Definitions for FORK
fɔrkfork

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. forknoun

   cutlery used for serving and eating food

2. branching, ramification, fork, forkingnoun

   the act of branching out or dividing into branches

3. fork, crotchnoun

   the region of the angle formed by the junction of two branches

   "they took the south fork"; "he climbed into the crotch of a tree"

4. forknoun

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

5. crotch, forkverb

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

6. pitchfork, forkverb

   lift with a pitchfork

   "pitchfork hay"

7. forkverb

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

8. branch, ramify, fork, furcate, separateverb

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

   "The road forks"

9. forkverb

   shape like a fork

   "She forked her fingers"

WiktionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. forknoun

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

2. forknoun

   A gallows.

3. forknoun

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

4. forknoun

   A tuning fork.

5. forknoun

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

6. forknoun

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

7. forknoun

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

8. forknoun

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

9. forknoun

   A splitting-up of an existing process into itself and a child process executing parts of the same program.

10. forkverb

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

11. forkverb

    To spawn a new child process in some sense duplicating the existing process.

12. forkverb

    To split a (software) project into several projects.

13. forkverb

    To kick someone in the crotch.

14. forknoun

    An event where development of some free software or open-source software is split into two or more separate projects.

15. forknoun

    Crotch.

16. forknoun

    A forklift.

17. forknoun

    The individual blades of a forklift.

18. forknoun

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

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

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. FORKnoun

   Etymology: furca, Latin; fforch, Welsh; fourche, French.

   1. An instrument divided at the end into two or more points or prongs, used on many occasions.

   At Midsummer down with the brembles and brakes,
   And after abroad with thy forks and thy rakes. Thomas Tusser, Husb.

   The vicar first, and after him the crew,
   With forks and staves the felon to pursue,
   Ran Coll our dog. John Dryden, Nun’s Priest.

   I dine with forks that have but two prongs. Jonathan Swift.

   2. It is sometimes used for the point of an arrow.

   The bow is bent and drawn: make from the shaft.
   —— Let it fall rather, though the fork invade
   The region of my heart. William Shakespeare, King Lear.

   3. A point of a fork.

   Several are amazed at the wisdom of the ancients that represented a thunderbolt with three forks, since nothing could have better explained its triple quality of piercing, burning, and melting. Joseph Addison, on ancient Medals.

2. To Forkverb

   To shoot into blades, as corn does out of the ground.

   Etymology: from the noun.

   The corn beginneth to fork. John Mortimer, Husbandry.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. 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.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. fork

   A fork is a utensil with two or more prongs, typically used for holding and eating food. In a broader context, it can also refer to the point where something splits into two branches or diverges, such as a fork in the road or in a tree. In programming, a fork is a point at which a software project diverges into two different directions.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Forknoun

   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 from piercing, holding, taking up, or pitching anything

2. Forknoun

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

3. Forknoun

   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

4. Forknoun

   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. Forknoun

   the gibbet

6. Forkverb

   to shoot into blades, as corn

7. Forkverb

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

8. Forkverb

   to raise, or pitch with a fork, as hay; to dig or turn over with a fork, as the soil

9. Etymology: [AS. forc, fr. L. furca. Cf. Fourch, Furcate.]

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Fork

   As a piece of cutlery or kitchenware, a fork is a tool consisting of a handle with several narrow tines on one end. The fork as an eating utensil has been a feature primarily of the West, whereas in East Asia chopsticks have been more prevalent. Today, forks are increasingly available throughout East Asia. The utensil is used to lift food to the mouth or to hold ingredients in place while cooking or cutting those things. Food can be lifted either by spearing it on the tines, or by holding it on top of the tines, which are often curved slightly. For this former function, in the American style of fork etiquette, the fork is held with tines curving up; however, in European style, the fork is held with the tines curving down. A fork is also shaped in the form of a trident but curved at the joint of the handle to the points. Though the fork's early history is obscure, the fork as a kitchen and dining utensil is generally believed to have originated in the Roman Empire, or perhaps in Ancient Greece. The personal table fork most likely originated in the Eastern Roman, or Byzantine, Empire. Its use spread to what is now the Middle East during the first millennium CE and then spread into southern Europe during the second millennium. It did not become common in northern Europe until the 18th century and was not common in North America until the 19th century.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Fork

   fork, n. an instrument with two or more prongs at the end: one of the points or divisions of anything fork-like: the bottom of a sump into which the water of a mine drains—also Forcque: (pl.) the branches into which a road or river divides, also the point of separation.—v.i. to divide into two branches: to shoot into blades, as corn.—v.t. to form as a fork: to pitch with a fork: to bale a shaft dry.—n. Fork′-chuck, a forked lathe-centre used in wood-turning.—adjs. Forked, Fork′y, shaped like a fork.—adv. Fork′edly.—ns. Fork′edness, Fork′iness; Fork′er; Fork′head, the forked end of a rod in a knuckle-joint or the like; Fork′-tail, a fish with forked tail: the kite.—Fork out, over (slang), to hand or pay over. [A.S. forca—L. furca.]

The New Hacker's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. fork

   In the open-source community, a fork is what occurs when two (or more) versions of a software package's source code are being developed in parallel which once shared a common code base, and these multiple versions of the source code have irreconcilable differences between them. This should not be confused with a development branch, which may later be folded back into the original source code base. Nor should it be confused with what happens when a new distribution of Linux or some other distribution is created, because that largely assembles pieces than can and will be used in other distributions without conflict.Forking is uncommon; in fact, it is so uncommon that individual instances loom large in hacker folklore. Notable in this class were the Emacs/XEmacs fork, the GCC/EGCS fork (later healed by a merger) and the forks among the FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD operating systems.

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1. FORK

   What does FORK stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the FORK acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. FORK

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Fork is ranked #84136 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Fork surname appeared 223 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Fork.
   
   87.8% or 196 total occurrences were White.
   8% or 18 total occurrences were Black.

Matched Categories

1. • Attack
   • Chess
   • Cutlery
   • Lift
   • Shape
   • Tool

British National Corpus

1. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'FORK' in Nouns Frequency: #2947

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How to pronounce FORK?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

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   Indian

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   Indian

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   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

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   US English

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   South African

How to say FORK in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of FORK in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of FORK in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of FORK in a Sentence

1. Hamza Taouzzale:

   What fork or knife to use was tricky at first, i never used to have more than one fork or one knife on the table, and suddenly I had three of each. It was like, what do I do ?

2. English Proverb:

   Don't dig your grave with your own knife and fork.

3. Lawrence Lustberg:

   This is not like Edward Snowden's going to fork over the money. This gives them a judgment they were going to get anyways.

4. Hope Jay:

   It was a harmless senior prank that all of us parents knew 100% what was going on, they had planned as a group, you know, 40 students, which is half the senior class… to fork the field, which is putting plastic forks in the dirt.

5. Neil Gershenfeld:

   For a smart material to be able to send out a more complex signal it needs to be nonlinear. If you hit a tuning fork twice as hard it will ring twice as loud but still at the same frequency. That's a linear response. If you hit a person twice as hard they're unlikely just to shout twice as loud. That property lets you learn more about the person than the tuning fork.

Popularity rank by frequency of use

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=FORK
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Fork
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=FORK
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/FORK
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=FORK
8. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=FORK
9. ^ The New Hacker's Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3008/3008-h/3008-h.htm#Fork
10. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
    https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html
11. ^ Usage in printed sources
    https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=FORK