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Words related to fork

Related / Similar Words: branching, ramification, forking, crotch, branch, leg, ramify, furcate, separate, pitchfork

Definition:

the act of branching out or dividing into branches;

cutlery used for serving and eating food;

an agricultural tool used for lifting or digging; has a handle and metal prongs;

the angle formed by the inner sides of the legs where they join the human trunk;

a part of a forked or branching shape; "he broke off one of the branches"; "they took the south fork";

shape like a fork; "She forked her fingers";

divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork; "The road forks";

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

lift with a pitchfork; "pitchfork hay";

See Also: diversify, branch out, broaden

Hyponyms: bifurcation, trifurcation, divarication, fibrillation, carving fork, salad fork, tablefork, toasting fork, hayfork, brachium, arborize, arborise, twig, bifurcate, trifurcate

Grouped Verbs: ramify, branch

Part Meronyms: body, organic structure, physical structure, furcation, forking

Derivational Morphology: branch, ramify, furcate, separate, bifurcate, pitchfork, leg, ramification, furcation, forking, branching

Language Translations:
Afrikaans: vurk		Bosnian: vile and viljuška
Breton: forc'h and fourchetez		Croatian: vile and vilica
Danish: fork and gaffel and skillevej		Dutch: vork
Estonian: hang and kahvel and lahk		Finnish: haara and haarukka and talikko
French: fourche and fourchette		German: Gabel and Gabelung
Hungarian: villa		Icelandic: gaffall
Italian: biforcazione and forchetta		Japanese: フォーク and 鍬 and 分岐点
Korean: 갈림길 and 쇠스랑 and 포크		Latin: bivium and furca
Latvian: dakša		Lithuanian: išsišakojimas and šakutė
Maltese: furketta and furkettun		Polish: rozwidlenie and widelec and widły
Portuguese: bifurcação and garfo		Romanian: bifurcaţie and furculiţă and furcă
Russian: вилка and вилы and развилка		Slovak: obojsmerné spojenie and vidlička and vidly
Slovene: vilice		Spanish: bifurcación and tenedor
Swahili: uma		Swedish: gaffel and gren and grep

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