Synonyms of the word

fork

• n. A pronged tool having a long straight handle, used for digging, lifting, throwing etc.
• n. (obsolete) A gallows.
• n. A utensil with spikes used to put solid food into the mouth, or to hold food down while cutting.
• n. A tuning fork.
• n. An intersection in a road or path where one road is split into two.
• n. One of the parts into which anything is furcated or divided; a prong; a branch of a stream, a road, etc…
• n. A point where a waterway, such as a river, splits and goes two (or more) different directions.
• n. (geography) Used in the names of some river tributaries, e.g. West Fork White River and East Fork White…
• n. (figuratively) A point in time where one has to make a decision between two life paths.
• n. (chess) The simultaneous attack of two adversary pieces with one single attacking piece (especially a…
• n. (computer science) A splitting-up of an existing process into itself and a child process executing parts…
• n. (computer science) An event where development of some free software or open-source software is split into…
• n. (computer science) The, or one of the, software project(s) that underwent changes in such an event; a…
• n. (Britain) Crotch.
• n. (colloquial) A forklift.
• n. The individual blades of a forklift.
• n. (cycling) In a bicycle, the portion of the frameset holding the front wheel, allowing the rider to steer…
• v. To divide into two or more branches.
• v. (transitive) To move with a fork (as hay or food).
• v. (computer science) To spawn a new child process in some sense duplicating the existing process.
• v. (computer science) To split a (software) project into several projects.
• v. (computer science) To split a (software) distributed version control repository.
• v. (Britain) To kick someone in the crotch.
• v. To shoot into blades, as corn does.
• v. Euphemistic form of fuck.

aggress

• n. Aggression.
• v. (transitive) To set upon; to attack.
• v. (intransitive, construed with on) To commit the first act of hostility or offense against; to begin a…

angle

• n. (geometry) A figure formed by two rays which start from a common point (a plane angle) or by three planes…
• n. (geometry) The measure of such a figure. In the case of a plane angle, this is the ratio (or proportional…
• n. A corner where two walls intersect.
• n. A change in direction.
• n. A viewpoint; a way of looking at something.
• n. (media) The focus of a news story.
• n. (slang, professional wrestling) A storyline between two wrestlers, providing the background for and approach…
• n. (slang) An ulterior motive; a scheme or means of benefitting from a situation, usually hidden, often immoral.
• n. A projecting or sharp corner; an angular fragment.
• n. (astrology) Any of the four cardinal points of an astrological chart: the Ascendant, the Midheaven, the…
• v. (transitive, often in the passive) To place (something) at an angle.
• v. (intransitive, informal) To change direction rapidly.
• v. (transitive, informal) To present or argue something in a particular way or from a particular viewpoint.
• v. (snooker) To leave the cue ball in the jaws of a pocket such that the surround of the pocket (the "angle")…
• v. (intransitive) To try to catch fish with a hook and line.
• v. (informal) (with for) To attempt to subtly persuade someone to offer a desired thing.
• n. A fishhook; tackle for catching fish, consisting of a line, hook, and bait, with or without a rod.

attack

• n. An attempt to cause damage, injury to, or death of opponent or enemy.
• n. An attempt to detract from the worth or credibility of, a person, position, idea, object, or thing, by…
• n. A time in which one attacks. The offence of a battle.
• n. (cricket) Collectively, the bowlers of a cricket side.
• n. (volleyball) Any contact with the ball other than a serve or block which sends the ball across the plane…
• n. (lacrosse) The three attackmen on the field or all the attackmen of a team.
• n. (medicine) The sudden onset of a disease or condition.
• n. An active episode of a chronic or recurrent disease.
• n. (music) The onset of a musical note, particularly with respect to the strength (and duration) of that…
• n. (audio) The amount of time it takes for the volume of an audio signal to go from zero to maximum level…
• v. (transitive) To apply violent force to someone or something.
• v. (transitive) To aggressively challenge a person, idea, etc., with words (particularly in newspaper headlines,…
• v. (transitive) To begin to affect; to act upon injuriously or destructively; to begin to decompose or waste.
• v. (transitive) To deal with something in a direct way; to set to work upon.
• v. (transitive, cricket) To aim balls at the batsman’s wicket.
• v. (intransitive, cricket) To set a field, or bowl in a manner designed to get wickets.
• v. (intransitive, cricket) To bat aggressively, so as to score runs quickly.
• v. (soccer) To move forward in an active attempt to score a point, as opposed to trying not to concede.
• v. (cycling) To accelerate quickly in an attempt to get ahead of the other riders.

branch

• n. The woody part of a tree arising from the trunk and usually dividing.
• n. Any of the parts of something that divides like the branch of a tree.
• n. (in particular) A creek or stream which flows into a larger river. (In the US, branch is a Southern US…
• n. (geometry) One of the portions of a curve that extends outwards to an indefinitely great distance.
• n. A location of an organization with several locations.
• n. A line of family descent, in distinction from some other line or lines from the same stock; any descendant…
• n. (Mormonism) A local congregation of the LDS Church that is not large enough to form a ward; see Wikipedia…
• n. An area in business or of knowledge, research.
• n. (nautical) A certificate given by Trinity House to a pilot qualified to take navigational control of a…
• n. (computer architecture) A sequence of code that is conditionally executed.
• n. (computing) A group of related files in a source control system, including for example source code, build…
• n. (rail transport) A branch line.
• v. (intransitive) To arise from the trunk or a larger branch of a tree.
• v. (intransitive) To produce branches.
• v. (intransitive) To divide into separate parts or subdivisions.
• v. (intransitive, computing) To jump to a different location in a program, especially as the result of a…

branching

• v. present participle of branch.
• n. A process of forming a branch.

crotch

• n. The area where something forks or branches, a ramification takes place.
• n. The ventral area (very bottom) of the human body between where the legs fork from the torso, in the area…
• n. (slang, euphemistic) Either the male or female genitalia.
• n. (billiards) In the three-ball carom game, a small space at each corner of the table.
• v. (transitive) To provide with a crotch; to give the form of a crotch to.
• v. (transitive, logging, historical, US, western US) To notch (a log) on opposite sides to provide a grip…

cutlery

• n. A collective ensemble of eating and serving utensils such as knives, forks and spoons.
• n. The business of a cutler.

diverge

• v. (intransitive, literally of lines or paths) To run apart; to separate; to tend into different directions.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively, of interests, opinions, or anything else) To become different; to run apart;…
• v. (intransitive, literally of a line or path) To separate, to tend into a different direction (from another…
• v. (intransitive, figuratively, of an interest, opinion, or anything else) To become different, to separate…
• v. (intransitive, mathematics, of a sequence, series, or function) Not to converge: to have no limit, or…

division

• n. (uncountable) The act or process of dividing anything.
• n. Each of the separate parts of something resulting from division.
• n. (arithmetic, uncountable) The process of dividing a number by another.
• n. (arithmetic) A calculation that involves this process.
• n. (military) A formation, usually made up of two or three brigades.
• n. A section of a large company.
• n. (taxonomy) A rank (Latin divisio) below kingdom and above class, particularly used of plants or fungi,…
• n. A disagreement; a difference of viewpoint between two sides of an argument.
• n. (music) A florid instrumental variation of a melody in the 17th and 18th centuries, originally conceived…
• n. (music) A set of pipes in a pipe organ which are independently controlled and supplied.
• n. (law) A concept whereby a common group of debtors are only responsible for their proportionate sum of…
• n. (computing) Any of the four major parts of a COBOL program source code.
• n. (Britain, Eton College) A lesson; a class.

forking

• v. present participle of fork.
• n. division into forks.

form

• n. (heading, physical) To do with shape.
• n. (social) To do with structure or procedure.
• n. A blank document or template to be filled in by the user.
• n. Level of performance.
• n. (grammar) A grouping of words which maintain grammatical context in different usages; the particular shape…
• n. The den or home of a hare.
• n. (computing, programming) A window or dialogue box.
• n. (taxonomy) An infraspecific rank.
• n. (printing, dated) The type or other matter from which an impression is to be taken, arranged and secured…
• n. (geometry) A quantic.
• n. (sports, fitness) A specific way of performing a movement.
• v. (transitive) To assume (a certain shape or visible structure).
• v. (transitive) To give (a shape or visible structure) to a thing or person.
• v. (intransitive) To take shape.
• v. To put together or bring into being; assemble.
• v. (transitive, linguistics) To create (a word) by inflection or derivation.
• v. (transitive) To constitute, to compose, to make up.
• v. To mould or model by instruction or discipline.
• v. To provide (a hare) with a form.
• v. (electrical, historical, transitive) To treat (plates) to prepare them for introduction into a storage…

furcate

• adj. Forked, branched; divided at one end into parts.
• v. To fork or branch out.

leg

• n. The lower limb of a human being or animal that extends from the groin to the ankle.
• n. (anatomy) The portion of the lower appendage of a human that extends from the knee to the ankle.
• n. A part of garment, such as a pair of trousers/pants, that covers a leg.
• n. A stage of a journey, race etc.
• n. (nautical) A distance that a sailing vessel does without changing the sails from one side to the other.
• n. (nautical) One side of a multiple-sided (often triangular) course in a sailing race.
• n. (sports) A single game or match played in a tournament or other sporting contest.
• n. (geometry) One of the two sides of a right triangle that is not the hypotenuse.
• n. (geometry) One of the branches of a hyperbola or other curve which extend outward indefinitely.
• n. A rod-like protrusion from an inanimate object, supporting it from underneath.
• n. (usually used in plural) evidence, the ability for a thing or idea to succeed or persist.
• n. (Britain, slang, archaic) A disreputable sporting character; a blackleg.
• n. An extension of a steam boiler downward, in the form of a narrow space between vertical plates, sometimes…
• n. In a grain elevator, the case containing the lower part of the belt which carries the buckets.
• n. (cricket) A fielder whose position is on the outside, a little in rear of the batter.
• n. (telephony) A branch or lateral circuit connecting an instrument with the main line.
• n. (electrical) A branch circuit; one phase of a polyphase system.
• n. (US, slang, military) A soldier assigned to a paratrooper unit who has not yet been qualified as a paratrooper.
• v. To put a series of three or more options strikes into the stock market.
• v. To remove the legs from an animal carcass.
• v. To build legs onto a platform or stage for support.

lift

• n. (Britain dialectal, chiefly Scotland) Air.
• n. (Britain dialectal, chiefly Scotland) The sky; the heavens; firmament; atmosphere.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To raise or rise.
• v. (transitive, slang) To steal. (for this sense Cleasby suggests perhaps a relation to the root of Gothic…
• v. (transitive) To remove (a ban, restriction, etc.).
• v. (transitive) To alleviate, to lighten (pressure, tension, stress, etc.).
• v. (transitive) to cause to move upwards.
• v. (informal, intransitive) To lift weights; to weight-lift.
• v. To try to raise something; to exert the strength for raising or bearing.
• v. To elevate or improve in rank, condition, etc.; often with up.
• v. (obsolete) To bear; to support.
• v. To collect, as moneys due; to raise.
• v. (computing, programming) To transform (a function) into a corresponding function in a different context.
• n. An act of lifting or raising.
• n. The act of transporting someone in a vehicle; a ride; a trip.
• n. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) Mechanical device for vertically transporting goods or people between…
• n. An upward force, such as the force that keeps aircraft aloft.
• n. (measurement) the difference in elevation between the upper pool and lower pool of a waterway, separated…
• n. (historical slang) A thief.
• n. (dance) The lifting of a dance partner into the air.
• n. Permanent construction with a built-in platform that is lifted vertically.
• n. an improvement in mood.
• n. The space or distance through which anything is lifted.
• n. A rise; a degree of elevation.
• n. A lift gate.
• n. (nautical) A rope leading from the masthead to the extremity of a yard below, and used for raising or…
• n. (engineering) One of the steps of a cone pulley.
• n. (shoemaking) A layer of leather in the heel of a shoe.
• n. (horology) That portion of the vibration of a balance during which the impulse is given.

pitchfork

• n. An agricultural tool comprising a fork attached to a long handle used for pitching hay or bales of hay…
• v. (transitive) To toss or carry with a pitchfork.

ramification

• n. (botany, anatomy) A branching-out, the act or result of developing branches; specifically the divergence…
• n. An offshoot of a decision, fact etc.; a consequence or implication, especially one which complicates a…
• n. (mathematics) An arrangement of branches.

ramify

• v. To divide into branches or subdivisions.
• v. (figuratively) To spread or diversify into multiple fields or categories.

separate

• adj. Apart from (the rest); not connected to or attached to (anything else).
• adj. (followed by “from”) Not together (with); not united (to).
• v. (transitive) To divide (a thing) into separate parts.
• v. To disunite something from one thing; To disconnect.
• v. (transitive) To cause (things or people) to be separate.
• v. (intransitive) To divide itself into separate pieces or substances.
• v. (obsolete) To set apart; to select from among others, as for a special use or service.
• n. (usually in the plural) Anything that is sold by itself, especially an article of clothing.

shape

• n. The status or condition of something.
• n. Condition of personal health, especially muscular health.
• n. The appearance of something, especially its outline.
• n. Form; formation.
• n. (iron manufacture) A rolled or hammered piece, such as a bar, beam, angle iron, etc., having a cross section…
• n. (iron manufacture) A piece which has been roughly forged nearly to the form it will receive when completely…
• n. (cooking, now rare) A mould for making jelly, blancmange etc., or a piece of such food formed moulded…
• n. (programming) In the Hack programming language, a group of data fields each of which has a name and a…
• v. (Northern England, Scotland, rare) To create or make.
• v. (transitive) To give something a shape and definition.
• v. To form or manipulate something into a certain shape.
• v. (of a country, person, etc) To give influence to.
• v. To suit; to be adjusted or conformable.
• v. (obsolete) To imagine; to conceive.

tool

• n. A mechanical device intended to make a task easier.
• n. Equipment used in a profession, e.g., tools of the trade.
• n. Something to perform an operation; an instrument; a means.
• n. (computing) A piece of software used to develop software or hardware, or to perform low-level operations.
• n. A person or group which is used or controlled, usually unwittingly, by another person or group.
• n. (slang) Penis.
• n. (by extension, slang, pejorative) An obnoxious or uptight person.
• v. (transitive) To work on or shape with tools, e.g., hand-tooled leather.
• v. (transitive) To equip with tools.
• v. (transitive) To work very hard.
• v. (transitive, slang) To put down another person (possibly in a subtle, hidden way), and in that way to…
• v. (transitive, volleyball) To intentionally attack the ball so that it deflects off a blocker out of bounds.
• v. (transitive, Britain, slang, dated) To drive (a coach, etc.).
• v. (intransitive, slang) To travel in a vehicle; to ride or drive.