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branch
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)
- 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.
- (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.)
- (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.
- 1602, Richard Carew, Survey of Cornwall
- his father, a younger branch of the ancient stock
- 1602, Richard Carew, Survey of Cornwall
- (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.
- An area in business or of knowledge, research.
- (nautical) A certificate given by Trinity House to a pilot qualified to take navigational control of a ship in British waters.
- (computing) A sequence of code that is conditionally executed.
- (computing) A group of related files in a source control system, including for example source code, build scripts, and media such as images.
- (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)
- (intransitive) To arise from the trunk or a larger branch of a tree.
- (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.
- 1944, Emily Carr, The House of All Sorts, "Life Loves Living," [2]:
- (transitive, intransitive) To (cause to) divide into separate parts or subdivisions.
- (intransitive, computing) To jump to a different location in a program, especially as the result of a conditional statement.
- (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.
- 2003, Paul Routledge, The Bumper Book of British Lefties (page 199)
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
- branch
Middle English
Etymology 1
Noun
branch
- Alternative form of braunche
Etymology 2
Verb
branch
- Alternative form of braunchen
branch From the web:
- what branch makes laws
- what branch is congress
- what branch is the president in
- what branch of government makes laws
- what branch declares war
- what branch is the senate in
- what branch can impeach the president
- what branch can declare war
province
English
Etymology
From Middle English provynce, from Anglo-Norman province, Middle French province, from Latin pr?vincia (“territory brought under Roman domination; official duty, office, charge, province”), from Proto-Indo-European *pr?w- (“right judge, master”). Cognate with Gothic ???????????????????????? (frauja, “lord, master”), Old English fr?a (“ruler, lord, king, master”). See also frow.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?p??v?ns/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?p??v?ns/
Noun
province (plural provinces)
- A region of the earth or of a continent; a district or country. [from 14th c.]
- 1859, Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species:
- We should find, as we do find, some groups of beings greatly, and some only slightly modified […] in the different great geographical provinces of the world.
- 1859, Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species:
- An administrative subdivision of certain countries, including Canada and China. [from 14th c.]
- 2016, The Guardian, 4 May:
- All of Fort McMurray, with the exception of Parson’s Creek, was under a mandatory evacuation order on Tuesday, said Robin Smith, press secretary for the regional municipality of Wood Buffalo in the Canadian province [of Alberta].
- 2016, The Guardian, 4 May:
- (Roman history) An area outside Italy which is administered by a Roman governor. [from 14th c.]
- 2008, Mark Brown, The Guardian, 28 November:
- He reminded his audience of events in 88BC, when the same Mithridates invaded the Roman province of Asia, on the western coast of Turkey.
- 2008, Mark Brown, The Guardian, 28 November:
- (Christianity) An area under the jurisdiction of an archbishop, typically comprising a number of adjacent dioceses. [from 14th c.]
- 1838, The Churchman, p. 44:
- In 1309, neither the Archbishop of Canterbury nor his suffragans would attend in Parliament while the Archbishop of York had the cross borne erect before him in the province of Canterbury.
- 1838, The Churchman, p. 44:
- (Roman Catholicism) An area under the jurisdiction of a provincial within a monastic order.
- (in the plural, chiefly with definite article) The parts of a country outside its capital city. [from 17th c.]
- 1937, The Guardian, 1 April:
- To-day the first part of the new Indian Constitution comes into force with the granting of a large measure of autonomy to the provinces.
- 1937, The Guardian, 1 April:
- An area of activity, responsibility or knowledge; the proper concern of a particular person or concept. [from 17th c.]
- 1984, Dorothee Sölle, The Strength of the Weak: Toward a Christian Feminist Identity, page 37:
- Just as money is the province of the economy and truth the province of science and scholarship, so love is the province of the family (Niklas Luhmann).
- 1984, Dorothee Sölle, The Strength of the Weak: Toward a Christian Feminist Identity, page 37:
Usage notes
Province is the generic English term for such primary divisions of a country, but is not used where another official term has widespread use, such as France's regions and departments, Switzerland's cantons, or America's and Australia's states. Territories and colonies are sometimes distinguished from provinces as unorganized areas of low or foreign population, which are not considered an integral part of the country. Sovereign subdivisions of a larger whole, such as the principalities of the former Holy Roman Empire or the countries with the European Union, are likewise not usually described as provinces.
Synonyms
- (principal subdivision of a state): circuit, tao, dao, route, lu (imperial and early Republican China)
Coordinate terms
- canton (Swiss); county (British); department (French); oblast (Russian); state (USA, Australian); voivodeship (Poland)
- shire
- territory
Derived terms
- provincehood
- Provincetown
- provincewide
Related terms
- provincial
Descendants
- Tok Pisin: provins
Translations
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin pr?vincia. Doublet of Provence.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p??.v??s/
Noun
province f (plural provinces)
- province
- the countryside (of France), the French regions (other than the Parisian region), provincial France
Related terms
- provincial
Further reading
- “province” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian
Noun
province f pl
- plural of provincia
Synonyms
- provincie
Middle English
Noun
province
- Alternative form of provynce
Middle French
Noun
province f (plural provinces)
- province (subdivision of a territory)
Descendants
- French: province
- ? Middle English: provynce, provynse, province, provyns
- English: province
- Tok Pisin: provins
- Scots: province
- English: province
References
- province on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)
Old French
Alternative forms
- provinz, pruvince
Noun
province f (oblique plural provinces, nominative singular province, nominative plural provinces)
- province (subdivision of a territory)
Descendants
- Middle French: province
- French: province
- ? Middle English: provynce, provynse, province, provyns
- English: province
- Tok Pisin: provins
- Scots: province
- English: province
- Norman: provînche, provinche
References
- province on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (province, supplement)
Walloon
Noun
province f (plural provinces)
- province
province From the web:
- what province is toronto in
- what province is montreal in
- what province is ottawa in
- what province is vancouver in
- what province am i in
- what province is calgary in
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