fork

1. (verb) shape like a fork: "She forked her fingers"
Related Words: form, shape

2. (verb) place under attack with one's own pieces, of two enemy chess pieces
Related Words: aggress, attack

3. (noun) fork used for serving and eating
Related Words: carving fork, cutlery, salad fork, tablefork, toasting fork

4. (noun) an agricultural tool used for lifting or digging; has a handle and metal prongs
Related Words: hayfork, tool

5. (verb) lift with a pitchfork; "pitchfork hay"
Synonyms: pitchfork
Related Words: lift

6. (noun) the angle formed by the inner sides of the legs where they join the human trunk
Synonyms: crotch
Related Words: angle

7. (noun) a part of a forked or branching shape; "he broke off one of the branches"; "they took the south fork"
Synonyms: branch, leg
Related Words: brachium, subfigure

8. (verb) divide into two or more branches; "The road forks"
Synonyms: branch, ramify, separate
Related Words: arborise, arborize, bifurcate, diverge, twig

9. (noun) the act of branching out or dividing into branches
Synonyms: branching, forking, ramification
Related Words: bifurcation, divarication, division, fibrillation, trifurcation



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