1
- an implement with two or more prongs used for lifting food to the mouth or holding it when cutting叉, 餐叉。
1.1
- a tool of larger but similar form used for digging or lifting in a garden or farm耙。
1.2
- as modifier denoting a light meal or buffet that may be eaten solely with a fork, while standing（只需站着用叉进食的）自助式叉餐。
2
- a device, component, or part with two or more prongs, in particular叉状设备（或部件）, 尤指：
2.1
- （一般作forks）each of a pair of supports in which a bicycle or motorcycle wheel revolves（自行车, 摩托车）前叉, 后叉。
2.2
- a flash of forked lightning叉状闪电的闪光。
3
- the point where something, especially a road or (N. Amer.) river, divides into two parts岔路口; 〈北美〉 河流分流处。
3.1
- either of two such parts岔路; 〈北美〉 岔流, 分流。
4
- Chess a simultaneous attack on two or more pieces by one【棋】一捉两; 一捉多。
1
- no obj.(especially of a road or other route) divide into two parts（尤指公路等）分岔：
the place where the road forks.
公路分岔处。
1.1
- no obj., with adverbial of direction take or constitute one part or the other at the point where a road or other route divides（公路等分岔处）走岔道; 构成岔道：
we forked north-west for Rannoch.
我们岔向西北往兰诺赫走。
2
- with obj. dig, lift, or manipulate (something) with a fork用耙子挖（或举、操纵）; 用叉叉起：
fork in some compost.
耙进一些堆肥。
3
- with obj. Chess attack (two pieces) simultaneously with one【棋】用一个棋子同时进攻（两个棋子）。
派生词
forkful
noun （pl.-fuls）词源
Old English forca, force (denoting an agricultural implement), based on Latin furca 'pitchfork, forked stick'; reinforced in Middle English by Anglo-Norman French furke （also from Latin furca）.
短语动词
fork something out/up（或fork out/up）
- informal pay money for something, especially reluctantly〈非正式〉（尤指不情愿地）为…付钱。
fork something over
1
- turn over soil or other material with a gardening fork用耙子翻（土等）。
2
- informal, chiefly N. Amer. another way of saying fork something out.〈非正式, 主北美〉同 fork something out.