Meaning & use
fork
A utensil with prongs used for lifting food, or a point where a road divides.
See it in a sentence
She set a fork and knife beside each plate before dinner.
Turn left at the fork in the road to reach the farmhouse.
A note on using this word
As a verb, to fork can mean to divide into branches, as in the trail forks near the old bridge.
Words with a similar meaning
prongjunction
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