| Engelsk > Engelsk |
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| fork |
| 1. n. A pronged tool having a long straight handle, used for digging, lifting, throwing etc. |
| 2. n. (obsolete) A gallows. |
| 3. n. A utensil with spikes used to put solid food into the mouth, or to hold food down while cutting. |
| 4. n. A tuning fork. |
| 5. n. An intersection in a road or path where one road is split into two. |
| 6. n. One of the parts into which anything is furcated or divided; a prong; a branch of a stream, a road, etc.; a barbed point, as of an arrow. |
| 7. n. A point where a waterway, such as a river, splits and goes two (or more) different directions. |
| 8. n. (geography) Used in the names of some river tributaries, e.g. West Fork White River and East Fork White River, joining together to form the White River of Indiana |
| 9. n. (figuratively) A point in time where one has to make a decision between two life paths. |
| 10. n. (chess) The simultaneous attack of two adversary pieces with one single attacking piece (especially a knight). |
| 11. n. (computer science) A splitting-up of an existing process into itself and a child process executing parts of the same program. |
| 12. n. (software) An event where development of some free software or open-source software is split into two or more separate projects. |
| 13. n. (software) The, or one of the, software project(s) that underwent changes in such an event; a software project split off from a main project. |
| LibreOffice is a fork of OpenOffice. |
| 14. n. (British) Crotch. |
| 15. n. (colloquial) A forklift. |
| 16. n. The individual blades of a forklift. |
| 17. n. (cycling) In a bicycle, the portion of the frameset holding the front wheel, allowing the rider to steer and balance. |
| The fork can be equipped with a suspension on mountain bikes. |
| 18. v. To divide into two or more branches. |
| A road, a tree, or a stream forks. |
| 19. v. To move with a fork (as hay or food). |
| 20. v. (computer science) To spawn a new child process in some sense duplicating the existing process. |
| 21. v. (computer science) To split a (software) project into several projects. |
| 22. v. (computer science) To split a (software) distributed version control repository |
| 23. v. (British) To kick someone in the crotch. |
| 24. v. To shoot into blades, as corn does. |
| 25. v. euphemistic form of fuck |
| Svenska > Engelsk |
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| gaffel |
| 1. n-c. fork; a pronged tool |
