fork : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: fork	by the DICT Development Group
7 results for fork
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
fork n cutlery used for serving and eating food the act of branching out or dividing into branches Synonym(s): branching, ramification, fork, forking the region of the angle formed by the junction of two branches; "they took the south fork"; "he climbed into the crotch of a tree" Synonym(s): fork, crotch an agricultural tool used for lifting or digging; has a handle and metal prongs the angle formed by the inner sides of the legs where they join the human trunk Synonym(s): crotch, fork v lift with a pitchfork; "pitchfork hay" [syn: pitchfork, fork] place under attack with one's own pieces, of two enemy pieces divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork; "The road forks" Synonym(s): branch, ramify, fork, furcate, separate shape like a fork; "She forked her fingers"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bracket \Brack"et\, n. (Gunnery) A figure determined by firing a projectile beyond a target and another short of it, as a basis for ascertaining the proper elevation of the piece; -- only used in the phrase, to establish a bracket. After the bracket is established shots are fired with intermediate elevations until the exact range is obtained. In the United States navy it is called {fork}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fork \Fork\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Forked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Forking}.] 1. To shoot into blades, as corn. The corn beginneth to fork. --Mortimer. 2. To divide into two or more branches; as, a road, a tree, or a stream forks.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fork \Fork\ (f[ocir]rj), n. [AS. forc, fr. L. furca. Cf. {Fourch[82]}, {Furcate}.] 1. An instrument consisting of a handle with a shank terminating in two or more prongs or tines, which are usually of metal, parallel and slightly curved; -- used from piercing, holding, taking up, or pitching anything. 2. Anything furcate or like a fork in shape, or furcate at the extremity; as, a tuning fork. 3. One 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. Let it fall . . . though the fork invade The region of my heart. --Shak. A thunderbolt with three forks. --Addison. 4. The place where a division or a union occurs; the angle or opening between two branches or limbs; as, the fork of a river, a tree, or a road. 5. The gibbet. [Obs.] --Bp. Butler. {Fork beam} (Shipbuilding), a half beam to support a deck, where hatchways occur. {Fork chuck} (Wood Turning), a lathe center having two prongs for driving the work. {Fork head}. (a) The barbed head of an arrow. (b) The forked end of a rod which forms part of a knuckle joint. {In fork}. (Mining) A mine is said to be in fork, or an engine to [bd]have the water in fork,[b8] when all the water is drawn out of the mine. --Ure. {The forks of a river} [or] {a road}, the branches into which it divides, or which come together to form it; the place where separation or union takes place.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fork \Fork\, v. t. To raise, or pitch with a fork, as hay; to dig or turn over with a fork, as the soil. Forking the sheaves on the high-laden cart. --Prof. Wilson. {To fork} {over [or] out}, to hand or pay over, as money. [Slang] --G. Eliot.
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Fork, MD Zip code(s): 21051 Fork, SC Zip code(s): 29543
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
fork A {Unix} {system call} used by a {process} (the "parent") to make a copy (the "child") of itself. The child process is identical to the parent except it has a different {process identifier} and a zero return value from the fork call. It is assumed to have used no resources. A fork followed by an {exec} can be used to start a different process but this can be inefficient and some later Unix variants provide {vfork} as an alternative mechanism for this. See also {fork bomb}. (1996-12-08)