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Forking

Fork \Fork\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Forked; p. pr. & vb. n. Forking.]

  1. To shoot into blades, as corn.

    The corn beginneth to fork.
    --Mortimer.

  2. To divide into two or more branches; as, a road, a tree, or a stream forks.

Wiktionary
forking

n. division into forks vb. (present participle of fork English)

WordNet
forking
  1. n. the place where something divides into branches [syn: furcation]

  2. the act of branching out or dividing into branches [syn: branching, ramification, fork]

Usage examples of "forking".

Sirhan covers his confusion by spooning chunks of melon into his mouth, forking temporary ghosts to peruse dusty etiquette manuals and warn him if he's about to commit some faux pas.

Sirhan doesn't believe in forking ghosts simply to interact with other people – the possibilities for confusion are embarrassing – but he's going to be busy working the party.

Like forking off ghosts of yourself, but much more so – give them whole years to diverge, learn new skills, and evaluate them against market requirements, before deciding which version of you is most suited to run in the real world.

He'll be running up an existential debt soon if he keeps forking ghosts like this.

She blinks it aside, slightly bewildered, forking a couple of dozen personality subthreads to chew on it at the edges.

They held a brief discussion in Basque, agreeing at last that if the girl took the left forking she would indeed end up in Licq.

It was the element of choice here that made it so difficult-not that it could ever be easy, he thought, forking in a mouthful of hot shepherd's pie.

It was the element of choice here that made it so difficult-not that it could ever be easy, ht thought, forking in a mouthful of hot shepherd's pic.

I knew nothing about palmistry, but I could see one deep line that ran from xvrist to midpalm, forking several times.

It had drawn hers, anyway, since she'd first seen him two weeks ago, forking down hay in the barn.

He had been forking the pasta onto his plate, but now he carefully laid the utensils down and took a deep breath.

There’s a devil forking them up with his pitchfork and loading them into a cart.

But the devils keep forking them down, or else they are engulfed by the rising sea where now there are whale sharks, great white sharks, and killer whales and other outsized fish circling outside of where the big sharks are tearing at those people in the water.

The top of the island is covered with dogs and cats and the devils are forking them in, too, and the dogs are cowering and howling and the cats run off and claw the devils and their hair stands on end and finally they go into the sea swimming as good as you want to see.

Despite that, or perhaps because of it, she smiled brightly and began forking some of his food onto her plate.