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Ramify   /rˈæməfˌaɪ/   Listen
Ramify

verb
(past & past part. ramified; pres. part. ramifying)
1.
Have or develop complicating consequences.  Synonym: complexify.
2.
Grow and send out branches or branch-like structures.  Synonym: branch.
3.
Divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork.  Synonyms: branch, fork, furcate, separate.






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"Ramify" Quotes from Famous Books



... for the head, except the pneumogastric or lung-stomach nerve, which belongs to the organs of respiration, voice, and digestion; and the spinal nerves are all for the body, except a few which ramify in the neck and ...
— Buchanan's Journal of Man, April 1887 - Volume 1, Number 3 • Various

... delicate, the partitions perfectly invisible.' The correspondents were already accustomed to this 'heavenly mingle.' Few of the letters, those works of nature, and almost more wonderful than works of art, are to be taken on oath. Those elaborate lies, which ramify through them into patterns of sober-seeming truth, are in anticipation, and were of the nature of a preliminary practice for the innocent and avowed fiction of the essays. What began in ...
— Figures of Several Centuries • Arthur Symons

... considerable distance, and this, too, after throwing off at acute angles numerous branches, nearly equal in bulk to the parent trunk. In a specimen about two and a half feet in length, which I owe to the kindness of Mr. Dick of Thurso, there are stems continuous throughout, that, though they ramify into from six to eight branches in that space, are quite as thick atop as at bottom. They are the remains, in all probability, of a long flexible fucoid, like those fucoids of the intertropical seas that, streaming slantwise in the tide, ...
— The Cruise of the Betsey • Hugh Miller

... vapor, very fine and invisible, that flies off from nearly all bodies. The air which contains this vapor is drawn into the nose, and is in this way brought into contact with the very delicate nerves of smell that ramify the membrane which lines the air-passages of this organ. It is only when the exceedingly small particles of which the odor of various bodies is composed come in contact with the minute ramifications of the olfactory nerve that this sensation is produced. In order ...
— Popular Education - For the use of Parents and Teachers, and for Young Persons of Both Sexes • Ira Mayhew



Words linked to "Ramify" :   arborize, trifurcate, change, diverge, bifurcate, twig, branch, furcate, ramification, arborise, grow



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