| inglese > italiano | |
| branch | |
| 1. sost. filiale, ramo | |
| 2. sost. (araldica) ramo: come figura araldica compare, se privo di frutti, ornato di tre foglie | |
| inglese > inglese | |
| branch | |
| 1. subst. The woody part of a tree arising from the trunk and usually dividing. |  |
| 2. subst. 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. subst. (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. subst. (geometry) One of the portions of a curve that extends outwards to an indefinitely great distance. |  |
| the branches of a hyperbola |  |
| 5. subst. A location of an organization with several locations. |  |
| Our main branch is downtown, and we have branches in all major suburbs. |  |
| 6. subst. 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. subst. (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. subst. An area in business or of knowledge, research. |  |
| 9. subst. (nautical) A certificate given by Trinity House to a pilot qualified to take navigational control of a ship in British waters. |  |
| 10. subst. (computer architecture) A sequence of code that is conditionally executed. |  |
| 11. subst. (computing) A group of related files in a source control system, including for example source code, build scripts, and media such as images. |  |
| 12. subst. (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. |  |
| italiano > inglese | |
| ramo | |
| 1. subst. (botany, figuratively) branch |  |
| 2. subst. (skeleton) ramus, branch |  |
| 3. subst. fork |  |