Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. Any of several types of pronged (tined) tools (physical tools), as follows:
2. (by abstraction, from the tool shape) A fork in the road, as follows:
3. (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.
4. (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.
5. (figuratively, decision-making) A point in time where one has to make a decision between two life paths.
6. (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.
7. (chess) The simultaneous attack of two adversary pieces with one single attacking piece (especially a knight).
8. (British, vulgar) The crotch.

Example Sentences

a thunderbolt with three forks

this fork of the river dries up during droughts

Are you qualified to drive a fork?

Get those forks tilted back more or you're gonna lose that pallet!

The fork can be equipped with a suspension on mountain bikes.

resource fork

HFS+ uses forks to store file data. Generally there are two types of forks available in HFS+, the data fork and the resource fork.

They had run through all punishments, and just 'scaped the fork

Word Forms

• forks
• forking
• forked
• forcque

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Use fork when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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