fork

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A utensil with spikes used to put solid food into the mouth, or to hold food down while cutting, or for serving food.
2. isim 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.
3. isim Such a pronged tool having a long straight handle, generally for two-handed use, as used for digging, lifting, mucking, pitching, etc.
4. isim A tuning fork.
5. isim An intersection in a road or path where one road is split into two.
6. isim A decision point.
7. isim A point where a waterway, such as a river or other stream, splits and flows into two (or more) different directions.
8. isim 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”

9. isim A point in time where one has to make a decision between two life paths.
10. isim Either of the (figurative) paths thus taken.
11. isim Any of the pieces/versions (of software, content, or data sets) thus created.
12. isim 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.
13. isim Any of the software projects resulting from the launch of such separate software development efforts based upon a copy of the original project.

    “LibreOffice is a fork of OpenOffice.”

14. isim 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).”

15. isim Any of the pieces/versions of content thus created.
16. isim A split in a blockchain resulting from protocol disagreements, or a branch of the blockchain resulting from such a split.

    “Known as a “fork”, the new version of bitcoin (dubbed Bitcoin XT) would support more transactions per hour, at the cost of increasing the amount of memory required to hold a full database of all the bitcoin transactions throughout history, known as the blockchain.”

17. isim The simultaneous attack of two adversary pieces with one single attacking piece (especially a knight).
18. isim The crotch.
19. isim A forklift.

    “Are you qualified to drive a fork?”

20. isim 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!”

21. fiil To divide into two or more branches or copies.

    “A road, a tree, or a stream forks.”

22. fiil To spawn a new child process by duplicating the existing process.

    “A parent process forks a child process, which in turn can fork other processes.”

23. fiil To launch a separate software development effort based upon a modified copy of an existing software project, especially in free and open-source software.

    “For various reasons, McCool's server project subsequently forked, leading to the development of the Apache Web Server.”

24. fiil To create a copy of a distributed version control repository.

    “In this model, anyone can fork an existing repository and push changes to their personal fork.”

25. fiil To move with a fork (as hay or food).

    “forking the sheaves on the high-laden cart”

26. fiil To apply a fork to.

    “forking the soil”

27. fiil To kick someone in the crotch.
28. fiil To shoot into blades, as corn does.

    “I have known them couched up a Yard thick cover’d with an Hair-cloth and ſtirred only once a day, the Maltſer being always careful to throw the frozen outſides into the middle till the Corn begin to fork and warm in the Couch; after which time if it be not laid too thin, it will not eaſily freeze.”

29. fiil To simultaneously attack two opposing pieces with a single attacking piece.
30. fiil Euphemistic form of fuck.

    “They were forking each other in the back room.”