different between branch vs feeder

English

Alternative forms

• braunch (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English branche, braunche, bronche, borrowed from Old French branche, brance, from Late Latin branca (“footprint”, later also “paw, claw”), of unknown origin, possibly from Gaulish *vranca, from Proto-Indo-European *wrónk-eh?.

Indo-European cognates include Old Norse vró (“angle, corner”), Lithuanian rankà (“hand”), Old Church Slavonic ???? (r?ka, “hand”), Albanian rangë (“yardwork”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: bränch, IPA^(key): /b???nt?/
• (US, Northern England) enPR: br?nch, IPA^(key): /b?ænt?/
• Rhymes: -??nt?, -ænt?

Noun

branch (plural branches)

2. The woody part of a tree arising from the trunk and usually dividing.
3. Any of the parts of something that divides like the branch of a tree.

4. (chiefly Southern US) A creek or stream which flows into a larger river. (compare Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia run, and New York and New England brook.)
5. (geometry) One of the portions of a curve that extends outwards to an indefinitely great distance.

6. A location of an organization with several locations.

8. A line of family descent, in distinction from some other line or lines from the same stock; any descendant in such a line.
   • 1602, Richard Carew, Survey of Cornwall

     his father, a younger branch of the ancient stock

9. (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.
11. An area in business or of knowledge, research.
12. (nautical) A certificate given by Trinity House to a pilot qualified to take navigational control of a ship in British waters.
13. (computing) A sequence of code that is conditionally executed.
14. (computing) A group of related files in a source control system, including for example source code, build scripts, and media such as images.
15. (rail transport) A branch line.

Synonyms

• (part of a tree): bough, limb, tillow, twig; see also Thesaurus:tree

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

branch (third-person singular simple present branches, present participle branching, simple past and past participle branched)

1. (intransitive) To arise from the trunk or a larger branch of a tree.
2. (intransitive) To produce branches.
   • 1944, Emily Carr, The House of All Sorts, "Life Loves Living," [2]:

     The tree throve and branched so heavily that the windows of Lower West and the Doll's Flat were darkened.

3. (transitive, intransitive) To (cause to) divide into separate parts or subdivisions.
4. (intransitive, computing) To jump to a different location in a program, especially as the result of a conditional statement.
5. (transitive, colloquial) To discipline (a union member) at a branch meeting.
   • 2003, Paul Routledge, The Bumper Book of British Lefties (page 199)

     His staff were 'not journalists, but Communists', he maintained. Nonetheless, in 1948 his vigorous editorship took the paper's circulation to 120,000 a day. The following year, he was 'branched' by the National Union of Journalists for an intemperate attack on Fleet Street.

Related terms

• branch off
• branch out

Translations

References

Further reading

• branch on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• branch (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French branche (“branch”).

Noun

branch

1. branch

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

branch

1. Alternative form of braunche

Etymology 2

Verb

branch

1. Alternative form of braunchen

English

Etymology

From Middle English feedere, federe, fedare, equivalent to feed +? -er.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?fid?/
• Rhymes: -i?d?(r)

Noun

feeder (plural feeders)

1. One who feeds, or gives food to another.
   1. The participant in feederism who feeds the other (the feedee).
      • 2010, Niall Richardson, Transgressive Bodies:

        Often similes such as 'soft as velvet' or 'fluffy like a cloud' will be employed and the feeder will describe how he feels he can be lost in the enveloping folds of soft flesh.

2. One who feeds, or takes in food.
   • 1596-97, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act II Scene v:

     The patch is kind enough, but a huge feeder,

     Snail-slow in profit, and he sleeps by day

     More than the wild-cat; […]
3. One who, or that which, feeds material into something.
   • 2007, Thomas E. Lightburn, The Shield and the Shark (page 173)

     When the claxon sounded they immediately stopped what they were doing and uncovered the Oerlikon. Paddy, who was ammunition feeder, stood by while Jock trained the 20mm gun around.

4. That which is used to feed.

   a bird feeder

5. A tributary stream, especially of a canal.
   • 1827, Conrad Malte-Brun, Universal Geography, or A Description of All the Parts of the World, on a New Plan, Edinburgh: Adam Black, volume 6, book 101, 285:

     The surface of the Balaton and the surrounding marshes is not less than 24 German square miles, or 384 English square miles; its principal feeder is the Szala, but all the water it receives appears inconsiderable relatively to its superficial extent, and the quantity lost in evaporation.

6. A branch line of a railway.
7. A transmission line that feeds the electricity for an electricity substation, or for a transmitter.
8. (education) A feeder school.
9. (shipbuilding, navigation) A feeder ship.
10. (US, law) A judge whose law clerks are often selected to become clerks for the Supreme Court.
11. (baseball, slang, archaic, 1800s) The pitcher.
12. (video games, derogatory) A player whose character is killed by the opposing player or team more than once, deliberately or through lack of skills and experience, thus helping the opposing side.
13. (obsolete) One who abets another.
14. (obsolete) A parasite.

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• ferede, reefed, refeed

Manx

Etymology

From Middle Irish *figedóir (“weaver”) (compare Irish fíodóir, Scottish Gaelic figheadair), from figid (“weaves, plaits, intertwines”, verb); synchronically, fee +? -der.

Noun

feeder m (genitive singular feeder, plural feederyn)

1. spider

   Synonym: doo-oallee

2. weaver

Mutation

References

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “figedóir”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language