Word Finder - fork

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

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• pitchfork

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A pronged tool for use in the garden; a smaller hand fork for weeding etc., or larger for turning over the soil.

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A gallows.

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

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A tuning fork.

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

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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.

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

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Used in the names of some river tributaries.

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West Fork White River and East Fork White River join together to form the White River of Indiana.

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• branch

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

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

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

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The splitting of a software development effort into two or more separate projects, especially in free and open-source software.

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Any of the software projects resulting from such a split.

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LibreOffice is a fork of OpenOffice.

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(cryptocurrency, by extension) A split in a blockchain resulting from protocol disagreements, or a branch of the blockchain resulting from such a split.

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The crotch.

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A forklift.

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Are you qualified to drive a fork?

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The set of blades of a forklift, on which the goods to be raised are loaded.

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In a bicycle or motorcycle, the portion of the frameset holding the front wheel, allowing the rider to steer and balance, also called front fork.

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The fork can be equipped with a suspension on mountain bikes.

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The upper front brow of a saddle bow, connected in the tree by the two saddle bars to the cantle on the other end.

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• pommel
• swell

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To divide into two or more branches.

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A road, a tree, or a stream forks.

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

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

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To split a (software) project into several projects.

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To split a (software) distributed version control repository

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To kick someone in the crotch.

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To shoot into blades, as corn does.

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To have sexual intercourse, to copulate.

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Fighting for peace is like fucking for virginity.

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• bang
• do it
• eff
• have sex
• hump
• screw
• shag

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To have sexual intercourse with.

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• bang
• eff
• give someone one
• hump
• ream
• screw
• shag

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To insert one’s penis, a dildo or other phallic object, into a specified orifice or cleft.

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To put in an extremely difficult or impossible situation.

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I'm afraid they're gonna fuck you on this one.

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To defraud, deface or otherwise treat badly.

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I got fucked at the used car lot.

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Used to express great displeasure with someone or something.

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Fuck those jerks, and fuck their stupid rules!

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• bugger
• eff

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(usually followed by up) To break, to destroy.

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• annihilate
• obliterate
• ruin

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To make a joke at one's expense; to make fun of in an embarrassing manner.

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To throw, to lob something. (angrily)

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He fucked the dirty cloth out the window.

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• feck

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To scold

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The sergeant fucked me upside down.

She dropped her fork and stood.

She pointed her fork at him.

He picked up a fork and lit into his lunch.

Jonathan put the last fork beside a plate and smiled up at her.

They rolled past South Fork, and 20 miles later, Del Norte, where the lead cadre of bikers hummed their way toward Monte Vista, 14 miles further, and then the final 17 miles to Alamosa.

He leaned forward, picked up his fork and began devouring his supper without further comment.

She looked at him, then at the silverware, and picked a fork she recognized.

He pointed his fork at her plate.

One of the Brazilian birds whose habits have attracted much interest is the Joao de Barro (Clay John) or oven bird (Furnarius rufus), which builds a house of reddish clay for its nest and attaches it to the branch of a tree, usually in a fork.

If the fork has slightly greater frequency, then a white line will not quite reach the next place while the fork is making its swing ip and out, and the waves will travel against the motion of the cylinder.

He slowly picked up his fork, never taking his eyes off of her.

Stein tuned Mozart's piano to a fork a' 421.6, and the Broadwood pianos used at the London Philharmonic Society in its first concerts (1813) were tuned to a fork c 2 506.8, which gives a mean tone a' 423.7.

About that time, or it may be a few years earlier, Sir George Smart established a fork for the Philharmonic Society, a' 433.2.

Sir Michael Costa was the conductor 1846-1854, and from his acceptance of that high pitch the fork became known as Costa's, and its inception was attributed to him, though on insufficient grounds.

In 1874 a further rise in the fork to a' 454 was instigated by Sir Charles Halle.

The goods station is approached by a siding or fork set off from the main line at a point short of the passenger station.

Many large stations, however, are of a mixed type, and the offices are arranged in a fork between two or more series of platforms, or partly at the end and partly on one side.

On its eastern slope the waters soon disappear within the bed of narrow canyons, but break out again at the foot in icecold springs that form the source of the Ruby and Franklin lakes; on its western side the descent is more gentle, and the waters form the South Fork of the Humboldt river.

There are batteries at and opposite Harwich, and modern works on Shotley Point, at the fork of the two estuaries.

The British army is bound by His Majesty's Rules and Regulations to play at the Philharmonic pitch, and a fork tuned to a' 452.5 in 1890 is preserved as the standard for the Military Training School at Kneller Hall.

Their implements are very primitive, consisting of a plough fashioned from a fork of a tree, and a rude harrow.

The method is easily adapted for the converse determination of speed of revolution when the frequency of a fork is known.

In an experiment described by Rayleigh such a wheel provided with four armatures was used to determine the exact frequency of a driving fork known to have a frequency near 32.

In the south the western fork of the Des Moines River, flowing for 125 m.

In the old parish church was traditionally Owen's pew; his knife, fork and dagger, are at the neighbouring Rig (Rhig); his palace, 3 m.

On one prong of each fork is fixed a small plane mirror.

If the first fork alone vibrates, the point on the screen appears lengthened out into a vertical line through the changes in inclination of the first mirror, while if the second fork alone vibrates, the point appears lengthened out into a horizontal line.

Instead of a mirror, the objective of a microscope is attached to one prong of the first fork and the eyepiece of the microscope is fixed behind the fork.

Instead of a mirror the second fork carries a bright point on one prong, and the microscope is focused on this.

The motion of the fork is maintained by the clock acting through an escapement, and the dial registers both the number Koenig's of vibrations of the fork and the seconds, minutes and Tuning-fork hours.

Koenig also used the apparatus to investigate the effect on the frequency of a fork of a resonating cavity placed near it.

But when the pitch of the cavity was exactly that of the fork when vibrating alone, though it resounded most strongly, it did not affect the frequency of the fork.

Imagine now that a fork with black prongs is held near the cylinder with its prongs vertical and the plane of vibration parallel to.

The boundary between, the grey cylinder and the black fork will therefore appear wavy with fixed undulations, the distance from crest to crest being the distance between the lines on the cylinder.

If the fork has slightly less frequency the waves will travel in the opposite direction, and it is easily seen that the frequency of the fork is the number of white lines passing a point in a second t the number of waves passing the point per second.

Another important result of the investigation was that the phase of vibration of the fork was not altered by bowing it, the amplitude alone changing.

If the fork makes exactly 32 vibrations and the wheel 8 revolutions in one pendulum beat, then the positions will be fixed, and every two seconds, the time of a complete pendulum vibration, he will see the two positions looked at flash out in succession at an interval of a second.

But if the fork has, say, rather greater frequency, the hole in the wheel comes round at the end of the two seconds before the bead has quite come into position, and the two flashes appear gradually to move back in the opposite way to the pendulum.

Then the wheel makes 8 N + 1 revolutions in N clock beats, and the fork makes 32 N + 4 vibrations in the same time.

If the clock is going exactly right, this gives a frequency for the fork of 32 + 4/N.

If the fork has rather less frequency than 32 then the flashes appear to move forward and the frequency will be 32 - 4/N.

A standard 128 Efork could then be compared either optically or by beats with the electrically driven fork.

Any other fork within this octave can then have its frequency determined by finding the two between which it lies.

A fork of frequency 256 was used as the source.

The energy of this fork with a given amplitude of vibration could be calculated from its dimensions and elasticity, and the amplitude was observed by measuring with a microscope the line into which the image of a starch grain on the prong was drawn by the vibration.

This rate of loss for each amplitude was determined (i) when the fork was vibrating alone, and (2) when a resonator was placed with its mouth under the free ends of the fork.

The amplitude of the fork was observed when the sound just ceased to be audible at 27.4 metres away, and the rate of energy emission from the resonator was calculated to be 42 .

The length of the pipe may be varied by pouring in water, and this is done until we get maximum resonance of the pipe to the fork.

He used a tube of variable length and determined the length resounding to a given fork, (1) when the closed end was the first node, (2) when it was the second node.

Intermittent illumination, however, with frequency equal to that of the fork shows at once that the jet is really broken up into drops, one for each vibration, and that these move over in a steady procession.