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1.NounAny of several types of pronged (tined) tools (physical tools), as follows:
A utensil with spikes used to put solid food into the mouth, or to hold food down while cutting, or for serving food.
2.NounA utensil with spikes used to put solid food into the mouth, or to hold food down while cutting, or for serving food.
3.NounAny of several types of pronged tools for use on farms, in fields, or in the garden or lawn, such as a smaller hand fork for weeding or a larger one for turning over the soil.
Such a pronged tool having a long straight handle, generally for two-handed use, as used for digging, lifting, mucking, pitching, etc.
4.NounSuch a pronged tool having a long straight handle, generally for two-handed use, as used for digging, lifting, mucking, pitching, etc.
5.NounA tuning fork.
6.NounA fork in the road, as follows:
An intersection in a road or path where one road is split into two.
A decision point.
7.NounAn intersection in a road or path where one road is split into two.
8.NounA decision point.
9.NounA point where a waterway, such as a river or other stream, splits and flows into two (or more) different directions.
10.NounOne of the parts into which anything is furcated or divided; a prong; a branch of a stream, a road, etc.; a barbed point, as of an arrow."a thunderbolt with three forks; this fork of the river dries up during droughts"
11.NounA point in time where one has to make a decision between two life paths.
Either of the (figurative) paths thus taken.
12.NounEither of the (figurative) paths thus taken.
13.NounA departure from having a single source of truth (SSOT), sometimes intentionally but usually unintentionally.
Any of the pieces/versions (of software, content, or data sets) thus created."LibreOffice is a fork of OpenOffice.; A content fork may be intentional (as from a schism about goals) or unintentional (merely from a lack of reorganizing, so far)."
14.NounAny of the pieces/versions (of software, content, or data sets) thus created.
15.NounThe launch of one or more separate software development efforts based upon a modified copy of an existing project, especially in free and open-source software.
Any of the software projects resulting from the launch of such separate software development efforts based upon a copy of the original project."LibreOffice is a fork of OpenOffice."
16.NounAny of the software projects resulting from the launch of such separate software development efforts based upon a copy of the original project."LibreOffice is a fork of OpenOffice."
17.NounThe splitting of the coverage of a topic (within a corpus of content) into two or more pieces."A content fork may be intentional (as from a schism about goals) or unintentional (merely from a lack of reorganizing, so far)."
18.NounAny of the pieces/versions of content thus created.
19.NounA split in a blockchain resulting from protocol disagreements, or a branch of the blockchain resulting from such a split.
20.NounThe simultaneous attack of two adversary pieces with one single attacking piece (especially a knight).
21.NounThe crotch. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
22.NounA forklift."Are you qualified to drive a fork?"
23.NounEither of the blades of a forklift (or, in plural, the set of blades), on which the goods to be raised are loaded."Get those forks tilted back more or you're gonna lose that pallet!"
24.NounIn a bicycle or motorcycle, the portion of the frameset holding the front wheel, allowing the rider to steer and balance, also called front fork."The fork can be equipped with a suspension on mountain bikes."
25.NounThe upper front brow of a saddle bow, connected in the tree by the two saddle bars to the cantle on the other end.
26.NounA set of data associated with an individual file in some file systems."resource fork"
27.NounA gallows.
28.VerbTo divide into two or more branches or copies."A road, a tree, or a stream forks."
29.VerbTo spawn a new child process by duplicating the existing process.
30.VerbTo launch a separate software development effort based upon a modified copy of an existing software project, especially in free and open-source software.
31.VerbTo create a copy of a distributed version control repository.
32.VerbTo move with a fork (as hay or food).
33.VerbTo kick someone in the crotch.
34.VerbTo shoot into blades, as corn does.
35.VerbTo simultaneously attack two opposing pieces with a single attacking piece.
36.VerbEuphemistic form of fuck."They were forking each other in the back room."
37.NounThe bottom of a sump into which the water of a mine drains.
38.VerbTo bale a shaft dry.