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The correct spelling is forks.
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noun
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The correct spelling is forks. A pronged tool having a long straight handle, used for digging, lifting, throwing etc. For example: "West Fork White River and East Fork White River join together to form the White River of Indiana."
Usage Examples
“West Fork White River and East Fork White River join together to form the White River of Indiana.”
“LibreOffice is a fork of OpenOffice.”
“Are you qualified to drive a fork?”
Meanings
noun
- 1.A pronged tool having a long straight handle, used for digging, lifting, throwing etc.
- 2.A pronged tool for use in the garden; a smaller hand fork for weeding etc., or larger for turning over the soil.
- 3.A gallows.
- 4.A utensil with spikes used to put solid food into the mouth, or to hold food down while cutting.
- 5.A tuning fork.
verb
- 1.To divide into two or more branches.
- 2.To move with a fork (as hay or food).
- 3.To spawn a new child process in some sense duplicating the existing process.
- 4.To split a (software) project into several projects.
- 5.To split a (software) distributed version control repository
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