Pronunciations (4)
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/fɔːk/
Pronunciation notes
- Received-Pronunciation
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/fɔɹk/
Pronunciation notes
- General-American
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[fo̞ɹk]
Pronunciation notes
- General-American
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/fo(ː)ɹk/
Noun
Any of several types of pronged (tined) tools (physical tools), as follows: A utensil with spikes used to put solid food into the mouth, or to hold food down while cutting, or for serving food.
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Use a fork to hold the potato while you cut it.
Any of several types of pronged (tined) tools (physical tools), as follows: 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.
Any of several types of pronged (tined) tools (physical tools), as follows: 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. Such a pronged tool having a long straight handle, generally for two-handed use, as used for digging, lifting, mucking, pitching, etc.
Any of several types of pronged (tined) tools (physical tools), as follows: A tuning fork.
A fork in the road, as follows: An intersection in a road or path where one road is split into two.
Usage- physical
- from the tool shape
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Turn left at the fork in the road.
A fork in the road, as follows: A decision point.
Usage- Figurative
- 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.
Usage- from the tool shape
- Antonyms
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.
Usage- metonymically
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a thunderbolt with three forks
this fork of the river dries up during droughts
A point in time where one has to make a decision between two life paths.
Usage- Figurative
A point in time where one has to make a decision between two life paths. Either of the (figurative) paths thus taken.
Usage- Figurative
- metonymically
(software development, content management, data management) A departure from having a single source of truth (SSOT), sometimes intentionally but usually unintentionally. Any of the pieces/versions (of software, content, or data sets) thus created.
Usage- Figurative
- metonymically
- from a physical fork
- Antonyms
- single source of truth, SSOT
(software development, content management, data management) A departure from having a single source of truth (SSOT), sometimes intentionally but usually unintentionally. 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.
Usage- Figurative
- from a physical fork
(software development, content management, data management) A departure from having a single source of truth (SSOT), sometimes intentionally but usually unintentionally. 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. Any of the software projects resulting from the launch of such separate software development efforts based upon a copy of the original project.
Usage- Figurative
- from a physical fork
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LibreOffice is a fork of OpenOffice.
(software development, content management, data management) A departure from having a single source of truth (SSOT), sometimes intentionally but usually unintentionally. The splitting of the coverage of a topic (within a corpus of content) into two or more pieces.
Usage- Figurative
- from a physical fork
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A content fork may be intentional (as from a schism about goals) or unintentional (merely from a lack of reorganizing, so far).
(software development, content management, data management) A departure from having a single source of truth (SSOT), sometimes intentionally but usually unintentionally. The splitting of the coverage of a topic (within a corpus of content) into two or more pieces. Any of the pieces/versions of content thus created.
Usage- Figurative
- from a physical fork
(software development, content management, data management) A departure from having a single source of truth (SSOT), sometimes intentionally but usually unintentionally. A split in a blockchain resulting from protocol disagreements, or a branch of the blockchain resulting from such a split.
Usage- Figurative
- from a physical fork
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Known as a “fork”, the new version of bitcoin (dubbed Bitcoin XT) would support more transactions per hour, at the cost of increasing the amount of memory required to hold a full database of all the bitcoin transactions throughout history, known as the blockchain.
The simultaneous attack of two adversary pieces with one single attacking piece (especially a knight).
The crotch.
Usage- UK usage
- Vulgar
A forklift.
Usage- Colloquial
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Are you qualified to drive a fork?
Either of the blades of a forklift (or, in plural, the set of blades), on which the goods to be raised are loaded.
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Get those forks tilted back more or you're gonna lose that pallet!
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.
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The fork can be equipped with a suspension on mountain bikes.
The upper front brow of a saddle bow, connected in the tree by the two saddle bars to the cantle on the other end.
A set of data associated with an individual file in some file systems.
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resource fork
HFS+ uses forks to store file data. Generally there are two types of forks available in HFS+, the data fork and the resource fork.
A gallows.
Usage- Obsolete
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They had run through all punishments, and just 'scaped the fork
Verb
To divide into two or more branches or copies.
Usage- Transitive or intransitive
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A road, a tree, or a stream forks.
To divide into two or more branches or copies. To spawn a new child process by duplicating the existing process.
Usage- Transitive or intransitive
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A parent process forks a child process, which in turn can fork other processes.
It appears that the shell forks a copy of itself and that this copy then forks to make each of the previous processes in the pipeline.
To divide into two or more branches or copies. To launch a separate software development effort based upon a modified copy of an existing software project, especially in free and open-source software.
Usage- Transitive or intransitive
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For various reasons, McCool's server project subsequently forked, leading to the development of the Apache Web Server.
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Google forked WebKit to create the Blink project in April 2013 because they wanted to make larger-scale changes to WebKit to fit their own needs that did not align well with the WebKit project itself.
To divide into two or more branches or copies. To create a copy of a distributed version control repository.
Usage- Transitive or intransitive
- Transitive
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In this model, anyone can fork an existing repository and push changes to their personal fork.
To move with a fork (as hay or food).
Usage- Transitive
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forking the sheaves on the high-laden cart
Brianna curbed her pang of envy as she forked her plain, low-fat, crouton-free salad niçoise into her mouth and shook her head.
To apply a fork to.
Usage- Transitive
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forking the soil
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They delight in combing, or rather forking it, using for that purpose a large wooden fork with four diverging prongs, which answers the purpose of separating and arranging the long tangled, frizzly mass of cranial vegetation much better than any comb could do.
To kick someone in the crotch.
Usage- UK usage
- Transitive
To shoot into blades, as corn does.
Usage- Intransitive
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I have known them couched up a Yard thick cover’d with an Hair-cloth and ſtirred only once a day, the Maltſer being always careful to throw the frozen outſides into the middle till the Corn begin to fork and warm in the Couch; after which time if it be not laid too thin, it will not eaſily freeze.
To simultaneously attack two opposing pieces with a single attacking piece.
Noun
The bottom of a sump into which the water of a mine drains.
Verb
To bale a shaft dry.
Usage- Transitive
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Forking the water, is drawing it all out; and when it is done, they say, “the mine or the water is forked;” and “the engine is in fork.”
Noun
a utensil with two or more prongs, used for serving or eating food
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the act of branching out or dividing into branches
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the region of the angle formed by the junction of two branches
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they took the south fork
he climbed into the crotch of a tree
an agricultural tool used for lifting or digging; has a handle and metal prongs
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the angle formed by the inner sides of the legs where they join the human trunk
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Verb
lift with a pitchfork
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pitchfork hay
place under attack with one's own pieces, of two enemy pieces
divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork
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The road forks
shape like a fork
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She forked her fingers