英语词汇“forked”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词

forked

释义

fork /förk/

noun

Any pronged instrument (such as an eating implement or garden tool) for spiking and lifting, etc
Anything that divides into prongs or branches
A branch or prong
The space or angle between branches, esp on a tree or between the legs
A confluent, tributary or branch of a river
One of the branches into which a road divides
A dividing into two branches, a bifurcation
A place of bifurcation
A barbed arrowhead
The part of a bicycle to which a wheel is attached
The appearance of a flash of lightning
The bottom of a sump in a mine
In chess, a simultaneous attack on two pieces by one piece

intransitive verb

To branch
To follow a branch road

transitive verb

To form as a fork
To move or lift with a fork
To stab or dig with a fork
In chess, to attack (two pieces) simultaneously
To pump dry

ORIGIN: OE forca, from L furca

forked adjective

Shaped like a fork
Insincere or deceitful (as in forked tongue)

forkˈedly adverb

forkˈedness noun

forkˈer noun

forkˈful noun (pl forkˈfuls)

As much as a fork will hold

forkˈiness noun

forkˈy adjective

forkˈ-chuck noun

A forked lathe-centre in wood-turning

forked lightning noun

Lightning in the form of zigzag flashes

forkˈhead noun

An arrowhead (Spenser)
The forked end of a rod, holding a connecting pin

forkˈit-tail or forkˈy-tail noun (dialect)

An earwig

fork-lift truck noun

(short form forkˈ-lift) a power-driven truck with an arrangement of steel prongs which can lift, raise up high and carry heavy packages and stack them where required (often used with a pallet)

fork lunch or fork luncheon, fork supper, etc noun

A buffet-type meal suitable for eating with a fork only

forkˈtail noun

A name for various fish and birds with forked tails, eg the kite

forkˈ-tailed adjective

fork out, over or up (slang)

To hand or pay over, esp unwillingly

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