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.
- (chess) The simultaneous attack of two adversary pieces with one single attacking piece (especially a knight).
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forchetta
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- (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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forcella,
forchetta
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- Any of several types of pronged (tined) tools (physical tools), as follows:
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forcone
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- (physical) An intersection in a road or path where one road is split into two.
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biforcazione,
bivio
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- (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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biforcazione,
bivio,
ramo
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- (metonymic, 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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affluente,
biforcazione,
diramazione,
esecuzione di una fork,
immissario,
ramificazione
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- (content management) The splitting of the coverage of a topic (within a corpus of content) into two or more pieces.
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affluente,
immissario,
tributario
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fork
verb
/foɹk/
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/fɔ(ː)ɹk/
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/fɔːk/
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[fo̞ɹk]
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- (ambitransitive) To divide into two or more branches or copies.
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biforcare
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- (transitive, British) To kick someone in the crotch.
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dare un calcio alle parti basse
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- (transitive) To move with a fork (as hay or food).
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inforcare
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forked
adjective
/fɔː(ɹ)kt/
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- That splits into two or more directions, or parts.
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biforcuto
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forkful
noun
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- The amount that a fork will hold.
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forchettata,
forcata
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