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fork
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /f??k/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /f??k/
- "a fork"
- Rhymes: -??(?)k
Etymology 1
From Middle English forke (“digging fork”), from Old English force, forca (“forked instrument used to torture”), from Proto-West Germanic *furk? (“fork”), from Latin furca (“pitchfork, forked stake; gallows, beam, stake, support post, yoke”), of uncertain origin. The Middle English word was later reinforced by Anglo-Norman, Old Northern French forque (= Old French forche whence French fourche), also from the Latin. Cognate also with North Frisian forck (“fork”), Dutch vork (“fork”), Danish fork (“fork”), German Forke (“pitchfork”). Displaced native gafol, ?eafel, ?eafle (“fork”), from Old English.
In its primary sense of “fork”, Latin furca appears to be derived from Proto-Indo-European *??erk(?)-, *??erg(?)- (“fork”), although the development of the -c- is difficult to explain. In other senses this derivation is unlikely. For these, perhaps it is connected to Proto-Germanic *furkaz, *firkalaz (“stake, stick, pole, post”), from Proto-Indo-European *perg- (“pole, post”). If so, this would relate the word to Old English forclas pl (“bolt”), Old Saxon ferkal (“lock, bolt, bar”), Old Norse forkr (“pole, staff, stick”), Norwegian fork (“stick, bat”), Swedish fork (“pole”).
Noun
fork (plural forks)
- A pronged tool having a long straight handle, used for digging, lifting, throwing etc.
- Synonym: pitchfork
- A pronged tool for use in the garden; a smaller hand fork for weeding etc., or larger for turning over the soil.
- (obsolete) A gallows.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Bishop Joseph Butler to this entry?)
- A utensil with spikes used to put solid food into the mouth, or to hold food down while cutting.
- A tuning fork.
- An intersection in a road or path where one road is split into two.
- 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.
- a thunderbolt with three forks.
- A point where a waterway, such as a river, splits and goes two (or more) different directions.
- (figuratively) A point in time where one has to make a decision between two life paths.
- (chess) The simultaneous attack of two adversary pieces with one single attacking piece (especially a knight).
- (computer science) A splitting-up of an existing process into itself and a child process executing parts of the same program.
- (software) The splitting of a software development effort into two or more separate projects, especially in free and open-source software.
- (software) Any of the software projects resulting from such a split.
- (cryptocurrencies, by extension) A split in a blockchain resulting from protocol disagreements, or a branch of the blockchain resulting from such a split.
- (Britain) The crotch. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- (colloquial) A forklift.
- The set of blades of a forklift, on which the goods to be raised are loaded.
- (cycling, motorcycling) 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.
- The upper front brow of a saddle bow, connected in the tree by the two saddle bars to the cantle on the other end.
- Synonyms: swell, pommel
Derived terms
Related terms
- denture
- trident, a three-pronged spear somewhat resembling a pitchfork
Descendants
- Sranan Tongo: forku
- ? Dutch: fork
- ? Japanese: ???? (f?ku)
- ? Kannada: ?????? (ph?rk)
- ? Korean: ?? (pokeu)
- ? Maori: paoka
- ? Tamil: ?????? (p?rk)
- ? Telugu: ?????? (ph?rk)
Translations
Verb
fork (third-person singular simple present forks, present participle forking, simple past and past participle forked)
- (transitive, intransitive) To divide into two or more branches.
- (transitive) To move with a fork (as hay or food).
- 1844, John Wilson, Essay on the Genius, and Character of Burns
- forking the sheaves on the high-laden cart
- 1844, John Wilson, Essay on the Genius, and Character of Burns
- (computer science) To spawn a new child process in some sense duplicating the existing process.
- (computer science) To split a (software) project into several projects.
- (computer science) To split a (software) distributed version control repository
- (Britain) To kick someone in the crotch.
- To shoot into blades, as corn does.
- I have known them couched up a Yard thick cover’d with an Hair-cloth and ?tirred only once a day, the Malt?er being always careful to throw the frozen out?ides into the middle till the Corn begin to fork and warm in the Couch; after which time if it be not laid too thin, it will not ea?ily freeze.
- Euphemistic form of fuck.
Derived terms
- (computer science: spawn a new child process): fork bomb
- fork off
- fork out
- fork over
Translations
See also
- knife
- spoon
Etymology 2
Alternative forms
- forcque
Noun
fork (plural forks)
- (mining) The bottom of a sump into which the water of a mine drains.
Verb
fork (third-person singular simple present forks, present participle forking, simple past and past participle forked)
- (mining, transitive) To bale a shaft dry.
Anagrams
- Korf
Danish
Etymology
From Old Norse forkr (“boathook”), from Latin furca (“fork, pitchfork”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /f?rk/, [f????]
Noun
fork c (singular definite forken, plural indefinite forke)
- (two-pronged) fork, pitchfork
Inflection
Dutch
Etymology
From English fork in the computer science sense. Doublet of vork (“fork”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /f?rk/
Noun
fork f (plural forks, diminutive forkje n)
- (computer science) A fork, splitting-up of an existing process into itself and a child process executing parts of the same program.
Synonyms
- afsplitsing
Anagrams
- korf
Middle English
Noun
fork
- Alternative form of forke
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bifurcation
English
Etymology
From bifurcate +? -ion.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?ba?f??ke???n/
- (US) enPR: b?'f?r-k??sh?n, IPA(key): /?ba?f??ke???n/
- Rhymes: -e???n
Noun
bifurcation (countable and uncountable, plural bifurcations)
- (biology) A division into two branches.
- (by extension) Any place where one thing divides into two.
- The act of bifurcating; branching or dividing in two.
- Either of the forks or other branches resultant from such a division.
- (geography) A place where two roads, tributaries etc. part or meet.
- (nautical) The point where a channel divides when proceeding from seaward.
- (mathematics) The change in the qualitative or topological structure of a given family as described by bifurcation theory.
- (computer science) A command that executes one block or other of commands depending on the result of a condition.
Synonyms
- (division into two branches): branched, branching, forked, forking
Derived terms
- bifurcation theory
- postbifurcation
- prebifurcation
Related terms
- bifurcate
- trifurcation
- quadfurcation
Translations
French
Etymology
bifurquer +? -tion, Medieval Latin bifurcus (“two-spronged”).
Pronunciation
Noun
bifurcation f (plural bifurcations)
- A bifurcation, where two roads etc. part or meet
Related terms
- bifurquer (verb)
Further reading
- “bifurcation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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