fork
fork /f'ɔːrk/ (forks forking forked)
1 [N-COUNT]
A fork is a tool used for eating food which has a row of three or four long metal points at the end.
...knives and forks.
2 [VERB] V n into/onto n, V n into/onto n
If you fork food into your mouth or onto a plate, you put it there using a fork.
Ann forked some fish into her mouth...
He forked an egg onto a piece of bread and folded it into a sandwich.
3 [N-COUNT]
A garden fork is a tool used for breaking up soil which has a row of three or four long metal points at the end.
4 [N-COUNT] usu with supp
A fork in a road, path, or river is a point at which it divides into two parts and forms a `Y' shape.
We arrived at a fork in the road...
The road divides; you should take the right fork.
5 [VERB] no cont, V, V prep/adv
If a road, path, or river forks, it forms a fork.
Beyond the village the road forked...
The path dipped down to a sort of cove, and then it forked in two directions.
6
see also tuning forkfork out
[PHRASAL VERB] V P for/on n, V P, V P n for/on n
If you fork out for something, you spend a lot of money on it. (INFORMAL)
He will have to fork out for private school fees for Nina...
You don't ask people to fork out every time they drive up the motorways...
Britons fork out more than a billion pounds a year on toys.
= cough uptun|ing fork (tuning forks)
[N-COUNT]
A tuning fork is a small steel instrument which is used to tune instruments by striking it against something to produce a note of fixed musical pitch.
1 [N-COUNT]
A fork is a tool used for eating food which has a row of three or four long metal points at the end.
...knives and forks.
2 [VERB] V n into/onto n, V n into/onto n
If you fork food into your mouth or onto a plate, you put it there using a fork.
Ann forked some fish into her mouth...
He forked an egg onto a piece of bread and folded it into a sandwich.
3 [N-COUNT]
A garden fork is a tool used for breaking up soil which has a row of three or four long metal points at the end.
4 [N-COUNT] usu with supp
A fork in a road, path, or river is a point at which it divides into two parts and forms a `Y' shape.
We arrived at a fork in the road...
The road divides; you should take the right fork.
5 [VERB] no cont, V, V prep/adv
If a road, path, or river forks, it forms a fork.
Beyond the village the road forked...
The path dipped down to a sort of cove, and then it forked in two directions.
6
see also tuning forkfork out
[PHRASAL VERB] V P for/on n, V P, V P n for/on n
If you fork out for something, you spend a lot of money on it. (INFORMAL)
He will have to fork out for private school fees for Nina...
You don't ask people to fork out every time they drive up the motorways...
Britons fork out more than a billion pounds a year on toys.
= cough uptun|ing fork (tuning forks)
[N-COUNT]
A tuning fork is a small steel instrument which is used to tune instruments by striking it against something to produce a note of fixed musical pitch.