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  • 41Fork — For other uses, see Fork (disambiguation). Assorted forks. From left to right: dessert fork, relish fork, salad fork, dinner fork, cold cuts fork, serving fork, carving fork …

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  • 42Fork (operating system) — In computing, when a process forks, it creates a copy of itself, which is called a child process. The original process is then called the parent process . More generally, a fork in a multithreading environment means that a thread of execution is… …

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  • 43fork — fork1 [ fɔrk ] noun count * 1. ) a metal or plastic object used for eating, consisting of a handle with three or four sharp points on the end: knives, forks, and spoons Beat the mixture with a fork to blend the ingredients. 2. ) a garden tool… …

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  • 44fork — 1 noun (C) 1 a tool used for picking up and eating food, with a handle and three or four points: knives and forks 2 a garden tool used for digging, with a handle and three or four points compare pitchfork 1 3 a place where a road or river divides …

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  • 45fork — n. & v. n. 1 an instrument with two or more prongs used in eating or cooking. 2 a similar much larger instrument used for digging, lifting, etc. 3 any pronged device or component (tuning fork). 4 a forked support for a bicycle wheel. 5 a a… …

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  • 46fork — {{11}}fork (n.) O.E. forca forked instrument used by torturers, a Germanic borrowing (Cf. O.N. forkr) from L. furca pitchfork; fork used in cooking, of uncertain origin. Table forks were not generally used in England until 15c. The word is first… …

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  • 47Fork Township, Michigan — Infobox Settlement official name = Fork Township, Michigan settlement type = Township nickname = motto = imagesize = image caption = image |pushpin pushpin label position =left pushpin map caption =Location within the state of Michigan pushpin… …

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  • 48Fork Township, Marshall County, Minnesota — Infobox Settlement official name = Fork Township, Minnesota settlement type = Township nickname = motto = imagesize = image caption = image |pushpin pushpin label position =right pushpin map caption =Location within the state of Minnesota pushpin …

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  • 49Fork-tailed Storm-petrel — Taxobox name = Fork tailed Storm petrel status = LC | status system = IUCN3.1 image width = 250px regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Aves ordo = Procellariiformes familia = Hydrobatidae genus = Oceanodroma species = O. furcata binomial …

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  • 50fork out — v Give, hand over. I have three daughters; do you know how much I will have to fork out for their weddings? 1830s …

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