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Branch vs Brachiate - What's the difference?

branch | brachiate |

As verbs the difference between branch and brachiate

is that branch is to arise from the trunk or a larger branch of a tree while brachiate is to move like a brachiator; to swing from branch to branch, advance by brachiation.

As a noun branch

is the woody part of a tree arising from the trunk and usually dividing.

As a adjective brachiate is

having decussate branches.

branch

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Alternative forms

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Noun

(es) (wikipedia branch)
  • 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, a river, or a railway
  • (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
  • * Carew
    • 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 .
  • An area in business or of knowledge, research.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2012-01
    • , author=Robert L. Dorit , title=Rereading Darwin , volume=100, issue=1, page=23 , magazine= citation , passage=We live our lives in three dimensions for our threescore and ten allotted years. Yet every branch of contemporary science, from statistics to cosmology, alludes to processes that operate on scales outside of human experience: the millisecond and the nanometer, the eon and the light-year.}}
  • (nautical) A certificate given by (Trinity House) to a pilot qualified to take navigational control of a ship in British waters.
  • (computer architecture) A sequence of .

    • Related terms

    * branch banking * branch line * branch office * main branch * branchlike

    Synonyms

    * (part of a tree) bough, tillow, twig, see also

    Verb

    (es)
  • To arise from the trunk or a larger branch of a tree.
  • To produce branches.
  • To divide into separate parts or subdivisions.
  • (computing) To jump to a different location in a program, especially as the result of a conditional statement.

    • Related terms

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    brachiate

    English

    Etymology 1

    From Latin brachiatus, from brachium ‘arm, branch’.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having decussate branches.

    • Etymology 2

    Back-formation from brachiator.

    Verb

    (brachiat)
  • To move like a brachiator; to swing from branch to branch, advance by brachiation.
    • ...brachiating from handhold to handhold like chimpanzees in a jungle.