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Branch vs Coterie - What's the difference?

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Branch is a related term of coterie.


As a proper noun branch

is .

As a noun coterie is

a circle of people who associate with one another.

branch

English

Alternative forms

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Noun

(es) (wikipedia branch)
  • 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.
  • the branch of an antler, a chandelier, a river, or a railway
  • (geometry) One of the portions of a curve that extends outwards to an indefinitely great distance.
  • the branches of a hyperbola
  • A location of an organization with several locations.
  • Our main branch is downtown, and we have branches in all major suburbs.
  • 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
  • * Carew
  • his father, a younger branch of the ancient stock
  • (Mormonism) A local congregation of the LDS Church that is not large enough to form a ward; see .
  • An area in business or of knowledge, research.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2012-01
  • , author=Robert L. Dorit , title=Rereading Darwin , volume=100, issue=1, page=23 , magazine= citation , passage=We live our lives in three dimensions for our threescore and ten allotted years. Yet every branch of contemporary science, from statistics to cosmology, alludes to processes that operate on scales outside of human experience: the millisecond and the nanometer, the eon and the light-year.}}
  • (nautical) A certificate given by (Trinity House) to a pilot qualified to take navigational control of a ship in British waters.
  • (computer architecture) A sequence of .
  • Synonyms

    * (part of a tree) bough, tillow, twig, see also

    Verb

    (es)
  • To arise from the trunk or a larger branch of a tree.
  • To produce branches.
  • To divide into separate parts or subdivisions.
  • (computing) To jump to a different location in a program, especially as the result of a conditional statement.
  • coterie

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A circle of people who associate with one another.
  • The new junior employee joined our merry after-hours coterie .
  • An exclusive group of people, who associate closely for a common purpose; a clique.
  • A tightly-knit coterie of executive powerbrokers made all the real decisions in the company.
  • A communal burrow of prairie dogs.
  • The coterie was located in the middle of our wheat field.
  • * 2000 , Edward O. Wilson, Sociobiology: The New Synthesis , page 473:
  • The population of each coterie' constantly changes over a period of a few months or years, by death, birth, and emigration. But the ' coterie boundary remains about the same, being learned by each prairie dog born into it.
  • * 2001 , Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, The Emperor's Embrace: The Evolution of Fatherhood :
  • The odd part of prairie dog life is that this friendly state exists only among the members of each coterie', and does not extend between ' coteries .
  • * 2009 , Miriam Aronin, The Prairie Dog's Town: A Perfect Hideaway , page 22:
  • The Town Grows Young prairie dogs in a coterie are brothers and sisters. They have the same father and sometimes the same mother. To find a mate from a different family, young prairie dogs must travel to a new area.