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   Fork

   /fôrk/

   

   noun

   • 1. an implement with two or more prongs used for lifting food to the mouth or holding it when cutting.
   • ▪ a pronged tool used for digging or lifting in a garden or farm.
   • 2. the point where something, especially a road or river, divides into two parts: "turn right at the next fork"
   • ▪ either of the two parts where a road or river divides: "the left fork goes onto the village"
   • 3. a unit consisting of a pair of supports in which a bicycle or motorcycle wheel revolves.
   • 4. a flash of forked lightning.
   • 5. a simultaneous attack on two or more pieces by one piece.

   verb

   • 1. (especially of a road or other route) divide into two parts: "the place where the road forks"
   • ▪ take or constitute one part or the other at the point where a road or other route divides: "a minor road forked left"
   • 2. dig, lift, or manipulate (something) with a fork: "fork in some compost"
   • 3. attack (two pieces) simultaneously with one piece: "he has forked my bishop and knight"

   Word Origin Old Englishforca, force (denoting a farm implement), based on Latin furca ‘pitchfork, forked stick’; reinforced in Middle English by Anglo-Norman French furke (also from Latin furca).

   Derivatives

   • 1. forkful noun

   Scrabble Points: 11

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   What does a fork mean?

   • : an implement with two or more prongs used especially for taking up (as in eating), pitching, or digging : a forked part, tool, or piece of equipment : a division into branches or the place where something divides into branches : one of the branches into which something forks

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   What is a fork used for?

   • Fork definition: an instrument having two or more prongs or tines, for holding, lifting, etc., such as a utensil for handling food or any of various agricultural tools. See examples of FORK used in a sentence.

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   How do you use a fork?

   • A fork is a tool used for eating food which has a row of three or four long metal points at the end. ...knives and forks. If you fork food into your mouth or onto a plate, you put it there using a fork. Ann forked some fish into her mouth. [V n + into/onto] He forked an egg onto a piece of bread and folded it into a sandwich. [V n + into/onto]

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   What is a fork in a river?

   • 2. the point at which a road, river etc divides into two or more branches or divisions. a fork in the river. 3. one of the branches or divisions of a road, river etc into which the road, river etc divides. Take the left fork (of the road).

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   A fork is a utensil with two or more prongs, used for eating or serving food, or a tool with two or more prongs, used for lifting, digging, etc. A fork can also refer to a bifurcation or separation into two or more branches or parts, or a point or part at which such a bifurcation occurs.

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    noun. the act of branching out or dividing into branches. synonyms: branching, forking, ramification. see more. verb. divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork. “The road forks ” synonyms: branch, furcate, ramify, separate. branch, ramify. grow and send out branches or branch-like structures.