1. s. A pronged tool having a long straight handle, used for digging, lifting, throwing etc.
2. s. (obsolete) A gallows.
3. s. A utensil with spikes used to put solid food into the mouth, or to hold food down while cutting.
4. s. A tuning fork.
5. s. An intersection in a road or path where one road is split into two.
6. s. 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. s. A point where a waterway, such as a river, splits and goes two (or more) different directions.
8. s. (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. s. (figuratively) A point in time where one has to make a decision between two life paths.
10. s. (chess) The simultaneous attack of two adversary pieces with one single attacking piece (especially a knight).
11. s. (computer science) A splitting-up of an existing process into itself and a child process executing parts of the same program.
12. s. (software) An event where development of some free software or open-source software is split into two or more separate projects.
13. s. (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. s. (British) Crotch.
15. s. (colloquial) A forklift.
16. s. The individual blades of a forklift.
17. s. (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
holder
1. s. Titular.
2. s. Poseedor.
3. s. Funda.
holder
1. s. A thing that holds.
Put your umbrella in the umbrella holder.
2. s. A person who temporarily or permanently possesses something.
He's been an account holder with us since 2004.
In 2012, there were 28 living holders of the Victoria Cross or the George Cross.
3. s. (nautical) One who is employed in the hold of a vessel.
