fork

Everyday

1. A fork is a tool with a handle and two to four points (prongs) that you use to eat food. tree →
2. A garden fork is a large tool with prongs for digging soil. tree →
3. A fork in a road or river is where it splits into two. tree →
4. To fork is to divide into two parts going different ways. tree →
5. To fork out is to pay money, often unwillingly (informal). tree →

In the lessons

At the table, use a knife and fork; in many countries you hold the fork in your left hand. In stories, a fork in the road is a moment of choice. In music, a tuning fork makes one exact note. In science, forked lightning splits into branches. Phrases: knife and fork, fork in the road, tuning fork, fork out, forked tongue (snakes).

Examples

• Eat your peas with a fork. tree →
• Put the knife and fork beside the plate. tree →
• Turn left at the fork in the road. tree →
• Dad dug the garden with a fork. tree →
• A snake has a forked tongue. tree →
• The path forks near the old oak tree. tree →
• We had to fork out for new school shoes. tree →
• ‘Who’s been using my little fork?’ tree →

Note

Countable: one fork, two forks. Never put a fork or any metal in a toaster or a socket. In a microwave, metal forks can make sparks.

In Jewish tradition

Here it is a farm tool with three teeth, one of the iron tools the Israelites had to take to the Philistines to be sharpened. In the primary lessons: At the table, use a knife and fork; in many countries you hold the fork in your left hand. In stories, a fork in the road is a moment of choice. In music, a tuning fork makes one exact note. In science, forked lightning splits into branches. Phrases: knife and fork, fork in the road, tuning fork, fork out, forked tongue (snakes).

Examples

• And the price of the filing was a pim for the mattocks, and for the coulters, and for the forks with three teeth, and for the axes; and to set the goads. (Prophets 1SA.13.21, JPS 1917) tree →

Note

Countable: one fork, two forks. Never put a fork or any metal in a toaster or a socket. In a microwave, metal forks can make sparks.