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Bamboo vs Fork - What's the difference?

bamboo | fork |

In lang=en terms the difference between bamboo and fork

is that bamboo is a British military or Honourable East India Company employee, who spent so much time in Indonesia, India, or Malaysia that they never went back home while fork is the simultaneous attack of two adversary pieces with one single attacking piece (especially a knight).

In transitive terms the difference between bamboo and fork

is that bamboo is to flog with a bamboo cane while fork is to move with a fork (as hay or food).

As an adjective bamboo

is made of the wood of the bamboo.

bamboo

English

(wikipedia bamboo)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A grass of the Poaceae family, characterised by its woody, hollow, round, straight, jointed stem, all of which are in the tribe.
  • The wood of the bamboo plant as a material or cane.
  • a didgeridoo
  • (slang) A British military or Honourable East India Company employee, who spent so much time in Indonesia, India, or Malaysia that they never went back home.
  • Derived terms

    * bamboo ceiling * bamboo clam * Bamboo Curtain, bamboo curtain * bamboo man

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Made of the wood of the bamboo.
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To flog with a bamboo cane.
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    fork

    English

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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A pronged tool having a long straight handle, used for digging, lifting, throwing etc.
  • (obsolete) A gallows.
  • (Bishop Joseph Butler)
  • A utensil with spikes used to put solid food into the mouth, or to hold food down while cutting.
  • A tuning fork.
  • An intersection in a road or path where one road is split into two.
  • * When you come to a fork in the road, take it -
  • 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.
  • * Addison
  • a thunderbolt with three forks .
  • A point where a waterway, such as a river, splits and goes two (or more) different directions.
  • (geography) Used in the names of some river tributaries, e.g. West Fork White River and East Fork White River, joining together to form the White River of Indiana
  • (figuratively) A point in time where one has to make a decision between two life paths.
  • (chess) The simultaneous attack of two adversary pieces with one single attacking piece (especially a knight).
  • (computer science) A splitting-up of an existing process into itself and a child process executing parts of the same program.
  • (computer science) An event where development of some free software or open-source software is split into two or more separate projects.
  • (British) Crotch.
  • (colloquial) A forklift.
  • * Are you qualified to drive a fork?
  • The individual blades of a forklift.
  • In a bicycle, the portion holding the front wheel, allowing the rider to steer and balance.
  • Derived terms

    * chork * digging fork * fork in the road * pitchfork * spork * tuning fork

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To divide into two or more branches.
  • A road, a tree, or a stream forks .
  • To move with a fork (as hay or food).
  • * Prof. Wilson
  • forking the sheaves on the high-laden cart
  • (computer science) To spawn a new child process in some sense duplicating the existing process.
  • (computer science) To split a (software) project into several projects.
  • (computer science) To split a (software) distributed version control repository
  • (British) To kick someone in the crotch.
  • To shoot into blades, as corn does.
  • * Mortimer
  • The corn beginneth to fork .

    Derived terms

    * fork bomb * fork off * fork out * fork over

    See also

    * knife * spoon 1000 English basic words ----