branch
see also: Branch
Pronunciation Noun
Branch
Proper noun
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see also: Branch
Pronunciation Noun
branch (plural branches)
The woody part of a tree arising from the trunk and usually dividing. - Any of the parts of something that divides like the branch of a tree.
- the branch of an antler, a chandelier, or a railway
- (chiefly, Southern US) A creek or stream which flows into a larger river. (compare Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia run, and New York and New England brook.)
- (geometry) One of the portions of a curve that extends outwards to an indefinitely great distance.
- the branches of a hyperbola
- A location of an organization with several locations.
- Our main branch is downtown, and we have branches in all major suburbs.
A line of family descent, in distinction from some other line or lines from the same stock; any descendant in such a line. - the English branch of a family
- his father, a younger branch of the ancient stock
- (Mormonism) A local congregation of the LDS Church that is not large enough to form a ward; see Wikipedia article on ward in LDS church.
An area in business or of knowledge, research. - (nautical) A certificate given by Trinity House to a pilot qualified to take navigational control of a ship in British waters.
- (computing) A sequence of code that is conditionally executed.
- (computing) A group of related files in a source control system, including for example source code, build scripts, and media such as images.
- (rail transport) A branch line.
- (part of a tree) bough, tillow, twig; see also Thesaurus:tree
- French: branche, rameau
- German: Ast, Zweig
- Italian: ramo
- Portuguese: galho, ramo
- Russian: ветвь
- Spanish: rama
- French: branche
- German: (branching roads or rivers) Abzweigung, (rare) Ästelung, (rare) Zweigung
- Portuguese: ramo, broto
- Russian: ответвле́ние
- French: affluent
- French: filiale, succursale
- German: Zweigstelle, Filiale
- Italian: filiale, succursale
- Portuguese: filial, departamento, divisão, repartição
- Russian: отделе́ние
- Spanish: sucursal
- French: branche
- Russian: прихо́д
- French: branche
- German: Branche (of business), Zweig, Gebiet
- Italian: branca, ramo, settore
- Portuguese: divisão, ramo (in science, in arts)
- Russian: о́трасль
- French: branchement conditionnel
branch (branches, present participle branching; past and past participle branched)
- (intransitive) To arise from the trunk or a larger branch of a tree.
- (intransitive) To produce branches.
- 1944, Emily Carr, The House of All Sorts, "Life Loves Living," :
- The tree throve and branched so heavily that the windows of Lower West and the Doll's Flat were darkened.
- 1944, Emily Carr, The House of All Sorts, "Life Loves Living," :
- (ambitransitive) To (cause to) divide into separate parts or subdivisions.
- (intransitive, computing) To jump to a different location in a program, especially as the result of a conditional statement.
- (transitive, colloquial) To discipline (a union member) at a branch meeting.
- 2003, Paul Routledge, The Bumper Book of British Lefties (page 199)
- His staff were 'not journalists, but Communists', he maintained. Nonetheless, in 1948 his vigorous editorship took the paper's circulation to 120,000 a day. The following year, he was 'branched' by the National Union of Journalists for an intemperate attack on Fleet Street.
- 2003, Paul Routledge, The Bumper Book of British Lefties (page 199)
- German: verzweigen
- Portuguese: brotar
- Spanish: ramificar
- Spanish: ramificar
Branch
Proper noun
- Surname
- A tiny city in Franklin County, Arkansas.
- An unincorporated community/and/CDP in Acadia Parish, Louisiana.
- An unincorporated community in Sweetwater Township, Lake County.
- An unincorporated community in Camden County, Missouri.
- An unincorporated community in Collin County, Texas.
- An unincorporated community in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin.
- A town in Newfoundland and Labrador.
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