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# fork

noun (a fork, forks); verb (fork, forks, forked, forking)

«fork» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A fork is a tool with a handle and two to four points (prongs) that you use to eat food. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fork/#m1)
2. A garden fork is a large tool with prongs for digging soil. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fork/#m2)
3. A fork in a road or river is where it splits into two. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fork/#m3)
4. To fork is to divide into two parts going different ways. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fork/#m4)
5. To fork out is to pay money, often unwillingly (informal). [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fork/#m5)

### In the lessons

At the table, use a knife and fork; in many countries you hold the fork in your left hand. In stories, a fork in the road is a moment of choice. In music, a tuning fork makes one exact note. In science, forked lightning splits into branches. Phrases: knife and fork, fork in the road, tuning fork, fork out, forked tongue (snakes).

### Examples

- Eat your peas with a fork. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fork/#x1)
- Put the knife and fork beside the plate. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fork/#x2)
- Turn left at the fork in the road. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fork/#x3)
- Dad dug the garden with a fork. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fork/#x4)
- A snake has a forked tongue. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fork/#x5)
- The path forks near the old oak tree. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fork/#x6)
- We had to fork out for new school shoes. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fork/#x7)
- ‘Who’s been using my little fork?’ [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fork/#x8)

### Note

Countable: one fork, two forks. Never put a fork or any metal in a toaster or a socket. In a microwave, metal forks can make sparks.

## In Jewish tradition

Here it is a farm tool with three teeth, one of the iron tools the Israelites had to take to the Philistines to be sharpened. In the primary lessons: At the table, use a knife and fork; in many countries you hold the fork in your left hand. In stories, a fork in the road is a moment of choice. In music, a tuning fork makes one exact note. In science, forked lightning splits into branches. Phrases: knife and fork, fork in the road, tuning fork, fork out, forked tongue (snakes).

### Examples

- And the price of the filing was a pim for the mattocks, and for the coulters, and for the forks with three teeth, and for the axes; and to set the goads. (Prophets 1SA.13.21, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/fork/#x1)

### Note

Countable: one fork, two forks. Never put a fork or any metal in a toaster or a socket. In a microwave, metal forks can make sparks.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «fork» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fork/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«fork» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/fork.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «fork» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/fork/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«fork» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/fork.html) on Mova free.