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branch
1. n. (Botanique) Branche (d'un arbre), rameau.
2. n. Section, branche.
Which branch of the organization is in charge of foreign currency?
Quelle section de l'organisation s'occupe-t-elle de la monnaie étrangère ?
3. n. Filiale, succursale.
Bank branch.
Filiale bancaire.
4. n. Domaine, spécialité.
Branch of science.
Domaine de la science.
5. n. (Chemin de fer) Embranchement.
The line from London to Edinburgh has a branch that goes to Leeds.
La ligne de Londres à Édimbourg a un embranchement qui va à Leeds.
6. n. (Prog) Branche.
7. v. Se diviser (comme les branches d'un arbre).
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branch
1. n. The woody part of a tree arising from the trunk and usually dividing.
2. n. Any of the parts of something that divides like the branch of a tree.
the branch of an antler, a chandelier, or a railway
3. n. (in particular) A creek or stream which flows into a larger river. (In the US, branch is a Southern US term; compare Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia run, and New York and New England brook.)
4. n. (geometry) One of the portions of a curve that extends outwards to an indefinitely great distance.
the branches of a hyperbola
5. n. A location of an organization with several locations.
Our main branch is downtown, and we have branches in all major suburbs.
6. n. A line of family descent, in distinction from some other line or lines from the same stock; any descendant in such a line.
the English branch of a family
7. n. (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. n. An area in business or of knowledge, research.
9. n. (nautical) A certificate given by Trinity House to a pilot qualified to take navigational control of a ship in British waters.
10. n. (computer architecture) A sequence of code that is conditionally executed.
11. n. (computing) A group of related files in a source control system, including for example source code, build scripts, and media such as images.
12. n. (rail transport) A branch line.
13. v. (intransitive) To arise from the trunk or a larger branch of a tree.
14. v. (intransitive) To produce branches.
15. v. To (cause to) divide into separate parts or subdivisions.
16. v. (intransitive, computing) To jump to a different location in a program, especially as the result of a conditional statement.
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branche
1. n-f. branch (of tree)
2. n-f. branch (of an organization)

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Exemples de phrases

We must eradicate the drug traffic, root and branch.      Nous devons éradiquer le trafic de la drogue, des racines jusqu'aux branches. He hit his forehead against the branch of a tree.      Il s'est cogné le front contre la branche d'un arbre. History is a branch of the humanities.      L'Histoire est une branche des humanités. Some birds are sitting on the branch of that tree.      Des oiseaux sont posés sur la branche de cet arbre. I cut a branch from the tree.      J'ai scié une branche de l'arbre.

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