fork
noun
1 fork
Cutlery used for serving and eating food.
Dutch: splitsing, vork
Polish: widelec
2 fork
The act of branching out or dividing into branches.
synonyms: branching, forking, ramification.
Roget 91:
bisection,
bipartition;
dichotomy,
subdichotomy†;
halving
etc.
v.;
dimidiation†.
bifurcation,
forking,
branching,
ramification,
divarication;
fork,
prong;
fold.
half,
moiety.
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Dutch: splitsing, vertakking
3 fork
The region of the angle formed by the junction of two branches:
— They took the south fork.
synonym: crotch.
Roget 244:
angularity,
angularness†;
aduncity†;
angle,
cusp,
bend;
fold
etc.
258;
notch
etc.
257;
fork,
bifurcation.
elbow,
knee,
knuckle,
ankle,
groin,
crotch,
crutch,
crane,
fluke,
scythe,
sickle,
zigzag,
kimbo†,
akimbo.
corner,
nook,
recess,
niche,
oriel [Arch.],
coign†.
right angle
etc.
(perpendicular)
216.1,
212;
obliquity
etc.
217;
angle of 45 degrees,
miter;
acute angle,
obtuse angle,
salient angle,
reentering angle,
spherical angle.
angular measurement,
angular elevation,
angular distance,
angular velocity;
trigonometry,
goniometry;
altimetry†;
clinometer,
graphometer†,
goniometer;
theodolite;
sextant,
quadrant;
dichotomy.
triangle,
trigon†,
wedge;
rectangle,
square,
lozenge,
diamond;
rhomb,
rhombus;
quadrangle,
quadrilateral;
parallelogram;
quadrature;
polygon,
pentagon,
hexagon,
heptagon,
octagon,
oxygon†,
decagon.
pyramid,
cone.
Platonic bodies;
cube,
rhomboid;
tetrahedron,
pentahedron,
hexahedron,
octahedron,
dodecahedron,
icosahedron,
eicosahedron;
prism,
pyramid;
parallelopiped;
curb roof,
gambrel roof,
mansard roof.
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Dutch: aftakking
Polish: widły
4 fork
An agricultural tool used for lifting or digging; has a handle and metal prongs.
Dutch: splitsing, vork
Polish: widełki
5 fork
The angle formed by the inner sides of the legs where they join the human trunk.
synonym: crotch.
Dutch: vork, fork
Polish: krok, krocze
verb
1 fork
2 fork
Place under attack with one's own pieces, of two enemy pieces.
3 fork
Divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork:
— The road forks.
synonyms: branch, furcate, ramify, separate.
Roget 91:
bisect,
halve,
divide,
split,
cut in two,
cleave dimidiate†,
dichotomize.
go halves,
divide with.
separate,
fork,
bifurcate;
branch off,
out;
ramify.
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Dutch: gevorkt, afsplitsen, aftakken, vertakken
4 fork
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