fork

English




Etymology 1
From, from , , from , from , of uncertain origin. The 🇨🇬 word was later reinforced by, (= 🇨🇬 whence 🇨🇬), also from the Latin. Cognate also with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. Displaced native, , , from 🇨🇬.

In its primary sense of, 🇨🇬 appears to be derived from , , although the development of the -c- is difficult to explain. In other senses this derivation is unlikely. For these, perhaps it is connected to, , from. If so, this would relate the word to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) Any of several types of pronged (tined) tools (physical tools), as follows:
 * 2)  A utensil with spikes used to put solid food into the mouth, or to hold food down while cutting.
 * 3)  Any of several types of pronged tools for use on farms, in fields, or in the garden or lawn, such as a smaller hand fork for weeding or a larger one for turning over the soil.
 * 4) Such a pronged tool having a long straight handle, generally for two-handed use, as used for digging, lifting, mucking, pitching, etc.
 * 5)  A tuning fork.
 * 6)   A fork in the road, as follows:
 * 7)  An intersection in a road or path where one road is split into two.
 * 8)  A decision point.
 * 9)   A point where a waterway, such as a river or other stream, splits and flows into two (or more) different directions.
 * 10)   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.
 * 11)   A point in time where one has to make a decision between two life paths.
 * 12)  Either of the (figurative) paths thus taken.
 * 13)     A departure from having a single source of truth (SSOT), sometimes intentionally but usually unintentionally.
 * 14)  Any of the pieces/versions (of software, content, or data sets) thus created.
 * 15)   The launch of one or more separate software development efforts based upon a modified copy of an existing project, especially in free and open-source software.
 * 16)  Any of the software projects resulting from the launch of such separate software development efforts based upon a copy of the original project.
 * 17)   The splitting of the coverage of a topic (within a corpus of content) into two or more pieces.
 * 1)   A point in time where one has to make a decision between two life paths.
 * 2)  Either of the (figurative) paths thus taken.
 * 3)     A departure from having a single source of truth (SSOT), sometimes intentionally but usually unintentionally.
 * 4)  Any of the pieces/versions (of software, content, or data sets) thus created.
 * 5)   The launch of one or more separate software development efforts based upon a modified copy of an existing project, especially in free and open-source software.
 * 6)  Any of the software projects resulting from the launch of such separate software development efforts based upon a copy of the original project.
 * 7)   The splitting of the coverage of a topic (within a corpus of content) into two or more pieces.
 * 1)   The splitting of the coverage of a topic (within a corpus of content) into two or more pieces.
 * 1)   The splitting of the coverage of a topic (within a corpus of content) into two or more pieces.


 * 1)  Any of the pieces/versions of content thus created.
 * 2)   A split in a blockchain resulting from protocol disagreements, or a branch of the blockchain resulting from such a split.
 * 3)   The simultaneous attack of two adversary pieces with one single attacking piece (especially a knight).
 * 4)   The crotch.
 * 5)   A forklift.
 * 6)  Either of the blades of a forklift (or, in plural, the set of blades), on which the goods to be raised are loaded.
 * 7)   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.
 * 8)   The upper front brow of a saddle bow, connected in the tree by the two saddle bars to the cantle on the other end.
 * 9)   A gallows.
 * 1)   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.
 * 2)   The upper front brow of a saddle bow, connected in the tree by the two saddle bars to the cantle on the other end.
 * 3)   A gallows.
 * 1)   The upper front brow of a saddle bow, connected in the tree by the two saddle bars to the cantle on the other end.
 * 2)   A gallows.
 * 1)   A gallows.

Translations

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Verb

 * 1)  To divide into two or more branches or copies.
 * 2)  To spawn a new child process by duplicating the existing process.
 * 3)  To launch a separate software development effort based upon a modified copy of an existing software project, especially in free and open-source software.
 * 4)  To create a copy of a distributed version control repository.
 * 5)  To move with a fork (as hay or food).
 * 6)  To kick someone in the crotch.
 * 7)  To shoot into blades, as corn does.
 * 1)  To create a copy of a distributed version control repository.
 * 2)  To move with a fork (as hay or food).
 * 3)  To kick someone in the crotch.
 * 4)  To shoot into blades, as corn does.
 * 1)  To kick someone in the crotch.
 * 2)  To shoot into blades, as corn does.
 * 1)  To kick someone in the crotch.
 * 2)  To shoot into blades, as corn does.

Derived terms

 * dig one's grave with a fork
 * stick a fork in something
 * stick a fork in something
 * stick a fork in something
 * stick a fork in something
 * stick a fork in something
 * stick a fork in something

Translations

 * Norman:

Noun

 * 1)  The bottom of a sump into which the water of a mine drains.

Verb

 * 1)  To bale a shaft dry.

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) (two-pronged), pitchfork

Etymology
From in the computer science sense. .

Noun

 * 1)  A fork, splitting-up of an existing process into itself and a child process executing parts of the same program.