different between regional vs branch

English

Etymology

From Middle French régional, from Latin regi?n?lis.

Pronunciation

• enPR: r?j??n?l, r?j?n?l, IPA^(key): /??i?d??n?l/, /??i?d?n?l/

Adjective

regional (not comparable)

1. Of, or pertaining to, a specific region or district.
2. Of, or pertaining to, a large geographic region.
3. Of, or pertaining to, one part of the body.
4. (Australia) Of a state or other geographic area, those parts which are not metropolitan, but are somewhat densely populated and usually contain a number of significant towns.
   • 1988, Australian Bureau of Statistics, Year Book Australia, Issue 71, page 94,

     The new Remoteness Structure covers the whole of Australia and classifies Australia into regions which share common characteristics of remoteness. There are six Remoteness Areas in the Structure: Major Cities of Australia, Inner Regional Australia, Outer Regional Australia, Remote Australia, Very Remote Australia and Migratory.

     An estimated two-thirds (66.3%) of the total population resided in Major Cities as at 30 June 2001. The rest were mainly residents of Inner and Outer Regional areas (31.1%) with only 2.6% of people in Remote or Very Remote areas.

   • 2005, Joy McCann, Chapter 3: History and Memory in Australia?s Wheatlands, Graeme Davison, Marc Brodie (editors), Struggle Country: The Rural Ideal in Twentieth-Century Australia, page 03-1,

     The wheatlands region stretching across Australia offers a graphic illustration of the processes of social and economic change in rural and regional Australia.

   • 2011, Lee Mylne, Marc Llewellyn, Ron Crittall, Lee Atkinson, Frommer?s Australia 2011, unnumbered page,

     HEMA produces four-wheel-drive and motorbike road atlases and many regional four-wheel-drive maps—good if you plan to go off the trails—an atlas of Australia?s national parks, and maps to Kakadu and Lamington national parks.

Translations

Noun

regional (plural regionals)

1. An entity or event with scope limited to a single region.
   • 1985 March 11, James Connolly, CPE big item on regionals? omnivorous market menu, Computerworld, page 125,

     In the CPE^{[Customer Premises Equipment]} market, all seven regionals are selling several sizes of private branch exchanges (PBX) and key systems for smaller customers.

   • 2001, Harold L. Vogel, Travel Industry Economics: A Guide for Financial Analysis, page 44,

     Regionals are among the fastest growing companies and, as the name implies, are those carriers that for the most part provide service to only one region of the country and generate revenue of under $100 million.

   • 2006, Franklynn Peterson, Judi Kesselman-Turkel, The Magazine Writer?s Handbook, page 12,

     Regional magazines are general interest publications for readers who live in a particular area of the country. Most major cities have their own regionals: New York, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, Kansas City, Miami ...

Anagrams

• Loegrian, geraniol

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin regi?n?lis.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /r?.?i.o?nal/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /r?.?i.u?nal/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /re.d??i.o?nal/

Adjective

regional (masculine and feminine plural regionals)

1. regional

Derived terms

• regionalisme
• regionalista

Related terms

• regió

Further reading

• “regional” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “regional” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “regional” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “regional” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Crimean Tatar

Adjective

regional

1. regional

References

• Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajins?ko-kryms?kotatars?kyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]?^[1], Simferopol: Dolya, ?ISBN

German

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin regi?n?lis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?e?i?o?na?l/
• Rhymes: -a?l

Adjective

regional (not comparable)

1. regional

Declension

Related terms

• Region

Further reading

• “regional” in Duden online

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch regionaal, from French régional, from Latin regionalis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [re?i?onal]
• Hyphenation: ré?gi?o?nal

Adjective

regional

1. regional

   Synonym: kedaerahan

Related terms

Further reading

• “regional” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From French régional and English regional, from Latin regionalis

Adjective

regional (masculine and feminine regional, neuter regionalt, definite singular and plural regionale)

1. regional

References

• “regional” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “regional” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From French régional and English regional, from Latin regionalis

Adjective

regional (masculine and feminine regional, neuter regionalt, definite singular and plural regionale)

1. regional

References

• “regional” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Occitan

Alternative forms

• regionau (Gascon, Provençal)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin regi?n?lis.

Adjective

regional m (feminine singular regionala, masculine plural regionals, feminine plural regionalas)

1. regional

Related terms

• region

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin regi?n?lis.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?e.?jo.?naw/

Adjective

regional m or f (plural regionais, comparable)

1. regional (pertaining or limited to a specific region)

Derived terms

• regionalismo
• regionalmente

Related terms

• região

Further reading

• “regional” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Romanian

Etymology

From French régional

Adjective

regional m or n (feminine singular regional?, masculine plural regionali, feminine and neuter plural regionale)

1. regional

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin regi?n?lis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rexjo?nal/, [re.xjo?nal]

Adjective

regional (plural regionales)

1. regional

Derived terms

• regionalismo
• regionalizar
• regionalmente

Related terms

• región

Further reading

• “regional” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Swedish

Etymology

region +? -al

Adjective

regional (not comparable)

1. regional; pertaining to a region or regions

Declension

Related terms

• regionalpolitik

Anagrams

• logierna

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