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fork (n.)
1.an arrangement of branching parts
2.the act of branching out or dividing into branches
3.cutlery used for serving and eating food
4.an agricultural tool used for lifting or digging; has a handle and metal prongs
5.the angle formed by the inner sides of the legs where they join the human trunk
6.a long-handled hand tool with sharp widely spaced prongs for lifting and pitching hay
7.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"
fork (v. intr.)
1.divide into two branches"The road bifurcated"
2.shape like a fork"She forked her fingers"
3.divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork"The road forks"
4.place under attack with one's own pieces, of two enemy pieces
5.lift with a pitchfork"pitchfork hay"
fork (v.)
1.extend in a different direction"The lines start to diverge here" "Their interests diverged"
fork
1.pass to the other side of"turn the corner" "move around the obstacle"
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ForkFork (fôrk), n. [AS. forc, fr. L. furca. Cf. Fourché, Furcate.]
1. 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 for piercing, holding, taking up, or pitching anything.
2. Anything furcate or like a fork in shape, or furcate at the extremity; as, a tuning fork.
3. 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.
Let it fall . . . though the fork invade
The region of my heart. Shak.
A thunderbolt with three forks. Addison.
4. 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.
5. The gibbet. [Obs.] Bp. Butler.
Fork beam (Shipbuilding), a half beam to support a deck, where hatchways occur. -- Fork chuck (Wood Turning), a lathe center having two prongs for driving the work. -- Fork head. (a) The barbed head of an arrow. (b) The forked end of a rod which forms part of a knuckle joint. -- In fork. (Mining) A mine is said to be in fork, or an engine to “have the water in fork,” when all the water is drawn out of the mine. Ure. -- The forks of a river or The forks of a road, the branches into which it divides, or which come together to form it; the place where separation or union takes place.
ForkFork, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Forked (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Forking.]
1. To shoot into blades, as corn.
The corn beginneth to fork. Mortimer.
2. To divide into two or more branches; as, a road, a tree, or a stream forks.
ForkFork, v. t. To raise, or pitch with a fork, as hay; to dig or turn over with a fork, as the soil.
Forking the sheaves on the high-laden cart. Prof. Wilson.
To fork over To fork out, to hand or pay over, as money; to cough up. [Slang] G. Eliot.
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fork
fork (n.)
bifurcation, branch, branching, crotch, forking, junction, pitchfork, ramification ((Dep)formel)
fork (v.)
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fork (v. intr.)
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Wilderness • North Fork Maquoketa River • North Fork Middle Fork Willamette River • North Fork Mountain • North Fork Musselshell River • North Fork Nancy Creek • North Fork New River • North Fork River (Missouri–Arkansas) • North Fork Rough River • North Fork Township, Stearns County, Minnesota • North Fork Umatilla Wilderness • North Fork Village, Ohio • North Fork, California • North Fork, Nevada • North River (South Fork Shenandoah River) • Osage Fork Gasconade River • POV fork • Prairie Dog Town Fork • Prairie Dog Town Fork Red River • Prices Fork, Virginia • Quit Digging Your Grave with a Knife and Fork • Replication fork • Resource fork • Right Fork Canyon • Roaring Fork • Roaring Fork River • Roaring Fork Transportation Authority • Roaring Fork Valley • Rocky Fork State Park • Rolling Fork (Arkansas) • Rolling Fork, Mississippi • Salt Fork • Salt Fork Arkansas River • Salt Fork Red River • Salt Fork Vermilion River • Salt Fork of Arkansas River • Salt Fork of the Arkansas River • Sand Fork, West Virginia • Seneca Creek (North Fork South Branch Potomac River) • Shavers Fork • Shavers Fork Mountain Complex • Sipsey Fork • Sipsey Fork, Mississippi • Sipsey fork • Skillet Fork • Skillet Fork River • Slab Fork, West Virginia • Snow Fork • Software fork • South Fork Catoctin Creek • South Fork Estates, Texas • South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club • South Fork Grand River (South Dakota) • South Fork Humboldt River • South Fork Little Cacapon River • South Fork Musselshell River • South Fork New River • South Fork State Recreation Area • South Fork Township, Kanabec County, Minnesota • South Fork, Colorado • South Fork, Missouri • South Fork, Pennsylvania • South Fork, Wisconsin • South River (South Fork Shenandoah River) • Spanish Fork, Utah • Spoon-fork • Stinging Fork Falls State Natural Area • Stony Fork Creek • The Tuning Fork • Tuning fork • West Fork • West Fork Pond River • West Fork River • West Fork of the Little Sioux River • West Fork, Arkansas • Wikipedia fork • Williams Fork • Williams Fork River • Woods Fork Gasconade River
fork
go, go along, locomote, move, travel[Hyper.]
turn, turning[Dérivé]
fork (n.)
bifurcate, fork, split, split up[Nominalisation]
fork (n.)
partie (fr)[Classe...]
fork (n.)
fork (n.)
objet à dents ou indentations (fr)[ClasseParExt.]
ustensile de cuisine pour prendre (fr)[Classe]
fork[ClasseHyper.]
cover, cutlery, eating utensil[Hyper.]
fork[Dérivé]
fork (n.)
outil de jardinage (fr)[ClasseParExt.]
objet à dents ou indentations (fr)[ClasseParExt.]
fork[ClasseHyper.]
chose pointue (fr)[ClasseParExt.]
tool[Hyper.]
fork, pitchfork[Dérivé]
fork (n.)
angle[Hyper.]
fork (n.)
hand tool[Hyper.]
fork, pitchfork[Dérivé]
fork (n.)
branch, leg, ramification[Hyper.]
fork[Dérivé]
fork (n.)
fork (v.)
divergence, divergency - divergent, diverging[Dérivé]
converge, meet[Ant.]
fork (v. intr.)
se diviser en deux directions (fr)[Classe]
(bipartite; dual; twofold; double)[termes liés]
fork (v. intr.)
suivre une direction (fr)[Classe...]
fork (v. intr.)
form, shape[Hyper.]
fork - crotch, fork[Dérivé]
fork (v. intr.)
diverge[Hyper.]
branching, fork, forking, ramification - fork, ramification - branch - forking, furcation - branch, leg, ramification[Dérivé]
branch, branch off, ramify[Domaine]
fork (v. intr.)
aggress, attack[Hyper.]
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Wikipedia
As a piece of cutlery or kitchenware, a Fork is a tool consisting of a handle with several narrow tines on one end. The fork as an eating utensil has been a feature primarily of the West, whereas in East Asia chopsticks have been more prevalent. Today, forks are increasingly available throughout East Asia. The utensil (usually metal) is used to lift food to the mouth or to hold ingredients in place while cooking or cutting them. Food can be lifted either by spearing it on the tines, or by holding it on top of the tines, which are often curved slightly. For this former function, in the American style of fork etiquette, the fork is held with tines curving up; however, in continental style, the fork is held with the tines curving down.[citation needed] A fork is also shaped in the form of a trident but curved at the joint of the handle to the points.
Though the fork's early history is obscure, the fork as a kitchen and dining utensil is generally believed to have originated in the Roman Empire, or perhaps in Ancient Greece. The personal table fork most likely originated in the Eastern Roman, or Byzantine, Empire. Its use spread to what is now the Middle East during the first millennium CE and then spread into southern Europe during the second millennium. It did not become common in northern Europe until the 18th century and was not common in North America until the 19th century.
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The word fork comes from the Latin furca, meaning "pitchfork." Some of the earliest known uses of forks with food occurred in Ancient Egypt where large forks were used as cooking utensils.[1] Bone forks had been found in the burial site of Qijia culture as well as later Chinese dynasties' tombs.[2] The ancient Greeks used the fork as a serving utensil,[3] and it is also mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, in the Book of I Samuel 2:13 ("The custom of the priests with the people was that when any man offered sacrifice, the priest’s servant came, while the fresh flesh was boiling, with a fork of three teeth in his hand...").
In the Roman Empire, bronze and silver forks were used, indeed many examples are displayed in museums around Europe.[4][5] The use varied according to local customs, social class and the nature of food, but forks of the earlier periods were mostly used as cooking and serving utensils. The personal table fork was most likely invented in the Eastern Roman, or Byzantine, Empire where they were in common use by the 4th century CE (its origin may even go back to Ancient Greece, before the Roman period).[6][7] Records show that by the 9th century a similar utensil known as a barjyn was in limited use in Persia within some elite circles.[8] By the 10th century the table fork was in common use throughout what is now the Middle East and Turkey.[1]
By the 11th century, the table fork had made its way to Italy. In Italy, it became quite popular by the 14th century, being commonly used for eating by merchant and upper classes by 1600. It was proper for a guest to arrive with his own fork and spoon enclosed in a box called a cadena; this usage was introduced to the French court with Catherine de' Medici's entourage. In Portugal, forks began being used with Infanta Beatrice, Duchess of Viseu, king Manuel I of Portugal's mother.[9] That happened around 1450. Still forks were not commonly used in Western Europe until the 16th century when they became part of the etiquette in Italy.[10] It had also gained some currency in Spain by this time,[11] and its use gradually spread to France. Even at that, though, most of Europe did not adopt use of the fork until the 18th century.[6]
Long after the personal table fork had become commonplace in France, at the supper celebrating the marriage of the duc de Chartres to Louis XIV's natural daughter in 1692, the seating was described in the court memoirs of Saint-Simon: "King James having his Queen on his right hand and the King on his left, and each with their cadenas." In Perrault's contemporaneous fairy tale of La Belle au bois dormant (1697), each of the fairies invited for the christening is presented with a splendid "Fork Holder."
The fork's adoption in northern Europe was slower. Its use was first described in English by Thomas Coryat in a volume of writings on his Italian travels (1611), but for many years it was viewed as an unmanly Italian affectation. Some writers of the Roman Catholic Church expressly disapproved of its use (despite its above-mentioned use in the Bible), seeing it as "excessive delicacy": "God in his wisdom has provided man with natural forks – his fingers. Therefore it is an insult to Him to substitute artificial metallic forks for them when eating."[12][13] It was not until the 18th century that the fork became commonly used in Great Britain, although some sources say forks were common in France, England and Sweden already by the early 17th century.[14][15] The fork did not become popular in the North America until near the time of the American Revolution.[1] The curved fork that is used in most parts of the world today, was developed in Germany in the mid 18th century. The standard four-tine design became current in the early 19th century.
The 20th century also saw the emergence of the "spork", a utensil that is half-fork and half-spoon. With this new "fork-spoon", only one piece of cutlery is needed when eating (so long as no knife is required). The back of the spork is shaped like a spoon and can scoop food while the front has shortened tines like a fork. It has found popularity in fast food and military settings.
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