.
The Military is not part of the Executive Branch: it is a separate entity.
"Commander In Chief" doesn't mean that he is the boss of the Military, merely that he is the Administrator, just as he is the Administrator of the Executive Branch, charged with "executing faithfully" all the laws passed by Congress and all the Decisions rendered by the Supreme Court.
The lamp was suspended from the branch of a tree.
Patty was so short that she couldn't get at the branch.
Many birds are on the branch.
I cut a branch from the tree.
The large chain store created a new branch.

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