Fork \Fork\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Forked; p. pr. & vb. n.
Forking.]
1. To shoot into blades, as corn.
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The corn beginneth to fork. --Mortimer.
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2. To divide into two or more branches; as, a road, a tree,
or a stream forks.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Forked \Forked\, a.
1. Formed into a forklike shape; having a fork; dividing into
two or more prongs or branches; furcated; bifurcated;
zigzag; as, the forked lighting.
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A serpent seen, with forked tongue. --Shak.
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2. Having a double meaning; ambiguous; equivocal.
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Cross forked (Her.), a cross, the ends of whose arms are
divided into two sharp points; -- called also cross
double fitch['e]. A cross forked of three points is a
cross, each of whose arms terminates in three sharp
points.
Forked counsel, advice pointing more than one way;
ambiguous advice. [Obs.] --B. Jonson. --
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
forked
adj 1: resembling a fork; divided or separated into two branches;
"the biramous appendages of an arthropod"; "long
branched hairs on its legson which pollen collects";
"a forked river"; "a forked tail"; "forked lightning";
"horseradish grown in poor soil may develop prongy
roots" [syn: bifurcate, biramous, branched, forficate,
pronged, prongy]
2: having two meanings with intent to deceive; "a sly double
meaning"; "spoke with forked tongue" [syn: double]
WordNet (r) 2.0
52 Moby Thesaurus words for "forked":
V-shaped, Y-shaped, akimbo, angular, arboreal, arborescent,
arboriform, bent, biforked, bifurcate, bifurcated, bisected,
branched, branching, branchlike, cleft, cloven, cornered, crooked,
crotched, dendriform, dendritic, dichotomous, dimidiate, divided,
forking, forklike, furcal, furcate, geniculate, geniculated,
halved, hooked, jagged, knee-shaped, pointed, pronged, ramified,
ramous, riven, saw-toothed, sawtooth, serrate, sharp,
sharp-cornered, split, tree-shaped, treelike, tridentlike,
trifurcate, trifurcated, zigzag
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
forked adj.,vi. 1. [common after 1997, esp. in the Linux community] An
open-source software project is said to have forked or be forked when
the project group fissions into two or more parts pursuing separate
lines of development (or, less commonly, when a third party unconnected
to the project group begins its own line of development). Forking is
considered a Bad Thing - not merely because it implies a lot of wasted
effort in the future, but because forks tend to be accompanied by a
great deal of strife and acrimony between the successor groups over
issues of legitimacy, succession, and design direction. There is serious
social pressure against forking. As a result, major forks (such as the
Gnu-Emacs/XEmacs split, the fissionings of the 386BSD group into three
daughter projects, and the short-lived GCC/EGCS split) are rare enough
that they are remembered individually in hacker folklore. 2. [Unix;
uncommon; prob. influenced by a mainstream expletive] Terminally slow,
or dead. Originated when one system was slowed to a snail's pace by an
inadvertent fork bomb.
Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001)
forked
(Unix; probably after "fucked") Terminally slow, or dead.
Originated when one system was slowed to a snail's pace by an
inadvertent fork bomb.
[{Jargon File]
(1994-12-14)
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)
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