Store vs. Branch — What's the Difference?

A place where merchandise is offered for sale; a shop.

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.

A stock or supply reserved for future use

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

Stores Supplies, especially of food, clothing, or arms.

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

A place where commodities are kept; a warehouse or storehouse.

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

A great quantity or number; an abundance.

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

To reserve or put away for future use.

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

To fill, supply, or stock.

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

To deposit or receive in a storehouse or warehouse for safekeeping.

(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.

(Computers) To copy (data) into memory or onto a storage device, such as a hard disk.

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

A place where items may be accumulated or routinely kept.

A division of a business or other organization.

A supply held in storage.

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

(mainly North American) A place where items may be purchased; a shop.

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

Memory.

A tributary of a river.

A great quantity or number; abundance.

Chiefly Southern US See creek. See Note at run.

A head of store cattle (feeder cattle to be sold to others for finishing); a store cattle beast.

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

(transitive) To keep (something) while not in use, generally in a place meant for that purpose.

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

Contain.

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

Have the capacity and capability to contain.

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

To write (something) into memory or registers.

(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.

That which is accumulated, or massed together; a source from which supplies may be drawn; hence, an abundance; a great quantity, or a great number.

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

A place of deposit for goods, esp. for large quantities; a storehouse; a warehouse; a magazine.

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

Any place where goods are sold, whether by wholesale or retail; a shop.

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

Articles, especially of food, accumulated for some specific object; supplies, as of provisions, arms, ammunition, and the like; as, the stores of an army, of a ship, of a family.

To separate (something) into branches.

Accumulated; hoarded.

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

To collect as a reserved supply; to accumulate; to lay away.

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

To furnish; to supply; to replenish; esp., to stock or furnish against a future time.

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

To deposit in a store, warehouse, or other building, for preservation; to warehouse; as, to store goods.

A creek or stream which flows into a larger river.

A mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services;

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

A supply of something available for future use;

A location of an organization with several locations.

An electronic memory device;

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

A depository for goods;

(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.

Keep or lay aside for future use;

An area in business or of knowledge, research.

Find a place for and put away for storage;

(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.

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

(intransitive) To produce branches.

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

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

(transitive) To strip of branches.

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

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

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;