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Branch is a related term of sliver.


As a proper noun branch

is .

As a noun sliver is

a long piece cut or rent off; a sharp, slender fragment; a splinter.

As a verb sliver is

to cut or divide into long, thin pieces, or into very small pieces; to cut or rend lengthwise; to slit.

branch

English

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

    * branch off * branch out 1000 English basic words ----

    sliver

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A long piece cut or rent off; a sharp, slender fragment; a splinter.
  • * 2013 , . Melbourne, Australia: The Text Publishing Company. chapter 27. p. 270.
  • *:A sliver of bone has punctured a lung, and a small surgical operation was needed to remove it (would he like to keep the bone as a memento?--it is in a phial by his bedside).
  • A strand, or slender roll, of cotton or other fiber in a loose, untwisted state, produced by a carding machine and ready for the roving or slubbing which precedes spinning.
  • Bait made of pieces of small fish. Compare kibblings.
  • (US, New York) A narrow high-rise apartment building.

    • Synonyms

    * (long piece cut or rent off) shard, slice, splinter

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cut or divide into long, thin pieces, or into very small pieces; to cut or rend lengthwise; to slit.
    • to sliver wood
    (Shakespeare)
  • * Sir Walter Scott
    • They'll sliver thee like a turnip.

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