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fork

UK /fɔːk/US /fɔɹk/

noun28

  1. an eating tool with a handle and sharp points at one end, used to lift food to the mouth
  2. Any of several types of pronged (tined) tools (physical tools).
  3. Any of several types of pronged tools for use on farms, in fields, or in the garden or lawn, such as a smaller hand fork for weeding or a larger one for turning over the soil.
  4. Such a pronged tool having a long straight handle, generally for two-handed use, as used for digging, lifting, mucking, pitching, etc.
  5. A tuning fork.
  6. A fork in the road.
  7. An intersection in a road or path where one road is split into two.
  8. A point where a waterway, such as a river or other stream, splits and flows into two (or more) different directions.
  9. (figurative) A decision point.
  10. (figurative) A point in time where one has to make a decision between two life paths.
  11. 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.
  12. (figurative) Either of the (figurative) paths thus taken.
  13. (software development, content management, data management) A departure from having a single source of truth (SSOT), sometimes intentionally but usually unintentionally.
  14. Any of the pieces/versions (of software, content, or data sets) thus created.
  15. The launch of one or more separate software development efforts based upon a modified copy of an existing project, especially in free and open-source software.
  16. Any of the software projects resulting from the launch of such separate software development efforts based upon a copy of the original project.
    • LibreOffice is a fork of OpenOffice.
  17. The splitting of the coverage of a topic (within a corpus of content) into two or more pieces.
  18. Any of the pieces/versions of content thus created.
  19. A split in a blockchain resulting from protocol disagreements, or a branch of the blockchain resulting from such a split.
  20. In a bicycle or motorcycle, the portion of the frameset holding the front wheel, allowing the rider to steer and balance, also called front fork.
  21. (informal) A forklift.
  22. Either of the blades of a forklift (or, in plural, the set of blades), on which the goods to be raised are loaded.
  23. The simultaneous attack of two adversary pieces with one single attacking piece (especially a knight).
  24. A set of data associated with an individual file in some file systems.
  25. (UK, vulgar) The crotch.
  26. The upper front brow of a saddle bow, connected in the tree by the two saddle bars to the cantle on the other end.
  27. The bottom of a sump into which the water of a mine drains.
  28. (no longer used) A gallows.

verb11

  1. To divide into two or more branches or copies.
  2. To spawn a new child process by duplicating the existing process.
  3. To launch a separate software development effort based upon a modified copy of an existing software project, especially in free and open-source software.
  4. To create a copy of a distributed version control repository.
  5. To move with a fork (as hay or food).
  6. To apply a fork to.
  7. To simultaneously attack two opposing pieces with a single attacking piece.
  8. (euphemistic) Euphemistic form of fuck.
  9. (UK, slang) To kick someone in the crotch.
  10. To shoot into blades, as corn does.
  11. To bale a shaft dry.
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forked · forking · forks

Phrases with fork

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