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Fork Noun Bre Fɔːk Fɔːrk Eat Knife Shortly

Word fork
WordType (noun)
Phonetic BrE / fɔːk / NAmE / fɔːrk /
Example
  • to eat with a knife and fork
  • shortly before dusk they reached a fork and took the left-hand track.
  • take the right fork.
  • a jagged fork of lightning
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fork

(noun)BrE / fɔːk / NAmE / fɔːrk /
  1. a tool with a handle and three or four sharp points (called prongs ), used for picking up and eating food
    • to eat with a knife and fork
  2. a garden tool with a long or short handle and three or four sharp metal points, used for digging
    • see also pitchfork
      https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/pitchfork
  3. a place where a road, river, etc. divides into two parts; either of these two parts
    • Shortly before dusk they reached a fork and took the left-hand track.
    • Take the right fork.
  4. a thing shaped like a fork, with two or more long parts
    • see also tuning fork
      https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/tuning-fork
    • a jagged fork of lightning
  5. either of two metal supporting pieces into which a wheel on a bicycle or motorcycle is fitted
    • See related entries: Cycling
      https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/topic/cycling/fork_2

    Extra Examples

    • Bear left at the fork in the road.
    • He put the knives and forks on the table.
    • Mash the mixture with a fork.
    • She impaled a piece of meat on her fork.
    • a fork in the road
    • a monkey sitting in the fork of the tree

    Word Origin

    • Old English forca, force (denoting a farm implement), based on Latin furca ‘pitchfork, forked stick’; reinforced in Middle English by Anglo-Norman French furke (also from Latin furca).
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