Definitions for Forks

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Forks fork

Spelling: [fawrk]

IPA: /fɔrk/

Forks is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 37 anagrams from letters in Forks (fkors).

Definitions for Forks

noun

1. an instrument having two or more prongs or tines, for holding, lifting, etc., as an implement for handling food or any of various agricultural tools.
2. something resembling or suggesting this in form.
3. tuning fork.
4. Machinery. yoke1 (def 9).
5. a division into branches.
6. the point or part at which a thing, as a river or a road, divides into branches:
7. either of the branches into which a thing divides.
8. Horology. (in a lever escapement) the forked end of the lever engaging with the ruby pin.
9. a principal tributary of a river.
10. the support of the front wheel axles of a bicycle or motorcycle, having the shape of a two-pronged fork.
11. the barbed head of an arrow.

Verb phrases

1. fork over/out/up, Informal. to hand over; deliver; pay:

verb (used with object)

1. to pierce, raise, pitch, dig, etc., with a fork.
2. to make into the form of a fork.
3. Chess. to maneuver so as to place (two opponent's pieces) under simultaneous attack by the same piece.
4. Digital Technology. to copy (the source code) from a piece of software and develop a new version independently, with the result of producing two unique pieces of software.

verb (used without object)

1. to divide into branches:
2. to turn as indicated at a fork in a road, path, etc.:

Origin of Forks

before 1000; Middle English forke, Old English forca Latin furca fork, gallows, yoke

Examples for Forks

You will instead: Begin gathering nearby plates, dishes, forks and leftovers.

They were seated at a low table where no forks or knives or even plates were laid.

There was a blond girl he liked in Three forks, where his uncle lived.

This was a throwback, for by then forks were nearly universal.

Because we use knives and forks every day, we do not notice how they hamper us.

It was strange to have forks in so many cases where I've always used spoons.

His first acquaintance in forks stood his friend to the last.

One of them had a shotgun and others were armed with forks and rakes.

Then it was that his thoughts reverted to the scene in the saloon at forks.

Spoons are sometimes used with firm puddings,” noted a cookbook of 1887, “but forks are the better style.