forknoun [ C ]
uk/fɔːk/us/fɔːrk/fork noun [ C ] (FOOD)
A2 a small object with three or four points and a handle, that you use to pick up food and eat with:
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- She prodded the cake with her fork to see if it was cooked.
- Prick the skin of the potatoes with a fork before baking them.
- You'll find the knives and forks in the left-hand drawer.
- He prodded at the fish with his fork a few times, but he didn't eat a mouthful.
- Your table manners are appalling - don't you know how to use a knife and fork?
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Cutlery
- bread knife
- canteen
- cheese knife
- chopstick
- cutlery
- dessertspoon
- fish knife
- flatware
- place setting
- server
- serving
- setting
- silverware
- soup spoon
- spoon
- steak knife
- tablespoon
- tableware
- teaspoon
fork noun [ C ] (GARDEN)
a tool with a long handle and three or four points, used for digging and breaking soil into pieces:
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Gardening tools
- edger
- hedge trimmers
- hoe
- hose
- hover mower
- lawnmower
- motor mower
- mower
- rake
- rose
- scythe
- secateurs
- sprayer
- sprinkler
- Strimmer
- trowel
- watering can
- Weed Whacker
- wheelbarrow
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fork noun [ C ] (DIVISION)
a place where a road, river, etc. divides into two parts, or either of those two parts:
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Road junctions
- box
- box junction
- circus
- cloverleaf
- corner
- crossing
- crossroad
- crossroads
- interchange
- intersect
- intersection
- junction
- roundabout
- spaghetti junction
- staggered junction
- T-junction
- traffic circle
- turn-off
- turning
forkverb
uk/fɔːk/us/fɔːrk/fork verb (DIVIDE)
[ I ] If a road or river forks, it divides into two parts:
[ I + adv/prep ] UK to turn in one of two different directions:
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Separating and dividing
- atomize
- bifurcate
- bifurcation
- bisect
- borderline
- branch
- disestablish
- dismember
- dissociate
- dissociate yourself from sth
- disunite
- divide
- drift
- pull sth/sb apart
- quarter
- ravel
- resolve
- resolve sth into sth
- rive
- tear 1
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fork verb (GARDEN)
[ T ] to move or dig something with a fork