fork

fork is a 4-letter English word with 17 senses as noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: An instrument consisting of a handle with a shank terminating in two or more prongs or tines, which are usually of metal, parallel and slightly curved; -- used from piercing, holding, taking up, or pitching anything. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 11 · 17 senses

Definitions

1. noun. An instrument consisting of a handle with a shank terminating in two or more prongs or tines, which are usually of metal, parallel and slightly curved; -- used from piercing, holding, taking up, or pitching anything.
2. noun. Anything furcate or like a fork in shape, or furcate at the extremity; as, a tuning fork.
3. noun. One of the parts into which anything is furcated or divided; a prong; a branch of a stream, a road, etc.; a barbed point, as of an arrow.
4. noun. The place where a division or a union occurs; the angle or opening between two branches or limbs; as, the fork of a river, a tree, or a road.
5. noun. The gibbet.
6. intransitive verb. To shoot into blades, as corn.
7. intransitive verb. To divide into two or more branches; as, a road, a tree, or a stream forks.
8. transitive verb. To raise, or pitch with a fork, as hay; to dig or turn over with a fork, as the soil.
9. noun. the act of branching out or dividing into branches

   Synonyms: branching, forking, ramification

10. noun. cutlery used for serving and eating food
11. noun. an agricultural tool used for lifting or digging; has a handle and metal prongs
12. noun. the angle formed by the inner sides of the legs where they join the human trunk

    Synonyms: crotch

13. noun. 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: crotch

14. verb. shape like a fork

    "She forked her fingers"

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

    "The road forks"

    Synonyms: branch, furcate, ramify, separate

16. verb. place under attack with one's own pieces, of two enemy pieces
17. verb. lift with a pitchfork

    "pitchfork hay"

    Synonyms: pitchfork

Synonyms

branching, forking, ramification, crotch, branch, furcate, ramify, separate, pitchfork

Common word forms

forks, forked, forker, forkful, forking, forkable, forkless

Words from these letters

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