word | fork |
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definition | noun A fork is a tool used for eating food which has a row of three or four long metal points at the end. ...knives and forks. A garden fork is a tool used for breaking up soil which has a row of three or four long metal points at the end. A fork in a road, path, or river is a point at which it divides into two parts and forms a ' Y ' shape. We arrived at a fork in the road. The road divides; you should take the right fork. ...the fork of the Delaware and Lehigh rivers. verb If you fork food into your mouth or onto a plate, you put it there using a fork. Ann forked some fish into her mouth. He forked an egg onto a piece of bread and folded it into a sandwich. If you fork something such as manure or hay, you move it from one place to another using a large garden fork. They started me off in the gardens as a handyman. Digging, forking manure, that kind of thing. Farmers cut the hay, fork it on to a cart and then store it in barns. If a road, path, or river forks, it forms a fork. Beyond the village the road forked. The path dipped down to a sort of cove, and then it forked in two directions. If you fork in a particular direction when you are travelling along a road or path, you choose one of the forks in it and travel down it. Just before the town boundary fork left onto a minor road. |
inflections | forksforkingforked |
cefr-level | A2 |
Tags: oxford5k::cefr-level:a2
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