Branch vs. Fork

Branchnoun

The woody part of a tree arising from the trunk and usually dividing.

Branchnoun

Any of the parts of something that divides like the branch of a tree.

Branchnoun

A creek or stream which flows into a larger river. compare Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia run, and New York and New England brook.

Branchnoun

(geometry) One of the portions of a curve that extends outwards to an indefinitely great distance.

Branchnoun

A location of an organization with several locations.

Branchnoun

A line of family descent, in distinction from some other line or lines from the same stock; any descendant in such a line.

Branchnoun

(Mormonism) A local congregation of the LDS Church that is not large enough to form a ward; see Wikipedia article on ward in LDS church.

Branchnoun

An area in business or of knowledge, research.

Branchnoun

(nautical) A certificate given by Trinity House to a pilot qualified to take navigational control of a ship in British waters.

Branchnoun

(computer architecture) A sequence of code that is conditionally executed.

Branchnoun

(computing) A group of related files in a source control system, including for example source code, build scripts, and media such as images.

Branchnoun

(rail transport) A branch line.

Branchverb

(intransitive) To arise from the trunk or a larger branch of a tree.

Branchverb

(intransitive) To produce branches.

Branchverb

(ambitransitive) To (cause to) divide into separate parts or subdivisions.

Branchverb

To jump to a different location in a program, especially as the result of a conditional statement.

Branchnoun

A shoot or secondary stem growing from the main stem, or from a principal limb or bough of a tree or other plant.

Branchnoun

Any division extending like a branch; any arm or part connected with the main body of thing; ramification; as, the branch of an antler; the branch of a chandelier; a branch of a river; a branch of a railway.

Branchnoun

Any member or part of a body or system; a distinct article; a section or subdivision; a department.

Branchnoun

One of the portions of a curve that extends outwards to an indefinitely great distance; as, the branches of an hyperbola.

Branchnoun

A line of family descent, in distinction from some other line or lines from the same stock; any descendant in such a line; as, the English branch of a family.

Branchnoun

A warrant or commission given to a pilot, authorizing him to pilot vessels in certain waters.

Branchadjective

Diverging from, or tributary to, a main stock, line, way, theme, etc.; as, a branch vein; a branch road or line; a branch topic; a branch store.

Branchverb

To shoot or spread in branches; to separate into branches; to ramify.

Branchverb

To divide into separate parts or subdivision.

Branchverb

To divide as into branches; to make subordinate division in.

Branchverb

To adorn with needlework representing branches, flowers, or twigs.

Branchnoun

an administrative division of some larger or more complex organization;

Branchnoun

a division of a stem, or secondary stem arising from the main stem of a plant

Branchnoun

a part of a forked or branching shape;

Branchnoun

a natural consequence of development

Branchnoun

a stream or river connected to a larger one

Branchnoun

any projection that is thought to resemble an arm;

Branchverb

grow and send out branches or branch-like structures;

Branchverb

divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork;

Branchnoun

a part of a tree which grows out from the trunk or from a bough

Branchnoun

a lateral extension or subdivision extending from the main part of a river, road, railway, etc.

Branchnoun

a division or office of a large business or organization, operating locally or having a particular function

Branchnoun

a conceptual subdivision of a family, subject, group of languages, etc.

Branchverb

(of a road or path) divide into one or more subdivisions

Branchverb

diverge from the main route or part

Branchverb

extend or expand one's activities or interests in a new direction

Branchverb

(of a tree or plant) bear or send out branches

Branch

A branch (UK: or UK: , US: ) or tree branch (sometimes referred to in botany as a ramus) is a woody structural member connected to but not part of the central trunk of a tree (or sometimes a shrub). Large branches are known as boughs and small branches are known as twigs.

Forknoun

A pronged tool having a long straight handle, used for digging, lifting, throwing etc.

Forknoun

A pronged tool for use in the garden; a smaller hand fork for weeding etc., or larger for turning over the soil.

Forknoun

(obsolete) A gallows.

Forknoun

A utensil with spikes used to put solid food into the mouth, or to hold food down while cutting.

Forknoun

A tuning fork.

Forknoun

An intersection in a road or path where one road is split into two.

Forknoun

One of the parts into which anything is furcated or divided; a prong; a branch of a stream, a road, etc.; a barbed point, as of an arrow.

Forknoun

A point where a waterway, such as a river, splits and goes two (or more) different directions.

Forknoun

(geography) Used in the names of some river tributaries, e.g. West Fork White River and East Fork White River, joining together to form the White River of Indiana

Forknoun

(figuratively) A point in time where one has to make a decision between two life paths.

Forknoun

(chess) The simultaneous attack of two adversary pieces with one single attacking piece (especially a knight).

Forknoun

(computer science) A splitting-up of an existing process into itself and a child process executing parts of the same program.

Forknoun

(software) An event where development of some free software or open-source software is split into two or more separate projects.

Forknoun

(software) The, or one of the, software project(s) that underwent changes in such an event; a software project split off from a main project.

Forknoun

A split in a blockchain resulting from protocol disagreements, or a branch of the blockchain resulting from such a split.

Forknoun

(British) Crotch.

Forknoun

(colloquial) A forklift.

Forknoun

The individual blades of a forklift.

Forknoun

(cycling) In a bicycle, the portion of the frameset holding the front wheel, allowing the rider to steer and balance.

Forkverb

(ambitransitive) To divide into two or more branches.

Forkverb

(transitive) To move with a fork (as hay or food).

Forkverb

(computer science) To spawn a new child process in some sense duplicating the existing process.

Forkverb

(computer science) To split a (software) project into several projects.

Forkverb

(computer science) To split a (software) distributed version control repository

Forkverb

(British) To kick someone in the crotch.

Forkverb

To shoot into blades, as corn does.

Forknoun

An instrument consisting of a handle with a shank terminating in two or more prongs or tines, which are usually of metal, parallel and slightly curved; - used for piercing, holding, taking up, or pitching anything.

Forknoun

Anything furcate or like a fork in shape, or furcate at the extremity; as, a tuning fork.

Forknoun

One of the parts into which anything is furcated or divided; a prong; a branch of a stream, a road, etc.; a barbed point, as of an arrow.

Forknoun

The place where a division or a union occurs; the angle or opening between two branches or limbs; as, the fork of a river, a tree, or a road.

Forknoun

The gibbet.

Forkverb

To shoot into blades, as corn.

Forkverb

To divide into two or more branches; as, a road, a tree, or a stream forks.

Forkverb

To raise, or pitch with a fork, as hay; to dig or turn over with a fork, as the soil.

Forknoun

cutlery used for serving and eating food

Forknoun

the act of branching out or dividing into branches

Forknoun

a part of a forked or branching shape;

Forknoun

an agricultural tool used for lifting or digging; has a handle and metal prongs

Forknoun

the angle formed by the inner sides of the legs where they join the human trunk

Forkverb

lift with a pitchfork;

Forkverb

place under attack with one's own pieces, of two enemy pieces

Forkverb

divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork;

Forkverb

shape like a fork;

Fork

In cutlery or kitchenware, a fork (from Latin: furca 'pitchfork') is a utensil, now usually made of metal, whose long handle terminates in a head that branches into several narrow and often slightly curved tines with which one can spear foods either to hold them to cut with a knife or to lift them to the mouth.