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forking

/fawrk/US // fɔrk //UK // (fɔːk) //

分叉,岔路,分岔,岔道

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : 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.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : 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.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : 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.
  1. 1
    • : 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.