fork

Dictionary

Meaning

1. Any of several types of pronged (tined) tools (physical tools), as follows:
2. Any of several types of pronged (tined) tools (physical tools), as follows:
3. Any of several types of pronged (tined) tools (physical tools), as follows:
4. Any of several types of pronged (tined) tools (physical tools), as follows:
5. A fork in the road, as follows:
6. A fork in the road, as follows:
7. A point where a waterway, such as a river or other stream, splits and flows into two (or more) different directions.
8. 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.
9. A point in time where one has to make a decision between two life paths.
10. A point in time where one has to make a decision between two life paths.
11. (software development, content management, data management) A departure from having a single source of truth (SSOT), sometimes intentionally but usually unintentionally.
12. (software development, content management, data management) A departure from having a single source of truth (SSOT), sometimes intentionally but usually unintentionally.
13. (software development, content management, data management) A departure from having a single source of truth (SSOT), sometimes intentionally but usually unintentionally.
14. (software development, content management, data management) A departure from having a single source of truth (SSOT), sometimes intentionally but usually unintentionally.
15. Any of the pieces/versions of content thus created.
16. A split in a blockchain resulting from protocol disagreements, or a branch of the blockchain resulting from such a split.
17. The simultaneous attack of two adversary pieces with one single attacking piece (especially a knight).
18. The crotch.
19. (colloquial) A forklift.
20. Either of the blades of a forklift (or, in plural, the set of blades), on which the goods to be raised are loaded.
21. In a bicycle or motorcycle, the portion of the frameset holding the front wheel, allowing the rider to steer and balance, also called front fork.
22. The upper front brow of a saddle bow, connected in the tree by the two saddle bars to the cantle on the other end.
23. (obsolete) A gallows.

Pronounced as (IPA)

/fɔːk/

Cognate with French

fourche

Cognate with Dutch

vork

Cognate with German

Forke

Cognate with Latin

furca

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fuck

1. (colloquial) To have sexual intercourse; to copulate.
2. (colloquial) To have sexual intercourse with.
3. (colloquial) To insert one's penis, a dildo, or other object, into a person or a specified orifice or cleft sexually; to penetrate.
4. (colloquial) To put in an extremely difficult or impossible situation.
5. (colloquial) To defraud, deface, or otherwise treat badly.
6. (colloquial) Used to express great displeasure with, or contemptuous dismissal of, someone or something.
7. (colloquial) To break, to destroy.
8. (colloquial) Used in a phrasal verb: fuck with (“to play with, to tinker”).
9. (colloquial) To throw, to lob something. (angrily)
10. (slang) To scold.
11. (colloquial) To be very good, to rule, go hard.