noun
1.A farm or garden tool with three or four prongs, used for digging or lifting.
‘Break up soil within the cutout using a garden fork.’
‘Place forks, rakes and other pointed tools tines down.’
2.A flash of forked lightning.
‘The entire sky writhed in agony above him, split by gigantic forks of lightning flashing between the clouds.’
‘I made it as quick as possible - the rain was still being blown hard against the windows and I could see large forks of lightning through the sheets of rain.’
3.A simultaneous attack on two or more pieces by one.
‘Forks are covered in the chapter ‘The Double Attack,’ although many would consider forks to be a separate species of double attack.’
‘A fork occurs when one piece attacks two or more enemy units at the same time.’
4.An implement with two or more prongs used for lifting food to the mouth or holding it when cutting.
‘Glancing down at his plate, he picked at the cold cuts beneath his fork before reluctantly lifting the food to his mouth.’
‘She pushed the food around with her fork, and closed her eyes.’
5.Denoting a light meal or buffet that may be eaten solely with a fork, while standing.
‘a hot fork buffet’
‘A Right Royal Jubilee Recipe Book includes menu ideas for a fork lunch, dozens of dishes and is rounded off with a recipe for Commonwealth cake.’
6.Each of a pair of supports in which a bicycle or motorcycle wheel revolves.
‘The front wheel attaches to the fork, which in turn links via bearings to the head set on the front of the frame.’
‘There was a hood ornament made out of forks shaped into a pair of horns (very Texan, I thought).’
7.Either of two forked parts.
‘the left fork goes on to the village’
‘At Kattikulam, the right fork of the road leads to Nagarhole and the left to Tirunelli through elephant sanctuaries and bamboo forests.’
8.The point where something, especially a road or river, divides into two parts.
‘turn right at the next fork’
‘When faced with a fork in the road, you can always sit and wait for someone else to make the decision.’
verb
1.(especially of a route) divide into two parts.
‘the place where the road forks’
‘He scampered into the shaft and continued for some hundred yards until the path abruptly forked once more.’
2.Attack (two pieces) simultaneously with one.
‘he has forked my bishop and knight’
‘Black has just pushed his pawn to d5, forking White’s Bishop and Knight.’
3.Dig or move (something) with a fork.
‘fork in some compost’
‘Efforts were intensified in the summer battle against canal moss, and more men and equipment were brought in to fork it out of the canals and into dump trucks.’
4.Split (a process) into two or more independent processes.
‘the attack can only work against a server that forks separate processes to handle client requests’
‘Some parameters can be changed during the execution of the program, i.e., the number of threads forked in a parallel region.’
5.Take or constitute one route or the other at the point where a route divides.
‘we forked north-west for Rannoch’
‘Just before the house, take a path that forks to the right and then go right again after 20 yards, following the edge of a field up to a minor road.’
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noun
‘Break up soil within the cutout using a garden fork.’
