Tine vs Branch - What's the difference?
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A spike or point on an implement or tool, especially a prong of a fork or a tooth of a comb
A small branch, especially on an antler or horn
(obsolete) Trouble; distress; teen.
* Spenser
To kindle; to set on fire.
* Dryden
* Spenser
(obsolete) To rage; to smart.
* Spenser
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.
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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.
Tine is a related term of branch.
As a noun tine
is large wine barrel.As a proper noun branch is
.tine
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) tind''. Cognate with German ''Zinne .Noun
(en noun)See also
* prong * tooth * toolEtymology 2
See .Noun
- Cruel winter's tine .
Etymology 3
See tind.Verb
(tin)- to tine the cloven wood
- coals of contention and hot vengeance tin'd
- Ne was there slave, ne was there medicine / That mote recure their wounds; so inly they did tine .
Etymology 4
From (etyl) (modern (m)).Anagrams
* ----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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