English-Danish translations for fork

• gaffel
  Hvert skridt i branchens produktionskæde er reguleret, "fra gård til gaffel" så at sige. Every step of the industry's chain of production is regulated, 'from farm to fork' so to speak.
  Men den slags gaffel, som vi spiser med, eller måden, som vores cykel eller taget på vores hus ser ud, har ikke noget at gøre med økonomien, men er et udtryk for kultur. However, the kind of fork we eat with, or what our bicycle or the roof of our house looks like, has nothing to do with the economy, but is an expression of culture.
  Efter min opfattelse er der stadig lang vej fra laboratoriet til den europæiske forbrugers kniv og gaffel, for der er stadig alt for mange spørgsmål. In my opinion, the road from the laboratory to the knife and fork of the European consumer is still long, because there are still too many question marks.
• fork
• gafle
• greb
• høtyv
• skillevej
  Fru formand, hr. kommissær, mine damer og herrer! Vores forhandling i dag markerer en skillevej mellem to afgørende principper. Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, our debate today marks a fork in the road between two crucial principles.
  Det er nødvendigt, at Hamas nu udnytter denne skillevej og træffer beslutning om den fremtidige vej. Hamas, in particular, will have to become aware of the fork in the road and come to a decision as to which path it wants to take in future.
  På generalforsamlingen i september sagde generalsekretæren, at FN stod ved en skillevej. At the General Assembly last September the Secretary-General characterised the position to which the UN had come as ‘a fork in the road’.
• vejgaffel

Definition of fork

• A pronged tool having a long straight handle, used for digging, lifting, throwing etc
• A pronged tool for use in the garden; a smaller hand fork for weeding etc., or larger for turning over the soil
• A utensil with spikes used to put solid food into the mouth, or to hold food down while cutting
• An intersection in a road or path where one road is split into two
• 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 point where a waterway, such as a river, splits and goes two different directions
• A point in time where one has to make a decision between two life paths
• A splitting-up of an existing process into itself and a child process executing parts of the same program
• Any of the software projects resulting from such a split
• A split in a blockchain resulting from protocol disagreements, or a branch of the blockchain resulting from such a split
• A forklift
• The set of blades of a forklift, on which the goods to be raised are loaded
• To divide into two or more branches
• To move with a fork (as hay or food
• To spawn a new child process in some sense duplicating the existing process
• To split a distributed version control repository
• To shoot into blades, as corn does
• The bottom of a sump into which the water of a mine drains
• To bale a shaft dry

Examples

• West Fork White River and East Fork White River join together to form the White River of Indiana
• LibreOffice is a fork of OpenOffice
• Are you qualified to drive a fork?
• The fork can be equipped with a suspension on mountain bikes
• A road, a tree, or a stream forks.

Related words

• prong
• spear
• pitchfork