brancher

See also: branchêr

English

Etymology 1

branch (verb) +‎ -er

Noun

brancher (plural branchers)

1. That which shoots forth branches; one who shows growth in various directions.
2. (programming) That which branches, or jumps to another instruction location within a program.
   • 1983, Richard Mansfield, Machine Language for Beginners, page 69:

     None of the brancher instructions have any effect whatsoever on any flags; instead, they are the instructions which look at the flags.

   • 1999, Mickey Kawick, Real-time Strategy Game Programming Using DirectX 6.0, page 37:

     This is pretty typical for a C-written brancher.

Etymology 2

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

Noun

brancher (plural branchers)

1. (falconry) A young owl or other raptor that is just too young to fly.
   • 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:

     “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? […]”

See also

• root-and-brancher

Anagrams

• rebranch

French

Etymology

From branche +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bʁɑ̃.ʃe/

• Audio

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Verb

brancher

1. to connect, plug in (appliance)
2. (computing) to branch
3. (Louisiana) to branch off, to turn (of a road)

   Synonym: fourcher

Conjugation

Conjugation of brancher (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	brancher
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	branchant /bʁɑ̃.ʃɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		branché /bʁɑ̃.ʃe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	branche /bʁɑ̃ʃ/	branches /bʁɑ̃ʃ/	branche /bʁɑ̃ʃ/	branchons /bʁɑ̃.ʃɔ̃/	branchez /bʁɑ̃.ʃe/	branchent /bʁɑ̃ʃ/
	imperfect	branchais /bʁɑ̃.ʃɛ/	branchais /bʁɑ̃.ʃɛ/	branchait /bʁɑ̃.ʃɛ/	branchions /bʁɑ̃.ʃjɔ̃/	branchiez /bʁɑ̃.ʃje/	branchaient /bʁɑ̃.ʃɛ/
	past historic2	branchai /bʁɑ̃.ʃe/	branchas /bʁɑ̃.ʃa/	brancha /bʁɑ̃.ʃa/	branchâmes /bʁɑ̃.ʃam/	branchâtes /bʁɑ̃.ʃat/	branchèrent /bʁɑ̃.ʃɛʁ/
	future	brancherai /bʁɑ̃ʃ.ʁe/	brancheras /bʁɑ̃ʃ.ʁa/	branchera /bʁɑ̃ʃ.ʁa/	brancherons /bʁɑ̃ʃ.ʁɔ̃/	brancherez /bʁɑ̃ʃ.ʁe/	brancheront /bʁɑ̃ʃ.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	brancherais /bʁɑ̃ʃ.ʁɛ/	brancherais /bʁɑ̃ʃ.ʁɛ/	brancherait /bʁɑ̃ʃ.ʁɛ/	brancherions /bʁɑ̃.ʃə.ʁjɔ̃/	brancheriez /bʁɑ̃.ʃə.ʁje/	brancheraient /bʁɑ̃ʃ.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	branche /bʁɑ̃ʃ/	branches /bʁɑ̃ʃ/	branche /bʁɑ̃ʃ/	branchions /bʁɑ̃.ʃjɔ̃/	branchiez /bʁɑ̃.ʃje/	branchent /bʁɑ̃ʃ/
	imperfect2	branchasse /bʁɑ̃.ʃas/	branchasses /bʁɑ̃.ʃas/	branchât /bʁɑ̃.ʃa/	branchassions /bʁɑ̃.ʃa.sjɔ̃/	branchassiez /bʁɑ̃.ʃa.sje/	branchassent /bʁɑ̃.ʃas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	branche /bʁɑ̃ʃ/	—	branchons /bʁɑ̃.ʃɔ̃/	branchez /bʁɑ̃.ʃe/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

• “brancher”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.