Princeton's WordNet

1. fork(noun)

   cutlery used for serving and eating food

2. branching, ramification, fork, forking(noun)

   the act of branching out or dividing into branches

3. fork, crotch(noun)

   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"

4. fork(noun)

   an agricultural tool used for lifting or digging; has a handle and metal prongs

5. crotch, fork(verb)

   the angle formed by the inner sides of the legs where they join the human trunk

6. pitchfork, fork(verb)

   lift with a pitchfork

   "pitchfork hay"

7. fork(verb)

   place under attack with one's own pieces, of two enemy pieces

8. branch, ramify, fork, furcate, separate(verb)

   divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork

   "The road forks"

9. fork(verb)

   shape like a fork

   "She forked her fingers"

Kernerman English Learner's Dictionary

1. fork(noun)ɔrk

   an object with points used for eating food

   a knife and fork

2. forkɔrk

   a place where a road, path, etc. divides into two

   Drive until you reach a fork in the road.

3. fork(verb)ɔrk

   (of a road, path, etc.) to divide into two

   Up ahead the road forks.

Wiktionary

1. fork(Noun)

   A pronged tool having a long straight handle, used for digging, lifting, throwing etc.

2. fork(Noun)

   A gallows.

3. fork(Noun)

   A utensil with spikes used to put solid food into the mouth, or to hold food down while cutting.

4. fork(Noun)

   A tuning fork.

5. fork(Noun)

   An intersection in a road or path where one road is split into two.

6. fork(Noun)

   A point where a waterway, such as a river, splits and goes two (or more) different directions.

7. fork(Noun)

   A point in time where one has to make a decision between two life paths.

8. fork(Noun)

   The simultaneous attack of two adversary pieces with one single attacking piece (especially a knight).

9. fork(Noun)

   A splitting-up of an existing process into itself and a child process executing parts of the same program.

10. fork(Verb)

    To move with a fork (as hay or food).

11. fork(Verb)

    To spawn a new child process in some sense duplicating the existing process.

12. fork(Verb)

    To split a (software) project into several projects.

13. fork(Verb)

    To kick someone in the crotch.

14. fork(Noun)

    An event where development of some free software or open-source software is split into two or more separate projects.

15. fork(Noun)

    Crotch.

16. fork(Noun)

    A forklift.

17. fork(Noun)

    The individual blades of a forklift.

18. fork(Noun)

    In a bicycle, the portion holding the front wheel, allowing the rider to steer and balance.

Origin: From forke, from force, forca, from furkōn, from furca, of uncertain origin. The word was later reinforced by forque (= Old French forche whence French fourche), also from the Latin. Cognate also with forck, vork, fork, Forke. Displaced native gafol, geafel, geafle, from .

Webster Dictionary

1. Fork(noun)

   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. Fork(noun)

   anything furcate or like a fork in shape, or furcate at the extremity; as, a tuning fork

3. Fork(noun)

   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

4. Fork(noun)

   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. Fork(noun)

   the gibbet

6. Fork(verb)

   to shoot into blades, as corn

7. Fork(verb)

   to divide into two or more branches; as, a road, a tree, or a stream forks

8. Fork(verb)

   to raise, or pitch with a fork, as hay; to dig or turn over with a fork, as the soil

The New Hacker's Dictionary

1. fork

   In the open-source community, a fork is what occurs when two (or more) versions of a software package's source code are being developed in parallel which once shared a common code base, and these multiple versions of the source code have irreconcilable differences between them. This should not be confused with a development branch, which may later be folded back into the original source code base. Nor should it be confused with what happens when a new distribution of Linux or some other distribution is created, because that largely assembles pieces than can and will be used in other distributions without conflict.Forking is uncommon; in fact, it is so uncommon that individual instances loom large in hacker folklore. Notable in this class were the Emacs/XEmacs fork, the GCC/EGCS fork (later healed by a merger) and the forks among the FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD operating systems.

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