A Quick and Simple Dictionary

fork

1. Noun.  A pronged tool having a long straight handle, used for digging, lifting, throwing etc.
2. Noun.  (obsolete) A gallows.
3. Noun.  A utensil with spikes used to put solid food into the mouth, or to hold food down while cutting.
4. Noun.  A tuning fork.
5. Noun.  An intersection in a road or path where one road is split into two.
6. Noun.  A point where a waterway, such as a river, splits and goes two (or more) different directions.
7. Noun.  (figuratively) A point in time where one has to make a decision between two life paths.
8. Noun.  (chess) The simultaneous attack of two adversary pieces with one single attacking piece (especially a knight).
9. Noun.  (computer science) A splitting-up of an existing process into itself and a child process executing parts of the same program.
10. Noun.  (computer science) An event where development of some free software or open-source software is split into two or more separate projects.
11. Noun.  (British) Crotch.
12. Noun.  (colloquial) A forklift.
13. Noun.  The individual blades of a forklift.
14. Noun.  In a bicycle, the portion holding the front wheel, allowing the rider to steer and balance.
15. Verb.  (transitive) To move with a fork (as hay or food).
16. Verb.  (context, computer science) To spawn a new child process in some sense duplicating the existing process.
17. Verb.  (context, computer science) To split a (software) project into several projects.
18. Verb.  (British) To kick someone in the crotch.