- an instrument having two or more prongs or tines, for holding, lifting, etc., as an implement for handling food or any of various agricultural tools.
- something resembling or suggesting this in form.
- tuning fork.
- yoke1 (def. 9).
- a division into branches.
- the point or part at which a thing, as a river or a road, divides into branches: Bear left at the fork in the road.
- either of the branches into which a thing divides.
- (in a lever escapement) the forked end of the lever engaging with the ruby pin.
- a principal tributary of a river.
- the support of the front wheel axles of a bicycle or motorcycle, having the shape of a two-pronged fork.
- the barbed head of an arrow.
- to pierce, raise, pitch, dig, etc., with a fork.
- to make into the form of a fork.
- to maneuver so as to place (two opponent's pieces) under simultaneous attack by the same piece.
- to copy (the source code) from a piece of software and develop a new version independently, with the result of producing two unique pieces of software.
- to divide into branches:Turn left where the road forks.
- to turn as indicated at a fork in a road, path, etc.: Fork left and continue to the top of the hill.
- to hand over; deliver; pay: Fork over the money you owe me!
- 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
- an agricultural tool consisting of a handle and three or four metal prongs, used for lifting, digging, etc
- a pronged part of any machine, device, etc
- (of a road, river, etc)
- a division into two or more branches
- the point where the division begins
- such a branch
- the main tributary of a river
- a position in which two pieces are forked
- to pick up, dig, etc, with a fork
- to place (two enemy pieces) under attack with one of one's own pieces, esp a knight
- to make into the shape of a fork
- to be divided into two or more branches
- to take one or other branch at a fork in a road, river, etc
