What does fork mean in English?

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fork Meaning, Definition, Pronunciation, Grammar & Synonyms❤️

0 a small object with three or four points and a handle, that you use to pick up food and eat with:
- a knife and fork
1 a tool with a long handle and three or four points, used for digging and breaking soil into pieces:
- a garden fork
2 a place where a road, river, etc. divides into two parts, or either of those two parts:
- When you reach a fork in the road turn right.
- Take the left-hand fork.
3 If a road or river forks, it divides into two parts:
- The hotel is near where the road forks.
- Fork left/right where the road divides.
4 to move or dig something with a fork
5 a common tool used in eating that usually has three or four stiff metal points attached to a handle:
- The knives and forks go in the middle drawer.
6 the place where a single thing divides into two or more parts, or one of the parts:
- a fork in the road
7 to divide into two or more parts:
- You’ll come to our house just before the road forks.

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?
The variability within the first category is very low: there just aren't that many different kinds of forks.
Numbers at the forks represent the percentage of replicates in which the given branch was obtained out of 100 bootstrap samplings.
With the proper pedigree, however, the young man forked over only 3 francs, 50 centimes.