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embranchement — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • fork noun A pronged utensil used for eating or serving food.
  • phylum noun A rank in the classification of organisms, below kingdom and above class; also called a divisio or a division, especially in describing plants; a taxon at that rank
  • spur noun A spiked device worn on a rider's boot heel to urge a horse forward.

Senses

embranchement is used for these senses in English:

  • branch line (railroads) A non-through line which joins a mainline (or another branch or secondary line) and ends at a terminus.
  • fork (metonymic, analogous to any prong of a pronged tool) One of the parts into which anything is furcated or divided; a prong; a branch of a stream, a road, etc.; a barbed point, as of an arrow.
  • fork in the road A junction in which one road becomes two divergent roads.
  • phylum (taxonomy) A rank in the classification of organisms, below kingdom and above class; also called a divisio or a division, especially in describing plants; a taxon at that rank
  • spur Any protruding part connected at one end, for instance a highway that extends from another highway into a city.

fork — full definition

  1. noun A pronged utensil used for eating or serving food.
  2. noun A point where a road, path, or river splits into two directions.
  3. noun A separate version of a software project or dataset created from an existing one.
  4. verb To split into two or more branches or directions.

phylum — full definition

  1. noun A rank in the classification of organisms, below kingdom and above class; also called a divisio or a division, especially in describing plants; a taxon at that rank
  2. noun A large division of possibly related languages, or a major language family which is not subordinate to another.

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