Fork vs Dork - What's the difference?
fork | dork |
A pronged tool having a long straight handle, used for digging, lifting, throwing etc.
(obsolete) A gallows.
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 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.
To divide into two or more branches.
To move with a fork (as hay or food).
* Prof. Wilson
(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
* 1962 , Jerome Weidman, The Sound of Bow Bells page 362:
* 2005 , Mike Judge, Reading Sucks: The Collected Works of Beavis and Butthead :
* 1962 , Alain Robbe-Grillet, Last year at Marienbad page 167:
* 1967 , Don Moser and Jerry Cohen, The Pied Piper of Tucson:
As nouns the difference between fork and dork
is that fork is a pronged tool having a long straight handle, used for digging, lifting, throwing etc while dork is a penis.As a verb fork
is to divide into two or more branches.fork
English
{{Chess diagram, = , tright , , = 8 , rd, , , , , , , , = 7 , , , , kd, , , , , = 6 , , nl, , , , , , , = 5 , , , , , , , , , = 4 , , , , , , , pd, , = 3 , , , , , , rl, , rl, = 2 , , , , , , , , , = 1 , , , , , , , , , = a b c d e f g h , The knight forks the black king and rook. The pawn forks the white rooks. }}Noun
(en noun)- (Bishop Joseph Butler)
- a thunderbolt with three forks .
Derived terms
* chork * digging fork * fork in the road * pitchfork * spork * tuning forkVerb
(en verb)- A road, a tree, or a stream forks .
- forking the sheaves on the high-laden cart
- The corn beginneth to fork .
Derived terms
* fork bomb * fork off * fork out * fork overSee also
* knife * spoon 1000 English basic words ----dork
English
Etymology 1
US 1960s, sense of "silly person" presumably from earlier use as bowdlerization of Lawrence Poston, “Some Problems in the Study of Campus Slang,” American Speech 39, no. 2 (May 1964) (JSTOR 453113): p. 118.Historical Dictionary of American Slang, v. 1, A-G, edited by Jonathan Lighter (New York: Random House, 1994), p. 638.
Noun
(en noun)- As a matter of fact, this slob was full of information today. He told me why we Jews have different dorks .
- "There's that dork whose wife cut off his dork ." And when people ask him for an autograph he writes, "Best of luck to Betsy. Signed, the guy whose wife cut off his penis."
- I entitled the piece "Dorky", dork being slang for a person who does not belong to popular groups, usually an outsider, an odd person, sometimes inept, other times cranky.
- I didn’t have any clothes and I had short hair and looked like a dork . Girls wouldn’t go out with me.
