fork

Meaning

Noun

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. (physical) A fork in the road, as follows:
6. (figuratively) 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. (metonymically) 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. (figuratively) A point in time where one has to make a decision between two life paths.
10. (figuratively, metonymically) A point in time where one has to make a decision between two life paths.
11. (figuratively, metonymically) (software development, content management, data management) A departure from having a single source of truth (SSOT), sometimes intentionally but usually unintentionally.
12. (figuratively) (software development, content management, data management) A departure from having a single source of truth (SSOT), sometimes intentionally but usually unintentionally.
13. (figuratively) (software development, content management, data management) A departure from having a single source of truth (SSOT), sometimes intentionally but usually unintentionally.
14. (figuratively) (software development, content management, data management) A departure from having a single source of truth (SSOT), sometimes intentionally but usually unintentionally.
15. (figuratively) (software development, content management, data management) A departure from having a single source of truth (SSOT), sometimes intentionally but usually unintentionally.
16. (figuratively) (software development, content management, data management) A departure from having a single source of truth (SSOT), sometimes intentionally but usually unintentionally.
17. The simultaneous attack of two adversary pieces with one single attacking piece (especially a knight).
18. (British, vulgar) 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. A set of data associated with an individual file in some file systems.
24. (obsolete) A gallows.

Verb

1. (ambitransitive) To divide into two or more branches or copies.
2. (ambitransitive) To divide into two or more branches or copies.
3. (ambitransitive) To divide into two or more branches or copies.
4. (ambitransitive, transitive) To divide into two or more branches or copies.
5. (transitive) To move with a fork (as hay or food).
6. (British, transitive) To kick someone in the crotch.
7. (intransitive) To shoot into blades, as corn does.
8. To simultaneously attack two opposing pieces with a single attacking piece.
9. (euphemistic, form-of, transitive) Euphemistic form of fuck.

Verb

To bale a shaft dry.

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Opposite of

confluence, single source of truth, SSOT

Synonyms

branch

pitchfork

crotch

bifurcation

chopsticks

🥢

prong

junction

ramification

separate

branch off

ramify

furcate

spear

rake

bifurcate

branching

intersection

forking

tine

branch out

divaricate

furcation

javelin

offshoot

divide into

tree

🌳

forked stick

go apart

extra

fish spear

forked

crossroads

crossroad

bamboo rake

halve

hayfork

hook

🪝

crossbar

bush out

bisect

leg

🦵

nail

needle

tablefork

parting

pierce

billabong

point

pole

attachment

Translations

Gabel

fourchette

forchetta

tenedor

vork

fourche

bifurcation

garfo

furca

Gabelung

bivio

çatal

forquilla

biforcazione

Pronounced as (IPA)

/fɔːk/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: forke

Inherited from Old English: force

Cognate with Middle English: -

Cognate with Old French: forche

Cognate with French: fourche

Cognate with Northern Frisian: forck

Cognate with Dutch: vork

Cognate with Danish: fork

Cognate with German: Forke

Cognate with Old English: -

Cognate with Latin: furca

Cognate with Old English: forclas

Cognate with Old Saxon: ferkal

Cognate with Old Norse: forkr

Cognate with Norwegian: fork

Cognate with Swedish: fork

In summary

From Middle English forke (“digging fork”), from Old English force, forca (“forked instrument used to torture”), from Proto-West Germanic *furkō (“fork”), from Latin furca (“pitchfork, forked stake; gallows, beam, stake, support post, yoke”), of uncertain origin. The Middle English word was later reinforced by Anglo-Norman, Old Northern French forque (= Old French forche whence French fourche), also from the Latin. Doublet of fourche and furcate. Cognate also with North Frisian forck (“fork”), Dutch vork (“fork”), Danish fork (“fork”), German Forke (“pitchfork”). Displaced native gafol, ġeafel, ġeafle (“fork”), from Old English.
In its primary sense of “fork”, Latin furca appears to be derived from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰerk(ʷ)-, *ǵʰerg(ʷ)- (“fork”), although the development of the -c- is difficult to explain. In other senses this derivation is unlikely. For these, perhaps it is connected to Proto-Germanic *furkaz, *firkalaz (“stake, stick, pole, post”), from Proto-Indo-European *perg- (“pole, post”). If so, this would relate the word to Old English forclas pl (“bolt”), Old Saxon ferkal (“lock, bolt, bar”), Old Norse forkr (“pole, staff, stick”), Norwegian fork (“stick, bat”), Swedish fork (“pole”).

Sentences

He took his plate , grabbed a knife and fork and scowled at the savagery on television .

Town Fork settlers formed a bond with Moravians in Bethania and Bethabara .