[fɔːk], (Noun)

Definitions:
- an implement with two or more prongs used for lifting food to the mouth or holding it when cutting

- the point where something, especially a road or river, divides into two parts
(e.g: turn right at the next fork)

- each of a pair of supports in which a bicycle or motorcycle wheel revolves

- a flash of forked lightning

- a simultaneous attack on two or more pieces by one


Phrases:

Origin:
Old English forca, force (denoting a farm implement), based on Latin furca ‘pitchfork, forked stick’; reinforced in Middle English by Anglo-Norman French furke (also from Latin furca)

[fɔːk], (Verb)

Definitions:
- (especially of a route) divide into two parts
(e.g: the place where the road forks)

- dig or move (something) with a fork
(e.g: fork in some compost)

- attack (two pieces) simultaneously with one
(e.g: he has forked my bishop and knight)


Phrases:

Origin:
Old English forca, force (denoting a farm implement), based on Latin furca ‘pitchfork, forked stick’; reinforced in Middle English by Anglo-Norman French furke (also from Latin furca)