Fork
An instrument consisting of a handle with a shank terminating in two or more prongs or tines, which are usually of metal, parallel and slightly curved; -- used from piercing, holding, taking up, or pitching anything.
Anything furcate or like a fork in shape, or furcate at the extremity; as, a tuning fork.
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.
The place where a division or a union occurs; the angle or opening between two branches or limbs; as, the fork of a river, a tree, or a road.
The gibbet.
To shoot into blades, as corn.
To divide into two or more branches; as, a road, a tree, or a stream forks.
To raise, or pitch with a fork, as hay; to dig or turn over with a fork, as the soil.
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Fork Quotations
If you come to a fork in the road, take it.
Yogi Berra
When you arrive at a fork in the road, take it.
Yogi Berra
Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth.
Ambrose Bierce
High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just plain useless.
John Mayer
If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.
Sam Snead
I knew there was a story; once you find a dog with a fork through it, you know there's a story there.
Mark Haddon
Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?
Stanislaw Lec
When I was little, my mother taught me how to use a fork and knife. The trouble is that Mother forget to teach me how to stop using them!
Hattie McDaniel
You don't need a silver fork to eat good food.
Paul Prudhomme
Give your kids a bloody knife and fork and let me put some fresh food in front of them they can eat.
Jamie Oliver
One of the most important things that I have learned in my 57 years is that life is all about choices. On every journey you take, you face choices. At every fork in the road, you make a choice. And it is those decisions that shape our lives.
Mike DeWine
Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.
Emily Post
And that because the moving parts are a million times smaller than the ones we're familiar with, they move a million times faster, just as a smaller tuning fork produces a higher pitch than a large one.
K. Eric Drexler
There should be more booing in shops and restaurants and places like that when when the service is bad. If you've had a poor breakfast in a hotel, you should put your knife and fork down and boo.
Jenny Eclair
One way to find food for thought is to use the fork in the road, the bifurcation that marks the place of emergence in which a new line of development begins to branch off.
William Irwin Thompson
As they say in Italy, Italians were eating with a knife and fork when the French were still eating each other. The Medici family had to bring their Tuscan cooks up there so they could make something edible.
Mario Batali
Every country we conquer feeds us. And these are just a few of the good things we'll have when this war is over. Slaves working for us everywhere while we sit back with a fork in our hands and a whip on our knees.
Curt Siodmak
The child gets two confusing messages when a parent tells him which is the right fork to use, and then proceeds to use the wrong one. So does the child who listens to parents bicker and fuss, yet is told to be nice to his brothers and sisters.
Rachel Blanchard
Nothing is less important than which fork you use. Etiquette is the science of living. It embraces everything. It is ethics. It is honor.
Emily Post
A more accurate statement would be that I was the first person since Jedi who was permitted to stick a fork into the piecrust to see if there was still any steam underneath.
Timothy Zahn
I kind of picked up the game at an early age. The way that other kids would learn what a fork or a spoon is.
Drew Bledsoe
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Fork Translations
fork in Afrikaans is vurk
fork in Danish is gaffel
fork in Dutch is kruis, vork
fork in Finnish is haarukka
fork in French is fourchette, ramification
fork in German is Verzweigung, Gabel, Verzweigung, Gabelung
fork in Italian is diramazione, biforcazione
fork in Norwegian is gaffel, dele seg, veiskille, greip
fork in Portuguese is forquilha, garfo
fork in Spanish is ramificacion, horquilla, tenedor
fork in Swedish is gaffel
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