fork
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3.8
- noun
- /fɔrk/
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bifurcación
- As the project progresses, each decision is like a fork in the road.
- a fork in the road
- come to a fork
- west and east forks
For many people, it's this fork in the roadway.
- For many people, it's this fork in the roadway.
- No, a fork is like a split fork in the road.
- We're at a cusp, a fork, probably better call it a fork in the road.
- I leave to several futures in parentheses, not to all my garden of forking paths.
- And he said, and he said that so many aspects of your life will be affected by which fork on that you take.
- You don't know what forks in the road that changed.
- So you, you, you, you're on that sort of fork trajectory.
Examples
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In about three miles, there should be a fork in the road, okay?
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In about three miles, there should be a fork in the road, okay?
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You need to go about 10 miles down the road, and make a right at the fork in the road.
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Actually, I'm at a fork in the road.
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After they had traveled for three days, they came to a fork in the road.
Academic text (2008) -
Take the middle fork.
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Take the left fork.
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Fork left in Little Meadow and you're free of the outpost and skirmishes.
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About 1 km (approximately 0.6 miles) past Megalochori, take the left fork in the road towards Perisa.
Academic text (2006) -
The stream streaking down our gulch is that offshoot, the South Fork of Sixteenmile Creek.
Fiction book (1993)
Synonyms
11
3.7
A place where a road divides into two paths or a time to choose between two options
8
3.4
The action of one thing dividing into parts that spread out
6
8.6
A point where a road or river splits into two
3
4.7
The area in a tree where two branches meet and form an angle
1
7.5
A structure with many branches like a tree
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5.5
A place where a path or river divides into two parts
A forked branch or a small stream where two streams meet
Compounds
11
3.7
A place where a road divides into two paths or a time to choose between two options
4
4.5
A small metal tool with two prongs that makes a clear sound to help find the right musical note
- Specialized
A fern with thin yellow branches and tiny leaves that grows on trees or the ground in warm forests
How Many
Surface Forms
Etymology
Fork comes from the Latin furca meaning 'pitchfork', and the picture of prongs splitting apart helps you remember a 'fork' in a road or river where the path divides into two or more branches.