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Meaning fork meaning

What does fork mean?
Definitions in simple English

fork Noun

— An instrument for eating, with 3 or 4 sharp points called tines, all in the same direction. I ate with my fork. — A place where one thing becomes two. She came to a fork in the road. — (chess) A situation where two or more enemy pieces are in danger from the same piece. He moved his queen and caught me in a fork.

fork Verb

— To split, become two. The road forks there. — To move something with a fork. He forked food into his mouth.

fork

— noun cutlery used for serving and eating food — noun (= branching) the act of branching out or dividing into branches — noun an agricultural tool used for lifting or digging; has a handle and metal prongs — noun (= crotch) 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 — verb shape like a fork She forked her fingers — verb place under attack with one's own pieces, of two enemy pieces — verb (= pitchfork) lift with a pitchfork pitchfork hay — noun (= crotch) the angle formed by the inner sides of the legs where they join the human trunk — verb (= branch) divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork The road forks

Synonyms fork synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as fork?

fork English » English

branch pitchfork crotch bifurcation chopsticks prong junction separate ramify ramification branch off spear rake intersection furcate forking branching bifurcate tree tine offshoot javelin go apart furcation forked stick divide into divaricate branch out twin turnout turning point toothpick tines tablefork table fork stretch along stretch spread-eagle spread out spread sprawl spoon split in two split silver fork sharp-pointed instrument separation section scatter run out

Topics fork topics

What do people use fork to talk about?
Daily life Food Eat

Eating utensil
Universe, creation Water Bodies of water

River
Universe, creation Plant

Parts of a plant
Work and occupation Working with buildings Infrastructure

Road
States Quality

Shape
Daily life Food Food preparation

Cooking utensil
Work and occupation Agriculture Process harvest

Winnow grain

Conjugation fork conjugation

How do you conjugate fork?

fork · verb

Examples fork examples

How do I use fork in a sentence?

Simple sentences

A fork fell off the table.
Could I have a knife and fork, please?
Turn left when you get to the fork in the road.
Tom cannot use a knive and fork.
Could we have a fork?
I can't use a fork well.
There is a fork missing.
The fork made its way to Western tables several hundred years later, but it was not immediately accepted.
Chinese food was served in small portions which did not require cutting with a knife or fork.
They eat with a knife and fork.
A fork is missing.
Take the fork out of the electric socket.
Tom mashed the potatoes with a large fork.
One fork is missing.
Have you ever stirred your coffee with a fork?
You can't eat soup with a fork.
Fork-users are mainly in Europe, North America, and Latin America; chopstick-users in eastern Asia and finger-users in Africa, the Middle East, Indonesia, and India.
The boy can handle a knife and fork very well.
We usually eat with a knife, fork and spoon.
He handled the knife and fork very well.
Most people who eat with a fork live in Europe, North America, and South America; people who eat with chop sticks live in Africa, the Near East, Indonesia, and India.
We came to a fork in the road and had no idea which direction to go.

Movie subtitles

It was this fork, so, uh.
Oh, no, wait, it was that fork, sorry.
My fork.
But our trails fork here.
Lead the way! Zeke will lead the way down. Our trails fork here.
I got him where he eats with a fork now.
Used to come home from his work all portered up. hit the baby with the plate, throw the gravy in the grate. spear the canary with a fork.
Well, I was up in the loft, but you can't see good from there, and I had a fork full of hay at the time.
Then turn right. Go along a mile. Take the left fork and two miles along that road.
Not the right fork.
The right fork would take you back to town.
The left fork.
I was going to take the left fork anyway.
I'm glad you took the left fork.
He eats with his hands. He doesn't know how to use a fork.
I'd like nothin' better, men. But our trails fork here.
Our trails fork here.
A fork.
You had nothing to do with the fork. For the rest.
I got him to fork out one million, and I had to pay for it.
We'd better get out before he starts eating with a knife and fork.
Why don't you just fork over the 500 fish and save yourself a shellacking?
Fork over that bottle of red-eye, Marty.
Roast beef you can cut with a fork.
Have you any roast beef you can cut with a fork?
People come to a fork in the road.
About the fork in the road.
Come and hold this fork a minute, Annie, or they'll have to call a fire brigade to put my face out.
Knife and fork?
You might have taken the fork out.
He's been ordered to Dry Fork.
All aboard for Dry Fork, Apache Wells Lee's Ferry and Lordsburg!
We're going with you as far as the noon station at Dry Fork.
My husband is with his troops in Dry Fork.
Howdy, Chris, seven hours from Dry Fork, pretty fast driving', amigo!
He'd hand your past to your husband on a platter if you didn't fork over the jade.

News and current affairs

Obviously, being highly educated, wearing a tie, eating with a fork, or cutting one's nails weekly is not enough.
She had attacked her predecessor during the election campaign for being fork-tongued about Iraq, saying one thing to US President George W. Bush and another to the Finnish people.
Everything we eat with a spoon is soup; everything we eat with a fork is not soup.
In retrospect, that day looks like a fork in the road of human history.
PARIS - Once again, Europe seems to have reached a fork in the road.
One very senior government official of a northern European country did not even put down his fork when interrupted by an earnest dinner companion who pointed out that many Spaniards now eat out of garbage cans.

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