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brancher en · NOUN · etymology 1

Etymology

From branch (verb) + -er.

Meanings

1. That which shoots forth branches; one who shows growth in various directions.
2. That which branches, or jumps to another instruction location within a program.
   • None of the brancher instructions have any effect whatsoever on any flags; instead, they are the instructions which look at the flags. 1983, Richard Mansfield, Machine Language for Beginners, page 69:
   • This is pretty typical for a C-written brancher. 1999, Mickey Kawick, Real-time Strategy Game Programming Using DirectX 6.0, page 37:

Forms

brancher en · NOUN · etymology 2

Etymology

From branch (noun) + -er. So called because of the bird still clinging to the branches while practising flying movements with the wings.

Meanings

1. A young owl or other raptor that is just too young to fly.
   • “What, ho! sir knave,” exclaimed Roland, “is it thus you feed the eyasse with unwashed meat, as if you were gorging the foul brancher of a worthless hoodie-crow, by the mass?[…]” 1820, [Walter Scott], chapter IV, in The Abbot. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 83:

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Relateds

root-and-brancher