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"FORKS" is a plural of: fork. |
Date "FORKS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1605. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Forks The gallows. (Latin, furca.) Cicero (de Divinitate, i. 26) says, "Ferens furcam ductus est, " often quoted in proof that criminals condemned to the cross were obliged to carry their own cross to the place of execution. But the ordinary meaning of furca is a kind of yoke to which the hands of criminals were fastened. The punishment was of three degrees of severity: (1) The furca ignominiosa; (2) the furca pænalis; and (3) the furca capitalis. The first was for slight offences, and consisted in carrying the furca on the shoulders, more or less weighted. The second consisted in carrying the furca and being scourged. The third was being scourged to death. The word furcifer meant what we call a gallows-bad or vile fellow. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: FORKS |
| English words defined with "FORKS": Albata ♦ Biconjugate ♦ Eelspear ♦ Fiddle pattern ♦ Invar ♦ Quadrifurcated ♦ Trifurcated, Trisulcate, Trisuls. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "FORKS": CAPSULE-FILLING-MACHINE OPERATOR, Cardan joint, CASING-MACHINE OPERATOR, COKE DRAWER, HAND, crusher operator ♦ dining philosophers, Dining Philosophers Problem, display carver ♦ ETCHER, HAND, exhibition carver ♦ filler blender, FILLER MIXER, Fingers before Forks, FLATWARE MAKER, flavoring-machine operator, Four-Way Pallet, Furca, Furcam et Flagellum ♦ HAIR-SPINNING-MACHINE OPERATOR, Hooke's coupling, Hooke's coupling universal joint ♦ LABORER, VAT HOUSE ♦ MacBinary, Macintosh file system, meat carver ♦ overshot operator ♦ roller operator ♦ scrap preparer, Sheffield grinders'disease, stem-cleaning-machine feeder, STEM-ROLLER-OR-CRUSHER OPERATOR, stem-threshing-machine operator ♦ TABLE HAND, THRESHING-MACHINE OPERATOR, tobacco flavorer. (references) |
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Screenplays | May the forks be with us! (Mystery Men; writing credit: Kinka Usher, written by Bob Burden and Neil Cuthbert. Based on the comic book series.) Rise up in the cafeteria and stab them with your plastic forks! (Pump Up the Volume; writing credit: Allan Moyle) And the chopsticks: there was no metal for forks and knives and spoons, but slivers of wood could suffice. (Conquest of Space; writing credit: Chesley Bonestell; Willy Ley) Tonight you can do me the honor of christening my forks. (Becket; writing credit: Edward Anhalt; Jean Anouilh) | |
Movie/TV Titles | At Rolling Forks (1912) | |
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 | Rock cairn signal at divide between two main forks of the Ladue River International Boundary Commission surveyor. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Tech. Sgt. Rich Lien from the Grand Forks Air Force Base, N.D., Fire Department, talks with an Air Force spouse in the Grand Forks base exchange during fire prevention week in October. Lien says "getting out in the community" is one of the impo. |
 | Col. Mark Schultz, 319th Air Refueling Wing Operations Group commander, Grand Forks, N.D., radios security forces about a simulated suspected car bomb during a field training exercise, March 6 at Ft. Dix, N.J. Schultz is at the Air Mobility Warfare Center. |  | Biological aide Ellie Giron (left) and ARS chemist Phyllis Johnson prepare a sample for analysis at the ARS Grand Forks Human Nutrition Research Center in Grand Forks, North Dakota. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Bruce Fritz.. |
 | Historic structure at Animas Forks ghost town along the Alpine Loop National Back Country Byway. Credit: Unknown. |  | Frosted leaves (big leaf maple) along West Forks Evans Creek. Credit: Terry Tuttle. |
 | Gr[and] Forks Fair Privy - '36. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | [Grand Forks Fair Grounds public privy]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Chenango Forks, N.Y. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Last stand of Picketts men. Battle of Five Forks. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | At the first corner, Grenetat will make a Caudine Forks. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | She set tin cups on a big packing box, set tin plates and knives and forks out. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | The spoons, forks, and other instruments were all in the same proportion. |
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Health | Raccoons typically defecate at the base of or in raised forks of trees, or on raised horizontal surfaces such as fallen logs, stumps, or large rocks. (references) | |
Business | Products like forks and spades have a much longer lifespan, and replacement purchases are much more infrequent. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "FORKS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 91.74% of the time. "FORKS" is used about 121 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 (plural) | 91.74% | 111 | 30,796 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 8.26% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Total | 100.00% | 121 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
1. Forks, WA (city, FIPS 24810) |
Expressions using "FORKS": au Sable Forks ♦ Caudine Forks ♦ Chenango Forks ♦ cutoff forks ♦ East Grand Forks ♦ Five Forks ♦ forks and knives ♦ Forks Of Salmon ♦ Forks Township ♦ Grand Forks ♦ Grand Forks AFB ♦ Grand Forks County ♦ knives and forks ♦ Mooers Forks ♦ Road Forks ♦ staunching forks ♦ The forks of a river ♦ the forks of a road ♦ Three Forks ♦ West Forks. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "FORKS": pitch-forks. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "FORKS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 叉子 (fork). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | fremstilling af skære-og klipperedskaber og bestik (manufacture of cutlery and of forks, spoons and similar kitchen or tableware), motorvejskryds og motorvejsforgreninger projekteres med tosporede ensrettede koerebaner (motorway interchanges and forks are designed with two-lane, one-way traffic slip roads), hoevender med forke (hay tedder with lifting forks), gaffelstabletruck med forskydelige gafler for staaende foerer (stand on reach truck with retractable forks), gaffelstabletruck med forskydelige gafler for siddende foerer (rider seated reach truck with retractable forks), gaffelstabletruck med forskydelige gafler for gaaende foerer (pedestrian reach truck with retractable forks), gaffellignende taetningsmur (cutoff forks, staunching forks). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | vorkjesschudder (hay tedder with lifting forks), vertakte achterloopsheidschermen (cutoff forks, staunching forks), rijdende stapelaar met verplaatsbare vork voor besturing door voetganger (pedestrian reach truck with retractable forks), rijdende stapelaar met verplaatsbare vork en bestuurderszitplaats (rider seated reach truck with retractable forks), rijdende stapelaar met verplaatsbare vork en bestuurdersstaanplaats (stand on reach truck with retractable forks), messen-en bestekkenfabrieken (manufacture of cutlery and of forks, spoons and similar kitchen or tableware), kruisingen en splitsingen in autosnelwegen worden ingericht met twee rijstroken per richting (motorway interchanges and forks are designed with two-lane, one-way traffic slip roads). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | manĝilaro (knives and spoons). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | saksien ym.leikkuuvälineiden valmistus (manufacture of cutlery and of forks, spoons and similar kitchen or tableware), ruokailuvälineiden (manufacture of cutlery and of forks, spoons and similar kitchen or tableware). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | faneuse fourches battantes (hay tedder with lifting forks), palonnier griffes (lifting beam with forks), palonnier fourches (lifting beam with forks), les intersections et les branches d'autoroute sont dimensionnées pour une circulation unidirectionnelle, deux voies (motorway interchanges and forks are designed with two-lane), coutellerie,fabrication de couverts (manufacture of cutlery and of forks), chariot élévateur fourche rétractable conducteur debout (stand on reach truck with retractable forks), chariot élévateur fourche rétractable conducteur assis (rider seated reach truck with retractable forks), chariot élévateur fourche rétractable conducteur pied (pedestrian reach truck with retractable forks), ailes en fourches de mur parafouille (cutoff forks, staunching forks). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Gabeln (bifurcate, fork, fork up, gables, pitch, pitchfork). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | Οι διασταυρώσεις και οι κλάδοι ενός αυτοκινητόδρομου διαστασιολογούνται με δύο λωρίδες με κυκλοφορία μιας κατεύθυνσης. (motorway interchanges and forks are designed with two-lane, one-way traffic slip roads), κατασκευή ειδών μαχαιροποιίας και μαχαιροπήρουνων (manufacture of cutlery and of forks, spoons and similar kitchen or tableware), μηχανή ανατροπής κομμένου χόρτου με περόνες (hay tedder with lifting forks), μαχαιροπήρουνα (cutlery, forks and knives), ανυψωτική δοκός με περόνες (lifting beam with forks), ανυψωτική δοκός με δίχαλα (lifting beam with forks), διχαλωταί πτέρυγες τοίχου στεγανότητος (cutoff forks, staunching forks). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | elsővilla (front fork, front forks). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | bivi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 포크 (fork). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | orksfay bifurcações. (various references) bifurcações. (various references) bifurcaciones. (various references) gaffelliknande tätningsmur (cutoff forks, staunching forks). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Date | Source | 1 Samuel Chapter 13, Verse 21 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai hn o trughtoV etoimoV tou qerizein ta de skeuh hn treiV sikloi eiV ton odonta kai th axinh kai tw drepanw upostasiV hn h auth |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Retunsae itaque erant acies vomerum et ligonum et tridentum et securium usque ad stimulum corrigendum |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | For eggys of the sharis, and of diggynge yrens, and of forkis, and of the axis weren blunt, vnto a prik to menden. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the coulters, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to sharpen the goads. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the colters, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to sharpen the goads. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | For they had instruments for putting an edge on their ploughs and blades and forks and axes, and for putting iron points on their ox-driving rods. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | 1 Samuel Chapter 13, Verse 21 |
| Cebuano | Apan aduna silay limbas alang sa mga bingkong, ug alang sa mga punta, ug alang sa mga salapang, ug alang sa mga wasay, ug alang sa pagpahamutang sa mga tugsok. |
| Chinese | 但 有 銼 可 以 銼 鏟 、 犁 、 三 ' 叉 、 斧 子 、 並 趕 牛 錐 。 |
| Croatian | A cijena je bila dvije treæine šekela za raonike i motike, jedna treæina za oštrenje sjekire i za nasaðivanje ostana. |
| Danish | det kostede en Pim at få slebet Plovjem og Hakker og en Tredjedel Sekel for Økser og for at indsætte Pig. |
| Dutch | Maar zij hadden tandige vijlen tot hun houwelen, en tot hun spaden, en tot de drietandige vorken, en tot de bijlen, en tot het stellen der prikkelen. |
| Finnish | kun vannasten, kuokkien, tadikkojen tai kirvesten terät olivat tylsyneet, tahi kun häränpistimen tutkain oli oikaistava. |
| French | quand le tranchant des bêches, des hoyaux, des tridents et des haches, était émoussé, et pour redresser les aiguillons. |
| German | Und die Schneiden an den Sensen und Hauen und Gabeln und Beilen waren abgearbeitet und die Stachel stumpf geworden. |
| Haitian Creole | Moun Filisti yo te mande yo yon ti pyès ajan pou file chak dan rach epi pou fè pwent frenn yo, de ti pyès ajan pou fè dan chari yo ak pwent wou yo. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | upahnya ialah sekeping uang kecil untuk mengasah kapak dan membetulkan alat pemacu sapi, dan dua keping uang kecil untuk mengasah mata bajak atau cangkul. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Tetapi adalah juga pada mereka itu kikir yang tajam bagi cangkulnya dan penggalinya dan serampangnya dan kapaknya dan akan memasang cacaknya. |
| Italian | L'affilatura costava due terzi di siclo per i vomeri e le zappe e un terzo l'affilatura delle scuri e dei pungoli. |
| Maori | Otiia he whaiuru ano ta ratou mo nga hea, mo nga maripi o nga parau, mo nga marau, mo nga toki, hei oro ano hoki mo nga wero kau. |
| Norwegian | og når eggen var sløvet på plogskjærene og hakkene og grepene og øksene, eller for å få en pigg påsatt. |
| Portuguese | Tinham porém limas para os sachos, para as enxadas, para as forquilhas e para os machados, e para consertar as aguilhadas. |
| Rumanian | cknd se tocea sapa, coasa, furca cu trei coarne wi securea, wi ca sq facq vkrf yepuwului cu care mkna boii. |
| Russian | ЛПЗ"Б У"ЕМБЕФУС ЭЕТ'ЙОБ ОБ ПУФТЙЕ Х УПЫОЙЛПЧ, Й Х ЪБУФХ ПЧ, Й Х ЧЙМ, Й Х ФП ПТПЧ, ЙМЙ ОХЦОП ТПЦПО П ТБЧЙФШ. |
| Spanish | El afilado costaba un pim, tanto para las rejas de arado, como para los azadones, los tridentes, las hachas o para afinar las aguijadas. |
| Swedish | när det hade blivit något fel med eggen på skärorna eller plogbillarna, eller med gafflarna eller yxorna, eller när oxpikarnas uddar behövde rätas. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "FORKS": forksful. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "FORKS": hayforks, pitchforks. (additional references) | |
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"FORKS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Farakos, Farkas, Farkasa, farks, fokes, foks, foork, foras, forc, Forcus, forek, forgs, foris, foros, fors, forsc, Forss, forx, Fowkes, frok, frokost, orks, Orsk, Rorkes. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "FORKS" (pronounced fô"rks) |
| 4 | -ô" r k s | corks, uncorks. |
| 3 | -r k s | arcs, ballparks, barks, benchmarks, birthmarks, earmarks, embarks, hallmarks, harks, landmarks, larks, marks, Marques, monarchs, parks, patriarchs, pitchforks, quarks, remarks, sharks, sparks, trademarks. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "f-k-o-r-s" | |
-1 letter: fork, kors. | |
-2 letters: for, fro, kor, kos, ors. | |
-3 letters: of, or, os, so. | |
| Words containing the letters "f-k-o-r-s" | |
+1 letter: frocks. | |
+2 letters: forkers, forsake, forsook. | |
+3 letters: defrocks, disfrock, folksier, foreskin, forkfuls, forkiest, forkless, forksful, forsaken, forsaker, forsakes, futhorks, hayforks, rakeoffs, rockfish, unfrocks. | |
+4 letters: disfrocks, ecofreaks, falsework, farmworks, firelocks, fireworks, flatworks, folklores, footmarks, footworks, foredecks, foreknows, forelocks, foremilks, forepeaks, foreranks, foreshank, foreshock, foreskins, forespeak, forespoke, forkballs, forklifts, formworks, forsakers, forsaking, fossicker, freakouts, fretworks, frostwork, lifeworks, rockfalls, rockshaft, skidproof, workfares, workfolks. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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