[
UK
/ɹˈɑːntʃ/
]
[ US /ˈɹæntʃ/ ]
[ US /ˈɹæntʃ/ ]
NOUN
- farm consisting of a large tract of land along with facilities needed to raise livestock (especially cattle)
VERB
-
manage or run a ranch
Her husband is ranching in Arizona
How To Use ranch In A Sentence
- She has certainly branched out into more interesting work in recent years.
- The opposite change occurs in what are termed fastigiate varieties, where the branches, in place of assuming more or less of a horizontal direction, become erect and nearly parallel with the main stem as in the Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
- A section of a branch of birch or willow from the north only a couple of inches in diameter will show one or two hundred annual rings. Factors Affecting Development of Canada's North
- I must give one instance; he throws doubts and sneers at my saying that the ovigerous frena of cirripedes have been converted into branchiae, because I have not found them to be branchiae; whereas he himself admits, before I wrote on cirripedes, without the least hesitation, that their organs are branchiae. Alfred Russel Wallace Letters and Reminiscences
- It is an Extended Family Tree - showing all the collateral branches of a family, i.e. all the descendants.
- The breaking of a branch under my foot alarmed the deer.
- Labor economics has become virtually a branch of applied econometrics, with the usual large data sets and headless horsemen running around looking for patterns.
- A strategic alliance may take the form of an outright acquisition, minority stake, joint venture or brand franchise.
- The nerves are the terminal branches of the right and left vagi, the former being distributed upon the back, and the latter upon the front part of the organ. XI. Splanchnology. 1F. The Stomach
- Accompanying the exclusion from the labour market has been a policy of disenfranchising the underclass from full welfare citizenship.