stand wiki:
[and can mean several things:A stand, when referring to an object is an object that supports another object, usually for display purposes. See base, armature (sculpture).A stand is also a group of one species of tree in the midst of, but separate from a group of another type of tree.Stand! was the fourth album by Sly & the Family Stone; their most successful and considered among their best work. "Stand!" is also the title of that album's second single.Stand is a song and hit single by R.E.M. from the album Green.Stand, the teen-oriented anti-tobacco group based in Ohio, the website for which is www.standonline.org. "Stand" is short for "Stand up, speak out against tobacco."A stand is a spiritual apparition in the manga JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.
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branch wiki:
[ of a woody plant such as a tree, shrub, or vine. It is any woody structural member that is not the central trunk or trunks and which supports the terminal twigs, which in turn support the leaves. Branches may be oriented in any direction from horizontally to vertically, but usually have bark similar to the upper trunk (whereas twigs often have markedly different bark).
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