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Meanings of forking in English

The act of branching out or dividing into branches.

branchingramificationfork

The place where something divides into branches.

furcation
Usage of forking in English
1
Bolts held still by cryptic forces, forking into boughs, a magnesium-bright forest.
Iron Council
2
At the prospect of forking out so much, everyone was doing sums.
Jump!
3
Ms Williams was also unsure who is forking out for the audit.
Radio NZ
4
Javier focuses only on the forking tongues of light between the fenceposts.
iD
5
Remy wrinkled her nose and shrugged, forking up another mouthful of blintz.
Succubi like it hot
6
Maintaining separate operating systems, and forking the feature set of its flagship product?
Wired
7
Bookmarking is essential to keep your place on whichever forking path you take.
Wired
8
Meanwhile, the London sky is now full of forking lightning, so to speak.
The Guardian
9
The road was not only bending now, it was forking, and very sharply.
The wandering fire
10
Then, forking two fingers at the men, he whispered a spell.
Shadows Return
11
Behind the square teeth, Louis caught a glimpse of a flickering, forking tongue.
Ringworld
12
He waved her toward a road forking to the left, under a railway bridge.
Atonement
13
She went back to forking up her now cold pasta.
Here comes trouble
14
This meant residents could be forking out up to $2m a decade.
Radio NZ
15
It was annoying repeating the trauma of treatments and constantly forking out on shampoos.
The Irish Times
16
It opened without a crash of drums or ominous lightning forking through the clouds.
Rot & ruin
About this term
Forking through the time
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