English-Finnish translations for fork

• haarukka
  Säästö on haarukassa 2000–2500 euroa.
  Haarukka tehdään useimmiten ratsulla tai sotilaalla, mutta muutkin nappulat voivat haarukoida vastustajan nappuloita.
• haara
• haarautua
  Tie haarautuu punaisen ladon kohdalta.
• tienhaara
  Arvoisa puhemies, arvoisa komission jäsen, hyvät kuulijat, tämänpäiväinen keskustelumme on tienhaara kahden ratkaisevan periaatteen välisellä matkalla. Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, our debate today marks a fork in the road between two crucial principles.
• etuhaarukka
• forkata
• forkkaus
• forkki
• haarakohta
• haarukoida
• joenhaara
• potkaista haaroihin
• talikko
• talikoida
• versoa

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