Word Type

Noun

Verb

The word "fork" can be used as noun and verb.

Word Relationships

Opposites (Antonyms)

knife

Typical Location

a back cutlery drawer drawer housewares store kitchen kitchen drawer napkin plane plate resturant road silverware drawer table untensil drawer

Capable Of

hold things in road move food to mouth

Coordinate Terms

butter knife chork foon knife spoon spork steak knife table knife

Derived Terms

Ash Fork Clear Fork Grand Forks Hume's fork Morton's fork Roaring Fork River Rolling Fork barley fork bent fork cake fork carving fork chip fork cocktail fork crab fork cut with a knife and fork dessert fork dig one's grave with a fork dig one's grave with a fork and spoon digging fork dinner fork dung fork dungfork farm-to-fork fingers were made before forks fish fork fondue fork fork F fork beam fork bomb fork bomb fork buffet fork chuck fork dinner fork found in kitchen fork grass fork grinder fork hoe fork in the road fork lightning fork lunch fork luncheon fork off fork oil fork out fork over fork supper fork truck fork-leaved sundew fork-marked lemur fork-tailed bush katydid fork-tailed flycatcher fork-tender fork-tongued forkable forkball forkbeard forker forkful forkhead forkless forklike forkload forkmaker forktail forkweed forkwise forky garden fork hair fork hard fork harpoon fork hayfork impossible fork knife and fork knife-and-fork knork manure fork meat fork meatfork military fork multifork pastry fork pickle fork pie fork pitchfork prefork replication fork royal fork salad fork seafood fork shakefork shrimp fork silver fork novel slave fork soft fork spade fork spading fork steak fork stick a fork in something toasting fork toasting-fork tree fork tuning fork unfork winnowing fork winnowing-fork you can't outrun your fork

Distinct From

knife spoon

Has Part

prongs tines

Context

british chess computer science cycling geography

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

aggress angle attack branch cutlery diverge division eating utensil form leg lift ramification shape tool

Type Of (IsA)

cutlery eating utensil kitchen utensil kitchenware silverware tableware tool utensil can stab

Made Of

metal

Manner Of

attack form

Part Of

dining set

Receives Action

needed when eating meal used when eating

Related Terms

a three-prong spear somewhat resembling a pitchfork denture knife spoon trident

Related Terms

adversary attack bicycle blade corn crotch cutlery denture development dig duplicate eating eating utensil execute food forklift frameset free software gallows has has tines intersection kick knife mate mouth one open source path process program project road separate simultaneous software solid spawn spike split spoon spoon mate steer table table utensil teeth tines tool tributary trident tuning fork two utensil waterway

Similar Terms

branch ramify

Synonym Network

branch branching crotch pitchfork

Used For

dividing road in two eat eat dinner eat food eat meal eat meat eat steak eat vegetables eating eating food eating food off plate eating food with eating meat eating pie eating vegetables holding food lift food to mouth lifting food from plate to mouth moving food to mouth picking up food piercing food providing choice turning soil

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.