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  • 1Fork etiquette — in Western social settings takes two primary forms. The style used mostly in the United States of America, which is sometimes called the zigzag method or American style , differs from the European or Continental style mostly used in the rest of… …

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  • 2Fork — (f[^o]rk), n. [AS. forc, fr. L. furca. Cf. {Fourch[ e]}, {Furcate}.] 1. An instrument consisting of a handle with a shank terminating in two or more prongs or tines, which are usually of metal, parallel and slightly curved; used for piercing,… …

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  • 3Fork beam — Fork Fork (f[^o]rk), n. [AS. forc, fr. L. furca. Cf. {Fourch[ e]}, {Furcate}.] 1. An instrument consisting of a handle with a shank terminating in two or more prongs or tines, which are usually of metal, parallel and slightly curved; used for… …

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  • 4Fork chuck — Fork Fork (f[^o]rk), n. [AS. forc, fr. L. furca. Cf. {Fourch[ e]}, {Furcate}.] 1. An instrument consisting of a handle with a shank terminating in two or more prongs or tines, which are usually of metal, parallel and slightly curved; used for… …

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  • 5Fork head — Fork Fork (f[^o]rk), n. [AS. forc, fr. L. furca. Cf. {Fourch[ e]}, {Furcate}.] 1. An instrument consisting of a handle with a shank terminating in two or more prongs or tines, which are usually of metal, parallel and slightly curved; used for… …

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  • 6fork — [fôrk] n. [ME forke < OE forca & Anglo Fr forque (Fr fourche), both < L furca, two pronged fork] 1. an instrument of greatly varying size with a handle at one end and two or more pointed prongs at the other: forks are variously used as… …

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  • 7Fork in the road — Album studio par Neil Young Sortie 2009 Durée 38:36 Genre(s) Hard Rock, Rock Producteur(s) Neil Young et Niko Bolas Label Reprise Records (Warner Communicatio …

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  • 8fork — ► NOUN 1) an implement with two or more prongs used for lifting or holding food. 2) a pronged farm or garden tool used for digging or lifting. 3) each of a pair of supports in which a bicycle or motorcycle wheel revolves. 4) the point where a… …

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  • 9Fork (développement logiciel) — Pour les articles homonymes, voir fork. Un fork, ou embranchement, est un nouveau logiciel créé à partir du code source d un logiciel existant. Cela suppose que les droits accordés par les auteurs le permettent : ils doivent autoriser l… …

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  • 10Fork bomb — The concept behind the fork bomb – the processes recursively fork until a denial of service or a crash occurs In computing, the fork bomb is a form of denial of service attack against a computer system which makes use of the fork operation (or… …

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