Folk vs. Fork
Difference Between Folk and Fork
Folkadjective
Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of a land, their culture, tradition, or history.
Forknoun
A pronged tool having a long straight handle, used for digging, lifting, throwing etc.
Folkadjective
Of or pertaining to common people as opposed to ruling classes or elites.
Forknoun
A pronged tool for use in the garden; a smaller hand fork for weeding etc., or larger for turning over the soil.
Folkadjective
(architecture) Of or related to local building materials and styles.
Forknoun
(obsolete) A gallows.
Folkadjective
Believed or transmitted by the common people; not academically correct or rigorous.
folk psychology; folk linguisticsForknoun
A utensil with spikes used to put solid food into the mouth, or to hold food down while cutting.
Folknoun
(archaic) A grouping of smaller peoples or tribes as a nation.
Forknoun
A tuning fork.
Folknoun
The inhabitants of a region, especially the native inhabitants.
Forknoun
An intersection in a road or path where one road is split into two.
Folknoun
One’s relatives, especially one’s parents.
Forknoun
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.
Folknoun
(music) Folk music.
Forknoun
A point where a waterway, such as a river, splits and goes two (or more) different directions.
Folknoun
(plural only) People in general.
Young folk, old folk, everybody come, / To our little Sunday School and have a lot of fun.Forknoun
(geography) Used in the names of some river tributaries, e.g. West Fork White River and East Fork White River, joining together to form the White River of Indiana
Folknoun
(plural only) A particular group of people.
Forknoun
(figuratively) A point in time where one has to make a decision between two life paths.
Folknoun
people in general;
they're just country folkthe common people determine the group character and preserve its customs from one generation to the nextForknoun
(chess) The simultaneous attack of two adversary pieces with one single attacking piece (especially a knight).
Folknoun
a social division of (usually preliterate) people
Forknoun
(computer science) A splitting-up of an existing process into itself and a child process executing parts of the same program.
Folknoun
people descended from a common ancestor;
his family has lived in Massachusetts since the MayflowerForknoun
(software) An event where development of some free software or open-source software is split into two or more separate projects.
Folknoun
the traditional and typically anonymous music that is an expression of the life of people in a community
Forknoun
(software) The, or one of the, software project(s) that underwent changes in such an event; a software project split off from a main project.
LibreOffice is a fork of OpenOffice.Forknoun
A split in a blockchain resulting from protocol disagreements, or a branch of the blockchain resulting from such a split.
Forknoun
(British) Crotch.
Forknoun
(colloquial) A forklift.
Are you qualified to drive a fork?Forknoun
The individual blades of a forklift.
Forknoun
(cycling) In a bicycle, the portion of the frameset holding the front wheel, allowing the rider to steer and balance.
The fork can be equipped with a suspension on mountain bikes.Forkverb
(ambitransitive) To divide into two or more branches.
A road, a tree, or a stream forks.Forkverb
(transitive) To move with a fork (as hay or food).
Forkverb
(computer science) To spawn a new child process in some sense duplicating the existing process.
Forkverb
(computer science) To split a (software) project into several projects.
Forkverb
(computer science) To split a (software) distributed version control repository
Forkverb
(British) To kick someone in the crotch.
Forkverb
To shoot into blades, as corn does.
Forknoun
cutlery used for serving and eating food
Forknoun
the act of branching out or dividing into branches
Forknoun
a part of a forked or branching shape;
he broke off one of the branchesthey took the south forkForknoun
an agricultural tool used for lifting or digging; has a handle and metal prongs
Forknoun
the angle formed by the inner sides of the legs where they join the human trunk
Forkverb
lift with a pitchfork;
pitchfork hayForkverb
place under attack with one's own pieces, of two enemy pieces
Forkverb
divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork;
The road forksForkverb
shape like a fork;
She forked her fingers
