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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).
 haarukka
  • (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.
 haarukka, etuhaarukka
  • (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.
 tienhaara, forkkaus, forkki, haara, haarakohta, haarukka
  • (physical) An intersection in a road or path where one road is split into two.
 tienhaara, haara
  • (content management) The splitting of the coverage of a topic (within a corpus of content) into two or more pieces.
 haara
  • (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.
 haara, joenhaara
  • Any of several types of pronged (tined) tools (physical tools), as follows:
 talikko

fork verb

  /foɹk/ , /fɔ(ː)ɹk/ , /fɔːk/ , [fo̞ɹk]
  • (ambitransitive, computing) To spawn a new child process by duplicating the existing process.
 forkata
  • (ambitransitive) To divide into two or more branches or copies.
 haarautua
  • (transitive) To move with a fork (as hay or food).
 haarukoida, talikoida
  • (transitive, British) To kick someone in the crotch.
 potkaista haaroihin
  • (intransitive) To shoot into blades, as corn does.
 versoa

forked adjective

  /fɔː(ɹ)kt/
  • That splits into two or more directions, or parts.
 haarautuva, halkipäinen

forkful noun

  • The amount that a fork will hold.
 haarukallinen
tuning fork
äänirauta
digging fork
talikko
fork in the road
tienhaara
winnowing fork
haarukkamainen viskain, haarukkamainen viskin
fish fork
kalahaarukka
fondue fork
fonduehaarukka, fondyyhaarukka
tree fork
puunhaara
Fork-tailed Drongo
sieppodrongo
Fork-tailed Flycatcher
laahustyranni
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