branch

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

1. The woody part of a tree arising from the trunk and usually dividing.
2. Any of the parts of something that divides like the branch of a tree.
3. (Southern-US) A creek or stream which flows into a larger river.
4. One of the portions of a curve that extends outwards to an indefinitely great distance.
5. A location of an organization with several locations.
6. A line of family descent, in distinction from some other line or lines from the same stock; any descendant in such a line.
7. (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.
8. An area in business or of knowledge, research.
9. A certificate given by Trinity House to a pilot qualified to take navigational control of a ship in British waters.
10. A sequence of code that is conditionally executed.
11. A group of related files in a source control system, including for example source code, build scripts, and media such as images.
12. A branch line.
13. A path of vertices of degree 2, ending at vertices whose degree is not 2.

Verb

1. (intransitive) To arise from the trunk or a larger branch of a tree.
2. (intransitive) To produce branches.
3. (ambitransitive) To (cause to) divide into separate parts or subdivisions.
4. (intransitive) To jump to a different location in a program, especially as the result of a conditional statement.
5. (transitive) To strip of branches.
6. (colloquial, transitive) To discipline (a union member) at a branch meeting.

Concepts

branche

succursale

rameau

spécialité

bras

agence

filiale

service

embranchement

subdivision

domaine

bifurquer

section

bifurcation

département

affluent

branchage

branchement

brancher

départ

fourchette

se ramifier

ramification

🅰️

feuille

champ

fourche

fourcher

créer une branche

groupe

jambe

🦵

main

✋

marcotte

partagé

partir

pouvoir

catégorie

ratisser

rejeton

ruisseau

bureau

se diviser

séparation

séparer

branche fourchue

brindille

bâton

sphère

ajutage

antenne

branches

Synonymes

bough

twig

fork

department

section

division

limb

arm

offshoot

ramify

chapter

affiliate

field

stick

pigeonhole

compartment

subsidiary

tributary

subdivision

leg

🦵

branch office

sector

ramification

group

part

sprig

shoot

branch-line

category

agency

branch out

speciality

separate

branching

branch off

sect

forked stick

bifurcation

class

bifurcate

furcate

unit

faction

bypass

distributary

branchlet

service

branch establishment

ramus

outgrowth

Traductions

rama

Zweig

ramo

Ast

tak

dal

sucursal

branca

Filiale

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/bɹɑːnt͡ʃ/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: branche

Appartenant à moyen haut-allemand: pranke

Appartenant à allemand: Pranke

Appartenant à vieux norrois: rá

Appartenant à lituanien: rankà

Appartenant à slavon d’église: рѫка

Appartenant à albanais: rangë

Hérité de moyen anglais: braunchen

In summary

From Middle English branche, braunche, bronche, from Old French branche, branke, from Late Latin branca (“footprint”, later also “paw, claw”) (whence Middle High German pranke, German Pranke (“paw”)), of unknown origin.
Perhaps of Celtic origin, from a hypothetical Gaulish *vranca, from Proto-Indo-European *wrónk-eh₂. If so, then Indo-European cognates include Old Norse rá, vró (“angle, corner”), and possibly Lithuanian rankà (“hand”), Old Church Slavonic рѫка (rǫka, “hand”), Albanian rangë (“yardwork”).
The verb is from Middle English braunchen, from the noun.

Phrases

Industry is a main branch of region economy .

L'industrie est une branche principale de l'économie régionale.

He entered the Yogyakarta branch of the movement .