branchling
microbranch
stick
branchlet
vinelet
sapling
tine
twig
leaf bud
treeling
rame
microphyll
radicel
fig leaf
staddle
pleurocarpous moss
Magnolia fraseri
pleurocarp
grain
earleaved umbrella tree
treelet
seedling
burgeoning
petiole
limb
thick-branched
leafstalk
head
outgrowth
subbranch
shroud
leptocaul
log
vinestalk
branching
turkey oak
Fraxinus pennsylvanica
red ash
trunk
bluejack oak
downy ash
Quercus incana
family Lophosoriaceae
graft
ramuscule
Lophosoriaceae
bole
vinestem
ramiform
pine needle
northern white cedar
leafling
Thuja occidentalis
white cedar
underbranch
propago
American arborvitae
branchlike
arbuscular
vinewise
amplexicaul leaf
leaflet
bracteole
pollard
peduncle
branch
subaxillary
pomegranate
burr knot
iron tree
stock
spring
stipe
tree branch
ironwood
sallow
spawn
scrambler
deliquescent
ironwood tree
iron-tree
oakling
peachwood
hexenbesen
Garry oak
staghead
witches' broom
Quercus garryana
Oregon white oak
dendritic
telome
Oregon oak
witch broom
thick-branched
ramiform
branchlike
arbuscular
subaxillary
deliquescent
dendritic
vinewise
branchling
microbranch
stick
branchlet
vinelet
sapling
tine
twig
leaf bud
treeling
rame
microphyll
radicel
fig leaf
staddle
pleurocarpous moss
Magnolia fraseri
pleurocarp
grain
earleaved umbrella tree
treelet
seedling
burgeoning
petiole
limb
leafstalk
head
outgrowth
subbranch
shroud
leptocaul
log
vinestalk
branching
turkey oak
Fraxinus pennsylvanica
red ash
trunk
bluejack oak
downy ash
Quercus incana
family Lophosoriaceae
graft
ramuscule
Lophosoriaceae
bole
vinestem
pine needle
northern white cedar
leafling
Thuja occidentalis
white cedar
underbranch
propago
American arborvitae
amplexicaul leaf
leaflet
bracteole
pollard
peduncle
pomegranate
burr knot
iron tree
stock
spring
stipe
tree branch
ironwood
sallow
spawn
scrambler
ironwood tree
iron-tree
oakling
peachwood
hexenbesen
Garry oak
staghead
witches' broom
Quercus garryana
Oregon white oak
telome
Oregon oak
witch broom
branch
twig
noun
noun
- A small, thin branch from a tree or bush; a twig; a branch.
- A small rectangular block, with a length several times its width, which contains by volume one half of a cup of shortening (butter, margarine or lard).
- A manual transmission, a vehicle equipped with a manual transmission, so called because of the stick-like, i.e. twig-like, control (the gear shift) with which the driver of such a vehicle controls its transmission.
- A cigarette (usually a tobacco cigarette, less often a marijuana cigarette).
- A standard rectangular strip of chewing gum.
- The clarinet.
- Vigor; spirit; effort, energy, intensity.
- Vigorous driving of a car; gas.
- General hitting ability.
- A piece (of furniture, especially if wooden).
- The vertical member of a cope-and-stick joint.
- A long thin implement used to control a ball or puck in sports like hockey, polo, and lacrosse.
- The short whip carried by a jockey.
- A timber board, especially a two by four (inches).
- A handgun.
- The game of pool, or an individual pool game.
- A board as used in board sports, such as a surfboard, snowboard, or skateboard.
- Vehicles, collectively, equipped with manual transmissions.
- The potential accuracy of a hockey stick, implicating also the player using it.
- Corporal punishment; beatings.
- The structure to which a set of bombs in a bomber aircraft are attached and which drops the bombs when it is released. The bombs themselves and, by extension, any load of similar items dropped in quick succession such as paratroopers or containers.
- Use of the stick to control the aircraft.
- A mast or part of a mast of a ship; also, a yard.
- The control column of an aircraft; a joystick. (By convention, a wheel-like control mechanism with a handgrip on opposite sides, similar to the steering wheel of an automobile, can also be called the "stick", although "yoke" or "control wheel" is more commonly seen.)
- The traction of tires on the road surface.
- The amount of fishing line resting on the water surface before a cast; line stick.
- A thrust with a pointed instrument; a stab.
- The cue used in billiards, pool, snooker, etc.
- A cane or walking stick (usually wooden, metal or plastic) to aid in walking.
- Criticism or ridicule.
- A memory stick.
- A negative stimulus or a punishment. (This sense derives from the metaphor of using a stick, a long piece of wood, to poke or beat a beast of burden to compel it to move forward. Compare carrot.)
- A cudgel or truncheon (usually of wood, metal or plastic), especially one carried by police or guards.
- The long-range driving ability of a golf club.
- Any roughly cylindrical (or rectangular) unit of a substance.
- The pole bearing a small flag that marks the hole.
- A relatively long, thin piece of wood, of any size.
- A bunch of something wrapped around or attached to a stick.
- The potential hitting power of a specific bat.
adj
verb
- To attach with glue or as if by gluing.
- To fix on a pointed instrument; to impale.
- To press (something with a sharp point) into something else.
- To perform (a landing) perfectly.
- To have sexual intercourse with.
- To cut a piece of wood to be the stick member of a cope-and-stick joint.
- To stab.
- To run or plane (mouldings) in a machine, in contradistinction to working them by hand. Such mouldings are said to be stuck.
- To tolerate, to endure, to stick with.
- To become or remain attached; to adhere.
- To persist.
- Of snow, to remain frozen on landing.
- To propagate plants by cuttings.
- To stand pat: to cease taking any more cards and finalize one's hand.
- To jam; to stop moving.
- To furnish or set with sticks.
- To remain loyal; to remain firm.
- To place, set down (quickly or carelessly).
noun
noun
- A branch of a tree; a stalk or stem of a plant.
- The French grain of ¹⁄₉₂₁₆ livre, equivalent to 53.11 mg at metricization and equal to exactly 54.25 mg from 1812–1839 as part of the mesures usuelles.
- Similar seeds from any food crop, e.g., buckwheat, amaranth, quinoa.
- Visual texture in processed photographic film due to the presence of small particles of a metallic silver, or dye clouds, developed from silver halide that have received enough photons.
- One of the branches of a valley or river.
- The harvested seeds of various grass food crops eg: wheat, corn, barley.
- Temper; natural disposition; inclination.
- A blade of a sword, knife, etc.
- A region within a material having a single crystal structure or direction.
- A single particle of a substance.
- The carat grain of ¹⁄₄ carat as a measure of gold purity, creating a 96-point scale between 0% and 100% purity.
- An iron fish spear or harpoon, with a number of points half-barbed inwardly.
- A thin piece of metal, used in a mould to steady a core.
- The English grain of ¹⁄₅₇₆₀ troy pound or ¹⁄₇₀₀₀ pound avoirdupois, now exactly 64.79891 mg.
- The solid piece of fuel in an individual solid-fuel rocket engine.
- A single seed of grass food crops.
- The hair side of a piece of leather, or the marking on that side.
- Any of various small units of length originally notionally based on a grain's width, variously standardized at different places and times.
- The remains of grain, etc., after brewing or distillation; hence, any residuum. Also called draff.
- A rounded prominence on the back of a sepal, as in the common dock.
- The metric, carat, or pearl grain of ¹⁄₄ carat used for measuring precious stones and pearls, now exactly 50 mg.
- The crops from which grain is harvested.
- A linear texture of a material or surface.
- A reddish dye made from the coccus insect, or kermes; hence, a red color of any tint or hue, as crimson, scarlet, etc.; sometimes used by the poets as equivalent to Tyrian purple.
verb
- To remove the hair or fat from a skin.
- To feed grain to.
- To texture a surface in imitation of the grain of a substance such as wood.
- To soften leather.
- To make granular; to form into grains.
- To yield fruit.
- To form grains, or to assume a granular form, as the result of crystallization; to granulate.
noun
noun
- A branch of a tree.
- The apparent visual edge of a celestial body.
- A major appendage of human or animal, used for locomotion (such as an arm, leg or wing).
- An elementary piece of the mechanism of a lock.
- A thing or person regarded as a part or member of, or attachment to, something else.
- The border or upper spreading part of a monopetalous corolla, or of a petal or sepal; blade.
- The part of the bow, from the handle to the tip.
- The graduated edge of a circle or arc.
verb
noun
- The leafy top part of a tree.
- A heavy or habitual user of illicit drugs.
- The end of a hammer, axe, golf club, or similar implement used for striking other objects.
- The end of a pool table opposite the end where the balls have been racked.
- A headdress; a covering for the head.
- A milling head, a part of a milling machine that houses the spindle.
- The end of a rectangular table furthest from the entrance; traditionally considered a seat of honor.
- The uppermost part of a valley.
- The antlers of a deer.
- Mental or emotional aptitude or skill.
- A headache; especially one resulting from intoxication.
- The part of a disk drive responsible for reading and writing data.
- The headstock of a guitar.
- The top edge of a sail.
- A clump of seeds, leaves or flowers; a capitulum.
- The rounded part of a bone fitting into a depression in another bone to form a ball-and-socket joint.
- The toilet of a ship.
- An ear of wheat, barley, or other small cereal.
- A machine element which reads or writes electromagnetic signals to or from a storage medium.
- Tiles laid at the eaves of a house.
- The end of a nail, screw, bolt, or similar fastener which is opposite the point; usually blunt and relatively wide.
- A drum head, the membrane which is hit to produce sound.
- Headway; progress.
- Mind; one's own thoughts.
- Topic; subject.
- The end of an abscess where pus collects.
- The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
- The glans penis.
- The top part of a lacrosse stick that holds the ball.
- Deposits near the top of a geological succession.
- The source of a river; the end of a lake where a river flows into it.
- The foam that forms on top of beer or other carbonated beverages.
- A headmaster or headmistress.
- Denouement; crisis.
- The end cap of a cylindrically-shaped pressure vessel.
- A person with an extensive knowledge of hip hop.
- The end cap of a cask or other barrel.
- A buildup of fluid pressure, often quantified as pressure head.
- Leader; chief; mastermind.
- Fellatio or cunnilingus; oral sex.
- The cylinder head, a platform above the cylinders in an internal combustion engine, containing the valves and spark plugs.
- An individual person.
- The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs.
- The bow of a vessel.
- A morpheme that determines the category of a compound or the word that determines the syntactic type of the phrase of which it is a member.
- The sharp end of an arrow, spear, or pointer.
- The difference in elevation between two points in a column of fluid, and the resulting pressure of the fluid at the lower point.
- The population of game.
- The principal melody or theme of a piece.
- A single animal.
- The place of honour, or of command; the most important or foremost position; the front.
- A headland.
- More generally, energy in a mass of fluid divided by its weight.
verb
- To be in command of. (See also head up.)
- To come at the beginning or front of; to commence.
- To form a head.
- To form a head to; to fit or furnish with a head.
- To strike with the head; as in soccer, to head the ball
- To go in front of.
- To get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose.
- To move in a specified direction.
- To check or restrain.
- To remove the head from a fish.
- To originate; to spring; to have its course, as a river.
- To cut off the top of; to lop off.
- To set on the head.
adj
noun
- The branching top of a tree; foliage.
- That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment.
- One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate.
- One of a set of ropes or cables (rigging) attaching a mast to the sides of a vessel or to another anchor point, serving to support the mast sideways; such rigging collectively.
- A covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or den; also, a vault or crypt.
- That which covers or shelters like a shroud.
- A streamlined protective covering used to protect the payload during a rocket-powered launch.
- Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet.
verb
noun
- a segment of the trunk of a tree when stripped of branches
- the exponent required to produce a given number
- a written record of messages sent or received
- a written record of events on a voyage (of a ship or plane)
- measuring instrument that consists of a float that trails from a ship by a knotted line in order to measure the ship's speed through the water
verb
noun
noun
- small semi-evergreen shrubby tree of southeastern United States having hairy young branchlets and leaves narrowing to a slender bristly point
- small slow-growing deciduous shrubby tree of dry sandy barrens of southeastern United States having leaves with bristle-tipped lobes resembling turkey's toes
- large round-topped deciduous tree with spreading branches having narrow falcate leaves with deeply sinuate lobes and wood similar to that of northern red oaks; New Jersey to Illinois and southward
- large deciduous tree of central and southern Europe and Asia Minor having lanceolate leaves with spiked lobes
noun
- The usually single, more or less upright part of a tree, between the roots and the branches.
- The luggage storage compartment of a sedan/saloon-style car.
- The conspicuously extended, mobile, nose-like organ of an animal such as a sengi, a tapir or especially an elephant. The trunks of various kinds of animals might be adapted to probing and sniffing, as in the sengis, or be partly prehensile, as in the tapir, or be a versatile prehensile organ for manipulation, feeding, drinking and fighting as in the elephant.
- The main line or body of anything.
- A storage compartment fitted behind the seat of a motorcycle.
- A box or chest usually covered with leather, metal, or cloth, or sometimes made of leather, hide, or metal, for holding or transporting clothes or other goods.
- A flume or sluice in which ores are separated from the slimes in which they are contained.
- A long, large box, pipe, or conductor, made of plank or metal plates, for various uses, as for conveying air to a mine or to a furnace, water to a mill, grain to an elevator, etc.
- A chute or conduit, or a watertight shaft connecting two or more decks.
- In software projects under source control: the most current source tree, from which the latest unstable builds (so-called "trunk builds") are compiled.
- A circuit between telephone switchboards or other switching equipment.
- A main line in a river, canal, railroad, or highway system.
- The part of a pilaster between the base and capital, corresponding to the shaft of a column.
- A large pipe forming the piston rod of a steam engine, of sufficient diameter to allow one end of the connecting rod to be attached to the crank, and the other end to pass within the pipe directly to the piston, thus making the engine more compact.
- The torso.
- A large suitcase, chest, or similar receptacle for carrying or storing personal possessions, usually with a hinged, often domed lid, and handles at each end, so that generally it takes two persons to carry a full trunk.
verb
noun
- A branch or portion of a tree growing from such a shoot.
- A cut of the take (money).
- A job or trade.
- A criminal’s special branch of practice.
- A portion of living tissue used in the operation of autoplasty.
- A con job.
- A small shoot or scion of a tree inserted in another tree, the stock of which is to support and nourish it. The two unite and become one tree, but the graft determines the kind of fruit.
- The depth of the blade of a digging tool such as a spade or shovel.
- A narrow spade used in digging drainage trenches.
- Illicit profit by corrupt means, especially in public life.
- Corruption in official life.
- A bribe, especially on an ongoing basis.
- Work; labor requiring effort.
verb
- To cover, as a ring bolt, block strap, splicing, etc., with a weaving of small cord or rope yarns.
- To form a graft polymer
- To insert scions (grafts) from one tree, or kind of tree, etc., into another; to practice grafting.
- To work hard.
- To implant a portion of (living flesh or akin) in a lesion so as to form an organic union.
- To join (one thing) to another as if by grafting, so as to bring about a close union.
- To obtain illegal gain from bribery or similar corrupt practices.
- To insert (a graft) in a branch or stem of another tree; to propagate by insertion in another stock; also, to insert a graft upon.
noun
- The trunk or stem of a tree.
- Any of several varieties of friable earthy clay, usually coloured red by iron oxide, and composed essentially of hydrous silicates of alumina, or more rarely of magnesia.
- An aperture with a shutter in the wall of a house, to admit air or light.
- A small closet.
- The shade of reddish brown which resembles this clay.
noun
noun
noun
- A short stalk at the base of a leaf or reproductive structure.
- In vertebrates, the base of any relatively massive anatomical member connected to the body by a narrower section. Cf. caudal peduncle of fishes.
- A stem attaching a mass of tissue (such as a polyp) to the body.
- The axis of an inflorescence; the stalk supporting an inflorescence.
- A collection of nerves in the appendage of an animal (such as the tip of a dolphin's tail).
- A bundle of neurons connecting different parts of the brain.
- In arthropods, the base segments of an antenna or stalk-like structures such as the peduncles of some barnacles
verb
- To arise from the trunk or a larger branch of a tree.
- To jump to a different location in a program, especially as the result of a conditional statement.
- To strip of branches.
- To discipline (a union member) at a branch meeting.
- To produce branches.
- To (cause to) divide into separate parts or subdivisions.
noun
- An area in business or of knowledge, research.
- A local congregation of the LDS Church that is not large enough to form a ward; see Wikipedia article on ward in LDS church.
- The woody part of a tree arising from the trunk and usually dividing.
- Any of the parts of something that divides like the branch of a tree.
- A sequence of code that is conditionally executed.
- A creek or stream which flows into a larger river.
- One of the portions of a curve that extends outwards to an indefinitely great distance.
- A group of related files in a source control system, including for example source code, build scripts, and media such as images.
- A branch line.
- A certificate given by Trinity House to a pilot qualified to take navigational control of a ship in British waters.
- A location of an organization with several locations.
- A line of family descent, in distinction from some other line or lines from the same stock; any descendant in such a line.
noun
- The shrub or small tree that bears the fruit.
- The fruit of the Punica granatum, about the size of an orange with a thick, hard, reddish skin enclosing many seeds, each with an edible pink or red pulp tasting both sweet and tart.
- A dark red or orange-red colour, like that of the pulp or skin of a pomegranate fruit.
adj
noun
- The trunk and woody main stems of a tree. The base from which something grows or branches.
- A thrust with a rapier; a stoccado.
- In tectology, an aggregate or colony of individuals, such as trees, chains of salpae, etc.
- Any of the several species of cruciferous flowers in the genus Matthiola.
- Broth made from meat (originally bones) or vegetables, used as a basis for stew or soup.
- A stack of undealt cards made available to the players.
- The measure of how highly a person or institution is valued.
- The plant upon which the scion is grafted.
- A pipe (vertical cylinder of ore)
- Red and grey bricks, used for the exterior of walls and the front of buildings.
- The type of paper used in printing.
- Any of several types of security that are similar to a stock, or marketed like one.
- Lineage, family, ancestry.
- The part of a rifle or shotgun that rests against the shooter's shoulder.
- Plain soap before it is coloured and perfumed.
- The axle attached to the rudder, which transfers the movement of the helm to the rudder.
- The longest part of a split tally stick formerly struck in the exchequer, which was delivered to the person who had lent the king money on account, as the evidence of indebtedness.
- The tailstock of a lathe.
- The handle of a whip, fishing rod, etc.
- A share in a company.
- A necktie or cravat, particularly a wide necktie popular in the eighteenth century, often seen today as a part of formal wear for horse riding competitions.
- A store of goods ready for sale; inventory.
- A piece of black cloth worn under a clerical collar.
- A block of wood; something fixed and solid; a pillar; a firm support; a post.
- Farm or ranch animals; livestock.
- A bar going through an anchor, perpendicular to the flukes.
- A bed for infants; a crib, cot, or cradle
- The population of a given type of animal (especially fish) available to be captured from the wild for economic use.
- A piece of wood magically made to be just like a real baby and substituted for it by magical beings.
- The beater of a fulling mill.
- Stock theater, summer stock theater.
- A ski pole.
- A supply of anything ready for use.
- A larger grouping of language families: a superfamily or macrofamily.
- The headstock of a lathe, drill, etc.
- The frame or timbers on which a ship rests during construction.
- The price or value of the stock of a company on the stock market.
- Railroad rolling stock.
adj
- Straightforward, ordinary, just another, very basic.
- Of a type normally available for purchase/in stock.
- Having the same configuration as cars sold to the non-racing public, or having been modified from such a car.
verb
noun
- A shoot, a young tree.
- The source from which an action or supply of something springs.
- An erection of the penis.
- A line from a vessel's end or side to its anchor cable used to diminish or control its movement.
- The period from the moment of vernal equinox (around March 21 in the Northern Hemisphere) to the moment of the summer solstice (around June 21); the equivalent periods reckoned in other cultures and calendars.
- A spray or body of water springing from the ground.
- A grove of trees; a forest.
- The season of the year in temperate regions in which plants spring from the ground and into bloom and dormant animals spring to life.
- The time of something's growth; the early stages of some process.
- A race, a lineage.
- a period of political liberalization and democratization
- A cause, a motive, etc.
- Someone with ivory or peach skin tone and eyes and hair that are not extremely dark, seen as best suited to certain colors of clothing.
- A youth.
- Elasticity: the property of a body springing back to its original form after compression, stretching, etc.
- A line laid out from a vessel's end to the opposite end of an adjacent vessel or mooring to diminish or control its movement.
- An act of springing: a leap, a jump.
- The three months of March, April, and May in the Northern Hemisphere and September, October, and November in the Southern Hemisphere.
- Elastic energy, power, or force.
- A mechanical device made of flexible or coiled material that exerts force and attempts to spring back when bent, compressed, or stretched.
adj
verb
- To cause to well up or flow out of the ground.
- to descend or originate from.
- To cause to move energetically; (equestrianism) to cause to gallop, to spur.
- To burst into pieces, to explode, to shatter.
- To have something crack.
- To grow taller or longer.
- to catch in an illegal act or compromising position.
- To announce unexpectedly, to reveal.
- To free from imprisonment, especially by facilitating an illegal escape.
- To be free of imprisonment, especially by illegal escape.
- To extend, to curve.
- To rise suddenly, (of tears) to well up.
- To cause to rise from cover.
- To pay or spend a certain sum, to cough up.
- To cause to crack.
- to arise, to come into existence.
- To build, to form the initial curve of.
- To gush, to flow out of the ground.
- To rise from cover.
- To equip with springs, especially (of vehicles) to equip with a suspension.
- To bring forth.
- To sprout, to grow,
- To crack.
- To turn a vessel using a spring attached to its anchor cable.
- To come upon and flush out
- To deform owing to excessive pressure, to become warped; to intentionally deform in order to position and then straighten in place.
- To swell with milk or pregnancy.
- To come dramatically into view.
- To spend the springtime somewhere
- To gush, to flow suddenly and violently.
- to move with great speed and energy; to leap, to jump; to dart, to sprint; of people: to rise rapidly from a seat, bed, etc.
- to find or get enough food during springtime.
- To cause to explode, to set off, to detonate.
- To be born, descend, or originate from
- To appear, to dawn.
- To cause to work or open by sudden application of pressure.
noun
- a small slow-growing deciduous tree of northern Iran having a low domed shape
- handsome East Indian evergreen tree often planted as an ornamental for its fragrant white flowers that yield a perfume; source of very heavy hardwood used for railroad ties
- exceptionally tough or hard wood of any of a number of ironwood trees
- medium-sized hop hornbeam of eastern North America
noun
- A willow twig or branch.
- A European willow, Salix caprea, that has broad leaves, large catkins and tough wood.
adj
- Of a sickly pale colour.
- Having a similar pale, yellowish colour.
- Foul; murky; sickly.
- Of a tan colour, associated with people from southern Europe or East Asia.
- Having skin (especially on the face) of a sickly pale colour.
verb
noun
- The buds or branches produced from underground stems.
- The numerous eggs of an aquatic organism.
- Mushroom mycelium prepared for (aided) propagation.
- Any germ or seed, even a figurative source; offspring.
- The location in a game where characters or objects spontaneously appear.
verb
- To produce or deposit (eggs) in water.
- To bring forth in general.
- (To cause) to appear spontaneously in a game at a certain point and time.
- To reproduce, especially in large numbers.
- To induce (aquatic organisms) to spawn.
- To generate, bring into being, especially non-mammalian beings in very large numbers.
- To plant with fungal spawn.
- To deposit (numerous) eggs in water.
noun
- a small slow-growing deciduous tree of northern Iran having a low domed shape
- handsome East Indian evergreen tree often planted as an ornamental for its fragrant white flowers that yield a perfume; source of very heavy hardwood used for railroad ties
- medium-sized hop hornbeam of eastern North America
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