What's the difference between bough and branch?

Bough


Definition:

  • (n.) An arm or branch of a tree, esp. a large arm or main branch.
  • (n.) A gallows.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A collection of poems by his widow Karen Green, entitled Bough Down, won praise earlier this year , and Quack This Way , a tribute from his friend Bryan A Garner was published this month.
  • (2) Bough Down is a collection of prose poems interspersed with small collages, in which Green charts her "passage through grief", said small US publisher Siglo Press, which released the book earlier this spring.
  • (3) "They shiver in the wind and throw out boughs with a calculated aim, which is to be beautiful," wrote Ronald Blythe of a pair of young ashes near his home in Essex.
  • (4) Fragments showing up on the ceiling and the other walls – partly covered by a particularly horrible 1960s version of Morris's classic willow boughs design, whose owner could never have guessed they were burying a genuine piece by the master – suggest there is much more work to come.
  • (5) Instead, I fixed my eyes upwards to those boughs laden with keys.
  • (6) Then relax under laden boughs in the idyllic Orchard Tearoom, while the kids chase the peacocks.
  • (7) P. obscura primarily moves quadrupedally along large boughs; P. melalophos relies more on leaping between smaller supports.
  • (8) The modern day druids and pagans who assemble bearing green boughs for the winter and summer solstices, much mocked for inventing supposedly ancient rituals, may not be so far off the mark after all.
  • (9) "I worry I broke your kneecaps when I cut you down," she writes in Bough Down .
  • (10) Gerard Manley Hopkins admired the "contradictory supple curvings" of an ash's boughs.
  • (11) The plant Soma is described as "thousand boughs" and photographic evidence has been offered in support.
  • (12) Frank Bough took over as the main anchor in 1968 and stayed for 15 years, followed by Des Lynam for a decade from 1983 and then Steve Rider.
  • (13) It also introduced them to famous hosts from David Coleman to Frank Bough and Des Lynam.
  • (14) Right now wade, ankle deep, through flame-coloured leaves, catch a glimpse of ripening blue sloes shimmering in the undergrowth and dodge overhanging boughs laden with berries and rose hips.
  • (15) Alex is perched on a bough above him, naked under an olive-green parka, wide open down the front.
  • (16) Travel is primarily by brachiation along large boughs.
  • (17) "Ms Green turns out to be a profoundly good writer: Bough Down is lovely, smart and funny, in addition to being brutally clear and sad," writes the Wall Street Journal .
  • (18) In the tree picture, Lutz is on a lower bough, wearing only a red PVC coat, which is hanging open.
  • (19) On Breakfast Time, from 1983, he had a pop news slot and became the presenter Frank Bough's once-a-week stand-in.
  • (20) "Perhaps most impressive about Bough Down is that, despite the poetic pitch of its language, it refuses to poeticize its subject.

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.