Difference between Branch Line and Spur

BRANCH LINE vs SPUR: NOUN

A railway line connected to a trunk line
A secondary railroad route or one subsidiary to a railroad's main lines.

In hydraul, engin., awing-dam, or projection built out from a river-bank to deflect the current.
A spur track.
An ergot growing on rye.
A tubular or saclike extension of the corolla or calyx of a flower, as in a columbine or larkspur.
An oblique reinforcing prop or stay of timber or masonry.
A lateral ridge projecting from a mountain or mountain range.
A bony outgrowth or protuberance.
A short or stunted branch of a tree.
A gaff attached to the leg of a gamecock.
A climbing iron; a crampon.
A spinelike process on the leg of some birds.
A spurlike attachment or projection, as.
An incentive.
A short spike or spiked wheel that attaches to the heel of a rider's boot and is used to urge a horse forward.
A verbalization that encourages you to attempt something
A railway line connected to a trunk line
Any pointed projection
Tubular extension at the base of the corolla in some flowers
A sharp prod fixed to a rider's heel and used to urge a horse onward
In architecture, any offset from a wall, etc., as a buttress; specifically, the claw or griffe projecting from the toru sat each of the angles of the base of early Pointed medieval columns.
(J) In carpentry, a brace connecting or strengthening a post and some other part, as a rafter or cross-beam.
A climbing-iron used in mounting telegraph-poles and the like.
In physical geography, a ridge or line of elevation subordinate to the main body or crest of a mountainrange; one of the lower divisions of a mountain-mass, when this, as is frequently the case, is divided by valleys or gorges. See mountain-chain.
In mammalogy, the calcarof some bats.
In sporting, a gaff, or sharp piercing or cutting instrument fastened upon the natural spur of a game-cock In the pit.
In ornithology: A horny modification of the integument of a bird's foot, forming an outgrowth of the nature of a claw, usually sharp-pointed and supported on a bony core, and used as a weapon of offense and defense; a calcar. Such a spur differs from a clan mainly in not ending a digit, but being an offset from the side of the metatarsus; it is also characteristic; of though not confined to the male, and is therefore a secondary sexual character. It is familiar as occurring on the shank of the domestic cock and other gallinaceous birds, and is sometimes double or treble, as in Pavo bicalcaratus and in the genera Galloperdix, Ithaginis, and Polyplectron. See cuts under calcarate, Galloperdix, Ithaginis, pea-fowl, Polyplectron, Rasores, and tarsometatarsus. A similar horny outgrowth on the pinion-bone of the wing in various birds, resembling a claw, but differing in being a lateral offset not terminating a digit. It occurs in certain geese, plovers, pigeons, and jacanas, and is double in the screamer. See cuts under jacana, Palamedea, and spur-winged.
In entomology, a spine or stiff bristle on the leg.
A calcar of some frogs.
A snag; a spine; specifically, in herpetology:
Plural Short small twigs projecting a few inches from the trunk.
A heavy timber extended from a pier or wharf against the side of a ship to prevent the ship from striking against the pier.
A curved piece of timber serving as a half beam to support the deck where a whole beam cannot be placed.
A shore or piece of timber extending from the bilgeways, and fayed and bolted to the bottom of the ship on the stocks.
In ship-building;
In fortification, a wall that crosses a part of the rampart and joins it to an anterior work; also, a tower or blockhouse placed in the outworks before the port
In botany, a calcar; a slender hollow projection from some part of a flower, as from the calyx of columbine and larkspur and the corolla of violets. It is usually nectariferous, being the nectary (nectarium) of Linnæus. The term is also rarely applied to a solid spur-like process. See also cuts under nectary, columbine, and Delphinium.
The ridge in the interior of a bifurcating tube between the two branches given off from it.
In horticulture, a twig or short branch that bears flowers and fruit, in distinction from one that continues to elongate in woody growth.
A side-track running out from a main railway line and forming part of a Y.
A pointed instrument worn on the heel by a horseman to goad the horse.
Anything which goads, impels, or urges to action; incitement; instigation; incentive; stimulus: used in this sense in the phrase on or upon the spur of the moment—that is, on a momentary impulse; suddenly; hastily; impromptu.
An anal spur.
Some projecting thing more or less closely resembling a horseman's spur in form or position.

BRANCH LINE vs SPUR: VERB

Give heart or courage to
Strike with a spur
Equip with spurs
Goad with spurs
Incite or stimulate

BRANCH LINE vs SPUR: INTRANSITIVE VERB

To ride quickly by spurring a horse.
To incite or stimulate.
To urge (a horse) on by the use of spurs.

BRANCH LINE vs SPUR: OTHER WORD TYPES

To prick or rasp with the point or rowel of a spur.
Figuratively, to urge or incite.
To hasten.
To fasten spurs to, as a horseman's boot, or a solleret.
To furnish with spurs, as a rider: as, booted and spurred; to furnish with a spur or gaff, as a game-cock.
To prop; support.
To prick one's horse with the spur; ride in haste.
Figuratively, to press forward.
Any sharply pointed projection

BRANCH LINE vs SPUR: RELATED WORDS

Rail, Mainline, Railroad track, Freight car, Terminus, Cable railway, Rail technology, Railroad, Standard gauge, Railway line, Permanent way, Railway, Main line, Spur track, Spur

Encourage, Invigorate, Catalyze, Spark, Jumpstart, Stimulate, Gad, Spur track, Branch line, Spine, Goading, Urging, Prodding, Goad, Prod

BRANCH LINE vs SPUR: DESCRIBE WORDS

Railroad car, Rail, Mainline, Railroad track, Freight car, Terminus, Cable railway, Rail technology, Railroad, Standard gauge, Railway line, Permanent way, Railway, Main line, Spur

Propel, Energize, Boost, Stoke, Encourage, Invigorate, Catalyze, Spark, Jumpstart, Stimulate, Spine, Goading, Urging, Prodding, Prod

BRANCH LINE vs SPUR: SENTENCE EXAMPLES

James, construction of branch line: Northern Electric Co.
RELWAY to a branch line implemented in GPIB.
On this branch line, Fort Matilda Station is the nearest to Greenock whilst Cartsdyke and Bogston are the key stations on the main line.
Hollis Street in Nashua between the main line and the branch line specifically for a crossing control interface between the two locations.
Lands within twenty-four miles of the main line or any branch line of the Canadian Pacific Railway, on either side thereof.
Take for instance the average layout which might include a yard, a main line and perhaps a branch line.
Can be used as a main trunk line or branch line, as well as in return air situations.
The Chingford branch line is a railway line between Clapton Junction and Chingford station.
Plemons declined when the Amarillo branch line of the Rock Island line bypassed it.
The Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) branch line wooden trestle was located about 4 miles (1.6 km) west of Estevan, Saskatchewan, on the Neptune branch.

Free World program to spur prosperity in Asia.
Taxes have been reduced to spur economic development.
The edge of the bit has a sharpened spur to cut the fibers of the wood, as in the lip and spur drill bit.
Hiked the campground spur, then a little hiked part of the Rocky Springs Trail from the spur intersection to the road.
If the cause of the bone spur is not addressed, removal of the spur will only provide an expensive, invasive, temporary reprieve.
The spur trail up to the cabin leaves the NCT about the same point you reach the spur for the observation deck.
Heel spur and plantar fasciitis are sometimes linked together under the term Heel Spur Syndrome.
Spur down at setting out to do burning out operations from Flat Rock Spur.
Speak with us today to evaluate your toe bone spur or heel bone spur.
Fortunately, many patients are able to achieve adequate relief from bone spur pain with nonsurgical heel spur treatment.

BRANCH LINE vs SPUR: QUESTIONS

What is the history of the East Indian Railway branch line?
Does the Pennsylvania Railroad have a branch line in Pennsylvania?
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When was the Kirti Nagar-Ashok Park main branch line opened?
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How to contact the building and safety standards branch line?
When did the Franschhoek branch line come back into service?

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What is the epidemiology of plantar calcaneal spur?
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DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BRANCH LINE AND SPUR

BRANCH LINE vs SPUR: NOUN

BRANCH LINE vs SPUR: VERB

BRANCH LINE vs SPUR: INTRANSITIVE VERB

BRANCH LINE vs SPUR: OTHER WORD TYPES

BRANCH LINE vs SPUR: RELATED WORDS

BRANCH LINE vs SPUR: DESCRIBE WORDS

BRANCH LINE vs SPUR: SENTENCE EXAMPLES

BRANCH LINE vs SPUR: QUESTIONS