Cork vs. Fork — What's the Difference?

The lightweight elastic outer bark of the cork oak, used especially for bottle closures, insulation, floats, and crafts.

In cutlery or kitchenware, a fork (from Latin: furca 'pitchfork') is a utensil, now usually made of metal, whose long handle terminates in a head that branches into several narrow and often slightly curved tines with which one can spear foods either to hold them to cut with a knife or to lift them to the mouth.

Something made of cork, especially a bottle stopper.

A utensil with two or more prongs, used for eating or serving food.

A bottle stopper made of other material, such as plastic.

An implement with two or more prongs used for raising, carrying, piercing, or digging.

A small float used on a fishing line or net to buoy up the line or net or to indicate when a fish bites.

A bifurcation or separation into two or more branches or parts.

(Botany)A nonliving, water-resistant protective tissue that is formed on the outside of the cork cambium in the woody stems and roots of many seed plants. Also called phellem.

The point at which such a bifurcation or separation occurs

To stop or seal with or as if with a cork.

One of the branches of such a bifurcation or separation

To restrain or check; hold back

(Games) An attack by one chess piece on two pieces at the same time.

To blacken with burnt cork.

To raise, carry, pitch, or pierce with a fork.

(uncountable) The bark of the cork oak, which is very light and porous and used for making bottle stoppers, flotation devices, and insulation material.

To give the shape of a fork to (one's fingers, for example).

A bottle stopper made from this or any other material.

(Games) To launch an attack on (two chess pieces).

An angling float, also traditionally made of oak cork.

(Informal) To pay. Used with over, out, or up

The cork oak, Quercus suber.

To divide into two or more branches

(botany) The dead protective tissue between the bark and cambium in woody plants, with suberin deposits making it impervious to gasses and water.

To use a fork, as in working.

An aerialist maneuver involving a rotation where the rider goes heels over head, with the board overhead.

To turn at or travel along a fork.

(transitive) To seal or stop up, especially with a cork stopper.

Any of several types of pronged (tined) tools (physical tools), as follows:

(transitive) To blacken (as) with a burnt cork.

A utensil with spikes used to put solid food into the mouth, or to hold food down while cutting.

To leave the cork in a bottle after attempting to uncork it.

Any of several types of pronged tools for use on farms, in fields, or in the garden or lawn, such as a smaller hand fork for weeding or a larger one for turning over the soil.

To fill with cork.

A tuning fork.

To tamper with (a bat) by drilling out part of the head and filling the cavity with cork or similar light, compressible material.

(by abstraction, from the tool shape) A fork in the road, as follows:

To injure through a blow; to induce a haematoma.

(physical) An intersection in a road or path where one road is split into two.

(fishing) To position one's drift net just outside of another person's net, thereby intercepting and catching all the fish that would have gone into that person's net.

(figurative) A fork.

To perform such a maneuver.

(by abstraction, from the tool shape) A point where a waterway, such as a river or other stream, splits and flows into two (or more) different directions.

Having the property of a head over heels rotation.

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.

The outer layer of the bark of the cork tree (Quercus Suber), of which stoppers for bottles and casks are made. See Cutose.

A point in time where one has to make a decision between two life paths.

A stopper for a bottle or cask, cut out of cork.

(metonymically) Either of the (figurative) paths thus taken.

A mass of tabular cells formed in any kind of bark, in greater or less abundance.

Process (software development, content management, data management) A departure from having a single source of truth (SSOT), sometimes intentionally but usually unintentionally.

To stop with a cork, as a bottle.

(metonymically) Any of the pieces/versions (of software, content, or data sets) thus created.

To furnish or fit with cork; to raise on cork.

(software) The launch of one or more separate software development efforts based upon a modified copy of an existing project, especially in free and open-source software.

Outer bark of the cork oak; used for stoppers for bottles etc.

The splitting of the coverage of a topic (within a corpus of content) into two or more pieces.

(botany) outer tissue of bark; a protective layer of dead cells

(cryptocurrency) A split in a blockchain resulting from protocol disagreements, or a branch of the blockchain resulting from such a split.

A port city in southern Ireland

(chess) The simultaneous attack of two adversary pieces with one single attacking piece (especially a knight).

The plug in the mouth of a bottle (especially a wine bottle)

The crotch. en

A small float usually made of cork; attached to a fishing line

(colloquial) A forklift.

Close a bottle with a cork

Either of the blades of a forklift (or, in plural, the set of blades), on which the goods to be raised are loaded.

Stuff with cork;

In a bicycle or motorcycle, the portion of the frameset holding the front wheel, allowing the rider to steer and balance, also called front fork.

Horse tack The upper front brow of a saddle bow, connected in the tree by the two saddle bars to the cantle on the other end.

(obsolete) A gallows.

(mining) The bottom of a sump into which the water of a mine drains.

(ambitransitive) To divide into two or more branches or copies.

To spawn a new child process by duplicating the existing process.

To launch a separate software development effort based upon a modified copy of an existing software project, especially in free and open-source software.

To create a copy of a distributed version control repository.

(transitive) To move with a fork (as hay or food).

To kick someone in the crotch.

(intransitive) To shoot into blades, as corn does.

(transitive) fuck

To bale a shaft dry.

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 for piercing, holding, taking up, or pitching anything.

Anything furcate or like a fork in shape, or furcate at the extremity; as, a tuning fork.

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.

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.

The gibbet.

To shoot into blades, as corn.

To divide into two or more branches; as, a road, a tree, or a stream forks.

To raise, or pitch with a fork, as hay; to dig or turn over with a fork, as the soil.

Cutlery used for serving and eating food

The act of branching out or dividing into branches

A part of a forked or branching shape;

An agricultural tool used for lifting or digging; has a handle and metal prongs

The angle formed by the inner sides of the legs where they join the human trunk

Lift with a pitchfork;

Place under attack with one's own pieces, of two enemy pieces

Divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork;

Shape like a fork;