fork

The definition of a fork is a tool with a handle and two or more prongs at the end or a division into two branches.

(noun)

An example of a fork is what people stick into a piece of meat to pick it up to eat it.
An example of a fork is a dead end street with a left and a right turn.

See fork in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

an instrument of greatly varying size with a handle at one end and two or more pointed prongs at the other: forks are variously used as eating utensils and for pitching hay, breaking up soil, etc.
something resembling a fork in shape: tuning fork
a division into branches; bifurcation
☆ the point where a river, road, etc. is divided into two or more branches, or where branches join to form a river, road, etc.
any of these branches

Origin: ME forke < OE forca & Anglo-Fr forque (Fr fourche), both < L furca, two-pronged fork

intransitive verb

to divide into branches; be bifurcated: where the road forks

transitive verb

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See fork in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

A utensil with two or more prongs, used for eating or serving food.
An implement with two or more prongs used for raising, carrying, piercing, or digging.
a. A bifurcation or separation into two or more branches or parts.
b. The point at which such a bifurcation or separation occurs: a fork in a road.
c. One of the branches of such a bifurcation or separation: the right fork. See Synonyms at branch.
Games An attack by one chess piece on two pieces at the same time.

verb forked, fork·ing, forks

verb, transitive

To raise, carry, pitch, or pierce with a fork.
To give the shape of a fork to (one's fingers, for example).
Games To launch an attack on (two chess pieces).
Informal To pay. Used with over, out, or up: forked over $80 for front-row seats; forked up the money owed.

verb, intransitive