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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).
vork
  • (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.
splitsing, vork
  • (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.
afsplitsing, fork, splitsing
  • Any of several types of pronged (tined) tools (physical tools), as follows:
gaffel, hooivork, mestvork
  • (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.
voorvork, vork

fork verb

  /foɹk/ , /fɔ(ː)ɹk/ , /fɔːk/ , [fo̞ɹk]
  • (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.
afsplitsen
  • (ambitransitive, computing) To spawn a new child process by duplicating the existing process.
afsplitsen, forken
  • (transitive) To move with a fork (as hay or food).
met een vork eten, prikken

forked

gevorkt

forkful noun

  • The amount that a fork will hold.
vorkvol

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