Branch vs. Creek — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Branch and Creek
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Branch
A branch (UK: or UK: , US: ) or tree branch (sometimes referred to in botany as a ramus) is a woody structural member connected to but not part of the central trunk of a tree (or sometimes a shrub). Large branches are known as boughs and small branches are known as twigs.
Creek
A member of a Native American people formerly inhabiting eastern Alabama, southwest Georgia, and northwest Florida and now located in central Oklahoma and southern Alabama. The Creek were removed to Indian Territory in the 1830s.
Branch
A part of a tree which grows out from the trunk or from a bough
Sophie was in the branches of a tree eating an apple
Creek
The Muskogean language of the Creek.
Branch
(of a road or path) divide into one or more subdivisions
Follow this track south until it branches into two
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Creek
A Native American confederacy made up of the Creek and various smaller southeast tribes.
Branch
(of a tree or plant) bear or send out branches
This rose has a tendency to branch and spread at the top
The branching heads of large yellow daisies
Creek
A member of this confederacy. In all senses also called Muskogee1.
Branch
A secondary woody stem or limb growing from the trunk or main stem of a tree or shrub or from another secondary limb.
Creek
A small stream, often a shallow or intermittent tributary to a river. Also called regionally branch, brook1, kill2, run.
Branch
A lateral division or subdivision of certain other plant parts, such as a root or flower cluster.
Creek
A channel or stream running through a salt marsh
Tidal creeks teeming with shore wildlife.
Branch
A secondary outgrowth or subdivision of a main axis, such as the tine of a deer's antlers.
Creek
Chiefly British A small inlet in a shoreline, extending farther inland than a cove.
Branch
(Anatomy) An offshoot or a division of the main portion of a structure, especially that of a nerve, blood vessel, or lymphatic vessel; a ramus.
Creek
(British) A small inlet or bay, often saltwater, narrower and extending farther into the land than a cove; a recess in the shore of the sea, or of a river; the inner part of a port that is used as a dock for small boats.
Branch
An area of specialized skill or knowledge, especially academic or vocational, that is related to but separate from other areas
The judicial branch of government.
The branch of medicine called neurology.
Creek
A stream of water (often freshwater) smaller than a river and larger than a brook; in Australia, also used of river-sized bodies of water.
Branch
A division of a business or other organization.
Creek
Any turn or winding.
Branch
A division of a family, categorized by descent from a particular ancestor.
Creek
A small inlet or bay, narrower and extending further into the land than a cove; a recess in the shore of the sea, or of a river.
Each creek and cavern of the dangerous shore.
They discovered a certain creek, with a shore.
Branch
(Linguistics) A subdivision of a family of languages, such as the Germanic branch of Indo-European.
Creek
A stream of water smaller than a river and larger than a brook.
Lesser streams and rivulets are denominated creeks.
Branch
A tributary of a river.
Creek
Any turn or winding.
The passages of alleys, creeks, and narrow lands.
Branch
Chiefly Southern US See creek. See Note at run.
Creek
A natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river);
The creek dried up every summer
Branch
A divergent section of a river, especially near the mouth.
Creek
Any member of the Creek Confederacy (especially the Muskogee) formerly living in Georgia and Alabama but now chiefly in Oklahoma
Branch
(Mathematics) A part of a curve that is separated, as by discontinuities or extreme points.
Branch
A sequence of program instructions to which the normal sequence of instructions relinquishes control, depending on the value of certain variables.
Branch
The instructions executed as the result of such a passing of control.
Branch
(Chemistry) A bifurcation in a linear chain of atoms, especially in an organic molecule where isomeric hydrocarbon groups can vary in the location and number of these bifurcations of the carbon chain.
Branch
To put forth a branch or branches; spread by dividing.
Branch
To come forth as a branch or subdivision; develop or diverge from
An unpaved road that branches from the main road.
A theory that branches from an older system of ideas.
Branch
(Computers) To relinquish control to another set of instructions or another routine as a result of the presence of a branch.
Branch
To separate (something) into branches.
Branch
To embroider (something) with a design of foliage or flowers.
Branch
The woody part of a tree arising from the trunk and usually dividing.
Branch
Any of the parts of something that divides like the branch of a tree.
The branch of an antler, a chandelier, or a railway
Branch
A creek or stream which flows into a larger river.
Branch water
Branch
(geometry) One of the portions of a curve that extends outwards to an indefinitely great distance.
The branches of a hyperbola
Branch
A location of an organization with several locations.
Our main branch is downtown, and we have branches in all major suburbs.
Branch
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
Branch
(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.
Branch
An area in business or of knowledge, research.
Branch
(nautical) A certificate given by Trinity House to a pilot qualified to take navigational control of a ship in British waters.
Branch
(computing) A sequence of code that is conditionally executed.
Branch
(computing) A group of related files in a source control system, including for example source code, build scripts, and media such as images.
Branch
(rail transport) A branch line.
Branch
(intransitive) To arise from the trunk or a larger branch of a tree.
Branch
(intransitive) To produce branches.
Branch
(ambitransitive) To (cause to) divide into separate parts or subdivisions.
Branch
To jump to a different location in a program, especially as the result of a conditional statement.
Branch
(transitive) To strip of branches.
Branch
To discipline (a union member) at a branch meeting.
Branch
A shoot or secondary stem growing from the main stem, or from a principal limb or bough of a tree or other plant.
Branch
Any division extending like a branch; any arm or part connected with the main body of thing; ramification; as, the branch of an antler; the branch of a chandelier; a branch of a river; a branch of a railway.
Most of the branches , or streams, were dried up.
Branch
Any member or part of a body or system; a distinct article; a section or subdivision; a department.
It is a branch and parcel of mine oath.
Branch
One of the portions of a curve that extends outwards to an indefinitely great distance; as, the branches of an hyperbola.
Branch
A line of family descent, in distinction from some other line or lines from the same stock; any descendant in such a line; as, the English branch of a family.
His father, a younger branch of the ancient stock.
Branch
A warrant or commission given to a pilot, authorizing him to pilot vessels in certain waters.
Branch
Diverging from, or tributary to, a main stock, line, way, theme, etc.; as, a branch vein; a branch road or line; a branch topic; a branch store.
Branch
To shoot or spread in branches; to separate into branches; to ramify.
Branch
To divide into separate parts or subdivision.
To branch out into a long disputation.
Branch
To divide as into branches; to make subordinate division in.
Branch
To adorn with needlework representing branches, flowers, or twigs.
The train whereof loose far behind her strayed,Branched with gold and pearl, most richly wrought.
Branch
An administrative division of some larger or more complex organization;
A branch of Congress
Branch
A division of a stem, or secondary stem arising from the main stem of a plant
Branch
A part of a forked or branching shape;
He broke off one of the branches
They took the south fork
Branch
A natural consequence of development
Branch
A stream or river connected to a larger one
Branch
Any projection that is thought to resemble an arm;
The arm of the record player
An arm of the sea
A branch of the sewer
Branch
Grow and send out branches or branch-like structures;
These plants ramify early and get to be very large
Branch
Divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork;
The road forks
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