fork

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UK /fɔːk/ US /fɔɹk/

noun 6verb 6

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(noun.) tool for eating

ADJ

toasting

VERB + FORK

pick up | put down | use

PREP

on a/the ~

He balanced a mouthful of pasta on his fork before eating it.

with a ~

She picked up the salad with a fork and took a bite.

PHRASES

a knife and fork

At dinner, she carefully arranged a knife and fork beside each plate.

(noun.) place where sth divides into two parts

ADJ

left/left-hand, right/right-hand

VERB + FORK

take

When you reach the junction, take the left fork toward the village.

PREP

at a/the ~

When you reach the fork in the path, take the right side toward the village.

~ in

The small bird built its nest in the fork where two branches met.

Definitions

noun

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

A fork in the road, as follows:

verb

To divide into two or more branches or copies.

A road, a tree, or a stream forks.

To divide into two or more branches or copies.

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.

For various reasons, McCool's server project subsequently forked, leading to the development of the Apache Web Server.

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.

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).

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.

noun

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

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — the act of branching out or dividing into branches

noun — the angle formed by the inner sides of the legs where they j

crotch

noun — the region of the angle formed by the junction of two branch

crotch

verb — divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork

verb — lift with a pitchfork

pitchfork

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

fork over

To turn over (soil, hay, etc.) with a gardening fork.

I forked over half the allotment this morning.

fork off

to diverge into two or more separate paths.

stick a fork in something

Used to indicate that something or someone is finished, or, in a broader sense, defeated or ruined.

I'd play the last level with you, but I'm out of lives. Stick a fork in me!

you can't outrun your fork

Exercise is not enough to counteract an unhealthy diet.

Example Bank

a thunderbolt with three forks

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this fork of the river dries up during droughts

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LibreOffice is a fork of OpenOffice.

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A road, a tree, or a stream forks.

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A parent process forks a child process, which in turn can fork other processes.

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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.

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