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1. (adj.) forked
having a fork or forklike branches.
2. forked
zigzag, as lightning.
3. forked
to speak with or have a forked tongue, to speak deceitfully; attempt to deceive.
Etymology: (1250–1300)
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (adj) bifurcate, biramous, branched, forked, fork-like, forficate, pronged, prongy
resembling a fork; divided or separated into two branches
"the biramous appendages of an arthropod"; "long branched hairs on its legson which pollen collects"; "a forked river"; "a forked tail"; "forked lightning"; "horseradish grown in poor soil may develop prongy roots"
2. (adj) double, forked
having two meanings with intent to deceive
"a sly double meaning"; "spoke with forked tongue"
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (adj) forked
formed into a forklike shape; having a fork; dividing into two or more prongs or branches; furcated; bifurcated; zigzag; as, the forked lighting
2. (adj) forked
having a double meaning; ambiguous; equivocal
3. forked
of Fork
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The New Hacker's Dictionary |
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1. forked
1. [common after 1997, esp. in the Linux community] An open-source
software project is said to have forked or be forked when the project group
fissions into two or more parts pursuing separate lines of development (or,
less commonly, when a third party unconnected to the project group begins
its own line of development). Forking is considered a
Bad Thing — not merely because it implies a lot of wasted effort
in the future, but because forks tend to be accompanied by a great deal of
strife and acrimony between the successor groups over issues of legitimacy,
succession, and design direction. There is serious social pressure against
forking. As a result, major forks (such as the Gnu-Emacs/XEmacs split, the
fissionings of the 386BSD group into three daughter projects, and the
short-lived GCC/EGCS split) are rare enough that they are remembered
individually in hacker folklore. 2. [Unix; uncommon; prob.: influenced by a mainstream expletive]
Terminally slow, or dead. Originated when one system was slowed to a
snail's pace by an inadvertent fork bomb.
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Sense: divided into two branches or divisions
A snake has a forked tongue.
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 Afrikaans: gevurkte |
 Arabic: مُتَشَعِّب، مُتَفَرِّع |
 Bulgarian: разклонен на две |
 Brazilian: bifurcado |
 Czech: rozeklaný |
 German: gegabelt, gespalten |
 Danish: kløvet; tvedelt; spaltet |
 Greek: διχαλωτός |
 Spanish: bifurcado |
 Estonian: kaheharuline |
 Farsi: دو یا چند شاخه |
 Finnish: haarainen |
 French: fourchu |
 Hebrew: מִסתָּעֵף |
 Hindi: कांटे जैसा |
 Croatian: rašljast, rascijepljen |
 Hungarian: villás, kétágú |
 Indonesian: bercabang |
 Icelandic: klofinn |
 Italian: biforcuto, biforcato |
 Japanese: またに分かれた |
 Korean: 분기를 이룬 |
 Lithuanian: išsišakojęs, dvišakas |
 Latvian: šķelts |
 Malay: bercabang |
 Dutch: gevorkt |
 Norwegian: kløftet, greinet |
 Polish: rozwidlony |
 Persian: دو یا چند شاخه |
 Pashto: په ښاخو ویشل کیدل |
 Portuguese: bifurcado |
 Romanian: bifurcat |
 Russian: раздвоенный |
 Slovak: rozoklaný, rozštiepený |
 Slovenian: razcepljen |
 Serbian: račvast |
 Swedish: delad, kluven |
 Thai: เป็นง่าม |
 Turkish: çatallı |
 Taiwanese: 叉狀的 |
 Ukrainian: роздвоєний |
 Urdu: دو شاخوں میں بنٹا ہونا |
 Vietnamese: hình chạc |
 Chinese: 叉状的 |
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