English Dictionary

fork

IPA（発音記号）

/fɔːk/

名詞

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

日本語の意味

食事用の器具で、先のとがった部分を利用して食品を口に運ぶ、または食品を押さえて切る際に使われる道具。

Please pass me the fork on the right side of your plate.

あなたの皿の右側にあるフォークを取ってください。

意味（1）

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

意味（2）

Any of several types of pronged tools for use on farms, in fields, or in the garden or lawn, such as a smaller hand fork for weeding or a larger one for turning over the soil.

意味（3）

A tuning fork.

意味（4）

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

意味（5）

(figuratively) A decision point.

意味（6）

(by abstraction, from the tool shape) A point where a waterway, such as a river or other stream, splits and flows into two (or more) different directions.

意味（7）

(metonymically, and analogous to any prong of a pronged tool) 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.

a thunderbolt with three forks

意味（8）

(figuratively, decision-making) A point in time where one has to make a decision between two life paths.

意味（9）

(metonymically) Either of the (figurative) paths thus taken.

意味（10）

(metonymically) Any of the pieces/versions (of software, content, or data sets) thus created.

意味（11）

(software) The launch of one or more separate software development efforts based upon a modified copy of an existing project, especially in free and open-source software.

意味（12）

(content management) The splitting of the coverage of a topic (within a corpus of content) into two or more pieces.

A content fork may be intentional (as from a schism about goals) or unintentional (merely from a lack of reorganizing, so far).

意味（13）

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

Known as a “fork”, the new version of bitcoin (dubbed Bitcoin XT) would support more transactions per hour, at the cost of increasing the amount of memory required to hold a full database of all the bitcoin transactions throughout history, known as the blockchain.

意味（14）

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

意味（15）

(Britain, vulgar) The crotch.

意味（16）

(colloquial) A forklift.

Are you qualified to drive a fork?

意味（17）

Either of the blades of a forklift (or, in plural, the set of blades), on which the goods to be raised are loaded.

Get those forks tilted back more or you're gonna lose that pallet!

意味（18）

(cycling, motorcycling, by abstraction from a pronged tool's shape) 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.

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

意味（19）

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

意味（20）

(obsolete) A gallows.

They had run through all punishments, and just 'scaped the fork

forks （ plural ）