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fork
(fôrk)n.
1. A utensil with two or more prongs, used for eating or serving food.
2. An implement with two or more prongs used for raising, carrying, piercing, or digging.
3.
a. A bifurcation or separation into two or more branches or parts.
b. The point at which such a bifurcation or separation occurs: a fork in a road.
c. One of the branches of such a bifurcation or separation: the right fork. See Synonyms at branch.
4. Games An attack by one chess piece on two pieces at the same time.
v. forked, fork·ing, forks
v.tr.
1. To raise, carry, pitch, or pierce with a fork.
2. To give the shape of a fork to (one's fingers, for example).
3. Games To launch an attack on (two chess pieces).
4. Informal To pay. Used with over, out, or up: forked over $80 for front-row seats; forked up the money owed.
v.intr.
1. To divide into two or more branches: The river forks here.
2.
a. To use a fork, as in working.
b. To turn at or travel along a fork.
[Middle English forke, digging fork, from Old English forca and from Old North French forque, both from Latin furca.]
fork′er n.
fork′ful′ n.
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fork
(fɔːk)n
1. (Tools) a small usually metal implement consisting of two, three, or four long thin prongs on the end of a handle, used for lifting food to the mouth or turning it in cooking, etc
2. (Tools) an agricultural tool consisting of a handle and three or four metal prongs, used for lifting, digging, etc
3. a pronged part of any machine, device, etc
4. (of a road, river, etc)
a. a division into two or more branches
b. the point where the division begins
c. such a branch
5. chiefly US the main tributary of a river
6. (Chess & Draughts) chess a position in which two pieces are forked
vb
7. (Tools) (tr) to pick up, dig, etc, with a fork
8. (Chess & Draughts) (tr) chess to place (two enemy pieces) under attack with one of one's own pieces, esp a knight
9. (tr) to make into the shape of a fork
10. (intr) to be divided into two or more branches
11. to take one or other branch at a fork in a road, river, etc
[Old English forca, from Latin furca]
ˈforkful n
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fork
(fɔrk)n.
1. an instrument having two or more prongs or tines, for holding, lifting, etc., esp. an implement for handling food.
2. something resembling this in form.
3. a division into branches.
4. the point or part at which a thing, as a river or a road, divides into branches.
5. either of the branches into which a thing divides.
6. a principal tributary of a river.
v.t. 7. to pierce, raise, pitch, dig, etc., with a fork.
8. to make into the form of a fork.
9. to maneuver so as to place (two opposing chess pieces) under simultaneous attack by the same piece.
v.i. 10. to divide into branches, as a road.
11. to turn as indicated at a fork in a road, path, etc.
12. Informal. fork over, out, or up, to deliver; pay; hand over.
[before 1000; Middle English forke, Old English forca < Latin furca fork, gallows, yoke]
fork′less, adj.
fork′like`, adj.
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fork
Past participle: forked
Gerund: forking
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| Noun | 1. |  fork - cutlery used for serving and eating foodcarving fork - a large fork used in carving cooked meat eating utensil, cutlery - tableware implements for cutting and eating food prong - a pointed projection salad fork - a fork intended for eating salads tablefork - a fork for eating at a dining table tine - prong on a fork or pitchfork or antler toasting fork - long-handled fork for cooking or toasting frankfurters or bread etc. (especially over an open fire) |
| 2. | fork - the act of branching out or dividing into branches division - the act or process of dividing bifurcation - the act of splitting into two branches trifurcation - the act of splitting into three branches divarication - branching at a wide angle fibrillation - act or process of forming fibrils | |
| 3. | fork - 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" ramification, branch, leg - a part of a forked or branching shape; "he broke off one of the branches" | |
| 4. | fork - an agricultural tool used for lifting or digging; has a handle and metal prongs hayfork - a long-handled fork for turning or lifting hay prong - a pointed projection tool - an implement used in the practice of a vocation | |
| 5. |  fork - the angle formed by the inner sides of the legs where they join the human trunkbody, organic structure, physical structure - the entire structure of an organism (an animal, plant, or human being); "he felt as if his whole body were on fire" angle - the space between two lines or planes that intersect; the inclination of one line to another; measured in degrees or radians | |
| Verb | 1. | fork - lift with a pitchfork; "pitchfork hay" lift - take hold of something and move it to a different location; "lift the box onto the table" |
| 2. | fork - place under attack with one's own pieces, of two enemy pieces chess game, chess - a board game for two players who move their 16 pieces according to specific rules; the object is to checkmate the opponent's king | |
| 3. | fork - divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork; "The road forks" branch, ramify - grow and send out branches or branch-like structures; "these plants ramify early and get to be very large" twig - branch out in a twiglike manner; "The lightning bolt twigged in several directions" bifurcate - divide into two branches; "The road bifurcated" trifurcate - divide into three; "The road trifurcates at the bridge" diverge - move or draw apart; "The two paths diverge here" | |
| 4. | fork - shape like a fork; "She forked her fingers" |
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fork
verb branch, part, separate, split, divide, diverge, subdivide, branch off, go separate ways, bifurcate Beyond the village the road forked.
fork out pay, pay up, cough up (informal), shell out (informal), remit He'll have to fork out for private school fees.
Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002
fork
nounverbphrasal verb
fork out or over
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Translations
تَفَرُّع، تَشَعُّبشَوْكَةُ الطَّعَامشَوْكَهمَفْرَق، مُفْتَرَقمَفْرَق، مُفْتَرَق طُرُق
vidličkarozcestínabíratodbočitodbočující cesta
gaffelvejgaffelgaflegrebhøtyv
hangharkkahvel
haarukkahaarukoidajoenhaaratalikkoforkkaus
vilevilica
vasvillával hányvilla
gaffallkvíslastmoka meî gafli eîa heykvíslafleggjaribeygja inn afleggjara
フォーク
포크
biviumfurca
šakutėdvišakasišsišakojęsišsišakojimaskabinti šakėmis
atzarojumscelt ar dakšāmdakšadakšasdakšiņa
vorkafsplitsenafsplitsingforkforken
garfobifurcaçãoforcado
furculiţă
vidličkanabrať/prehadzovať vidlamirázcestierozdvojovať sa
vilicerazcepvile
gaffelgrep
uma
ส้อมทานอาหาร
çatalçatal ağızçatalla kaldırmakçatallaşmaksapmak
nĩa
fork
[fɔːk]A. N (at table) → tenedor m (Agr) → horca f, horquilla f; (in road) → bifurcación f; (in river) → horcajo m; [of tree] → horcadura f
B. VT (Agr) (also fork over) → cargar con la horca
fork out
A. VT + ADV [+ money, cash] → aflojar
B. VI + ADV → pagar
fork over VT + ADV = fork B
fork up VT + ADV
2. = fork out A
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
fork
[ˈfɔːrk] n
(for eating) → fourchette f
(for gardening) → fourche f
[road] → bifurcation f
[railways] → embranchement m
vi
[road] → bifurquer
fork out
(= pay)Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
fork
n
(= implement) → Gabel f
(in tree) → Astgabel f; (in road, railway) → Gabelung f; take the left fork → nehmen Sie die linke Abzweigung
vt
ground → mit einer Gabel umgraben; (= turn over) hay → wenden; to fork hay onto a cart → Heu mit einer Gabel auf einen Wagen werfen
food → gabeln (inf)
vi (roads, branches) → sich gabeln; to fork (to the) right (road) → nach rechts abzweigen; (driver) → nach rechts abbiegen
fork
:fork-lift (truck) (inf)
n → Gabelstapler m
fork luncheon
n (Brit) → Gabelfrühstück nt
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
fork
[fɔːk]1. n (for eating) → forchetta; (for gardening) → forca, forcone m; (in road) → bivio, biforcazione f
2. vi (road) → biforcarsi
fork out
1. vt + adv (fam) (money, cash) → sborsare, tirare fuori
2. vi + adv → tirare fuori i soldi, pagare
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
fork
(foːk) noun1. an instrument with two or more pointed pieces for piercing and lifting things. We usually eat with a knife, fork and spoon.
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).
verb1. (of a road, river etc) to divide into (usually two) branches or divisions. The main road forks here.
2. (of a person or vehicle) to follow one of the branches or divisions into which a road has divided. The car forked left.
3. to lift or move with a fork. The farmer forked the hay.
forked adjective divided into two branches or divisions. A snake has a forked tongue.
fork-lift truck a small power-driven machine with an arrangement of steel prongs which can lift, raise up high and carry heavy things and stack them where required.
fork out to pay or give especially unwillingly. You have to fork out (money) for so many charities these days.
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.
fork
→ شَوْكَةُ الطَّعَام vidlička gaffel Gabel πιρούνι tenedor haarukka fourchette vilica forchetta フォーク 포크 vork gaffel widelec garfo вилка gaffel ส้อมทานอาหาร çatal nĩa 叉Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009
fork
n. tenedor; bifurcación.
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