Lexic.us

Definition of Fork

1. Verb. Lift with a pitchfork. "Pitchfork hay"

2. Noun. Cutlery used for serving and eating food.

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

4. Noun. The act of branching out or dividing into branches.

5. Verb. Divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork. "The road forks"

6. Noun. The region of the angle formed by the junction of two branches. "He climbed into the crotch of a tree"

7. Verb. Shape like a fork. "She forked her fingers"

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

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

Definition of Fork

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

2. v. i. To shoot into blades, as corn.

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

Definition of Fork

1. Noun. A pronged tool having a long straight handle, used for digging, lifting, throwing etc. ¹

2. Noun. (obsolete) A gallows. ¹

3. Noun. A utensil with spikes used to put solid food into the mouth, or to hold food down while cutting. ¹

4. Noun. A tuning fork. ¹

5. Noun. An intersection in a road or path where one road is split into two. ¹

6. Noun. A point where a waterway, such as a river, splits and goes two (or more) different directions. ¹

7. Noun. (figuratively) A point in time where one has to make a decision between two life paths. ¹

8. Noun. (chess) The simultaneous attack of two adversary pieces with one single attacking piece (especially a knight). ¹

9. Noun. (computer science) A splitting-up of an existing process into itself and a child process executing parts of the same program. ¹

10. Noun. (computer science) An event where development of some free software or open-source software is split into two or more separate projects. ¹

11. Noun. (British) Crotch. ¹

12. Noun. (colloquial) A forklift. ¹

13. Noun. The individual blades of a forklift. ¹

14. Noun. In a bicycle, the portion holding the front wheel, allowing the rider to steer and balance. ¹

15. Verb. (transitive) To move with a fork (as hay or food). ¹

16. Verb. (context: computer science) To spawn a new child process in some sense duplicating the existing process. ¹

17. Verb. (context: computer science) To split a (software) project into several projects. ¹

18. Verb. (British) To kick someone in the crotch. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Fork

1. to work with a fork (a pronged implement) [v -ED, -ING, -S] : FORKEDLY [adv]

Medical Definition of Fork

1. 1. An instrument consisting 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. 2. Anything furcate or like of a fork in shape, or furcate at the extremity; as, a tuning fork. 3. 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 invade The region of my heart." (Shak) "A thunderbolt with three forks." (Addison) 4. 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. 5. The gibbet. Fork beam A mine is said to be in fork, or an engine to "have the water in fork," when all the water is drawn out of the mine. The forks of a river or a road, the branches into which it divides, or which come together to form it; the place where separation or union takes place. 6. To shoot into blades, as corn. "The corn beginneth to fork." Origin: AS. Forc, fr. L. Furca. Cf. Fourch, Furcate. (04 Apr 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fork

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