fork
/fɔːk/
Dictionary
noun
- A pronged tool having a long straight handle, used for digging, lifting, throwing etc.
- A pronged tool for use in the garden; a smaller hand fork for weeding etc., or larger for turning over the soil.
- A gallows.
- 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 point where a waterway, such as a river, splits and goes two (or more) different directions.
- Used in the names of some river tributaries.
"West Fork White River and East Fork White River join together to form the White River of Indiana."
- A point in time where one has to make a decision between two life paths.
- The simultaneous attack of two adversary pieces with one single attacking piece (especially a knight).
- A splitting-up of an existing process into itself and a child process executing parts of the same program.
- The splitting of a software development effort into two or more separate projects, especially in free and open-source software.
- Any of the software projects resulting from such a split.
"LibreOffice is a fork of OpenOffice."
- (cryptocurrency, by extension) A split in a blockchain resulting from protocol disagreements, or a branch of the blockchain resulting from such a split.
- The crotch.
- A forklift.
"Are you qualified to drive a fork?"
- The set of blades of a forklift, on which the goods to be raised are loaded.
- 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 fork can be equipped with a suspension on mountain bikes."
- The upper front brow of a saddle bow, connected in the tree by the two saddle bars to the cantle on the other end.
verb
- To divide into two or more branches.
"A road, a tree, or a stream forks."
- To move with a fork (as hay or food).
- To spawn a new child process in some sense duplicating the existing process.
- To split a (software) project into several projects.
- To split a (software) distributed version control repository
- To kick someone in the crotch.
- To shoot into blades, as corn does.
verb
- To have sexual intercourse, to copulate.
"Fighting for peace is like fucking for virginity."
- To have sexual intercourse with.
- To insert one’s penis, a dildo or other phallic object, into a specified orifice or cleft.
- To put in an extremely difficult or impossible situation.
"I'm afraid they're gonna fuck you on this one."
- To defraud, deface or otherwise treat badly.
"I got fucked at the used car lot."
- Used to express great displeasure with someone or something.
"Fuck those jerks, and fuck their stupid rules!"
- (usually followed by up) To break, to destroy.
- To make a joke at one's expense; to make fun of in an embarrassing manner.
- To throw, to lob something. (angrily)
"He fucked the dirty cloth out the window."
- To scold
"The sergeant fucked me upside down."
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