Sucker vs Branch - What's the difference?
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A person or thing that sucks.
An organ or body part that does the sucking.
An animal such as the octopus and remora, which adhere to other bodies with such organs.
A piece of candy which is sucked; a lollipop.
(horticulture) An undesired stem growing out of the roots or lower trunk of a shrub or tree, especially from the rootstock of a grafted plant or tree.
(British, colloquial) A suction cup.
A suckling animal.
The embolus, or bucket, of a pump; also, the valve of a pump basket.
A pipe through which anything is drawn.
A small piece of leather, usually round, having a string attached to the center, which, when saturated with water and pressed upon a stone or other body having a smooth surface, adheres, by reason of the atmospheric pressure, with such force as to enable a considerable weight to be thus lifted by the string; formerly used by children as a plaything.
A parasite; a sponger.
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(slang, archaic) A hard drinker; a soaker.
A person that sucks; a general term of disparagement.
To fool someone; to take advantage of someone.
(slang) A thing or object. Any thing or object being called attention to with emphasis, as in "this sucker".
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.
As a noun sucker
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Etymology 1
From the verb (suck).Noun
(en noun)- (Beaumont and Fletcher)
- (Boyle)
- They who constantly converse with men far above their estates shall reap shame and loss thereby; if thou payest nothing, they will count thee a sucker , no branch.
Synonyms
* (piece of candy) lollipopEtymology 2
Possibly from the (Pig in a poke) scam, where victims were tricked into believing they were buying a young (that is a suckling) pig. Also possibly from suckener.Synonyms
* (one who is easily fooled) chump, fall-guy, fish, fool, gull, mark, mug, patsy, rube, schlemiel, soft touch * See alsoVerb
(en verb)- The salesman suckered him into signing an expensive maintenance contract.
Etymology 3
Possibly from German (thing).Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* thing, objectSee also
* (wikipedia "sucker")Anagrams
* English agent nounsbranch
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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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