branch off

Idioms and Phrases

Diverge, subdivide, as in It's the house on the left, just after the road branches off , or English and Dutch branched off from an older parent language, West Germanic . This term alludes to a tree's growth pattern, in which branches grow in separate directions from the main trunk. [Second half of 1800s] Also see branch out .

Example Sentences

All the different interpretations, Đặng says, make it “exciting to be part of this new iteration. … It’s fun to experience what our peers have got brewing, and seeing where we all converge, and where we branch off.”

From Seattle Times

After they enter in a single file, they branch off in different directions and head into tunnels where each person has a designated area to drill.

From Seattle Times

They’d branch off this larger pipe with a 1/2-inch pipe to each fixture.

From Seattle Times

Each time a stem cell divides, it faces a choice: it can either produce two new stem cells like itself, or it can make one copy of itself plus one cell that will branch off to become something new.

From Science Daily

If you were a TV actor, you didn't branch off and do film.

From Salon