Found 3 items, similar to Fork.
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: fork bercabang, cabang, garpu
English → English (WordNet) Definition: fork fork v 1: lift with a pitchfork; “pitchfork hay” [syn: pitchfork] 2: place under attack with one's own pieces, of two enemy pieces 3: divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork; “The road forks” [syn: branch, ramify, furcate, separate] 4: shape like a fork; “She forked her fingers” fork n 1: cutlery used for serving and eating food 2: the act of branching out or dividing into branches [syn: branching, ramification, forking] 3: a part of a forked or branching shape; “he broke off one of the branches”; “they took the south fork” [syn: branch, leg, ramification] 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 [syn: crotch]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Fork Fork \Fork\, v. t. To raise, or pitch with a fork, as hay; to dig or turn over with a fork, as the soil. [1913 Webster] Forking the sheaves on the high-laden cart. --Prof. Wilson. [1913 Webster] To fork over To fork out, to hand or pay over, as money; to cough up. [Slang] --G. Eliot. [1913 Webster] Fork \Fork\ (f[^o]rk), n. [AS. forc, fr. L. furca. Cf. Fourch['e], 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. [1913 Webster] 2. Anything furcate or like a fork in shape, or furcate at the extremity; as, a tuning fork. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] Let it fall . . . though the fork invade The region of my heart. --Shak. [1913 Webster] A thunderbolt with three forks. --Addison. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 5. The gibbet. [Obs.] --Bp. Butler. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] Fork \Fork\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Forked; p. pr. & vb. n. Forking.] 1. To shoot into blades, as corn. [1913 Webster] The corn beginneth to fork. --Mortimer. [1913 Webster] 2. To divide into two or more branches; as, a road, a tree, or a stream forks. [1913 Webster]