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/ˈɹæməˌfaɪ/
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grow and send out branches or branch-like structures
these plants ramify early and get to be very large -
have or develop complicating consequences
These actions will ramify -
divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork
The road forks
How To Use ramify In A Sentence
- If we wish children to develop awareness and sensitivity, Art and Nature must ramify their schooling from their early days.
- Literary works by such artists as James and Wharton are famous for how they artistically encircle, circumscribe, the densely overcrossing lines and cracks of multi-dimensional social and emotional "relations," while still preserving those relations 'ramifying complexity. Critical Presentism
- The word ramify has appeared in one Times article over the past year and only four times in the past five years, most recently in the July 11, 2010 Sunday Magazine cover article by Robert F. NYT > Home Page
- It consists of the following structures: next the areolar or submucous coat is a double layer of unstriped muscular fibers, outer longitudinal and inner circular, the muscularis mucosæ internal to this is a quantity of retiform tissue, enclosing in its meshes lymph corpuscles, and in this the bloodvessels and nerves ramify; lastly, a basement membrane, supporting a single layer of epithelial cells, which throughout the intestine are columnar in character. XI. Splanchnology. 2g. The Small Intestine
- The point -- which I fear many Americans have ignored or denied -- is that Pakistanis are people who are suffering and will continue to suffer, as food shortages caused by the destruction of crops ramify through Pakistani society over the coming months and beyond. Ethan Casey: What Does Pakistan Have to Do With Haiti?
- The ganglion cells vary much in size, and the dendrites of the smaller ones as a rule arborize in the inner plexiform layer as soon as they enter it; while those of the larger cells ramify close to the inner nuclear layer. X. The Organs of the Senses and the Common Integument. 1c. 1. The Tunics of the Eye
- This is because the organization of the economy has a series of effects which ramify through the society.
- Criticisms and piratical practices in any of these realms have the potential to ramify into major challenges to the conceptual structure of modern intellectual property itself. Dangers of over-zealous intellectual property cops
- All eruptive rocks penetrate, as ramifying veins either into the sedimentary strata, or into other equally endogenous masses; but there is a special importance to be attached to the difference manifested between 'Plutonic' rocks* (granite, porphyry, and serpentine) and those termed 'volcanic' in the strict sense of the word (as trachyte, basalt, and lava). COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1
- The outer plexiform layer is much thinner than the inner; but, like it, consists of a dense net-work of minute fibrils derived from the processes of the horizontal cells of the preceding layer, and the outer processes of the rod and cone bipolar granules, which ramify in it, forming arborizations around the enlarged ends of the rod fibers and with the branched foot plates of the cone fibers. X. The Organs of the Senses and the Common Integument. 1c. 1. The Tunics of the Eye