Meaning of FORKED
| Pronunciation: | | forkt
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- [adj] having two meanings with intent to deceive; "a sly double meaning"; "spoke with forked tongue"
- [adj] resembling a fork; divided or separated into two branches; "the biramous appendages of an arthropod"; "long branched hairs on its legson which pollen collects"; "a forked river"; "a forked tail"; "forked lightning"; "horseradish grown in poor soil may develop prongy roots"
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| | Synonyms: | | ambiguous, bifurcate, biramous, branched, divided, double, equivocal, forficate, pronged, prongy |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Forked\, a.
1. Formed into a forklike shape; having a fork; dividing into
two or more prongs or branches; furcated; bifurcated;
zigzag; as, the forked lighting.
A serpent seen, with forked tongue. --Shak.
2. Having a double meaning; ambiguous; equivocal.
{Cross forked} (Her.), a cross, the ends of whose arms are
divided into two sharp points; -- called also {cross
double fitch['e]}. A {cross forked of three points} is a
cross, each of whose arms terminates in three sharp
points.
{Forked counsel}, advice pointing more than one way;
ambiguous advice. [Obs.] --B. Jonson. -- {Fork"ed*ly},
adv. -- {Fork"ed*ness}, n.
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| | Definition: | | (Unix; probably after "fucked") Terminally slow, or dead. Originated when one system was slowed to a snail's pace by an inadvertent fork bomb. [Jargon File] |
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| | Related Terms: | | akimbo, angular, arboreal, arborescent, arboriform, bent, biforked, bifurcate, bifurcated, bisected, branched, branching, branchlike, cleft, cloven, cornered, crooked, crotched, dendriform, dendritic, dichotomous, dimidiate, divided, forking, forklike, furcal, furcate, geniculate, geniculated, halved, hooked, jagged, knee-shaped, pointed, pronged, ramified, ramous, riven, sawtooth, saw-toothed, serrate, sharp, sharp-cornered, split, treelike, tree-shaped, tridentlike, trifurcate, trifurcated, V-shaped, Y-shaped, zigzag |
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