What's the difference between bark and branch?

Bark


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To strip the bark from; to peel.
  • (v. t.) To abrade or rub off any outer covering from; as to bark one's heel.
  • (v. t.) To girdle. See Girdle, v. t., 3.
  • (v. t.) To cover or inclose with bark, or as with bark; as, to bark the roof of a hut.
  • (v. i.) To make a short, loud, explosive noise with the vocal organs; -- said of some animals, but especially of dogs.
  • (v. i.) To make a clamor; to make importunate outcries.
  • (n.) The short, loud, explosive sound uttered by a dog; a similar sound made by some other animals.
  • (n.) Alt. of Barque

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In platform shoes to emulate Johnson's height, and with the aid of prosthetic earlobes, Cranston becomes the 36th president: he bullies and cajoles, flatters and snarls and barks, tells dirty jokes or glows with idealism as required, and delivers the famous "Johnson treatment" to everyone from Martin Luther King to the racist Alabama governor George Wallace.
  • (2) The cotton root bark, when used as an abortifacient, exhibits the lowest toxicity.
  • (3) Cruddas, who has several BNP councillors in his Barking constituency, told MPs in the House of Commons: "What's been uncovered in the internal workings of the BNP appears to be systematic illegality in terms of data protection, bugging, money laundering, theft and the operation of the Political Parties Elections and Referendums Act 2000."
  • (4) The non-phenolic components of the mature stem bark were shown to be (+)-pinitol, sucrose, glucose, fructose, l(-)-pipecolic acid, trans-4-hydroxy-l(-)-pipecolic acid, alpha-alanine, arginine, aspartic acid, glutamic acid, l(-)-proline, serine, a ;steroid' alcohol and a long-chain beta-diketone.
  • (5) There is the sound of engines hissing and crackling, which have been mixed to seem as near to the ear as the camera was to the cars; there is a mostly unnoticeable rustle of leaves in the trees; periodically, so faintly that almost no one would register it consciously, there is the sound of a car rolling through an intersection a block or two over, off camera; a dog barks somewhere far away.
  • (6) As previously reported, the methanol extract from the bark of AN and the fractions of the methanol extract have protective effects for liver injury induced by carbon tetrachloride (CCl4) in rats.
  • (7) The root bark of S. paludosum which showed curare like activity yielded tomatidenol and another yet unidentified alkaloid responsible for the biological activity.
  • (8) "She sat next to me when I wrote songs, and barked any time I tried to record something, and she was with me in the studio all the time we recorded the last album ."
  • (9) In a letter to Hodge on Tuesday, Duncan also claimed that Hodge, the MP for Barking, had made “undoubtedly libellous assertions” about the tax affairs of the bank’s chief executive Stuart Gulliver.
  • (10) Aggressiveness was the most obvious symptom (71%) followed by salivation (48%), paresis and paralysis (28%) and barking (11%).
  • (11) For that matter, mulching with bark, grit or slate will help keep the surface roots cooler and retain moisture in hot weather.
  • (12) Although it had been anticipated that affordable private rents in expensive inner city areas such as Westminster would be scarce, the acute housing shortage in the capital means market rents outstrip benefit cap levels in cheaper outer London boroughs including Haringey, Waltham Forest, and Barking and Dagenham.
  • (13) The bill should authorize stiff fines for unruly dog behavior – to include noise violations from sustained barking and lunging – and misdemeanor criminal penalties for menacing waitstaff and patrons.
  • (14) Their barking drew an entertaining rebuke from Ta-Nehisi Coates to which we cannot resist linking, however: Carlson's descent from reasonably credible magazine journalist to inept race hustler is well mapped territory.
  • (15) The strategic locations are: Stratford, in east London, which is seen as an emerging Olympic city and centrepiece of the country's bid for the 2012 Olympics; Greenwich and Woolwich, involving new and rebuilt communities near the floundering millennium dome site; Barking, where work has already begun on a new township; Thurrock in Essex, involving a new urban development corporation with sweeping planning powers, and North Kent Thameside, between Dartford and Gravesend, which embraces Ebbsfleet.
  • (16) The methanol extract of the stem bark of Schumanniophyton magnificum and schumanniofoside, a chromone alkaloidal glycoside isolated from it, reduced the lethal effect of black cobra (Naja melanoleuca) venom in mice.
  • (17) The second case describes a seventeen year old school girl who suffered from barking coughing attacks.
  • (18) The expertise is only to be obtained by visiting the regions where the quinquina tree grows and finding one's way with the help of willing "cascarilleros", the Indians collecting the quinquina bark.
  • (19) The following month the commissioner of police, Sir Paul Stephenson, came to see me to persuade me that Nick Davies was barking up the wrong tree.
  • (20) The 'judge-led inquiry' that never was is shut down and investigating kidnap and torture in freedom's name will be left to a watchdog that never barks and which exonerated the spooks six years ago."

Branch


Definition:

  • (n.) A shoot or secondary stem growing from the main stem, or from a principal limb or bough of a tree or other plant.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) Any member or part of a body or system; a distinct article; a section or subdivision; a department.
  • (n.) One of the portions of a curve that extends outwards to an indefinitely great distance; as, the branches of an hyperbola.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) A warrant or commission given to a pilot, authorizing him to pilot vessels in certain waters.
  • (a.) 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.
  • (v. i.) To shoot or spread in branches; to separate into branches; to ramify.
  • (v. i.) To divide into separate parts or subdivision.
  • (v. t.) To divide as into branches; to make subordinate division in.
  • (v. t.) To adorn with needlework representing branches, flowers, or twigs.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He added: "There is a rigorous review process of applications submitted by the executive branch, spearheaded initially by five judicial branch lawyers who are national security experts and then by the judges, to ensure that the court's authorizations comport with what the applicable statutes authorize."
  • (2) The adjacent gauge was separated from the ischemic segment by one large nonoccluded diagonal branch of the left anterior descending artery.
  • (3) Subsequently, the study of bundle branch block and A-V block cases revealed that no explicit correlation existed between histopathological changes and functional disturbances nor between disturbances in conduction (i.e.
  • (4) This result demonstrates that branching enzyme belongs to a family of the amylolytic enzymes.
  • (5) One rare case of blind-ending branch originating in the upper third of the ureter are described.
  • (6) An anatomic study of the peroneal artery and vein and their branches was carried out on 80 adult cadaver legs.
  • (7) According to the national bank, four Russian banks were operating in Crimea as of the end of April, but only one of them, Rossiisky National Commercial Bank, was widely represented, with 116 branches in the region.
  • (8) The present study was done in order to document the ability of the eighth cranial nerve of the bullfrog (Rana catesbeiana) to regenerate, the anatomic characteristics of the regenerated fibers, and the specificity of projections from individual endorgan branches of the nerve.
  • (9) Mechanisms by which a defect in the synthesis of dolichol-oligosaccharides might alter the degree of beta-1,6 branching in N-linked carbohydrates are discussed.
  • (10) Arterial-type flows produced a pair of vortex sinks downstream of the branching port.
  • (11) The ACoA branches were divided into the small and the large.
  • (12) It is possible that the elements provide common precursor proteins that reach the secretory intermediate lobe cells through their dendritic branches.
  • (13) Limitations include the facts that the tracer inventory requires a minimal survival period, can only be done postmortem, and has low resolution for cuts of the vagal hepatic branch.
  • (14) So we concluded that duplications and accessories should be thought to have similar meanings with the ordinary branching patterns of MCA in the occurrence of aneurysms.
  • (15) In the case with a more distally situated VSD, the bundle branches skirted the anterior and distal walls of the defect.
  • (16) Our results show that stenosis of about one-third of the original external diameter of the artery and vein of the pedicle in our model did not have any significant influence on the survival of the flap and ligation of the femoral artery distal to the branch to the flap did not produce any statistical difference in the viability of the flap.
  • (17) Autopsy revealed a primary intimal sarcoma with osteogenic elements arising in the posterior leaflet of the pulmonary valve and obstructing the main pulmonary artery and its right branch.
  • (18) Three cases with intermittent left bundle branch block were studied by means of an intracavitary electrode, which allowed the potential of the bundle of His to be measured, and was also used for the extrastimulus method of study.
  • (19) 500-MHz H-NMR spectroscopy of the oligosaccharides derived from gamma-seminoprotein, a human seminal plasma glycoprotein, revealed considerable microheterogeneity both with respect to the degree of branching and with regard to the peripheral sugars.
  • (20) The behavior of the retrograde H deflection in respect to the first extra beat following the premature QRS complex helped in excluding bundle branch reentry.

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