forknoun詞源 1/fɔːk/

• 1

  Any of several types of pronged (tined) tools (physical tools), as follows:

• 2

  Any of several types of pronged (tined) tools (physical tools), as follows:

• 3

  Any of several types of pronged (tined) tools (physical tools), as follows:

• 4

  Any of several types of pronged (tined) tools (physical tools), as follows:

• 5

  A fork in the road, as follows:

• 6

  A fork in the road, as follows:

• 7

  A point where a waterway, such as a river or other stream, splits and flows into two (or more) different directions.

• 8

  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.

  • a thunderbolt with three forks
  • this fork of the river dries up during droughts

forkverb詞源 1/fɔːk/

• 1

  To divide into two or more branches or copies.

  • A road, a tree, or a stream forks.
• 2

  computingengineeringmathematicsTo divide into two or more branches or copies.

  • 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.
• 3

  computingengineeringmathematicsTo divide into two or more branches or copies.

  • 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.
• 4

  computingengineeringmathematicsTo divide into two or more branches or copies.

  • In this model, anyone can fork an existing repository and push changes to their personal fork.
• 5

  To move with a fork (as hay or food).

  • 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.
• 6

  To apply a fork to.

  • forking the soil
  • They delight in combing, or rather forking it, using for that purpose a large wooden fork with four diverging prongs, which answers the purpose of separating and arranging the long tangled, frizzly mass of cranial vegetation much better than any comb could do.
• 7

  To kick someone in the crotch.

• 8

  To shoot into blades, as corn does.

  • 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.

forknoun詞源 2/fɔːk/

• 1

  businessminingThe bottom of a sump into which the water of a mine drains.

forkverb詞源 2/fɔːk/

• 1

  businessminingTo bale a shaft dry.

  • 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.”

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

• fuck