fork

1. 1.

   lift with a pitchfork

   “pitchfork hay”

   Synonymspitchfork

   Broaderlift
2. 2.

   place under attack with one's own pieces, of two enemy pieces

   Broaderattack

   chess

3. 3.

   divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork

   “The road forks”

   Synonymsbranchramifyfurcateseparate

   Broaderdiverge

   Narrowerarborizetwigbifurcatetrifurcate
4. 4.

   shape like a fork

   “She forked her fingers”

   Broadershape

Other forms of fork

plural

forks·

past tense

forked·

present participle

forking·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about fork

What does fork mean?

fork means "cutlery used for serving and eating food". That is the primary sense; the word has 9 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in fork?

fork has 1 syllable: fork. In IPA it is /ˈfɔɹk/.

What is another word for fork?

Close synonyms include branching, ramification, forking, crotch, crotch. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fork a common word?

fork is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with fork?

1 word rhymes with fork. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.