ramify
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British, America) IPA: /ˈɹæm.ɪ.faɪ/, /ˈɹæm.ə.faɪ/
ramify (ramifies, present participle ramifying; past and past participle ramified)
- (ambitransitive) To divide into branches or subdivisions.
- 1893, Henry Morris, Human Anatomy, page 648
- The cortical, hemispheral or superficial veins ramify on the surface of the brain and return the blood from the cortical substance into the venous sinuses.
- 1893, Henry Morris, Human Anatomy, page 648
- (figuratively) To spread or diversify into multiple fields or categories.
- to ramify an art, subject, scheme
- 1918 May 9, Lytton Strachey, “[Cardinal Manning.] Chapter VII”, in Eminent Victorians: Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Dr. Arnold, General Gordon (Library of English Literature; LEL 11347), London: Chatto & Windus, OCLC 920474333 ↗, page 89 ↗:
- And, of course, on such momentous occasions as these, Manning was in his element. None knew those difficult ropes better than he; none used them with a more serviceable and yet discreet alacrity. In every juncture he had the right word, or the right silence; his influence ramified in all directions, from the Pope's audience chamber to the English Cabinet.
- 2003, Wim van Binsbergen, Intercultural Encounters: African and anthropological lessons towards a philosophy of interculturality, page 285
- My point here is that the field within which such determination takes place is not bounded to constitute a single discipline, a single academic elite, a single language domain, a single culture, a single historical period, but that that field ramifies out so as to encompass, ultimately, the entire history of the whole of humankind.
- (divide into branches) branch
- German: ramifizieren, verzweigen, verästeln
- Portuguese: ramificar
- Russian: разветвляться
- Spanish: ramificar
- Russian: ответвляться
- Spanish: diversificar
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