An implement with two or more prongs used for lifting food to the mouth or holding it when cutting. noun
She picked up her salad with a fork.
He used a fork to eat his spaghetti.
A division into two or more branches, such as a road, river, or path. noun
The road took a fork to the left.
They followed the fork in the river to find the hidden waterfall.
A point in a chess game where a single piece attacks two or more of the opponent's pieces simultaneously. noun
The knight moved to a position where it could fork the king and the rook.
He lost his queen to a clever fork by his opponent.
To divide into two or more branches. verb
The path forks near the old oak tree.
The river forks into two smaller streams.
To create a copy of a software project, often to develop it independently. verb
The developer decided to fork the open-source project to add new features.
After disagreements with the original team, they forked the codebase and started their own version.