fork
noun
/foɹk/
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/fɔ(ː)ɹk/
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/fɔːk/
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[fo̞ɹk]
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- Such a pronged tool having a long straight handle, generally for two-handed use, as used for digging, lifting, mucking, pitching, etc.
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fourchette,
fourche
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- (chess) The simultaneous attack of two adversary pieces with one single attacking piece (especially a knight).
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fourchette
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- Any of several types of pronged (tined) tools (physical tools), as follows:
- (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.
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fourche,
fourchette
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- (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.
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bifurcation,
fourche
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- (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.
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duplication de processus,
fork
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forkful
noun
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- The amount that a fork will hold.
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fourchetée,
fourchettée
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