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
- noun A pronged utensil used for eating or serving food.
- noun A point where a road, path, or river splits into two directions.
- noun A separate version of a software project or dataset created from an existing one.
- verb To split into two or more branches or directions.
phylum — full definition
- 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
- noun A large division of possibly related languages, or a major language family which is not subordinate to another.