Word Finder - forks

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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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The bottom of a sump into which the water of a mine drains.

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To bale a shaft dry.

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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.

The plan of Shakespeare's Stratford at least is preserved, for the road crossing Clopton's bridge is an ancient highway, and forks in the midst of the town into three great branches, about which the village grew up. The high cross no longer stands at the marketplace where these roads converged.

Of this operation, and of the forks and rakes and the haymaking there is a very good account.

If the two forks have the same frequency, it is easily seen that the figure will be an ellipse (including as limiting cases, depending on relative amplitude and phase, a circle and a straight line).

Let the forks be numbered o, I, 2,.

Normally, inverted forks are much heavier than conventional forks.

Then the strains of the count's household band were replaced by the clatter of knives and forks, the voices of visitors, and the soft steps of the footmen.

The gravel is dug by hand and thrown in at the upper end, the stones kept back being removed at intervals by two men with four-pronged steel forks.

This apparatus was used to find the temperature coefficient of the frequency of forks, the value obtained - .00011 being the same as that found by Koenig.

Johann Heinrich Scheibler (1777-1838) tuned two forks to an exact octave, and then prepared a number of others dividing the octave into such small steps that the beats between each and the next could be counted easily.

If both forks are in vibration, and are prefectly in tune, this line may either be increased or diminished permanently in length according to the difference of phase between the two sets of vibrations.

We have already explained how beats are used on Scheibler's tonometer to give a series of forks of known frequencies.

Granite county; a portion of the skull of a Mesohippus latidens, found near the confluence of the three forks which form the Missouri river; and a portion of the skull of a Hyrachyus priscus, found near Lima, Beaverhead county.

The chief manufacturing centres are Fargo and Grand Forks.

Educational facilities are also furnished by the state through university and school of mines at University, near Grand Forks, normal schools (opened in 1890) at Valley City and Mayville, an agricultural college and experiment station (1890) at Fargo, a normal and industrial school (opened in 1899) at Ellendale, a school for the deaf (1890) at Devils Lake, a scientific school (opened in 1903) at Wahpeton, and a school of forestry at Bottineau.

The Methodist Episcopal Church maintains Wesley College near Grand Forks (formerly the Red River Valley University at Wahpeton), affiliated with the state university.

On the 29th of March the movement began, followed in rapid succession by the combats of White Oak Road and Dinwiddie Court House and Sheridan's great victory of Five Forks.

The latter stream drains an area of elevated land by means of its three forks, and upon each of them occurs a fine fall in its descent toward the Yellowstone.

Just below the places where the aprons terminate, the glass is embraced by two insulated metal forks having the sharp points projecting towards the glass, but not quite touching it.

The one complete antler has a well-marked burr and a long undivided beam, which eventually forks.

Leaving the west gate of the city two roads lead to Lan-chow Fu, from which town begins the great high road into Central Asia by way of Lian-chow Fu, Kan-chow Fu and Su-chow to Hami, where it forks into two branches which follow respectively the northern and southern foot of the Tian-shan range, and are known as the Tian-shan pei lu and the Tian-shan nan lu.

A few days later the indefatigable Sheridan won the last great victory of the war at Five Forks.

The pair of shafts Ci, C2 terminate in a pair Ci of forks F,, F2 in bearings at the extremities of which turn the gudgeons at the ends of the 0o arms of a rectangular cross, F3 having its centre at 0.

To obviate this evil a short intermediate shaft is introduced, making equal angles with the first and last shaft, coupled with each of them by a Hookes joint, and having its own two forks in the same plane.

Only one waggon road leads northwards from Hu-peh, and that is to Nan-yang Fu in Ho-nan, where it forks, one branch going to Peking by way of K`ai-feng Fu, and the other into Shan-si by Ho-nan Fu.

The belts are moved laterally by the forks of a striking gear pressing on the advancing sides of the belts, and the pulleys are arranged so that the belts either wrap round the loose pulleys, or can be shifted so that one wraps round a fixed pulley, while the other still remains on its loose pulley.

It is formed by the confluence of its East and West Forks, almost 50 m.

In the foothills there are typical canyons, as along the Platte forks, and in the northern edge of the sand-hills Those of the upper Republican are the largest, those of the Bad Lands are the most peculiar; and the Niobrara tributary system is the most developed.

The North and South forks both rise in Colorado; each, especially the latter, has a rapid primary descent, and a very gradual fall down the foot-hills of the Great Plains.'

Marquette mapped the Platte from hearsay in 1673; French explorers followed it to the Forks in 1739; and, after Nebraska passed to the United States in 1803 as part of the Louisiana Purchase, successive American exploring expeditions left traces in its history.

After the disaster of the Caudine Forks, Cursor to some extent wiped out the disgrace by compelling Luceria (which had revolted) to surrender.

As the French refused to comply, Dinwiddie secured from the reluctant Virginia assembly a grant of £io,000 and in the spring of 1754 he sent Washington with an armed force toward the forks of the Ohio river "to prevent the intentions of the French in settling those lands."

Although they were key makers, they also in the early days made toasting forks.

In humans, replication forks move at about one hundred base pairs per second.

We normally have around 100 bikes on show and a huge range of suspension forks, clothing and accessories.

Two accidents involved transport; a tractor overturn on a rubbish tip and a pierced groin from the forks of a loader.

The forks are fitted with the BSA shrouds and topped off with the neat chrome headlamp shell.

If you doubt the penitence as a practical fact, there are your knives and forks.

In the divorce settlement I got both sets of forks.

Modern ' cartridge ' forks use sophisticated ' shim stacks ' which can give almost any response curve desired.

We also straighten bent forks and can supply pattern fork stanchions at less than half the price of genuine parts.

The upside-down forks feature the latest generation of internal components and TiN coated stanchions to achieve minimal sliding friction.

The front wheel was carried in heavy duty motorcycle forks with a chain driven steering wheel.

Both models share premium suspension components with 43mm upside down forks and single shock rising rate rear suspension.

Still have original Harley front end, forks yokes light etc, available seperately.

Two pins q, r, with spiral springs coiled round them, pass loosely through holes in the forks k, 1, and keep the bearings of the heads in and n firmly pressed against the ends of the micrometer box.

Two spider webs are stretched across the forks, one (t) being cemented in a fine groove cut in the inner fork k, the other (s) in a similar groove cut in the outer fork 1.

Forks intended for this vibration number, stamped "Philharmonic," were sold as late as 1846.

Between Capua and Beneventum, a distance of 32 m., the road passed near the defile of Caudium (see Caudine Forks).

In the same way certain governments become famous for certain commodities, as Moscow for osier baskets, flower baskets, wicker furniture and lace; Kostroma for lace, wooden utensils, toys, wooden spoons, cups and bowls, bast sacks and mats, bast boots and garden products; Yaroslavl for furniture, brass samovars, saucepans, spurs, rings, &c.; Vladimir for furniture, osier baskets and flower-stands and sickles; NizhniyNovgorod for bast mats and sacks, knives, forks and scissors; Tver for lace, nails, sieves, anchors, fish-hooks, locks, coarse clay pottery, saddlery and harness, boots and shoes, and so on.

The phenomena of beats may be easily observed with two organpipes put slightly out of tune by placing the hand near the open end of one of them, with two musical strings on a resonant chest, or with two tuning-forks of the same pitch mounted on their resonance boxes, or held over a resonant cavity (such as a glass jar), one of the forks being put out of tune by loading one prong with a small lump of beeswax.