Fork

Noun

 * 1) A pronged tool having a long straight handle, used for digging, lifting, throwing etc.
 * 2)  A gallows.
 * 3) A utensil with spikes used to put solid food into the mouth, or to hold food down while cutting.
 * 4) A tuning fork.
 * 5) An intersection in a road or path where one road is split into two.
 * 6) * When you come to a fork in the road, take it - Yogi Berra
 * 7) A point where a waterway, such as a river, splits and goes two (or more) different directions.
 * 8)  A point in time where one has to make a decision between two life paths.
 * 9)  The simultaneous attack of two adversary pieces with one single attacking piece (especially a knight).
 * 10)  A splitting-up of an existing process into itself and a child process executing parts of the same program.
 * 11)  An event where development of some free software or open-source software is split into two or more separate projects.
 * 12)  Crotch.
 * 13)  A forklift.
 * 14) * Are you qualified to drive a fork?
 * 15) The individual blades of a forklift.
 * 16) In a bicycle, the portion holding the front wheel, allowing the rider to steer and balance.

Derived terms

 * chork
 * pitchfork
 * tuning fork
 * fork in the road
 * spork

Related terms

 * denture
 * trident, a three-pronged spear somewhat resembling a pitchfork

Verb

 * 1)  To move with a fork (as hay or food).
 * 2)  To spawn a new child process in some sense duplicating the existing process.
 * 3)  To split a (software) project into several projects.
 * 4)  To kick someone in the crotch.

Derived terms

 * fork bomb
 * fork off
 * fork out
 * fork over

Adjectives for Fork
gesticulating; triple; excoriated; soft; tender; furrowy; vibrating; tuning.

Verbs for Fork
barb with—; brandish—; cast with—; convey on—; draw with—; hook with—; impale on—; jab with—; lift—; pursue with —; stab with—; —pierces; —prongs; — spears; —transfers.

Thesaurus
L, V, affluent, angle, angle off, apex, bail, bayou, bend, bifurcate, bifurcation, bight, billabong, bine, bisect, bough, bowl, branch, branch out, branchedness, branchiness, bucket, burgeon, by two, cant, cast, catapult, chevron, chuck, chunk, cleave, coin, confluent, confluent stream, corner, crank, crook, crotch, crotchet, crutch, cup, cut in two, cutlery, dart, dash, deadwood, decant, deflection, delta, dendritic drainage pattern, dichotomize, dimidiate, dining utensils, dip, dish, dish out, dish up, divaricate, divide, dogleg, effluent, elbow, ell, fan, feeder, fire, fission, flagellum, flat silver, flatware, fling, flip, forks, frond, furcate, furcation, furcula, furculum, groin, halve, heave, hollow ware, hook, hurl, hurtle, in half, inflection, inguen, jerk, knee, knives, ladle, lance, launch, let fly, limb, lob, nook, offshoot, pass, peg, pelt, pitch, pitchfork, point, pour, prong, put, put the shot, quoin, ramage, ramification, ramify, runner, sarment, scion, scoop, serve, shoot, shovel, shy, silver, silver plate, silverware, sling, slip, snap, spade, spear, split in two, spoon, spoons, spray, sprig, sprit, sprout, stainless-steel ware, stem, stolon, subdivide, sucker, swerve, switch, tablespoon, tableware, teaspoon, tendril, thallus, throw, tilt, toss, transect, tributary, trident, trifurcate, twig, veer, vertex, wishbone, zag, zig, zigzag

Etymology
From forke:, from  force:, forca:, from, from  furca:, of uncertain origin. The word was later reinforced by  forque: ( = Old French forche: > French fourche:), from the Latin. Cognate also with vork:,  fork:,  Forke:. Displaced native gafol:, geafel:, geafle:, from.

In its primary sense of "fork", furca appears to be derived from, although the development of the -c- is difficult to explain. In other senses this derivation is unlikely. For these, perhaps it is connected to, from. If so, this would relate the word to forclas:,  fercal:,  forkr:,  fork:,  fork:.

Noun

 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian: pirun
 * Arabic: شوكة, مذراة
 * Morocco:
 * Armenian:
 * Belarusian: відэлец, вілка
 * Bosnian: viljuška,
 * Breton: fourchetez
 * Bulgarian: вилица, вилка
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 叉子
 * Crimean Tatar:
 * Croatian:, viljuška
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: काँटा or कांटा
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Irish:, gabhlóg
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: フォーク
 * Korean:


 * Kurdish: چه‌تاڵ
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: dakša
 * Lithuanian:
 * Luxembourgish: Forschette
 * Macedonian: ,
 * Maltese: furketta
 * North Frisian:
 * Persian: چنگال
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: forc, greimire
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: виљушка, вилица
 * Roman: viljuška, vilica
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Sotho: fereko
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Taos:
 * Thai:
 * Ukrainian: вилка, виделка
 * Urdu: کانٹا
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh: ,
 * West Frisian:
 * Yiddish:


 * Afrikaans:, tuinvurk
 * Armenian:
 * Bosnian:
 * Breton: forc'h
 * Catalan:
 * Croatian:
 * Danish:, ,
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Greek: δικράνι
 * Ido:
 * Italian:


 * Japanese:
 * Korean: 쇠스랑
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: dakša
 * Lithuanian: šakės
 * Macedonian:
 * Maltese: furkettun
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbian: виле
 * Slovak: vidly
 * Sotho: fereko
 * Swedish:


 * Afrikaans:
 * Catalan: bifurcació
 * Chinese Characters: 歧
 * Czech:
 * Danish: skillevej, vejgaffel
 * Dutch: ,
 * Estonian: lahk, teelahk
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * German: ,
 * Greek: δίστρατο
 * Italian: ,


 * Japanese: 分岐点 (ぶんきてん)
 * Korean: 갈림길
 * Latin:
 * Lithuanian: išsišakojimas
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: bifurcaţie
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: gobhal
 * Slovak: obojsmerné spojenie
 * Spanish: bifurcación
 * Swedish:, förgrening


 * Dutch: ,
 * Estonian: lahk, jõelahk
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * German: ,
 * Greek: δίχαλο


 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: 分水
 * Portuguese:
 * Scottish Gaelic: gobhal
 * Swedish:, förgrening


 * Danish:
 * Estonian:
 * German:
 * Icelandic:
 * Irish: gabhal


 * Latvian: dakša
 * Lithuanian: dvišakuma
 * Portuguese: bifurcação
 * Russian:
 * Swedish:


 * Dutch: afsplitsing,
 * German:


 * Italian: esecuzione di una fork
 * Japanese: フォーク


 * Czech: odnož
 * Dutch:


 * Finnish: forkki, forkkaus
 * German:


 * Dutch:


 * Scottish Gaelic: gobhal


 * Irish: gabhal



Verb

 * Danish:
 * Dutch: met een vork eten, prikken


 * Finnish:
 * German: ,


 * Dutch: afsplitsen,
 * Finnish: forkata


 * German:, ,


 * Dutch: afsplitsen


 * German: ,

Etymology
From forkr:, from  furca:.

Noun

 * 1) (two-pronged) fork, pitchfork

Noun

 * 1)  A fork, splitting-up of an existing process into itself and a child process executing parts of the same program.

Anagrams

 * korf