fork

සැකිල්ල:Chess diagram

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /fɔːk/

  ඕඩියෝ (Received Pronunciation); “a fork”:

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /foɹk/, [fo̞ɹk]

  ඕඩියෝ (General American):

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)k
• (without the horse–hoarse merger, rhotic) IPA^(key): /fɔ(ː)ɹk/

From මධ්‍යකාලීන ඉංග්‍රීසි forke (“digging fork”), from පුරාතන ඉංග්‍රීසි force, forca (“forked instrument used to torture”), from ප්‍රොටෝ-බටහිර ජර්මානු *furkō (“fork”), from ලතින් furca (“pitchfork, forked stake; gallows, beam, stake, support post, yoke”), of uncertain origin. The මධ්‍යකාලීන ඉංග්‍රීසි word was later reinforced by Anglo-Norman, Old Northern French forque (= පුරාතන ප්‍රංශ forche whence ප්‍රංශ fourche), also from the Latin. Cognate also with North Frisian forck (“fork”), ඕලන්ද vork (“fork”), ඩෙන්මාර්ක fork (“fork”), ජර්මානු Forke (“pitchfork”). Displaced native gafol, ġeafel, ġeafle (“fork”), from පුරාතන ඉංග්‍රීසි.

In its primary sense of සැකිල්ල:m-g, ලතින් furca appears to be derived from ප්‍රොටෝ-ඉන්දු-යුරෝපීය *ǵʰerk(ʷ)-, *ǵʰerg(ʷ)- (“fork”), although the development of the -c- is difficult to explain. In other senses this derivation is unlikely. For these, perhaps it is connected to ප්‍රොටෝ-ජර්මානු *furkaz, *firkalaz (“stake, stick, pole, post”), from ප්‍රොටෝ-ඉන්දු-යුරෝපීය *perg- (“pole, post”). If so, this would relate the word to පුරාතන ඉංග්‍රීසි forclas pl (“bolt”), Old Saxon ferkal (“lock, bolt, bar”), Old Norse forkr (“pole, staff, stick”), නෝර්වීජියානු fork (“stick, bat”), ස්වීඩන් fork (“pole”).

fork (බහුවචන forks)

1. Any of several types of pronged (tined) tools (physical tools), as follows:
   2. A utensil with spikes used to put solid food into the mouth, or to hold food down while cutting.

      සැකිල්ල:cot

      සැකිල්ල:hypo

   4. Any of several types of pronged tools for use on farms, in fields, or in the garden or lawn, such as a smaller hand fork for weeding or a larger one for turning over the soil.
      1. Such a pronged tool having a long straight handle, generally for two-handed use, as used for digging, lifting, mucking, pitching, etc.

         සැකිල්ල:hypo

   6. A tuning fork.
3. (by abstraction, from the tool shape) A fork in the road, as follows:
   1. (physical) An intersection in a road or path where one road is split into two.
   2. (figurative) A decision point.
5. (by abstraction, from the tool shape) A point where a waterway, such as a river or other stream, splits and flows into two (or more) different directions.

   Antonym: confluence

7. (metonymically, and analogous to any prong of a pronged tool) 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.

   a thunderbolt with three forks

   (මෙම usage example සඳහා වන සිංහල පරිවර්තනය එක් කිරීමට කාරුණික වන්න)

   this fork of the river dries up during droughts

   (මෙම usage example සඳහා වන සිංහල පරිවර්තනය එක් කිරීමට කාරුණික වන්න)

   Synonyms: branch, prong (but the word prong is usually reserved for the physical sense, and the word tine is always so)

9. (figuratively, decision-making) A point in time where one has to make a decision between two life paths.
   1. (metonymically) Either of the (figurative) paths thus taken.
11. (figuratively, by abstraction, from a physical fork) (software development, content management, data management) A departure from having a single source of truth (SSOT), sometimes intentionally but usually unintentionally.
    1. (metonymically) Any of the pieces/versions (of software, content, or data sets) thus created.

       Antonym: single source of truth, SSOT

    3. (software) The launch of one or more separate software development efforts based upon a modified copy of an existing project, especially in free and open-source software.
       1. (software) Any of the software projects resulting from the launch of such separate software development efforts based upon a copy of the original project.

          LibreOffice is a fork of OpenOffice.

          (මෙම usage example සඳහා වන සිංහල පරිවර්තනය එක් කිරීමට කාරුණික වන්න)

    5. (content management) The splitting of the coverage of a topic (within a corpus of content) into two or more pieces.

       A content fork may be intentional (as from a schism about goals) or unintentional (merely from a lack of reorganizing, so far).

       (මෙම usage example සඳහා වන සිංහල පරිවර්තනය එක් කිරීමට කාරුණික වන්න)

       1. (content management) Any of the pieces/versions of content thus created.
    7. (cryptocurrencies) A split in a blockchain resulting from protocol disagreements, or a branch of the blockchain resulting from such a split.

       සැකිල්ල:hypo

       • 2015 අගෝස්තු 17, Alex Hern, “Bitcoin's forked: chief scientist launches alternative proposal for the currency”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

         Known as a “fork”, the new version of bitcoin (dubbed Bitcoin XT) would support more transactions per hour, at the cost of increasing the amount of memory required to hold a full database of all the bitcoin transactions throughout history, known as the blockchain.

         (මෙම quotation සඳහා වන සිංහල පරිවර්තනය එක් කිරීමට කාරුණික වන්න)

13. (chess) The simultaneous attack of two adversary pieces with one single attacking piece (especially a knight).
15. (British, vulgar) The crotch. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
17. (colloquial) A forklift.

    Are you qualified to drive a fork?

    (මෙම usage example සඳහා වන සිංහල පරිවර්තනය එක් කිරීමට කාරුණික වන්න)

19. Either of the blades of a forklift (or, in plural, the set of blades), on which the goods to be raised are loaded.

    Get those forks tilted back more or you're gonna lose that pallet!

    (මෙම usage example සඳහා වන සිංහල පරිවර්තනය එක් කිරීමට කාරුණික වන්න)

21. (cycling, motorcycling, by abstraction from a pronged tool's shape) In a bicycle or motorcycle, the portion of the frameset holding the front wheel, allowing the rider to steer and balance, also called front fork.

    The fork can be equipped with a suspension on mountain bikes.

    (මෙම usage example සඳහා වන සිංහල පරිවර්තනය එක් කිරීමට කාරුණික වන්න)

23. The upper front brow of a saddle bow, connected in the tree by the two saddle bars to the cantle on the other end.

    Synonyms: swell, pommel

25. (obsolete) A gallows.
    • a. 1680, Samuel Butler, Characters:

      They had run through all punishments, and just 'scaped the fork

      (මෙම quotation සඳහා වන සිංහල පරිවර්තනය එක් කිරීමට කාරුණික වන්න)

• Sranan Tongo: forku
• → ඕලන්ද: fork
• → ජපන්: フォーク (fōku)
• → කන්නඩ: ಫೋರ್ಕ್ (phōrk)
• → කොරියානු: 포크 (pokeu)
• → Maori: paoka
• → දෙමළ: போர்க் (pōrk)
• → තෙලිඟු: ఫోర్క్ (phōrk)

• denture
• trident, a three-pronged spear somewhat resembling a pitchfork

fork (third-person singular simple present forks, present participle forking, simple past and past participle forked)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To divide into two or more branches or copies.

   A road, a tree, or a stream forks.

   (මෙම usage example සඳහා වන සිංහල පරිවර්තනය එක් කිරීමට කාරුණික වන්න)

   1. (transitive, intransitive, computing) To spawn a new child process by duplicating the existing process.
      • 2008, Mark G. Sobell, A Practical Guide to Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux‎^[2], Pearson Education, →ISBN:

        A parent process forks a child process, which in turn can fork other processes.

        (මෙම quotation සඳහා වන සිංහල පරිවර්තනය එක් කිරීමට කාරුණික වන්න)

      • 2013, W. Richard Stevens, Stephen A. Rago, Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment, 3rd edition, Addison-Wesley, →ISBN, page 304:

        It appears that the shell forks a copy of itself and that this copy then forks to make each of the previous processes in the pipeline.

        (මෙම quotation සඳහා වන සිංහල පරිවර්තනය එක් කිරීමට කාරුණික වන්න)

   2. (transitive, intransitive, software engineering) To launch a separate software development effort based upon a modified copy of an existing software project, especially in free and open-source software.
      • 2007, Fadi P. Deek, James A. M. McHugh, Open Source: Technology and Policy, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 21:

        For various reasons, McCool's server project subsequently forked, leading to the development of the Apache Web Server.

        (මෙම quotation සඳහා වන සිංහල පරිවර්තනය එක් කිරීමට කාරුණික වන්න)

      • 2015, Christian Bird et al., editors, The Art and Science of Analyzing Software Data, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 77:

        Google forked WebKit to create the Blink project in April 2013 because they wanted to make larger-scale changes to WebKit to fit their own needs that did not align well with the WebKit project itself.

        (මෙම quotation සඳහා වන සිංහල පරිවර්තනය එක් කිරීමට කාරුණික වන්න)

   3. (transitive, software engineering) To create a copy of a distributed version control repository.
      • 2015, Sajal Debnath, Mastering PowerCLI, Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 27:

        In this model, anyone can fork an existing repository and push changes to their personal fork.

        (මෙම quotation සඳහා වන සිංහල පරිවර්තනය එක් කිරීමට කාරුණික වන්න)

2. (transitive) To move with a fork (as hay or food).
   • සැකිල්ල:RQ:Wilson Burns
   • 2018, Maya Blake, chapter 2, in What the Greek's Money Can't Buy (Greek Bachelors), HarperCollins UK, →ISBN:

     Brianna curbed her pang of envy as she forked her plain, low-fat, crouton-free salad niçoise into her mouth and shook her head.

     (මෙම quotation සඳහා වන සිංහල පරිවර්තනය එක් කිරීමට කාරුණික වන්න)

3. (transitive, British) To kick someone in the crotch.
4. (intransitive) To shoot into blades, as corn does.
   • සැකිල්ල:RQ:Mortimer Husbandry
5. (transitive) සැකිල්ල:euphemistic form of

   සැකිල්ල:usex

• (computer science: spawn a new child process): fork bomb
• dig one's grave with a fork
• dig one's grave with a fork and spoon
• fork off
• fork out
• fork over
• stick a fork in something

• knife
• spoon

• forcque

fork (බහුවචන forks)

1. (mining) The bottom of a sump into which the water of a mine drains.

fork (third-person singular simple present forks, present participle forking, simple past and past participle forked)

1. (mining, transitive) To bale a shaft dry.

• fork on විකිපීඩියාව.Wikipedia
• සැකිල්ල:R:OneLook

• Korf

From Old Norse forkr (“boathook”), from ලතින් furca (“fork, pitchfork”).

• IPA^(key): /fɔrk/, [fɒːɡ̊]

සැකිල්ල:da-noun

1. (two-pronged) fork, pitchfork

සැකිල්ල:da-noun-infl

From ඉංග්‍රීසි fork in the computer science sense. Doublet of vork (“fork”).

• IPA^(key): /fɔrk/

fork ස්ත්‍රී ලිංග (බහුවචන forks, diminutive forkje නපුංසක ලිංග)

1. (computer science) A fork, splitting-up of an existing process into itself and a child process executing parts of the same program.

• afsplitsing

• korf

fork

1. forke යන යෙදුමෙහි වෙනත් ආකාරයකි.