Fork vs Freak - What's the difference?
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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
A sudden causeless change or turn of the mind; a whim of fancy; a capricious prank; a vagary or caprice.
Someone or something that is markedly unusual.
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A hippie.
* {{quote-journal
, year = 1969 (but cites 1971 source)
, first = Paul A.
, last = Eschholz
, title = Freak compounds for 'argot freaks'
, journal = American Speech
, volume = 44
, issue = 4
, url =
, page = 306-07
, passage = When long-haired, outlandishly dressed, drug-using hippies pilgrimaged to Haight-Ashbury in the early 1960s, they were quickly dubbed freaks'''''; the pejorative appellation was both obvious and intended. It was not long before '''''freak''''' had become practically synonymous with ''hippie''. It seems, however, that with the acceptance of long hair, the appearance and popularity of some rather bizarre fashions, and the emphasis placed upon "doing one's own thing," '''''freak is no longer burdened with all of its former derogatory associations. Instead ... the word is beginning to acquire a quality which is favorable, glamorous, and somehow even admirable.
}}
A drug addict.
* {{quote-journal
, year = 1969 (but cites 1971 source)
, first = Paul A.
, last = Eschholz
, title = Freak compounds for "argot freaks"
, journal = American Speech
, volume = 44
, issue = 4
, url =
, page = 306-07
, passage = Smith and Sturges [June 1969] note in their study of the San Francisco drug scene that freak means "anyone addicted to drugs."
}}
(of a person) A nonconformist, especially in appearance, social behavior, sexual orientation, gender identity, and/or business practices; an oddball, especially in physiology (i.e., "circus freak"); unique, sometimes in a displeasing way.
(bodybuilding) A person whose physique has grown far beyond the normal limits of muscular development; often a bodybuilder weighing more than 120 kilos (260 pounds).
An enthusiast, or person who has an obsession with, or extreme knowledge of, something.
* {{quote-journal
, year = 1968
, first = Fred
, last = Davis
, coauthors = Laura Munoz
, title = Heads and freaks: patterns and meanings of drug use among hippies
, journal = Journal of Health and Social Behavior
, volume = 9
, issue = 2
, url =
, page = 156-64
, passage = Anyone ... who seems "hung up" on some idea, activity or interactional disposition, might be called a "freak ."
}}
* {{quote-journal
, year = 1969 (but cites 1971 source)
, first = Paul A.
, last = Eschholz
, title = Freak compounds for "argot freaks"
, journal = American Speech
, volume = 44
, issue = 4
, url =
, page = 306-07
, passage = Presently ... college students ... use freak to denote any kind of enthusiast.
}}
(informal, sometimes, affectionate) A very sexually perverse individual.
To make greatly distressed and/or a discomposed appearance
* 1994 , James Earl Hardy, B-Boy Blues: A Seriously Sexy, Fiercely Funny, Black-On-Black Love Story , (Alyson Publishing), page 107
To be placed or place someone under the influence of a psychedelic drug
* 1992 , Peter G. Stafford, Psychedelics Encyclopedia , (Ronin Publishing), page 56
To streak; to variegate
* 1930 , Robert Seymour Bridges, The Testament of Beauty: A Poem in Four Books , (Literary Criticism), page 20
* Thomson
To experience reality withdrawal, or hallucinations (nightmarish), to behave irrational or unconventional due to drug use.
To react extremely or irrationally, usually under distress or discomposure
* Bulgarian:
(trans-mid)
(trans-bottom)
strange, weird
* {{quote-news
, year=2011
, date=April 15
, author=Saj Chowdhury
, title=Norwich 2 - 1 Nott'm Forest
, work=BBC Sport
In lang=en terms the difference between fork and freak
is that fork is to move with a fork (as hay or food) while freak is to react extremely or irrationally, usually under distress or discomposure.As nouns the difference between fork and freak
is that fork is a pronged tool having a long straight handle, used for digging, lifting, throwing etc while freak is a man, particularly a bold, strong, vigorous man or freak can be a sudden causeless change or turn of the mind; a whim of fancy; a capricious prank; a vagary or caprice.As verbs the difference between fork and freak
is that fork is to divide into two or more branches while freak is to make greatly distressed and/or a discomposed appearance.As an adjective freak is
strange, weird.fork
English
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(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 ----freak
English
Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete) * (l), (l), (l) (Scotland)Etymology 1
From (etyl) freke, .Etymology 2
1560, "sudden change of mind, whim", of uncertain origin. Perhaps related to (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- Bob's a real video-game freak . He owns every games console of the last ten years.
- She's a freak in the sack!
Synonyms
* (sudden change) whim * (sudden change) capriceDerived terms
* fly the freak flag * freak accident * freak flag * freak of nature * freakishly * freakyExternal links
* *Verb
(en verb)- But after one night turned into five days, I was freaking out. I missed him.
- Freaked with many a mingled hue.
Derived terms
* freak outAdjective
(-)citation, page= , passage=A freak goal gave Forest the lead when a clearance by keeper John Ruddy bounced off Nathan Tyson and flew in.}} * Bulgarian: (trans-mid) (trans-bottom)