fork
noun
[ fɔːk ]
• an implement with two or more prongs used for lifting food to the mouth or holding it when cutting.
• the point where something, especially a road or river, divides into two parts.
• "turn right at the next fork"
• each of a pair of supports in which a bicycle or motorcycle wheel revolves.
• a flash of forked lightning.
• a simultaneous attack on two or more pieces by one.
fork
verb
• (especially of a route) divide into two parts.
• "the place where the road forks"
Similar:
branch,
split,
divide,
subdivide,
separate,
part,
diverge,
go in different directions,
go separate ways,
bifurcate,
split in two,
branch off,
furcate,
divaricate,
ramify,
• dig or move (something) with a fork.
• "fork in some compost"
• attack (two pieces) simultaneously with one.
• "he has forked my bishop and knight"
Origin:
Old English forca, force (denoting a farm implement), based on Latin furca ‘pitchfork, forked stick’; reinforced in Middle English by Anglo-Norman French furke (also from Latin furca ).
