Fork

//fɔːk//

"Fork" in a Sentence (32 examples)

Could we have a fork?

Although the fork entered society on the tables of rich people, many members of royalty, such as Elizabeth I of England and Louis XIV of France, ate with their fingers.

A fork fell off the table.

I can't use a fork well.

There is a fork missing.

The fork made its way to Western tables several hundred years later, but it was not immediately accepted.

The boy can handle a knife and fork very well.

The child handles a knife and fork well.

We played a good knife and fork.

We usually eat with a knife, fork and spoon.

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a thunderbolt with three forks

this fork of the river dries up during droughts

LibreOffice is a fork of OpenOffice.

A content fork may be intentional (as from a schism about goals) or unintentional (merely from a lack of reorganizing, so far).

Known as a “fork”, the new version of bitcoin (dubbed Bitcoin XT) would support more transactions per hour, at the cost of increasing the amount of memory required to hold a full database of all the bitcoin transactions throughout history, known as the blockchain.

Are you qualified to drive a fork?

Get those forks tilted back more or you're gonna lose that pallet!

The fork can be equipped with a suspension on mountain bikes.

resource fork

HFS+ uses forks to store file data. Generally there are two types of forks available in HFS+, the data fork and the resource fork.

They had run through all punishments, and just 'scaped the fork

A road, a tree, or a stream forks.

A parent process forks a child process, which in turn can fork other processes.

It appears that the shell forks a copy of itself and that this copy then forks to make each of the previous processes in the pipeline.

For various reasons, McCool's server project subsequently forked, leading to the development of the Apache Web Server.

Google forked WebKit to create the Blink project in April 2013 because they wanted to make larger-scale changes to WebKit to fit their own needs that did not align well with the WebKit project itself.

In this model, anyone can fork an existing repository and push changes to their personal fork.

forking the sheaves on the high-laden cart

Brianna curbed her pang of envy as she forked her plain, low-fat, crouton-free salad niçoise into her mouth and shook her head.

I have known them couched up a Yard thick cover’d with an Hair-cloth and ſtirred only once a day, the Maltſer being always careful to throw the frozen outſides into the middle till the Corn begin to fork and warm in the Couch; after which time if it be not laid too thin, it will not eaſily freeze.

They were forking each other in the back room.

Forking the water, is drawing it all out; and when it is done, they say, “the mine or the water is forked;” and “the engine is in fork.”

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