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fork

F0262600 (fôrk)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. 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.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. a. To use a fork, as in working.b. 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.]

fork′er n.fork′ful′ n.

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Noun	1.	forking - the place where something divides into branchesfurcationangular shape, angularity - a shape having one or more sharp anglesbifurcation - the place where something divides into two branchesramification, branch, leg - a part of a forked or branching shape; "he broke off one of the branches"
	2.	forking - the act of branching out or dividing into branchesbranching, ramification, forkdivision - the act or process of dividingbifurcation - the act of splitting into two branchestrifurcation - the act of splitting into three branchesdivarication - branching at a wide anglefibrillation - act or process of forming fibrils

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noun the place where something divides into branches

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noun the act of branching out or dividing into branches

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