The difference between Bough and Branch

When used as nouns, bough means a firm branch of a tree, whereas branch means the woody part of a tree arising from the trunk and usually dividing.

Branch is also verb with the meaning: to arise from the trunk or a larger branch of a tree.

check bellow for the other definitions of Bough and Branch

  1. Bough as a noun:

    A firm branch of a tree.

    Examples:

    "When the bough breaks, the cradle will fall."

  2. Bough as a noun (obsolete, poetic):

    The gallows.

  1. Branch as a noun:

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

  2. Branch as a noun:

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

    Examples:

    "the branch of an antler, a chandelier, or a railway"

  3. Branch as a noun (in particular):

    A creek or stream which flows into a larger river.

  4. Branch as a noun (geometry):

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

    Examples:

    "the branches of a hyperbola"

  5. Branch as a noun:

    A location of an organization with several locations.

    Examples:

    "Our main branch is downtown, and we have branches in all major suburbs."

  6. Branch as a noun:

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

    Examples:

    "the English branch of a family"

  7. Branch as a noun (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.

  8. Branch as a noun:

    An area in business or of knowledge, research.

  9. Branch as a noun (nautical):

    A certificate given by to a pilot qualified to take navigational control of a ship in British waters.

  10. Branch as a noun (computer architecture):

    A sequence of that is conditionally .

  11. Branch as a noun (computing):

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

  12. Branch as a noun (rail transport):

    A branch line.

  1. Branch as a verb (intransitive):

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

  2. Branch as a verb (intransitive):

    To produce branches.

  3. Branch as a verb (ambitransitive):

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

  4. Branch as a verb (intransitive, computing):

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

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