| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. A component of government that performs a given function: agency, arm, department, division, organ, wing. See PART. 2. A part of a family, tribe, or other group, or of such a group's language, that is believed to stem from a common ancestor: division, offshoot, subdivision. See PART. 3. An area of academic study that is part of a larger body of learning: discipline, specialty. See PART. 4. Something resembling or structurally analogous to a tree branch: arm, fork, offshoot. See PART. 5. Chiefly Regional. A small stream: brook1, creek. Chiefly Regional : kill2, run. See DRY. 6. A local unit of a business or an auxiliary controlled by such a business: affiliate, division, subsidiary. See PART. | | VERB: | To separate into branches or branchlike parts. Also used with out: bifurcate, diverge, divide, fork, ramify, subdivide. See PART.
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