Definition of fork Fork
/fɔˈɹk/ - [fork] - fork
We found 46 definitions of fork from 8 different sources.
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What does fork mean?
WordNet
NounPlural: forks |
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| fork - cutlery used for serving and eating food | ||
| eating utensil, cutlery tableware implements for cutting and eating food | ||
| carving fork a large fork used in carving cooked meat | ||
| prong a pointed projection | ||
| salad fork a fork intended for eating salads | ||
| tablefork a fork for eating at a dining table | ||
| tine prong on a fork or pitchfork or antler | ||
| fork - an agricultural tool used for lifting or digging; has a handle and metal prongs | ||
| tool an implement used in the practice of a vocation | ||
| hayfork a long-handled fork for turning or lifting hay | ||
| fork - the region of the angle formed by the junction of two branches; "they took the south fork"; "he climbed into the crotch of a tree" | ||
| crotch | ||
| ramification, branch, leg an arrangement of branching parts | ||
| fork - the act of branching out or dividing into branches | ||
| branching, ramification, forking | ||
| division the act or process of dividing | ||
| bifurcation the act of splitting into two branches | ||
| trifurcation the act of splitting into three branches | ||
| divarication branching at a wide angle | ||
| fork - the angle formed by the inner sides of the legs where they join the human trunk | ||
| crotch | ||
| angle a member of a Germanic people who conquered England and merged with the Saxons and Jutes to become Anglo-Saxons | ||
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| fork - shape like a fork; "She forked her fingers" | ||
| shape, form give shape or form to; "shape the dough"; "form the young child's character" | ||
| fork - place under attack with one's own pieces, of two enemy pieces | ||
| aggress, attack begin to injure; "The cancer cells are attacking his liver"; "Rust is attacking the metal" | ||
| chess game, chess a board game for two players who move their 16 pieces according to specific rules; the object is to checkmate the opponent's king | ||
| fork - divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork; "The road forks" | ||
| branch, ramify, furcate, separate | ||
| diverge move or draw apart; "The two paths diverge here" | ||
| branch out, diversify, broaden vary in order to spread risk or to expand; "The company diversified" | ||
| branch, ramify divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork; "The road forks" | ||
| arborise, arborize branch out like trees; "nerve fibers arborize" | ||
| twig branch out in a twiglike manner; "The lightning bolt twigged in several directions" | ||
| bifurcate divide into two branches; "The road bifurcated" | ||
| trifurcate divide into three; "The road trifurcates at the bridge" | ||
| fork - lift with a pitchfork; "pitchfork hay" | ||
| pitchfork | ||
| lift remove from a surface; "the detective carefully lifted some fingerprints from the table" | ||
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Wiktionary 
- fork (Noun)
A pronged tool having a long straight handle, used for digging, lifting, throwing etc. - fork (Noun)
A gallows. - fork (Noun)
A utensil with spikes used to put solid food into the mouth, or to hold food down while cutting. - fork (Noun)
A tuning fork . - fork (Noun)
An intersection in a road or path where one road is split into two. - fork (Noun)
A point where a waterway, such as a river, splits and goes two or more different directions. - fork (Noun)
Used in the names of some river tributaries, e. g. West Fork White River and East Fork White River, joining together to form the White River of Indiana. - fork (Noun)
A point in time where one has to make a decision between two life paths. - fork (Noun)
The simultaneous attack of two adversary pieces with one single attacking piece especially a knight. - fork (Noun)
A splitting-up of an existing process into itself and a child process executing parts of the same program. - fork (Noun)
An event where development of some free software or open-source software is split into two or more separate projects. - fork (Noun)
Crotch. - fork (Noun)
A forklift. - fork (Noun)
The individual blades of a forklift. - fork (Noun)
In a bicycle, the portion holding the front wheel, allowing the rider to steer and balance. - fork (Verb)
To divide into two or more branches. - fork (Verb)
To move with a fork as hay or food. - fork (Verb)
To spawn a new child process in some sense duplicating the existing process. - fork (Verb)
To split a software project into several projects. - fork (Verb)
To kick someone in the crotch. - fork (Verb)
To shoot into blades, as corn does.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- fork (n.)
An instrument consisting of a handle with a shank terminating in two or more prongs or tines, which are usually of metal, parallel and slightly curved; -- used from piercing, holding, taking up, or pitching anything. - fork (n.)
Anything furcate or like a fork in shape, or furcate at the extremity; as, a tuning fork. - fork (n.)
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 (n.)
The place where a division or a union occurs; the angle or opening between two branches or limbs; as, the fork of a river, a tree, or a road. - fork (n.)
The gibbet. - fork (v. i.)
To shoot into blades, as corn. - fork (v. i.)
To divide into two or more branches; as, a road, a tree, or a stream forks. - fork (v. t.)
To raise, or pitch with a fork, as hay; to dig or turn over with a fork, as the soil.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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A utensil with spikes used to put solid food into the mouth. -
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An intersection in a road or path where one road is split into two. -
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To divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork, starting from a common point. -
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In a bicycle, the portion holding the front wheel, allowing the rider to steer and balance.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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fork
fork, n. an instrument with two or more prongs at the end: one of the points or divisions of anything fork-like: the bottom of a sump into which the water of a mine drains—also Forcque: (pl.) the branches into which a road or river divides, also the point of separation.—v.i. to divide into two branches: to shoot into blades, as corn.—v.t. to form as a fork: to pitch with a fork: to bale a shaft dry.—n. Fork′-chuck, a forked lathe-centre used in wood-turning.—adjs. Forked, Fork′y, shaped like a fork.—adv. Fork′edly.—ns. Fork′edness, Fork′iness; Fork′er; Fork′head, the forked end of a rod in a knuckle-joint or the like; Fork′-tail, a fish with forked tail: the kite.—Fork out, over (slang), to hand or pay over. [A.S. forca—L. furca.]
Vulgar Tongue DictionaryDictionary of the Vulgar Tongue 👅
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fork
A pickpocket. Let us fork him; let us pick his pocket.--'The newest and most dexterous way, which is, to thrust the fingers strait, stiff, open, and very quick, into the pocket, and so closing them, hook what can be held between them.' N.B. This was taken from a book written many years ago: doubtless the art of picking pockets, like all others, must have been much improved since that time.
Wikipedia 
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A fork is a tool for eating. It has points called "tines". Most forks have three or four tines. Some cooking-forks have two tines. The tines help you pick up your food. Forks are useful only for eating solid food. For example, a fork would be useless for eating soup. Most forks are made of metal. Some are made of plastic or wood.
The word "fork" is also used to describe a two choices of course. A fork in the road would be a split in the road leading in two (or more) directions.
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