forking
分叉,岔路,分岔,岔道
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Definitions
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- : an instrument having two or more prongs or tines, for holding, lifting, etc., as an implement for handling food or any of various agricultural tools.
- : something resembling or suggesting this in form.
- : tuning fork.
- : Machinery. yoke.
- : a division into branches.
- : the point or part at which a thing, as a river or a road, divides into branches: Bear left at the fork in the road.
- : either of the branches into which a thing divides.
- : Horology. the forked end of the lever engaging with the ruby pin.
- : a principal tributary of a river.
- : the support of the front wheel axles of a bicycle or motorcycle, having the shape of a two-pronged fork.
- : the barbed head of an arrow.
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- : to pierce, raise, pitch, dig, etc., with a fork.
- : to make into the form of a fork.
- : Chess. to maneuver so as to place under simultaneous attack by the same piece.
- : Digital Technology to copy from a piece of software and develop a new version independently, with the result of producing two unique pieces of software.
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- : to divide into branches: Turn left where the road forks.
- : to turn as indicated at a fork in a road, path, etc.: Fork left and continue to the top of the hill.
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- : fork over / out / up Informal. to hand over; deliver; pay: Fork over the money you owe me!
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
Remove from the oven and, using a potato masher or large fork, coarsely mash the cranberries.
Using a fork, dock the crimped crust and chill well, at least 30 minutes.
When ready to serve, run a fork along the top of the potatoes to further fan out the slices.
When the squash is cool enough to handle, use a fork to scrape the stringy flesh into a medium bowl.
There’s no built-in suspension—both the frame and the fork are fully rigid.
Murdoch bought the Journal at a major loss in 2007, forking over about $5 billion.
So seductive, apparently, that he barely flinched before forking over nearly $500,000 of his own money to finance The Big Uneasy.
The expense of altering the engine, and forking the water to bottom, and proving the mine, will not exceed 1000l.
Darkness was closing in when they came to the forking of the trail, and, with a little cry of warning, Hetty lashed the team.
The branchlets nearest the forking of the stalk are from four to fifteen inches long, those more remote successively shorter.
It branches in a forking manner and has depending from its branches lamin two or three feet long.
Frond erect, flat; branches in a forking manner; ultimate branches fine and short, and with branchlets on the tips.