Folk vs. Fork
Folk and Fork Definitions
Folk
The common people of a society or region considered as the representatives of a traditional way of life and especially as the originators or carriers of the customs, beliefs, and arts that make up a distinctive culture
A leader who came from the folk.
Fork
A utensil with two or more prongs, used for eating or serving food.
Folk
(Archaic) A nation; a people.
Fork
An implement with two or more prongs used for raising, carrying, piercing, or digging.
Folk
Folks(Informal) People in general
Folks around here are very friendly.
Fork
A bifurcation or separation into two or more branches or parts.
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Folk
Often folks People of a specified group or kind
City folks.
Rich folk.
Fork
The point at which such a bifurcation or separation occurs
A fork in a road.
Folk
One's parents
My folks are coming for a visit.
Fork
One of the branches of such a bifurcation or separation
The right fork.
Folk
The members of one's family or childhood household; one's relatives.
Fork
(Games) An attack by one chess piece on two pieces at the same time.
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Folk
Of, occurring in, or originating among the common people
Folk culture.
A folk hero.
Fork
To raise, carry, pitch, or pierce with a fork.
Folk
(archaic) A grouping of smaller peoples or tribes as a nation.
Fork
To give the shape of a fork to (one's fingers, for example).
Folk
The inhabitants of a region, especially the native inhabitants.
Fork
(Games) To launch an attack on (two chess pieces).
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Folk
(plural only) People in general.
Fork
(Informal) To pay. Used with over, out, or up
Forked over $80 for front-row seats.
Forked up the money owed.
Folk
(plural only) A particular group of people.
Young folk, old folk, everybody come / To our little Sunday School, and have a lot of fun.
Fork
To divide into two or more branches
The river forks here.
Folk
One’s relatives, especially one’s parents.
Fork
To use a fork, as in working.
Folk
(music) folk music
Fork
To turn at or travel along a fork.
Folk
Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of a land, their culture, tradition, or history.
Fork
Any of several types of pronged (tined) tools (physical tools), as follows:
Folk
Of or pertaining to common people as opposed to ruling classes or elites.
Fork
A utensil with spikes used to put solid food into the mouth, or to hold food down while cutting.
Folk
(architecture) Of or related to local building materials and styles.
Fork
Any of several types of pronged tools for use on farms, in fields, or in the garden or lawn, such as a smaller hand fork for weeding or a larger one for turning over the soil.
Folk
Believed or transmitted by the common people; not academically correct or rigorous.
Folk psychology; folk linguistics
Fork
A tuning fork.
Folk
In Anglo-Saxon times, the people of a group of townships or villages; a community; a tribe.
The organization of each folk, as such, sprang mainly from war.
Fork
(by abstraction, from the tool shape) A fork in the road, as follows:
Folk
People in general, or a separate class of people; - generally used in the plural form, and often with a qualifying adjective; as, the old folks; poor folks.
In winter's tedious nights, sit by the fireWith good old folks, and let them tell thee tales.
Fork
(physical) An intersection in a road or path where one road is split into two.
Folk
The persons of one's own family; as, our folks are all well.
Fork
(figurative) A fork.
Folk
People in general;
They're just country folk
The common people determine the group character and preserve its customs from one generation to the next
Fork
(by abstraction, from the tool shape) A point where a waterway, such as a river or other stream, splits and flows into two (or more) different directions.
Folk
A social division of (usually preliterate) people
Fork
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.
A thunderbolt with three forks
This fork of the river dries up during droughts
Folk
People descended from a common ancestor;
His family has lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower
Fork
A point in time where one has to make a decision between two life paths.
Folk
The traditional and typically anonymous music that is an expression of the life of people in a community
Fork
(metonymically) Either of the (figurative) paths thus taken.
Fork
Process (software development, content management, data management) A departure from having a single source of truth (SSOT), sometimes intentionally but usually unintentionally.
Fork
(metonymically) Any of the pieces/versions (of software, content, or data sets) thus created.
Single source of truth, SSOT
Fork
(software) The launch of one or more separate software development efforts based upon a modified copy of an existing project, especially in free and open-source software.
Fork
The splitting of the coverage of a topic (within a corpus of content) into two or more pieces.
A content fork may be intentional (as from a schism about goals) or unintentional (merely from a lack of reorganizing, so far).
Fork
(cryptocurrency) A split in a blockchain resulting from protocol disagreements, or a branch of the blockchain resulting from such a split.
Fork
(chess) The simultaneous attack of two adversary pieces with one single attacking piece (especially a knight).
Fork
The crotch. en
Fork
(colloquial) A forklift.
Are you qualified to drive a fork?
Fork
Either of the blades of a forklift (or, in plural, the set of blades), on which the goods to be raised are loaded.
Get those forks tilted back more or you're gonna lose that pallet!
Fork
In a bicycle or motorcycle, the portion of the frameset holding the front wheel, allowing the rider to steer and balance, also called front fork.
The fork can be equipped with a suspension on mountain bikes.
Fork
Horse tack The upper front brow of a saddle bow, connected in the tree by the two saddle bars to the cantle on the other end.
Fork
(obsolete) A gallows.
Fork
(mining) The bottom of a sump into which the water of a mine drains.
Fork
(ambitransitive) To divide into two or more branches or copies.
A road, a tree, or a stream forks.
Fork
To spawn a new child process by duplicating the existing process.
Fork
To launch a separate software development effort based upon a modified copy of an existing software project, especially in free and open-source software.
Fork
To create a copy of a distributed version control repository.
Fork
(transitive) To move with a fork (as hay or food).
Fork
To kick someone in the crotch.
Fork
(intransitive) To shoot into blades, as corn does.
Fork
(transitive) fuck
Fork
To bale a shaft dry.
Fork
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 for piercing, holding, taking up, or pitching anything.
Fork
Anything furcate or like a fork in shape, or furcate at the extremity; as, a tuning fork.
Fork
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.
Let it fall . . . though the fork invadeThe region of my heart.
A thunderbolt with three forks.
Fork
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.
Fork
The gibbet.
Fork
To shoot into blades, as corn.
The corn beginneth to fork.
Fork
To divide into two or more branches; as, a road, a tree, or a stream forks.
Fork
To raise, or pitch with a fork, as hay; to dig or turn over with a fork, as the soil.
Forking the sheaves on the high-laden cart.
Fork
Cutlery used for serving and eating food
Fork
The act of branching out or dividing into branches
Fork
A part of a forked or branching shape;
He broke off one of the branches
They took the south fork
Fork
An agricultural tool used for lifting or digging; has a handle and metal prongs
Fork
The angle formed by the inner sides of the legs where they join the human trunk
Fork
Lift with a pitchfork;
Pitchfork hay
Fork
Place under attack with one's own pieces, of two enemy pieces
Fork
Divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork;
The road forks
Fork
Shape like a fork;
She forked her fingers
