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a tool with a handle and three or four sharp points (called prongs), used for picking up and eating food 餐叉 
to eat with a knife and fork 用刀叉吃东西 - with a fork
Mash the mixture with a fork. 用餐叉捣碎混合料。
Extra ExamplesTopics Cooking and eatinga2He put the knives and forks on the table. 他往桌上摆放刀叉。 She impaled a piece of meat on her fork. 她用餐叉叉了一块肉。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- toasting
- salad
- plastic
- …
- pick up
- put down
- use
- …
- on a/the fork
- with a fork
- a knife and fork
a garden tool with a long or short handle and three or four sharp metal points, used for digging 叉（挖掘用的园艺工具） 
a place where a road, river, etc. divides into two parts; either of these two parts （道路、河流等的）分岔处，分流处，岔口，岔路 Take the right fork. 走右边的岔路。 Shortly before dusk they reached a fork and took the left-hand track. 快到黄昏时，他们来到一个岔路口，沿着左边的小径走去。 - fork in something
Bear left at the fork in the road. 在岔路口向左转。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- left
- right
- take
- at a/the fork
- in fork
- fork in
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- fork (of something)
a thing that is like a fork in shape, with two or more long parts 叉状物 a jagged fork of lightning 锯齿状闪电 a monkey sitting in the fork of the tree 一只坐在树杈上的猴子
either of two metal supporting pieces into which a wheel on a bicycle or motorcycle is fitted （自行车或摩托车的）车叉子 
Word OriginOld English forca, force (denoting a farm implement), based on Latin furca ‘pitchfork, forked stick’; reinforced in Middle English by Anglo-Norman French furke (also from Latin furca).