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The act of branching out or dividing into branches
Answer for the clue "The act of branching out or dividing into branches ", 4 letters:
fork
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Word definitions for fork in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a fork in the road (= a place where a road goes in two different directions ) ▪ We had to ask for directions each time we got to a fork in the road. a road forks (= starts going ahead in two different directions ) ...
Usage examples of fork.
Ali Aga was bringing all the plates, knives and forks in the neighborhood.
With a forked stick he took the beaker from the ashes and placed it in the annealing oven.
Flake with a fork, and mix with Bechamel Sauce to which has been added the yolks of four eggs well-beaten, half a cupful of grated Parmesan cheese, and lemon-juice and grated nutmeg to season.
The exception is when the forks run parallel after bifurcating and then diverge.
But the Great Mahlke had started down a path resembling that tunnel-like, overgrown, thorny, and birdless path in Oliva Castle Park, which had no forks or byways but was nonetheless a labyrinth.
Two miles further on, at a fork in the road, he met a Bondel riding on a donkey.
These borers often attack at a fork and their tunnel entrances are covered with a coating of droppings held together with silk webbing.
X-frames instead of bothering to find forked twigs of the proper size and angle.
SheVa had headed down the Little Tennessee River to where it was joined by Cader Creek then headed up that valley to rendezvous with its reload group on Cader Fork.
It was a long journey by horseback across the Taiga region of Ulus to the forks of Sube off the Chagan Sea, and then an even longer trek southward into the mountains themselves.
With a snap of the wrist, Cilia held out a twisted, melted piece of resin that had once been a fork.
Below them, the main fork of the little Coquille River rushed westward under the shattered skeletons of broken bridges before meeting its north and south branches under the morning shadow of Sugarloaf Peak.
From the tip of its long, crocodilian snout, a yard of pink, forked tongue flicked out.
They claim to have all the cutlery we need, but people never have enough forks.
Beyond the boundaries of her place lay the cutlery to be shared: the suckett forks, condiment spoons, Sugar shells, mote spoons, pickle forks, butter picks, nut picks, cheese scoops, horseradish spoons, and various others, not to be confused with the soup ladles, fish slicers, jelly servers, snuff spoons, and wick scissors to be wielded by the servants.