Horn vs Branch - What's the difference?
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(countable) A hard growth of keratin that protrudes from the top of the head of certain animals, usually paired.
Any similar real or imaginary growth or projection such as the elongated tusk of a narwhal, the eyestalk of a snail, the pointed growth on the nose of a rhinoceros, or the hornlike projection on the head of a demon or similar.
An antler.
(uncountable) The hard substance from which animals' horns are made, sometimes used by man as a material for making various objects.
An object whose shape resembles a horn, such as cornucopia, the point of an anvil, or a vessel for gunpowder or liquid.
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# The high pommel of a saddle; also, either of the projections on a lady's saddle for supporting the leg.
# (architecture) The Ionic volute.
# (nautical) The outer end of a crosstree; also, one of the projections forming the jaws of a gaff, boom, etc.
# (carpentry) A curved projection on the fore part of a plane.
# One of the projections at the four corners of the Jewish altar of burnt offering.
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(countable) Any of several musical wind instruments.
(countable) An instrument resembling a musical horn and used to signal others.
(countable) A loud alarm, especially one on a motor vehicle.
(countable) A conical device used to direct waves.
(informal, countable) Generally, any brass wind instrument.
(slang, countable, from the horn-shaped earpieces of old communication systems that used air tubes) A telephone.
(uncountable, coarse, slang, definite article) An erection of the penis.
(countable) A peninsula or crescent-shaped tract of land. "to navigate around the horn ."
(countable) A diacritical mark that may be attached to the top right corner of the letters o' and '''u''' when writing in Vietnamese, thus forming '''?''' and ' ? .
(botany) An incurved, tapering and pointed appendage found in the flowers of the milkweed (Asclepias ).
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.
(geometry) One of the portions of a curve that extends outwards to an indefinitely great distance.
A location of an organization with several locations.
A line of family descent, in distinction from some other line or lines from the same stock; any descendant in such a line.
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(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.
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(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 .
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.
Horn is a related term of branch.
As proper nouns the difference between horn and branch
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English
Noun
- an umbrella with a handle made of horn
- The moon / Wears a wan circle round her blunted horns .
- horns of mead and ale
- Joab caught hold on the horns of the altar
- hunting horn
- antenna horn
- loudspeaker horn
Usage notes
* When used alone to refer to an instrument, horn can mean either "hunting horn" or "French horn", depending on context. Other instruments are identified by specific adjectives such as "English horn" or "basset horn".Synonyms
* (growth on the heads of certain animals) * (hard substance from which horns are made) keratin * (any of several musical wind instruments) * (instrument used to signal others) * hooter, klaxon * (conical device used to direct waves) funnel * * blower (UK''), dog and bone (''Cockney rhyming slang ), phone * boner (US ), hard-on, stiffyDerived terms
* blowhorn * bullhorn * French horn * have the horn * horned * horn in * hornist * horn of plenty * hornless * hornworm * hornwort * horny * lock horns * pull in one's horns * shoehorn * take the bull by the horns * toot one's own horn ----branch
English
Alternative forms
*Noun
(es) (wikipedia branch)- the branch of an antler, a chandelier, a river, or a railway
- the branches of a hyperbola
- Our main branch is downtown, and we have branches in all major suburbs.
- the English branch of a family
- his father, a younger branch of the ancient stock
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