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Definition: Fork |
ForkNoun1. Cutlery used for serving and eating food. 2. The act of branching out or dividing into branches. 3. A part of a forked or branching shape; "he broke off one of the branches"; "they took the south fork". 4. An agricultural tool used for lifting or digging; has a handle and metal prongs. 5. The angle formed by the inner sides of the legs where they join the human trunk. Verb1. Lift with a pitchfork; "pitchfork hay". 2. Place under attack with one's own pieces, of two enemy chess pieces. 3. Divide into two or more branches; "The road forks". 4. Shape like a fork: "She forked her fingers". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "fork" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Etymology: Fork \Fork\ (f[^o]rj), noun. [Anglo-Saxon forc, from Latin furca. Compare to Fourch['e], Furcate.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Satire | FORK, n. An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth. Formerly the knife was employed for this purpose, and by many worthy persons is still thought to have many advantages over the other tool, which, however, they do not altogether reject, but use to assist in charging the knife. The immunity of these persons from swift and awful death is one of the most striking proofs of God's mercy to those that hate Him. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
Computing | Fork In the open-source community, a fork is what occurs when two (or more) versions of a software package's source code are being developed in parallel which once shared a common code base, and these multiple versions of the source code have irreconcilable differences between them. This should not be confused with a development branch, which may later be folded back into the original source code base. Nor should it be confused with what happens when a new distribution of Linux or some other distribution is created, because that largely assembles pieces than can and will be used in other distributions without conflict. Forking is uncommon; in fact, it is so uncommon that individual instances loom large in hacker folklore. Notable in this class were the http://www.xemacs.org/About/XEmacsVsGNUemacs.html (Emacs/XEmacs fork), the GCC/EGCS fork (later healed by a merger) and the forks among the FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD operating systems. Source: Jargon File. |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of a fork, denotes that enemies are working for your displacement. For a woman, this dream denotes unhappy domestic relations, and separation for lovers. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Food & Agriculture | That part of a tree where the main stem or the larger branches fork. Source: European Union. (references) |
Industry | To support large pieces. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mechanical Engineering | On the end of this lever a shift -- is mounted. . . . When the shaft is rotated by the movement of the first-and-reverse lever, it causes the shift -- to move forward or backward in the transmission. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. An appliance used in free-fall drilling that serves to hold up the string of tools during connection and disconnection of the rods. b. A double-pronged clip on a tub or wagon for the haulage rope or chain c. A two-pronged lever used to slide the flat belt from a powerdrive over to an idler pulley (loose pulley) d. Corn. Bottom of a drainage sump e. Derb. A piece of wood supporting the side of an excavation in soft ground, esp. if it has a Y-shaped end f. Scot. A tool used for changing buckets, or for loading lump coal. g. To pump water out of a mine. A mine is said to be in fork, or a pump to have the water in fork, when all the water is drawn out of the min. (references) |
Slang | Noun. Source: Came from the English word "fork". Definition: Not good looking girl. Context: Another term used to describe someone who's not attractive to one. Social Source: Young Cantonese people. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) |
Slang in 1811 | FORK. A pickpocket. Let us fork him; let us pick his pocket.--'The newest and most dexterous way, which is, to thrust the fingers strait, stiff, open, and very quick, into the pocket, and so closing them, hook what can be held between them.' N.B. This was. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
For other meanings of fork see fork (disambiguation)A fork is an implement with a handle on one end and long tines on the other; it is used for pricking, to hold or transfer something. It was originally used in the West, whereas chopsticks were more popular in eastern Asia. Today, however, forks are available throughout Asia as well.
In particular it is a (usually metal) utensil for transferring food to the mouth or to hold food in place during the cooking process or while cutting it. Transferring is often done without pricking, by just putting the food on the more or less horizontal tines. For this spoon-like use the tines are curved.
History
Before the fork was introduced westerners were reliant on the spoon and knives. Most, however, would eat food with their hands. Refined eaters would hold two knives at meals and use them to both cut and transport food to their mouths.
The fork was introduced in the Middle East before the year 1000. The earliest forks usually had only two tines, but multiple ones caught on quickly. The tines were also straight, meaning the fork could only be used for spearing food and not for scooping it. The fork was a great development in that it allowed meat to be easily held in place while being cut. The fork also allowed one to spike a piece of meat and shake off any excess sauce before consuming it. By the eleventh century the table fork had made its way to Italy by way of Byzantium. In Italy it became quite popular by the fourteenth century, being used by merchant and upper classes for eating by 1600.
The fork's arrival in northern Europe was more difficult. For many years it was viewed as an unmanly Italian affectation. It was not until the eighteenth century that the fork became commonly used in Britain. It was around this time that the curved fork used today was developed in Germany. The standard four-tine design also became current at this time (the three-pronged variety is known as a trident).
Types of fork
- baby fork
- beef fork
- berry fork
- cheese fork
- cold meat fork
- dessert fork
- dinner fork
- fish fork
- game fork
- ice cream fork
- joint fork
- lemon fork
- lettuce fork
- meat fork
- olive fork
- oyster fork
- pastry fork
- pickle fork
- pie fork
- ramekin fork
- relish fork
- salad fork
- sardine fork
- shrimp fork
- spork
- steak fork
- tea fork
- vegetable fork
Non-cutlery types of fork
- military fork
- pitchfork/hayfork
- tuning fork
- Forklift
- fork()-process
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Fork."
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In chess, a fork is a move that uses one piece to attack two of the opponent's pieces at the same time, hoping to achieve material advantage because the opponent can only counter one of the two threats. Knightss are often used for forks: they jump to a position from where they attack two pieces. In the diagram to the left, the white knight is forking the black king and rook. It is particularly effective to fork a king: the rules require immediate attention to a threat to the king. In this situation, black cannot choose to defend another piece, he cannot make an intermediate move to complicate the situation; he must move the king, after which white can capture the rook.
Pawns can also fork enemy pieces: by moving a pawn forward, it may attack two pieces: one diagonally to the left and one diagonally to the right.In the diagram, the black pawn is forking the two white rooks. (Remember that by convention the board is oriented with black's first row at the top, so the black pawn is moving downward.)
A queen move also often attacks two pieces at the same time, but this is only useful if both pieces are undefended. Since the queen is more valuable than the pieces it is attacking, it is usually only profitable for it to capture undefended pieces.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Fork (chess)."
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A fork, when applied to a programming language, is when a subroutine creates a copy of itself, which then acts as a "child" of the original subroutine, now called the "parent". More generally, a fork in a multithreading environment means that a thread of execution is duplicated.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Fork (computers)."
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In software, a project fork or branch happens when a developer (or a group of them) takes code from a project and starts to develop independently of the rest. This is particularly common in open source software (or free software). This schism can be caused because of different goals or personality clashes. Some see forks as a weakness in Open Source, but they can demonstrate the adaptability of the model. The relationship between the different teams can be cordial or very bitter.
In a fork situation, both parties inherit identical intellectual rights but typically only the larger group, or that containing the original architect, will retain the full original name and its associated social capital. Thus there is a reputation penalty associated with forking.
This can happen in closed-source software as well if the rights to the common code are shared, but this is rarer as usually there are strict rules about ownership of the code. More commonly in closed source software is a developer forking their own code to develop two versions, such as a windowed version and a command line version.
The expressions fork off and fork you are adaptations of the rude expressions "fuck off" and "fuck you" to invite others to fork rather than continue to interact with the main group.
Examples
- Enciclopedia Libre is a fork from the Spanish-language Wikipedia to evade possible advertising.
- Pretty Good Privacy was forked outside of the United States to free it from the restrictive laws on the exportation of cryptographic software.
- XEmacs was a fork from Emacs to support the proprietary Energize environment.
- The split of BSD from AT&T UNIX
- A closed-source example is the development of the NTFS filesystem by Microsoft based in previous work in HPFS that was left to IBM
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Fork (software)."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| Fork. | Danish | Forkortelse | Language |
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Synonyms: ForkSynonyms: branching (n), crotch (n), forking (n), leg (n), ramification (n), branch (v), pitchfork (v), ramify (v), separate (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Angularity | Verb: bend, fork, bifurcate, crinkle. |
Angularity, angularness; aduncity; angle, cusp, bend; fold; notch; fork, bifurcation. | |
bisection | Separate, fork, bifurcate; branch off, out; ramify. |
Bifurcation, forking, branching, ramification, divarication; fork, prong; fold. half, moiety. | |
Carrier | Pallet, brace, cart, dolley; support; fork lift. |
Desire | Be hungry; play a good knife and fork; hunger after, thirst after, crave after, lust after, itch after, hanker after, run mad after; raven for, die for; burn to. |
Expenditure | Verb: expend, spend; run through, get through; pay, disburse; ante, ante up; pony up; open the purse strings, loose the purse strings, untie the purse strings; lay out, shell out, fork out, fork over; bleed; make up a sum, invest, sink money. |
Food | Live on; feed upon, batten upon, fatten upon, feast upon; browse, graze, crop, regale; carouse; (make merry); eat heartily, do justice to, play a good knife and fork, banquet. |
Giving | Present, give away, dispense, dispose of; give out, deal out, dole out, mete out, fork out, squeeze out. |
Gluttony | Have the stomach of an ostrich; play a good knife and fork;have the stomach of an ostrich; play a good knife and fork; (appetite). |
Payment | Pay one's way, pay one's shot, pay one's footing; pay the piper, pay sauce for all, pay costs; do the needful; shell out, fork out; cough up, fork over; come down with, come down with the dust; tickle the palm, grease the palm; expend; put down, lay down. |
Vehicle | Tractor, steamshovel, backhoe, fork lift, earth mover, dump truck, bulldozer, grader, caterpillar, trench digger, steamroller; pile driver; crane, wrecking crane. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | Cause I was chasing him with a fork! (ALF; writing credit: Alberto Fischerman; Rodolfo Rabanal) Eat your cereal with a fork and do your homework in the dark (Pump Up the Volume; writing credit: Allan Moyle) If a cannibal used a knife and fork, would you call that progress (G.I. Jane; writing credit: David Twohy and Danielle Alexandra.) But guns on television and everything, it's bad enough we have a tuning fork! (The Monkees; writing credit: Dee Caruso; Gerald Gardner) Are you talking to me hoping that I'll get so depressed that I'll impale myself on a fork right in front of you (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) | |
Lyrics | There’s a fork in the path (Choose; performing artist: Color Me Badd) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Red Fork Range (1931) | |
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 | A brown-beige-white plate sits on a sand-colored table. On the plate is cottage cheese, strawberries, kiwi fruit, cantaloupe, orange slices and rasberries. Next to the plate are 2 slices of dark bread and a multicolored napkin and a fork. There is a glass of iced tea in the background with lemon garnish. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer). |  | From an overhead angle, a large black bowl of various colored beans and legumes sits in the center of a dark wooden table. Next to the bowl are a gold napkin and a fork. Behind the bowl are several mounds of different beans. The white lettering above the bowl reads "Eat beans and other legumes often". Shot on 4x5 format. This was used in the 1989 calendar "Eat for Good Health" January 1989. See artwork: PV-19. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer). |
 | West Fork Blackbird Creek, a tailing facility. The structure to the right is a spillway. Several million cubic yards contaminated tailings are behind the dam. Water is diverted into a concrete channel so it does not come into contact with the tailings. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | The top of the West Fork Tailing Facility, looking downstream. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | South Fork of the Holston Riveris one of the 10 Heritage rivers in the US. NRCS worked with local farmers and other agencies in providing buffers, fencing for livestock, roational grazing, tree planting and recreational opportunities under a cooperative. Credit: Jeff Vanuga. |  | Fly fisherman on the South Fork of the Holston River. The river is one of the 10 Heritage rivers in the US. NRCS worked with local farmers and other agencies in providing buffers, fencing for livestock, roational grazing, tree planting and recreational. Credit: Jeff Vanuga. |
 | The Rabbit Creek fire, Boise Natoinal Forest totalled 146,400 acres, part of the heaviest burn was along the North Fork of the Boise River. Credit: USDA. |  | A fire crew moves supplies across the South Fork of the Payette River in Idaho. Credit: USDA. |
 | Canoeing West Fork Gulkana NWSR, Alaska. Credit: unknown. |  | Sunset, West Fork, Gulkana NWSR. Credit: Wayne Boden. |
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| "Fork 1" by Violeta Commentary: "A fork framing." | "Fork" by Michael Wojciechowski Commentary: "Fork closeup." |
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 | Bleenk; tinny; silverware; spoon; fork; knife; knives. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Mr Dedalus threw his knife and fork noisily on his plate |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | On the sink shelf lay an old beer opener and a broken fork with its wooden handle gone |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | I made her a low bow, took out my knife and fork, and fell to eating, which gave them exceeding delight |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Using a tuning fork, the physician can check for changes in hearing. (references) | |
Business | All types of port equipment used in Thailand are imported, especially heavy machinery such as Cranes, Side Loaders, Reach Stackers, Straddle Carriers, Yard Tractors, Trailers, and Fork Lifts. (references) | |
Although there is local production of conveyor belts, carts and some fork lifts, much of this equipment consists of locally made metal structures fitted with imported electronic and mechanical systems. (references) | ||
Economic History | Egypt | Most promising subsectors: Radars, communication equipment, landing equipment, airport lighting, computers equipment, screens, conveyor belts, fork lifts, fire fighting vehicles, telephone switches, fiber-optic cables and copper telephone cables. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the disgrace before meat. Capital Punishment, a penalty regarding the justice and expediency of which many worthy persons -- including all the assassins -- entertain grave misgivings. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | In this purchase has been also comprehended a part of the lands within the fork of Oconee and Oakmulgee rivers. |
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| "Fork" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 87.95% of the time. "Fork" is used about 729 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 87.95% | 641 | 10,166 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 7.53% | 55 | 45,713 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 4.25% | 31 | 62,296 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.27% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 729 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| USA | North Fork Bancorp Incorporated |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
1. Fork, MD 2. Fork, SC |
Expressions using "fork": american Fork ♦ ash Fork ♦ blade of a tuning fork ♦ carving fork ♦ cherry Fork ♦ Clark Fork ♦ clear Fork ♦ coal Fork ♦ Cross Fork ♦ data fork ♦ Dry Fork ♦ dung fork ♦ East Fork ♦ fork and spoon ♦ Fork beam ♦ fork bomb ♦ Fork chuck ♦ Fork head ♦ fork lift ♦ fork lift pocket ♦ fork of a bough ♦ fork out ♦ fork over ♦ fork pocket ♦ Fork Union ♦ fork up ♦ front fork ♦ Glen Fork ♦ Glens Fork ♦ Greens Fork ♦ hand fork ♦ Harpoon fork ♦ hay fork ♦ in fork ♦ knife and fork ♦ Laurel Fork ♦ Locust Fork ♦ Morris Fork ♦ North Fork ♦ Oven Fork ♦ play a good knife and fork ♦ replication fork ♦ resource fork ♦ Rolling Fork ♦ salad fork ♦ Sand Fork ♦ skeleton fork fern ♦ Slab Fork ♦ South Fork ♦ Spanish Fork ♦ Stoney Fork ♦ to fork ♦ to fork out ♦ to fork over ♦ toasting fork ♦ tuning fork ♦ tuning fork transistor movement ♦ Valley Fork ♦ weeding fork ♦ West Fork ♦ wooden fork ♦ wooden winnowing fork ♦ Y fork. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "fork": fork-hand, fork-impaled, fork-lift, fork-lift truck, fork-shaped, Fork-tailed, Fork-tailed flycatcher, Fork-tailed gull, Fork-tailed kite. | |
Ending with "fork": knife-and-fork, tuning-fork. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
grand fork nd | 828 | east grand fork minnesota | 57 |
north fork bank | 543 | ash az fork | 56 |
grand fork herald | 409 | au sable fork ny | 53 |
fork | 373 | fork union military academy | 49 |
lake fork | 262 | fox fork | 46 |
grand fork | 229 | grand fork hotel | 45 |
south fork colorado | 188 | three fork | 44 |
fork washington | 171 | fishing fork lake report | 44 |
the fork winnipeg | 130 | middle fork of the salmon river | 44 |
salt fork state park | 116 | lift truck fork | 44 |
grand fork north dakota | 112 | three fork montana | 43 |
big south fork | 108 | motorcycle fork | 43 |
spanish fork utah | 106 | fork grand hearld | 42 |
american fork utah | 106 | fork ranch south | 40 |
tuning fork | 103 | bank of american fork | 40 |
manitou fork | 95 | grand fork afb | 39 |
fork salt | 93 | grand fork afb nd | 39 |
lake fork texas | 79 | jacks fork river | 38 |
north fork | 66 | north fork long island | 37 |
devil fork state park | 57 | grand fork bc | 36 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "fork"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | vurk. (various references) | |
Albanian | fish (fold), sfurk (hayfork, pitchfork), punoj me sfurk, pirun (fork lift), degëzim (arm, bifurcation, branch, derivation, embranchment, feeder, furcation, prong, rame, ramification, spur), degë (agency, arm, bough, branch, brushwood, department, discipline, embranchment, knag, limb, offshoot, outgrowth, perch, prong, rame, ramification, specialism, stick), bigëzim (bifurcation, crotch). (various references) | |
Arabic | فرع شعبة (branch, division, ramification, section), فرع (branch, department, offshoot, ramify, section, weave), مفترق الطرق (crossroad, crossways), مفرق طرق (road junction), ملتقى نهرين, مذراة (pitchfork, winnow), تفرع (bisect, branch, divaricate, embranchment, offshoot, ramify, schism, turning), تشعب (bisect, branch, calve, diverge, divergence, offshoot, radiate, ramification, ramify, split, split up), ذرى بمذراة, الشوكة (tine), شوكة طعام (prong), شعب (country, nation, public, ramify), دفع مالا (shell out). (various references) | |
Asturian | garfiu. (various references) | |
Basque | sardeska. (various references) | |
Bavarian | gowi. (various references) | |
Bemba | foloko. (various references) | |
Blackfoot | iihtáóoyo'p. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | вилка (bracket, gab), правя на чатал, правя вилица, място за сливане, набождам нещо с вилица, вдигам с вила (prong), изчерпвам водата от мина, вила (country house, dung fork, hayfork, pitchfork, prong, summerhouse), ям нещо с вилица, камертон (pitchfork, tonometer, tuning fork), чатал (crotch, crutch), разклонение на път (point), разклонена светкавица, разклонявам се (branch, branch out, divaricate, diverge, furcate, part), разцепвам (burst, cut open, gash, rend, rift, split, split off), вилица (prong). (various references) | |
Cebuano | tinidor. (various references) | |
Chamorro | ténidot. (various references) | |
Chinese | 叉子 . (various references) | |
Cornish | forgh. (various references) | |
Czech | vidlice (cradle, crotch, hook), vidlièka, vìtvit se (branch, branch out), rozbíhat se (divaricate). (various references) | |
Danish | gaffel (clevis, cradle, crotch, crutch, gear shift fork, hoop, selector fork, transmission shift fork). (various references) | |
Dutch | vork (clutch fork, control fork, crutch, curl, fork end, gear shift fork, hay fork, selector fork, shift fork, transmission shift fork, yoke), kruis (cross, crotch, grid, hash, loin, number sign, pound sign, seat, sharp). (various references) | |
Esperanto | forko. (various references) | |
Faeroese | gaffil. (various references) | |
Farsi | پنجه (Claw, Paw, Pitchfork, Talon, Toe), منشعب شدن (Branch, Ramify), مثل چنگال شدن , چنگال (Claw, Clef, Clutch, Grain, Nail, Paw, Pitchfork, Prong, Rake, Talon), سه شاخه , دوشاخه (Crotch, Crutch, Knee, Pitchfork). (various references) | |
Finnish | haarukka (gaff), hanko (pitchfork), haara (bough, branch, direction). (various references) | |
French | fourchette (clutch fork, control fork, gear shift fork, selector fork, shift fork, transmission shift fork), fourche (forked end, forked trees, hay fork), embranchement. (various references) | |
Frisian | foarke. (various references) | |
German | Gabel (branch, cradle, gable, pitchfork, receiver rest, rest, shafts, yoke), zwiesel (crotch, crutch, curl), Verzweigung (branch, branching, ramification), gabelung (bifurcation, branch, crotch), gabeln (bifurcate, fork up, forks, gables, pitch, pitchfork). (various references) | |
Greek | πηρούνι, διακλάδωση (a fork, bifurcation, branch, ramification), δίκρανο (pitchfork, prong, rake). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מזלג, להעלות במזלג, קלשון (hayfork, pitchfork). (various references) | |
Hungarian | villa (place, prong, villa), elágazás (arm, bifurcation, branch, branching, crotch, derivation, divergence, divergency, intersection, junction, offset, ramification, turnout). (various references) | |
Indonesian | garpu (cutlery), cabang (affiliate, bough, branch, chapter, furcation, offshoot, subdivison), bercabang (branch, branch off, furcate, have branches). (various references) | |
Inuktitut | kakkiak. (various references) | |
Irish | forc (forc), píce, gabhlóg. (various references) | |
Italian | forchetta (frog), biforcazione (crutch, forking, turning), forcella (crotch, merrythought, wishbone), forca (crotch, gallows, gibbet, pitchfork). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 熊手 (bamboo rake, rake), ペン先 (force out, horse race, horsepower, horseradish, hose, HP, pen nibs, PS, whore), フェルミ粒子 (a walk, fall, fault, fault-tolerance, fauvisme, fellowship, fence, fencing, fender, Fermi particle, ferret, ferro-alloy, foam, foam rubber, focus, Fodor, fog, fog lamp, fog light, foie gras, folder, folk, folk art, folk dance, folk song, folklore, follow, follow wind, follow-through, followup, follow-up, fondue, font, force, force-out, ford, fore, forecast, foreground, forehand, foreman, forge, fork ball, forklift, forklore, form, formal, formal dress, formal wear, formalism, format, formation, formatter, formatting, form-feed, formula car, formula plan, formula translation, forte, FORTRAN, fortune, forum, forward, forward pass, forwarding, fossa magna, foster child, foster parent, four nines, fox-trot, Fuji, Fuji-TV, pheromone, phone, phonograph, photo, photo library, photo realism, photo story, photo studio, photochromic glass, photocoupler, photodiode, photogenic, photogenie, photograph, photographer, photography, photogravure, photoresist, phototransistor, Volkswagen, VW), 叉 (crotch), 分点 (equinox, junction), 分かれ目 (junction, parting of the ways, turning point), 分かれ (branch, offshoot), 別れ目 (junction, parting of the ways, turning point), 別れ (branch, division, farewell, offshoot, parting, section, separation). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | フォーク (folk), ホーク , くまで (bamboo rake, rake), また (again, also, and, crotch, groin, thigh), ぶんてん (branch of a firm, branch store, equinox, grammar, junction), わかれめ (junction, parting of the ways, turning point), わかれ (branch, division, farewell, offshoot, parting, section, separation). (various references) | |
Kongo | nsoma. (various references) | |
Korean | 포크 (Forks). (various references) | |
Macedonian | viluska. (various references) | |
Manx | listyr (fish spear), gollagey, gollage (dung fork; earwig, garden fork, hay fork, pitchfork), goaley, banglaney. (various references) | |
Maori | paaoka. (various references) | |
Mohawk | ahsikwe. (various references) | |
Norwegian | gaffel. (various references) | |
Occitan | forqueta. (various references) | |
Papago | ol-gihya. (various references) | |
Papiamen | fòrki, orketa, hòrkèt. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | orkfay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | garfo (prong, set, yoke), forquilha (crotch, pitchfork), bifurcação (bifurcation, chevron, divarication, embranchment, furcation, parting, turnabout). (various references) | |
Provencal | forqueta. (various references) | |
Romanian | furculiţã, furcã (cradle, distaff, hay fork, pitchfork, prong, receiver rest, rock), zigzag (crinkum-crankum, jag, wobble, zigzag), se ramifica (branch out, furcate, ramify), rãspântie, diapazon (Diapason, gamut, range, scale, tonometer, tuning fork), bifurcaţie, bifurca, arunca cu furca. (various references) | |
Romansch | furtgetta. (various references) | |
Romany | pantaròolya. (various references) | |
Ruanda | fourchette. (various references) | |
Russian | вилка (crotch, prong, yoke). (various references) | |
Samoan | tui. (various references) | |
Scottish | gobhal (a fork, a forked object), gabhal. (various references) | |
Sepedi | maphaga. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | viljuška (pitchfork, tholepin), vile (dung fork, hayfork), rukavac reke (armlet), račvati se (bifurcate, bisect, branch, branch out), račvanje (bifurcation, branching), račva (bifurcation, prong), dizati vilama. (various references) | |
Spanish | tenedor (freighter, holder, payee), horquilla (gab, hairpin, oarlock, pin, rest, yoke), horca (crotch, gallows, gibbet, pitchfork), empalme (abutment, combination, connection, connexion, hard on, joint, junction, junction box, merge, road junction, scarf, splice, stand, union). (various references) | |
Sranan | forku. (various references) | |
Swahili | panda. (various references) | |
Swedish | gaffel (gaff, spar), klyka (crotch), grep (pitchfork). (various references) | |
Tagalog | tinidór. (various references) | |
Turkish | yaba (fan, hayfork, prong, winnow, wooden fork, wooden winnowing fork), bellemek (dig, get into a groove, learn by heart, memorize, trench), ayrılmak (apostatize, be off, be through with, break away, break up, break with, check out, come unstuck, cut loose, decamp, defect, depart, desert, deviate, disunite, divaricate, diverge, divide, divorce, divorce from, draw apart, draw away, drop out, furcate, get clear of, get off, give up, graduate, hive off, lead away from, leave, mosey, move off, part, part company, part company with, part from, part with, pull away, pull out, quit, retire, revolt, revolt from, secede, segregate, separate, sever, splinter off, split, split off, split up, stray, sunder, take one's farewell of, tear oneself away, unstuck, vacate, walk off, walk out, walk out of, withdraw), çatallaşmak (crack), çatallı bel, çatalla kaldırmak, çatal biçimi vermek, çatal (bifurcated, clevis, crotch, difficult, forked, prong, two sided). (various references) | |
Turkmen | wilka (r), юaryk, зarюak (pitchfork). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | розгалужуватися (divaricate), розвилка (crotch), роздвоюватися (furcate), відгалуження (filiation, offset, offshoot, rame), вила (crotch, pitchfork, prong), виделка, працювати вилами. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tia chớp nhằng nhằng. (various references) | |
Welsh | fforc. (various references) | |
