Fork

Quick meaning: Fork is a noun meaning Any of several types of pronged (tined) tools (physical tools), as follows:.

Meaning

Any of several types of pronged (tined) tools (physical tools), as follows:.

More Meanings

1. (by abstraction, from the tool shape) A fork in the road, as follows:
2. (figuratively, decision-making) A point in time where one has to make a decision between two life paths.
3. (chess) The simultaneous attack of two adversary pieces with one single attacking piece (especially a knight).
4. (British, vulgar) The crotch.
5. (by abstraction, from the tool shape) A point where a waterway, such as a river or other stream, splits and flows into two (or more) different directions.
6. (metonymic, analogous to any prong of a pronged tool) 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.
7. (figuratively, by abstraction, from a physical fork) (software development, content management, data management) A departure from having a single source of truth (SSOT), sometimes intentionally but usually unintentionally.

Example Sentences

resource fork

a thunderbolt with three forks

Are you qualified to drive a fork?

this fork of the river dries up during droughts

Word Forms

• forks
• forking
• forked
• forcque

Synonyms for fork

Depending on context, synonyms include branch, prong, swell, pommel, separate, crotch.

Antonyms for fork

Common opposites include confluence.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include pitchfork, branch, branching, ramification, crotch, leg.

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