4. fork the point or part at which a thing, as a river or a road, divides into branches.
5. fork either of the branches into which a thing divides.
6. fork a principal tributary of a river.
7. (v.t.)fork to pierce, raise, pitch, dig, etc., with a fork.
8. fork to make into the form of a fork.
9. fork to maneuver so as to place (two opposing chess pieces) under simultaneous attack by the same piece.
10. (v.i.)fork to divide into branches, as a road.
11. fork to turn as indicated at a fork in a road, path, etc.
12. fork fork over, out, or up, to deliver; pay; hand over.
Etymology: (bef. 1000; ME forke, OE forca < L furca fork, gallows, yoke)
Definition of 'fork'
Princeton's WordNet
1. (noun)fork cutlery used for serving and eating food
2. (noun)branching, ramification, fork, forking the act of branching out or dividing into branches
3. (noun)fork, crotch 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. (noun)fork an agricultural tool used for lifting or digging; has a handle and metal prongs
5. (verb)crotch, fork the angle formed by the inner sides of the legs where they join the human trunk
6. (verb)pitchfork, fork lift with a pitchfork "pitchfork hay"
7. (verb)fork place under attack with one's own pieces, of two enemy pieces
8. (verb)branch, ramify, fork, furcate, separate divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork "The road forks"
9. (verb)fork shape like a fork "She forked her fingers"
1. (noun)fork an object with points used for eating food a knife and fork
2. fork a place where a road, path, etc. divides into two Drive until you reach a fork in the road.
3. (verb)fork (of a road, path, etc.) to divide into two Up ahead the road forks.
Definition of 'fork'
Webster Dictionary
1. (noun)fork 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. (noun)fork anything furcate or like a fork in shape, or furcate at the extremity; as, a tuning fork
3. (noun)fork 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. (noun)fork 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
7. (verb)fork to divide into two or more branches; as, a road, a tree, or a stream forks
8. (verb)fork to raise, or pitch with a fork, as hay; to dig or turnover with a fork, as the soil
Definitions of 'fork'
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 loomlarge in hackerfolklore. 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.
Definitions of fork 
Afrikaans: vurk
Arabic: شَوْكَه
Bulgarian: вилица
Brazilian: garfo
Czech: vidlička
German: die Gabel
Danish: gaffel
Greek: πιρούνι, δίκρανο
Spanish: tenedor
Estonian: kahvel, hark, hang
Farsi: چنگال
Finnish: haarukka
French: fourchette
Hebrew: מַזלֵג
Hindi: खाने का कांटा
Croatian: vilica
Hungarian: villa
Indonesian: garpu
Icelandic: gaffall
Italian: forchetta
Japanese: フォーク
Korean: 농업용 포크, 갈퀴, 쇠스랑, 식사용 포크
Lithuanian: šakutė, šakės
Latvian: dakšiņa; dakša; dakšas
Malay: garpu
Dutch: vork
Norwegian: gaffel
Polish: widelec, widły
Persian: چنگال
Pashto: پنجه
Portuguese: garfo
Romanian: furculiţă
Russian: вилка; вилы
Slovak: vidlička
Slovenian: vilice
Serbian: viljuška
Swedish: gaffel, grep, tjuga
Thai: ส้อม
Turkish: çatal
Taiwanese: 叉
Ukrainian: виделка
Urdu: کھانا کھانے کی چھری کے سا
Vietnamese: cái nĩa
Chinese: 叉
