branch vs divide

branch

verb
  • 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. 

  • To arise from the trunk or a larger branch of a tree. 

  • To strip of branches. 

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

  • To produce branches. 

noun
  • An area in business or of knowledge, research. 

  • A local congregation of the LDS Church that is not large enough to form a ward; see Wikipedia article on ward in LDS church. 

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

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

  • A sequence of code that is conditionally executed. 

  • A creek or stream which flows into a larger river. 

  • One of the portions of a curve that extends outwards to an indefinitely great distance. 

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

  • A branch line. 

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

  • A location of an organization with several locations. 

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

divide

verb
  • To split or separate (something) into two or more parts. 

  • To vote, as in the British parliament and other legislatures, by the members separating themselves into two parties (as on opposite sides of the hall or in opposite lobbies), that is, the ayes dividing from the noes. 

  • To share (something) by dividing it. 

  • To separate into two or more parts. 

  • To mark divisions on; to graduate. 

  • To calculate the number (the quotient) by which you must multiply one given number (the divisor) to produce a second given number (the dividend). 

  • To play or sing in a florid style, or with variations. 

  • To disunite in opinion or interest; to make discordant or hostile; to set at variance. 

  • To be a divisor of. 

  • Of a cell, to reproduce by dividing. 

noun
  • An act of dividing. 

  • A distancing between two people or things. 

  • A large chasm, gorge, or ravine between two areas of land. 

  • The topographical boundary dividing two adjacent catchment basins, such as a ridge or a crest. 

  • A thing that divides. 

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