forks
叉子,货叉,叉架,叉叉
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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!
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Examples
He recalled one fundraising dinner where he and a fellow AIDS activist were served on paper plates with paper forks.
There was a blond girl he liked in Three Forks, where his uncle lived.
You will instead: Begin gathering nearby plates, dishes, forks and leftovers.
Mohamed went on to the U.S., working in labs in Grand Forks, N.D., and Atlanta.
This was a throwback, for by then forks were nearly universal.
To the strangers, also, were given the spoons and forks, but the want of them did not appear to incommode the Brazilians.
The knives and forks had white and black horn handles, with notched blades, and broken prongs.
Although the table-cloth and the napkins were of fine damask, the knives were of a common sort, and the forks of steel.
The boots were hung in the forks of a clump of willows, where they could easily be found on their return.
I asked him once why the Europeans eat with knives and forks, and spoons, instead of with their fingers, which God had given them.