Synonyms for fork
fɔrkfork

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1. forknoun

   cutlery used for serving and eating food

   Synonyms:
   crotch, forking, ramification, branching

2. branching, ramification, fork, forkingnoun

   the act of branching out or dividing into branches

   Synonyms:
   branch, forking, furcation, leg, crotch, complication, ramification, branching

3. fork, crotchnoun

   the region of the angle formed by the junction of two branches

   "they took the south fork"; "he climbed into the crotch of a tree"

   Synonyms:
   genital organ, forking, genitalia, private parts, crotch, ramification, privates, genitals, branching

4. forknoun

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

   Synonyms:
   crotch, forking, ramification, branching

5. crotch, forkverb

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

   Synonyms:
   genital organ, forking, genitalia, privates, private parts, crotch, ramification, genitals, branching

6. pitchfork, forkverb

   lift with a pitchfork

   "pitchfork hay"

   Synonyms:
   ramify, furcate, separate, pitchfork, branch

7. forkverb

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

   Synonyms:
   ramify, furcate, separate, pitchfork, branch

8. branch, ramify, fork, furcate, separateverb

   divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork

   "The road forks"

   Synonyms:
   divide, split, pitchfork, separate, sort, come apart, assort, classify, secern, sort out, dissever, differentiate, class, part, break, disunite, severalise, break up, fall apart, severalize, secernate, complexify, split up, furcate, distinguish, tell apart, carve up, tell, branch, single out, ramify, discriminate

9. forkverb

   shape like a fork

   "She forked her fingers"

   Synonyms:
   ramify, furcate, separate, pitchfork, branch

Matched Categories

1. • Attack
   • Chess
   • Cutlery
   • Lift
   • Shape
   • Tool

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1. utensil

   it is a utensil

   Submitted by rinat on August 20, 2019  

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1. forknoun

   Synonyms:
   branch, division, divarication

2. forkverb

   Synonyms:
   branch, divide

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1. forknoun

   Synonyms:
   fourchette, divarication, branch, crotch, prong, tine, pew, grain

2. forkverb

   Synonyms:
   ramify, branch, divaricate

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1. List of paraphrases for "fork":

   clevis, yoke, forks, range, pitchfork

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How to use fork in a sentence?

1. Jacqueline Whitmore:

   Etiquette is more than knowing how to use the right knife and fork, i define it as the ‘art of knowing how to treat other people.’ It's being mindful of how your behavior affects others.

2. Ken LaGrande:

   Sun Valley Rice now is a fully integrated arm of the family business,' from farm to fork' if you will, we source rice from 200 farms, or about 10 % of the rice crop gown in California. And we handle drying, milling, packaging and marketing of the rice.

3. Stanisław Jerzy Lec:

   Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?

4. Neil Gershenfeld:

   For a smart material to be able to send out a more complex signal it needs to be nonlinear. If you hit a tuning fork twice as hard it will ring twice as loud but still at the same frequency. That's a linear response. If you hit a person twice as hard they're unlikely just to shout twice as loud. That property lets you learn more about the person than the tuning fork.

5. Brian Flores:

   We didn’t have to file a lawsuit for the world to know there’s a problem from a hiring standpoint in regards to minority coaches in the National Football League. The numbers speak for themselves. We filed a lawsuit so that we can create some change, and that’s important to me. We’re at a fork in the road right now, we’re either gonna keep it the way it is, or we’re gonna go in another direction and actually make some real change where actually changing the hearts and minds of those who make decisions to hire head coaches, executives, etc. We gotta change hearts and minds.