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Fork

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.

Spork

A spork is a hybrid form of cutlery taking the form of a spoon-like shallow scoop with two to four fork-like tines. Spork-like utensils, such as the terrapin fork or ice cream fork, have been manufactured since the late 19th century; patents for spork-like designs date back to at least 1874.

Fork

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

Spork

A spoon-shaped eating utensil with short tines at the tip.

Fork

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

An eating utensil having a spoonlike bowl and tines.

Fork

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

Spork

An eating utensil shaped like a spoon, the bowl of which is divided into tines like those of a fork, and so has the function of both implements; some sporks have a serrated edge so they can also function as a knife.

Fork

The point at which such a bifurcation or separation occurs
A fork in a road.

Spork

(transitive) To move or impale (food etc.) with a spork.
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Fork

One of the branches of such a bifurcation or separation
The right fork.

Spork

Trademark for a plastic eating utensil that has both tines and a bowl like a spoon

Fork

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

Fork

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

Fork

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

Fork

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

Fork

(Informal) To pay. Used with over, out, or up
Forked over $80 for front-row seats.
Forked up the money owed.

Fork

To divide into two or more branches
The river forks here.

Fork

To use a fork, as in working.

Fork

To turn at or travel along a fork.

Fork

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

Fork

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

Fork

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.

Fork

A tuning fork.

Fork

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

Fork

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

Fork

(figurative) A fork.

Fork

(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.

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.
A thunderbolt with three forks
This fork of the river dries up during droughts

Fork

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

Fork

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

Fork

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

Fork

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

Fork

(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.

Fork

The splitting of the coverage of a topic (within a corpus of content) into two or more pieces.
A content fork may be intentional (as from a schism about goals) or unintentional (merely from a lack of reorganizing, so far).

Fork

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

Fork

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

Fork

The crotch. en

Fork

(colloquial) A forklift.
Are you qualified to drive a fork?

Fork

Either of the blades of a forklift (or, in plural, the set of blades), on which the goods to be raised are loaded.
Get those forks tilted back more or you're gonna lose that pallet!

Fork

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.
The fork can be equipped with a suspension on mountain bikes.

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.

Fork

(obsolete) A gallows.

Fork

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

Fork

(ambitransitive) To divide into two or more branches or copies.
A road, a tree, or a stream forks.

Fork

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

Fork

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

Fork

To create a copy of a distributed version control repository.

Fork

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

Fork

To kick someone in the crotch.

Fork

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

Fork

(transitive) fuck

Fork

To bale a shaft dry.

Fork

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.

Fork

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

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.
Let it fall . . . though the fork invadeThe region of my heart.
A thunderbolt with three forks.

Fork

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

The gibbet.

Fork

To shoot into blades, as corn.
The corn beginneth to fork.

Fork

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

Fork

To raise, or pitch with a fork, as hay; to dig or turn over with a fork, as the soil.
Forking the sheaves on the high-laden cart.

Fork

Cutlery used for serving and eating food

Fork

The act of branching out or dividing into branches

Fork

A part of a forked or branching shape;
He broke off one of the branches
They took the south fork

Fork

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

Fork

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

Fork

Lift with a pitchfork;
Pitchfork hay

Fork

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

Fork

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

Fork

Shape like a fork;
She forked her fingers

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