Definition of Fork

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Definition of Fork

Fork

An instrument consisting of a handle with a shank terminating in two or more prongs or tines, which are usually of metal, parallel and slightly curved; -- used from piercing, holding, taking up, or pitching anything.

Anything furcate or like a fork in shape, or furcate at the extremity; as, a tuning fork.

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.

The place where a division or a union occurs; the angle or opening between two branches or limbs; as, the fork of a river, a tree, or a road.

The gibbet.

To shoot into blades, as corn.

To divide into two or more branches; as, a road, a tree, or a stream forks.

To raise, or pitch with a fork, as hay; to dig or turn over with a fork, as the soil.

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Fork Quotations

If you come to a fork in the road, take it.
Yogi Berra

When you arrive at a fork in the road, take it.
Yogi Berra

Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth.
Ambrose Bierce

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?
Stanislaw Lec

High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just plain useless.
John Mayer

When I was little, my mother taught me how to use a fork and knife. The trouble is that Mother forget to teach me how to stop using them!
Hattie McDaniel

I knew there was a story; once you find a dog with a fork through it, you know there's a story there.
Mark Haddon

One of the most important things that I have learned in my 57 years is that life is all about choices. On every journey you take, you face choices. At every fork in the road, you make a choice. And it is those decisions that shape our lives.
Mike DeWine

And that because the moving parts are a million times smaller than the ones we're familiar with, they move a million times faster, just as a smaller tuning fork produces a higher pitch than a large one.
K. Eric Drexler

You don't need a silver fork to eat good food.
Paul Prudhomme

Fork Translations

fork in Afrikaans is vurk
fork in Danish is gaffel
fork in Dutch is kruis, vork
fork in Finnish is haarukka
fork in French is fourchette, ramification
fork in German is Verzweigung, Gabel, Verzweigung, Gabelung
fork in Italian is diramazione, biforcazione
fork in Norwegian is gaffel, dele seg, veiskille, greip
fork in Portuguese is forquilha, garfo
fork in Spanish is ramificacion, horquilla, tenedor
fork in Swedish is gaffel

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