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Meaning of fork in English
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/ fɔːrk /fork noun [C] ( FOOD )
Add to word list Add to word list A2 a small object with three or four points and a handle , that you use to pick up food and eat with: knife and fork She brought an extra plate and a knife and fork to the table . See also toasting fork Eskay Lim/EyeEm/GettyImages More examples Fewer examples She prodded the cake with her fork to see if it was cooked . Prick the skin of the potatoes with a fork before baking them. You'll find the knives and forks in the left-hand drawer . He prodded at the fish with his fork a few times , but he didn't eat a mouthful . Your table manners are appalling - don't you know how to use a knife and fork? SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Cutlery bread knife canteen canteen of cutlery carver cheese knife cutlery dessertspoon fish knife flatware place setting server serving setting soup spoon spoon steak knife tableware teaspoon See more results »fork noun [C] ( TOOL )
a large or small tool with a long handle and three or four points , used for digging and breaking soil into pieces : garden fork Using a garden fork, she broke up the dried soil . See also pitchfork tuning fork MarkSwallow/iStock/Getty Images Plus/GettyImages SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Gardening tools clippers dibber dibble grubber hedge trimmer hose hosepipe lawnmower motor mower mower pitchfork secateurs sickle spade spreader stick blender Strimmer watering can Weed Whacker wheelbarrow See more results »fork noun [C] ( DIVISION )
a place where a road , river , etc. divides into two parts , or either of those two parts : fork in the road When you reach a fork in the road turn right . Take the left-hand fork. Westend61/GettyImages SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Road junctions box junction circus cloverleaf corner crossing crossroad crossroads daylight hamburger interchange intersect intersection junction mini-roundabout roundabout spaghetti junction staggered junction T-junction throughabout traffic circle See more results » fork verb ukYour browser doesn't support HTML5 audio
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/ fɔːrk /fork verb ( DIVIDE )
[ I ] If a road or river forks, it divides into two parts : The hotel is near where the road forks. [ I + adv/prep ] UK to turn in one of two different directions : fork left Fork left where the road divides . fork right After 5 minutes the path forks right for the lake . SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Separating and dividing apheresis atomize bifurcate bifurcation bisect dismemberment dissociable dissociate dissociate yourself from something phrasal verb dissociation non-detachable non-dialysable parcel something out phrasal verb partible periodization unforked ungraded unjoined unmix unmixable See more results »You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:
Road junctionsfork verb ( GARDEN )
[ T ] to move or dig something with a fork SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Digging bore borer break ground idiom burrow dig dig (yourself) in phrasal verb dig someone/something out phrasal verb drill excavate fossick furrow grub something up/out phrasal verb plough plough something back/in phrasal verb pre-drill prospect sink steam shovel undrilled unearth See more results »Phrasal verbs
fork out sth fork over/up something (Definition of fork from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)fork | American Dictionary
fork noun [ C ] usYour browser doesn't support HTML5 audio
/ fɔrk /fork noun [C] ( TOOL )
Add to word list Add to word list a common tool used in eating that usually has three or four stiff metal points attached to a handle : The knives and forks go in the middle drawer .fork noun [C] ( DIVISION )
the place where a single thing divides into two or more parts , or one of the parts : a fork in the road fork verb [ I ] us / fɔrk / to divide into two or more parts : You’ll come to our house just before the road forks.Phrasal verb
fork over something (Definition of fork from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)Examples of fork
fork Whenever a ' 'don't know what to do' ' state is reached, a new problem space is forked to solve that problem. From the Cambridge English Corpus By considering the characteristics of forks and organic detritus, all large forks were assigned to the main branching point. From the Cambridge English Corpus The caudal fin is forked, with slightly unequal lobes. From the Cambridge English Corpus However, optimizations are made so that in many cases the previous thread is recycled instead of forking an entirely new thread. From the Cambridge English Corpus Most literary scholars, on the other hand, believe that history can provide possibilities, roads not taken, gardens of forking paths. From the Cambridge English Corpus Apparently cells do not like their replication forks to remain stalled at the sites of base damage. From the Cambridge English Corpus A harder case is multiple-world test suite generation in which incompatibilities may exist within forks. From the Cambridge English Corpus We will give the diagrams only in the common representation if the commuting and forking diagrams can be read off obviously from it. From the Cambridge English Corpus A yard made of hurdles supported by forks is on the right rear. From the Cambridge English Corpus Typically, the main or initial thread of an application is in charge of forking threads. From the Cambridge English Corpus The presence of atomic prefixing is essential for the introduction of forking transitions from one zero-safe place to two zero-safe places. From the Cambridge English Corpus The importance of repairing stalled replication forks. From the Cambridge English Corpus Combining this with so-called complete sets of commuting and forking diagrams, we show that all the deterministic reduction rules and some additional transformations preserve contextual equivalence. From the Cambridge English Corpus The main point of the paper is in 3 where we show that the free group is rather complicated from the point of view of the 'geometry of forking'. From the Cambridge English Corpus The question of increasing supplies of these forks is now being discussed with the industry. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of fork These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. What is the pronunciation of fork ?Translations of fork
in Chinese (Traditional) 食物, 餐叉, 花園… See more in Chinese (Simplified) 食物, 餐叉, 花园… See more in Spanish tenedor, bifurcarse, tenedor [masculine]… See more in Portuguese garfo, forquilha, bifurcação… See more in more languages in Marathi in Japanese in Turkish in French in Catalan in Dutch in Tamil in Hindi in Gujarati in Danish in Swedish in Malay in German in Norwegian in Urdu in Ukrainian in Russian in Arabic in Bengali in Czech in Indonesian in Thai in Vietnamese in Polish in Korean in Italian काटा, तीन किंवा चार अणकुचीदार टोके आणि एक दांडा असलेली छोटी वस्तू, जी अन्नपदार्थ उचलण्यासाठी व खाण्यासाठी वापरतात.… See more フォーク, （道、川など）が分岐する, 分（わ）かれ道（みち）… See more çatal, kazmak ve oymak için kullanılan çatal, yol ayrımı… See more fourchette [feminine], bifurcation [feminine], bifurquer… See more forquilla, bifurcar-se… See more vork, vertakking, tak… See more மூன்று அல்லது நான்கு முட்கள் மற்றும் ஒரு கைப்பிடியை கொண்ட ஒரு சிறிய பொருள், நீங்கள் உணவை எடுத்து சாப்பிட பயன்படுத்துகிறீர்கள்… See more खाने का काँटा… See more કાંટો… See more gaffel, vejgaffel, forgrening… See more gaffel, grep, tjuga… See more garpu, cabang, bercabang… See more die Gabel, die Gabelung, die Abzweigung… See more gaffel [masculine], veiskille [neuter], dele seg… See more فورک, کھانا کھانے کاکانٹا… See more виделка, роздоріжжя, розгалуження… See more вилка, вилы, разветвление… See more شَوْكة, يَتَشعّب… See more কাঁটা চামচ, কাঁটা, তিন বা চারটি কাঁটার মত পয়েন্ট এবং একটি হাতল সহ একটি ছোটো বস্তু… See more vidlička, rozcestí, odbočující cesta… See more garpu, cabang, bercabang… See more ส้อม, ทางแยก, แยกออกเป็นกิ่งก้านสาขา… See more cái nĩa, chỗ ngã ba, một trong hai nhánh… See more widelec, widły, rozwidlenie… See more 포크, (길이) 나뉘다… See more forchetta, bivio, biforcazione… See more Need a translator?Get a quick, free translation!
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forgivingly forgo forgo the pleasure of something/doing something forint BETA fork fork in the road fork out for something fork out sth phrasal verb fork over something phrasal verb {{#randomImageQuizHook.filename}} {{#randomImageQuizHook.isQuiz}} Test your vocabulary with our fun image quizzes Try a quiz now {{/randomImageQuizHook.isQuiz}} {{^randomImageQuizHook.isQuiz}} {{/randomImageQuizHook.isQuiz}} {{/randomImageQuizHook.filename}}More meanings of fork
All fork-tender tuning fork toasting fork fork in the road fork out for something fork over something phrasal verb fork out (sth) See all meanings Phrasal Verbs fork over something phrasal verb fork out (sth) fork out sth phrasal verb fork over/up something phrasal verb fork over (sth) , at fork out (sth) See all phrasal verb meaningsWord of the Day
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