Member vs Branch - What's the difference?
member | branch | Synonyms |
One who officially belongs to a group.
A part of a whole.
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Part of an animal capable of performing a distinct office; an organ; a limb.
* Bible, Rom. xii. 4
The penis.
(logic) One of the propositions making up a syllogism.
(set theory) An element of a set.
(computing, programming) In object-oriented programming, a function or piece of data associated with each separate instance of a class.
(AU, law) the judge or adjudicator in a consumer court.
A part of a discourse or of a period, sentence, or verse; a clause.
(math) Either of the two parts of an algebraic equation, connected by the equality sign.
(obsolete) To remember.
(obsolete) To cause to remember; to mention.
(Webster 1913)
1000 English basic words
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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.
Member is a synonym of branch.
As a noun member
is member (person).As a proper noun branch is
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English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) membre, from (etyl) membre, from (etyl) . Coexists with native (etyl) lim, ).Alternative forms
* membre (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- The I-beams were to become structural members of a pedestrian bridge.
Page C-14, in Geological Survey Professional Paper , Volume 1110
- The member' intertongues and grades laterally with the lower sandstone ' member of the Pocahontas Formation of Early Pennslyvanian age
- We have many members' in one body, and all ' members have not the same office.
Synonyms
* (limb) limb, lith * (penis) penis, pintle * (of a syllogism) premise, premiss * (of a set) elementDerived terms
* crewmember * dismember * male member * member of staff * membershipDescendants
* Japanese:Etymology 2
See remember.Verb
(en verb)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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