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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

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