Corked vs Forked - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between corked and forked

is that corked is (cork) while forked is (fork).

is that corked is of a container, especially a bottle, closed with a cork while forked is that splits into two or more directions, or parts.

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(cork)

(en adjective)

Of a container, especially a bottle, closed with a cork.

* 1994 , Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom , Abacus 2010, p. 554:

Once someone discovered a bottle of wine in the sand that was still corked .

Of (a bottle of) wine, tainted by mould/mold in the cork.

Waiter, this wine is corked. Could you bring us another bottle?

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(head)

That splits into two or more directions, or parts.

It's a forked road. Turn left at the fork.

A baidarka has a forked bow.

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(head)

(fork)