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Rake vs Fork - What's the difference?

rake | fork |

As nouns the difference between rake and fork

is that rake is a garden tool with a row of pointed teeth fixed to a long handle, used for collecting grass or debris, or for loosening soil while fork is a pronged tool having a long straight handle, used for digging, lifting, throwing etc.

As verbs the difference between rake and fork

is that rake is to use a rake on (leaves, debris, soil, a lawn, etc) in order to loosen, gather together, or remove debris from while fork is to divide into two or more branches.

rake

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Etymology 1

(etyl) raca, from (etyl)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A garden tool with a row of pointed teeth fixed to a long handle, used for collecting grass or debris, or for loosening soil.
  • *
  • *:Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out.. Ikey the blacksmith had forged us a spearhead after a sketch from a picture of a Greek warrior; and a rake -handle served as a shaft.
  • A lot, plenty.
  • :
  • (lb) The direction of slip during fault movement. The rake is measured within the fault plane.
  • (lb) The sloped edge of a roof at or adjacent to the first or last rafter.
  • (lb) A set of coupled rail vehicles, normally coaches or wagons.
  • :
  • (lb) A puffer that emits a stream of spaceships rather than a trail of debris.
  • The scaled commission fee taken by a cardroom operating a poker game.
  • A toothed machine drawn by a horse, used for collecting hay or grain; a horserake.
  • (lb) A fissure or mineral vein traversing the strata vertically, or nearly so.
  • Synonyms
    * (rail transport)
    Derived terms
    * thin as a rake

    Verb

    (rak)
  • To use a rake on (leaves, debris, soil, a lawn, etc) in order to loosen, gather together, or remove debris from.
  • We raked all the leaves into a pile
  • To search thoroughly.
  • Detectives appeared, roped the curious people out of the grounds, and raked the place for clews. -- Captain John Blaine
  • * Dryden
  • raking in Chaucer for antiquated words
  • * Jonathan Swift
  • The statesman rakes the town to find a plot.
  • To spray with gunfire.
  • the enemy machine guns raked the roadway
  • To claw at; to scratch.
  • Her sharp fingernails raked the side of my face.
  • * Wordsworth
  • like clouds that rake the mountain summits
  • To gather, especially quickly (often as rake in)
  • The casino is just raking in the cash; it's like a license to print money.
  • To pass with violence or rapidity; to scrape along.
  • * Sir Philip Sidney
  • Pas could not stay, but over him did rake .
    Synonyms
    * (search thoroughly) comb, go over or through with a fine-tooth comb, scour

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) raken, from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Slope, divergence from the horizontal or perpendicular
  • Verb

    (rak)
  • To proceed rapidly; to move swiftly.
  • (obsolete) To guide; to direct
  • To incline from a perpendicular direction.
  • A mast rakes aft.

    Etymology 3

    Shortening of rakehell, possibly from

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A man habituated to immoral conduct.
  • We now have rakes in the habit of Roman senators, and grave politicians in the dress of Rakes. — the Spectator
    Synonyms
    *

    Verb

    (rak)
  • (UK, dialect, dated) To walk about; to gad or ramble idly.
  • (UK, dialect, dated) To act the rake; to lead a dissolute, debauched life.
  • (Shenstone)

    Etymology 4

    From (etyl), from (etyl) .

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (provincial, Northern England) a course; direction; stretch.
  • (provincial, Northern England, for animals) a range, stray.
  • a sheep-raik'' = a ''sheep-walk

    Verb

    (rak)
  • (provincial, Northern England) To run or rove.
  • References

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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

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