fork
noun
/foɹk/
,
/fɔ(ː)ɹk/
,
/fɔːk/
,
[fo̞ɹk]
|
- Such a pronged tool having a long straight handle, generally for two-handed use, as used for digging, lifting, mucking, pitching, etc.
- (chess) The simultaneous attack of two adversary pieces with one single attacking piece (especially a knight).
- (cycling, motorcycles, by abstraction from a pronged tool's shape) 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.
|
Gabel
|
- (physical) An intersection in a road or path where one road is split into two.
- (by abstraction, from the tool shape) A point where a waterway, such as a river or other stream, splits and flows into two (or more) different directions.
|
Gabelung,
Verzweigung
|
- (metonymically, and analogous to any prong of a pronged tool) 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.
|
Verzweigung,
Abspaltung,
Fork
|
- Any of several types of pronged (tined) tools (physical tools), as follows:
|
Forke,
Gabel
|
fork
verb
/foɹk/
,
/fɔ(ː)ɹk/
,
/fɔːk/
,
[fo̞ɹk]
|
- (transitive) To move with a fork (as hay or food).
|
aufgabeln,
gabeln
|
- (ambitransitive, computing) To spawn a new child process by duplicating the existing process.
|
aufspalten,
gabeln,
spalten
|
- (ambitransitive, software development) To launch a separate software development effort based upon a modified copy of an existing software project, especially in free and open-source software.
|
aufspalten,
spalten
|
- (ambitransitive) To divide into two or more branches or copies.
|
gabeln
|
forkful
noun
|
- The amount that a fork will hold.
|
Gabelvoll
|