Branch vs. Discipline — What's the Difference?

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.

Discipline is action or inaction that is regulated to be in accordance (or to achieve accord) with a particular system of governance. Discipline is commonly applied to regulating human and animal behavior to its society or environment it belongs.

A part of a tree which grows out from the trunk or from a bough

Training expected to produce a specific character or pattern of behavior, especially training that produces moral or mental improvement

(of a road or path) divide into one or more subdivisions

Control obtained by enforcing compliance or order

(of a tree or plant) bear or send out branches

Controlled behavior resulting from disciplinary training; self-control

A secondary woody stem or limb growing from the trunk or main stem of a tree or shrub or from another secondary limb.

A state of order based on submission to rules and authority

A lateral division or subdivision of certain other plant parts, such as a root or flower cluster.

Punishment intended to correct or train

A secondary outgrowth or subdivision of a main axis, such as the tine of a deer's antlers.

A set of rules or methods, as those regulating the practice of a church or monastic order.

(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.

A branch of knowledge or teaching

An area of specialized skill or knowledge, especially academic or vocational, that is related to but separate from other areas

To train by instruction and practice, as in following rules or developing self-control

A division of a business or other organization.

To punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience.

A division of a family, categorized by descent from a particular ancestor.

To impose order on

(Linguistics) A subdivision of a family of languages, such as the Germanic branch of Indo-European.

A controlled behaviour; self-control.

A tributary of a river.

An enforced compliance or control.

Chiefly Southern US See creek. See Note at run.

A systematic method of obtaining obedience.

A divergent section of a river, especially near the mouth.

A state of order based on submission to authority.

(Mathematics) A part of a curve that is separated, as by discontinuities or extreme points.

A set of rules regulating behaviour.

A sequence of program instructions to which the normal sequence of instructions relinquishes control, depending on the value of certain variables.

A punishment to train or maintain control.

The instructions executed as the result of such a passing of control.

A specific branch of knowledge or learning.

(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.

A category in which a certain art, sport or other activity belongs.

To put forth a branch or branches; spread by dividing.

(transitive) To train someone by instruction and practice.

To come forth as a branch or subdivision; develop or diverge from

(transitive) To teach someone to obey authority.

(Computers) To relinquish control to another set of instructions or another routine as a result of the presence of a branch.

(transitive) To punish someone in order to (re)gain control.

To separate (something) into branches.

(transitive) To impose order on someone.

To embroider (something) with a design of foliage or flowers.

The treatment suited to a disciple or learner; education; development of the faculties by instruction and exercise; training, whether physical, mental, or moral.

The woody part of a tree arising from the trunk and usually dividing.

Training to act in accordance with established rules; accustoming to systematic and regular action; drill.

Any of the parts of something that divides like the branch of a tree.

Subjection to rule; submissiveness to order and control; habit of obedience.

A creek or stream which flows into a larger river.

Severe training, corrective of faults; instruction by means of misfortune, suffering, punishment, etc.

(geometry) One of the portions of a curve that extends outwards to an indefinitely great distance.

Correction; chastisement; punishment inflicted by way of correction and training.

A location of an organization with several locations.

The subject matter of instruction; a branch of knowledge.

A line of family descent, in distinction from some other line or lines from the same stock; any descendant in such a line.

The enforcement of methods of correction against one guilty of ecclesiastical offenses; reformatory or penal action toward a church member.

(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.

Self-inflicted and voluntary corporal punishment, as penance, or otherwise; specifically, a penitential scourge.

An area in business or of knowledge, research.

A system of essential rules and duties; as, the Romish or Anglican discipline.

(nautical) A certificate given by Trinity House to a pilot qualified to take navigational control of a ship in British waters.

To educate; to develop by instruction and exercise; to train.

(computing) A sequence of code that is conditionally executed.

To accustom to regular and systematic action; to bring under control so as to act systematically; to train to act together under orders; to teach subordination to; to form a habit of obedience in; to drill.

(computing) A group of related files in a source control system, including for example source code, build scripts, and media such as images.

To improve by corrective and penal methods; to chastise; to correct.

(rail transport) A branch line.

To inflict ecclesiastical censures and penalties upon.

(intransitive) To arise from the trunk or a larger branch of a tree.

A branch of knowledge;

(intransitive) To produce branches.

A system of rules of conduct or method of practice;

(ambitransitive) To (cause to) divide into separate parts or subdivisions.

The trait of being well behaved;

To jump to a different location in a program, especially as the result of a conditional statement.

Training to improve strength or self-control

(transitive) To strip of branches.

The act of punishing;

To discipline (a union member) at a branch meeting.

Train by instruction and practice; especially to teach self-control;

A shoot or secondary stem growing from the main stem, or from a principal limb or bough of a tree or other plant.

Punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience;

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.

Any member or part of a body or system; a distinct article; a section or subdivision; a department.

One of the portions of a curve that extends outwards to an indefinitely great distance; as, the branches of an hyperbola.

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.

A warrant or commission given to a pilot, authorizing him to pilot vessels in certain waters.

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.

To shoot or spread in branches; to separate into branches; to ramify.

To divide into separate parts or subdivision.

To divide as into branches; to make subordinate division in.

To adorn with needlework representing branches, flowers, or twigs.

An administrative division of some larger or more complex organization;

A division of a stem, or secondary stem arising from the main stem of a plant

A part of a forked or branching shape;

A natural consequence of development

A stream or river connected to a larger one

Any projection that is thought to resemble an arm;

Grow and send out branches or branch-like structures;

Divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork;