n.

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

v., forked, fork·ing, forks.

v.tr.

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

v.intr.

1. To divide into two or more branches: The river forks here.
2. 1. To use a fork, as in working.
   2. To turn at or travel along a fork.

[Middle English forke, digging fork, from Old English forca and from Old North French forque, both from Latin furca.]

forker fork'er n.
forkful fork'ful' n.

(1) To split into a different direction. See forked version.

(2) In Unix, to make a copy of a process for execution.

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also fork out

noun

Something resembling or structurally analogous to a tree branch: arm, branch, offshoot. See part/whole.

verb

To separate into branches or branchlike parts: bifurcate, branch (out), diverge, divide, ramify, subdivide. See part/whole.

phrasal verb - fork out (or over)

To distribute (money) as payment: disburse, expend, give, lay out, outlay, pay (out), spend. Informal shell out. See save/waste.

Also, fork out or up. Hand over, pay up. For example, It's time you forked over what you owe, or He forked out a hundred for that meal, or Fork up or we'll sue. [Slang; early 1800s[

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v

Definition: go separate ways
Antonyms: join

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In the open-source community, a fork is what occurs when two (or more) versions of a software package's source code are being developed in parallel which once shared a common code base, and these multiple versions of the source code have irreconcilable differences between them. This should not be confused with a development branch, which may later be folded back into the original source code base. Nor should it be confused with what happens when a new distribution of Linux or some other distribution is created, because that largely assembles pieces than can and will be used in other distributions without conflict.

Forking is uncommon; in fact, it is so uncommon that individual instances loom large in hacker folklore. Notable in this class were the Emacs/XEmacs fork, the GCC/EGCS fork (later healed by a merger) and the forks among the FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD operating systems.

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is short for:

Filibuster Over Reactionary Knowledge

A cynical view of the world by Ambrose Bierce

n.

An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth. Formerly the knife was employed for this purpose, and by many worthy persons is still thought to have many advantages over the other tool, which, however, they do not altogether reject, but use to assist in charging the knife. The immunity of these persons from swift and awful death is one of the most striking proofs of God's mercy to those that hate Him.

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1. A digging or lifting tool with tines instead of a solid head like a spade.
2. The point at which two branches of approximately equal size divide.

See also crotch.

IN BRIEF: n. - The act of branching out or dividing into branches; Cutlery used for serving and eating food; An agricultural tool used for lifting or digging; The angle formed by the inner sides of the legs where they join the human trunk.

One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. "Which road do I take?" she asked

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - gaffel, greb, sted hvor noget deler sig
v. tr. - betale, forke, give en gaffel
v. intr. - dele sig, grene sig

idioms:

• fork out    punge ud, spytte i bøssen
• forked tongue    kløvet tunge

Nederlands (Dutch)
vork, samenvloeiing, aftakking, splitsing, zich splitsen, vorken, tot vork omvormen, vork gebruiken, afslaan

Français (French)
n. - fourche, embranchement, fourchette, bifurcation, ramification
v. tr. - fourcher (la terre), fourcher (aux échecs)
v. intr. - fourcher, faire la fourche, se bifurquer

idioms:

• fork out    casquer, débourser
• fork over    retourner à la fourche, (US, fig) allonger (de l'argent)
• fork up    retourner à la fourche, (US, fig) allonger (de l'argent)
• have a forked tongue    (fig) avoir une langue fourchue
• speak with forked tongue    (US) mentir

Deutsch (German)
n. - Gabel, Gabelung
v. - (sich) gabeln

idioms:

• fork out    blechen
• fork over    lockern
• fork up    (ugs) lockermachen
• have a forked tongue    (fig) gespaltene Zunge haben
• speak with forked tongue    eine spitze Zunge haben

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - πιρούνι, δικράνι, διχάλα, περόνη, διακλάδωση, καβάλος, (μηχαν.) δίχαλο, φουρκέτα
v. - καρφώνω ή πιάνω με πιρούνι, πιρουνιάζω, διχάζομαι, χωρίζομαι, διακλαδίζομαι

idioms:

• fork out    (καθομ.) πληρώνω, τα σκάω, ξηλώνομαι
• forked tongue    διχαλωτή γλώσσα

Italiano (Italian)
biforcarsi, svoltare, forcone, biforcazione, bivio, forchetta

idioms:

• fork out    pagare
• fork out for    pagare
• forked tongue    lingua biforcuta

Português (Portuguese)
n. - garfo (m), bifurcação (f)
v. - bifurcar(-se), garfar

idioms:

• fork out    pagar (gír.)
• forked tongue    mentir

Русский (Russian)
работать вилами, убирать сено вилами, раздваивать, свернуть на развилке, вилка, развилка

idioms:

• fork out    раскошелиться
• forked tongue    говорит одно, а думает другое

Español (Spanish)
n. - horquilla (del heno), horca, bifurcación, confluencia, tenedor, ramal, ramificación
v. tr. - ahorquillar, entregar, pagar
v. intr. - bifurcarse, apartarse, desviarse, doblar, torcer

idioms:

• fork out    apoquinar, aflojar la bolsa, cascar
• fork over    entregar, pagar
• fork up    pagar algo sin ganas
• have a forked tongue    tener lengua bífida
• speak with forked tongue    hablar con lengua bífida

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - gaffel, grep, förgrening, skrev (anat.), gaffelställning (schack), framgaffel (på cykel)
v. - lyfta, göra gaffelformig, förgrena sig

中文（简体） (Chinese (Simplified))
叉子, 分岔, 草叉, 使成叉状, 耙, 叉起, 分歧, 分叉

idioms:

• fork out    不情愿付出
• forked tongue    叉状舌, 假话, 刻薄话

中文（繁體） (Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 叉子, 分岔, 草叉
v. tr. - 使成叉狀, 耙, 叉起
v. intr. - 分歧, 分叉

idioms:

• fork out    不情願付出
• forked tongue    叉狀舌, 假話, 刻薄話

한국어 (Korean)
n. - (식탁, 농업 용의) 포크, 갈래진 가지
v. tr. - 갈래가 지게 하다, 포크로 찌르다
v. intr. - 갈라지다, 분기하다

idioms:

• fork out    내어주다

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - フォーク, くま手, 分岐点, また, 熊手
v. - くま手でかき上げる, 分岐する, 分岐した道を行く

idioms:

• fork out    掘る, 手渡す

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) شوكه (فعل) يتفرع , يتشعب‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮מזלג, קלשון, מסעף‬
v. tr. - ‮תפס או הרים בקלשון‬
v. intr. - ‮הסתעף, התחלק לשניים‬

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