Pinion vs Branch - What's the difference?
pinion | branch | Related terms |
A wing.
* , II.v
* Alexander Pope
* 1839 ,
The joint of a bird's wing farthest from the body.
Any of the outermost primary feathers on a bird's wing.
* , III.xii
A moth of the genus Lithophane .
(obsolete) A fetter for the arm.
(lb) To cut off the pinion of a bird’s wing, or otherwise disable or bind its wings, in order to prevent it from flying.
* 1577 , (Barnabe Googe) (translator), (Konrad Heresbach) (author), Foure Bookes of Husbandrie , book iv (1586), page 169:
* 1641–2 , Henry Best (author), Donald Woodward (editor), The Farming and Memorandum Books of Henry Best of Elmswell, 1642: With a Glossary and Linguistic Commentary by Peter McClure , (Oxford University Press)/(British Academy) (1984), ISBN 0197260292 (10), ISBN 9780197260296 (13),
* ibidem ,
* 1665–7 , (Abraham Cowley), The Works of Mr Abraham Cowley (fifth edition, 1678), “Several Di?cour?es by way of E??ays, in Ver?e and Pro?e”, essay 9: ‘The ?hortne?s of Life and uncertainty of Riches’, closing verses, verse 3 (
* 1727 , Peter Longueville, Philip Quarll (1816), page 67:
* 1849 , Daniel Jay Browne, The American Poultry Yard (1855), page 242:
(lb) To bind the arms of any one, so as to deprive him of their use; to disable by so binding; to shackle.
* {{quote-book, year=1905, author=
, title=
, chapter=1 * 1916 , , Macmillan Press Ltd, paperback, page 80
#
#* , V.ii
#* 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter IX
# To bind fast to something, or together.
The smallest gear in a gear drive train.
* 1844 ,
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.
* Carew
(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=
(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.
Pinion is a related term of branch.
As a noun pinion
is a wing or pinion can be the smallest gear in a gear drive train.As a verb pinion
is (lb) to cut off the pinion of a bird’s wing, or otherwise disable or bind its wings, in order to prevent it from flying.As a proper noun branch is
.pinion
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) pignon, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- Therefore do nimble-pinion' d doves draw Love, / And therefore hath the wind-swift Cupid wings.
- Swift on his sooty pinions flits the gnome.
- Never seraph spread a pinion / Over fabric half so fair.
- (Johnson)
- An argument that he is pluck'd, when hither / He sends so poor a pinion of his wing
- (Ainsworth)
Verb
(en verb) :; (lb)- They that meane to fatte Pigions…some…do softly tie their Legges:…some vse onely to pinion them.
page 115:
- When they are aboute fortnights olde (for they must bee driven noe longer) yow must watch where the henne useth to sitte on nights, and come when it beginneth to bee darke and throwe somethinge over the henne as shee broodeth them, then take and clippe every of theire right wings. Then when they are aboute moneths old, yow must come after the same manner and pinnion or cutte a joynte of every of theire right winges.
page 129:
- The Swanners gette up the younge swannes about midsummer [24 June] and footemarke them for the owners, and then doe they allsoe pinnion them, cuttinge a joynte of theire right winges, and then att Michaellmasse [29 Sept.] doe they bringe them hoame, or else bringe hoame some, and leave the rest att some of the mills and wee sende for them.
page 138):
- Suppo?e, thou Fortune could to tamene?s bring, // And clip or pinion her wing; // Suppo?e thou could’?t on Fate ?o far prevail // As not to cut off thy Entail.
- The two old ducks…being pinioned , could not fly away.
- They…should have been pinioned at the first joint of the wing.
citation, passage=“[…] Captain Markam had been found lying half-insensible, gagged and bound, on the floor of the sitting-room, his hands and feet tightly pinioned , and a woollen comforter wound closely round his mouth and neck?; whilst Mrs. Markham's jewel-case, containing valuable jewellery and the secret plans of Port Arthur, had disappeared. […]”}}
- Nash pinioned his arms behind while Boland seized a long cabbage stump which was lying in the gutter.
- Know, sir that I / Will not wait pinion' d at your master's court, / Nor once be chastis'd with the sober eye / Of dull Octavia.
- I was suddenly seized from behind and thrown to earth. As I fell, a warm body fell on top of me, and hands grasped my arms and legs. When I could look up, I saw a number of giant fingers pinioning me down, while others stood about surveying me.
Derived terms
* * *References
* “Pinion, v.'']” listed on page 883/2–3 of volume VII (O–P, ed. , 1908) of ''[[w:Oxford English Dictionary, A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles](1st ed.)
Etymology 2
From (etyl) pignon.Noun
(en noun)- A certain period elapses, and some unseen mysterious principle again sets in motion the magic pinions and the wizard wheels.
Derived terms
* rack and pinion English terms with transferred sensesbranch
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
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.}}