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From left to right: dessert fork, relish fork, salad fork, dinner fork, cold cuts fork, serving fork, carving fork. In cutlery or kitchenware, a fork (from Latin: furca 'pitchfork') is a utensil, now usually made of metal, whose long handle terminates in a head that branches into several narrow and often slightly curved tines with which one can spear foods either to hold them to cut with a ...
A bicycle fork is the part of a bicycle that holds the front wheel. A fork typically consists of two blades which are joined at the top by a fork crown. The crown is often at the front. Most suspension forks have an arch connecting the two side of the lowers (the part connected to the axle.) It is often in front of the stanchions (shaft the ...
Eating utensil etiquette. Various customary etiquette practices exist regarding the placement and use of eating utensils in social settings. These practices vary from culture to culture. Fork etiquette, for example, differs in Europe, the United States, and Southeast Asia, and continues to change. In East Asian cultures, a variety of etiquette ...
Chopsticks – East and Southeast Asian utensil. Skewer. Tongs. Toothpick. Cocktail stick. Drinking straw. Cutlery – A set of Western utensils: usually knife, fork and spoon. Sujeo – A paired set of Korean utensils: a spoon and chopsticks. Food pusher - a utensil with a blade set at 90° to the handle, used for pushing food onto a spoon or ...
In software engineering, a project fork happens when developers take a copy of source code from one software package and start independent development on it, creating a distinct and separate piece of software. [example needed] The term often implies not merely a development branch, but also a split in the developer community; as such, it is a ...
A pitchfork or hay fork is an agricultural tool used to pitch loose material, such as hay, straw, manure, or leaves. It has a long handle and usually two to five thin tines designed to efficiently move such materials. The term is also applied colloquially, but inaccurately, to the garden fork. While similar in appearance, the garden fork is ...
For example, a fork by a knight is a knight fork. The attacked pieces are forked. [1] If the king is one of the attacked pieces, the term absolute fork is sometimes used. A fork not involving the enemy king is a relative fork. [2] A fork of the king and queen, the highest material-gaining fork possible, is sometimes called a royal fork.
River bifurcation (from Latin: furca, fork) occurs when a river (a bifurcating river) flowing in a single channel separates into two or more separate streams (called distributaries) which then continue downstream. Some rivers form complex networks of distributaries, typically in their deltas. If the streams eventually merge again or empty into ...