Spoon vs. Fork

Spoonnoun

An implement for eating or serving; a scooped utensil whose long handle is straight, in contrast to a ladle.

Spoonnoun

An implement for stirring food while being prepared; a wooden spoon.

Spoonnoun

A measure that will fit into a spoon; a spoonful.

Spoonnoun

A wooden-headed golf club with moderate loft, similar to the modern three wood.

Spoonnoun

(slang) An oar.

Spoonnoun

(fishing) A type of metal lure resembling the concave head of a table spoon.

Spoonnoun

A spoon excavator.

Spoonnoun

A simpleton, a spooney.

Spoonnoun

A safety handle on a hand grenade, a trigger.

Spoonverb

To serve using a spoon.

Spoonverb

To flirt; to make advances; to court, to interact romantically or amorously.

Spoonverb

To lie nestled front-to-back, following the contours of the bodies, in a manner reminiscent of stacked spoons.

Spoonverb

To hit (the ball) weakly, pushing it with a lifting motion, instead of striking with an audible knock.

Spoonverb

(intransitive) To fish with a concave spoon bait.

Spoonverb

(transitive) To catch by fishing with a concave spoon bait.

Spoonverb

alternative form of spoom

Spoonverb

See Spoom.

Spoonverb

To take up in, or as in, a spoon.

Spoonverb

To catch by fishing with a spoon bait.

Spoonverb

In croquet, golf, etc., to push or shove (a ball) with a lifting motion, instead of striking with an audible knock.

Spoonverb

To act with demonstrative or foolish fondness, as one in love.

Spoonverb

To fish with a spoon bait.

Spoonverb

In croquet, golf, etc., to spoon a ball.

Spoonnoun

An implement consisting of a small bowl (usually a shallow oval) with a handle, used especially in preparing or eating food.

Spoonnoun

Anything which resembles a spoon in shape; esp. (Fishing), a spoon bait.

Spoonnoun

Fig.: A simpleton; a spooney.

Spoonnoun

A wooden club with a lofted face.

Spoonnoun

a piece of cutlery with a shallow bowl-shaped container and a handle; used to stir or serve or take up food

Spoonnoun

as much as a spoon will hold;

Spoonnoun

formerly a golfing wood with an elevated face

Spoonverb

scoop up or take up with a spoon;

Spoonverb

snuggle and lie in a position where one person faces the back of the others

Spoon

A spoon is a utensil consisting of a small shallow bowl (also known as a head), oval or round, at the end of a handle. A type of cutlery (sometimes called flatware in the United States), especially as part of a place setting, it is used primarily for transferring food to the mouth.

Forknoun

A pronged tool having a long straight handle, used for digging, lifting, throwing etc.

Forknoun

A pronged tool for use in the garden; a smaller hand fork for weeding etc., or larger for turning over the soil.

Forknoun

(obsolete) A gallows.

Forknoun

A utensil with spikes used to put solid food into the mouth, or to hold food down while cutting.

Forknoun

A tuning fork.

Forknoun

An intersection in a road or path where one road is split into two.

Forknoun

One of the parts into which anything is furcated or divided; a prong; a branch of a stream, a road, etc.; a barbed point, as of an arrow.

Forknoun

A point where a waterway, such as a river, splits and goes two (or more) different directions.

Forknoun

(geography) Used in the names of some river tributaries, e.g. West Fork White River and East Fork White River, joining together to form the White River of Indiana

Forknoun

(figuratively) A point in time where one has to make a decision between two life paths.

Forknoun

(chess) The simultaneous attack of two adversary pieces with one single attacking piece (especially a knight).

Forknoun

(computer science) A splitting-up of an existing process into itself and a child process executing parts of the same program.

Forknoun

(software) An event where development of some free software or open-source software is split into two or more separate projects.

Forknoun

(software) The, or one of the, software project(s) that underwent changes in such an event; a software project split off from a main project.

Forknoun

A split in a blockchain resulting from protocol disagreements, or a branch of the blockchain resulting from such a split.

Forknoun

(British) Crotch.

Forknoun

(colloquial) A forklift.

Forknoun

The individual blades of a forklift.

Forknoun

(cycling) In a bicycle, the portion of the frameset holding the front wheel, allowing the rider to steer and balance.

Forkverb

(ambitransitive) To divide into two or more branches.

Forkverb

(transitive) To move with a fork (as hay or food).

Forkverb

(computer science) To spawn a new child process in some sense duplicating the existing process.

Forkverb

(computer science) To split a (software) project into several projects.

Forkverb

(computer science) To split a (software) distributed version control repository

Forkverb

(British) To kick someone in the crotch.

Forkverb

To shoot into blades, as corn does.

Forknoun

An instrument consisting of a handle with a shank terminating in two or more prongs or tines, which are usually of metal, parallel and slightly curved; - used for piercing, holding, taking up, or pitching anything.

Forknoun

Anything furcate or like a fork in shape, or furcate at the extremity; as, a tuning fork.

Forknoun

One of the parts into which anything is furcated or divided; a prong; a branch of a stream, a road, etc.; a barbed point, as of an arrow.

Forknoun

The place where a division or a union occurs; the angle or opening between two branches or limbs; as, the fork of a river, a tree, or a road.

Forknoun

The gibbet.

Forkverb

To shoot into blades, as corn.

Forkverb

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

Forkverb

To raise, or pitch with a fork, as hay; to dig or turn over with a fork, as the soil.

Forknoun

cutlery used for serving and eating food

Forknoun

the act of branching out or dividing into branches

Forknoun

a part of a forked or branching shape;

Forknoun

an agricultural tool used for lifting or digging; has a handle and metal prongs

Forknoun

the angle formed by the inner sides of the legs where they join the human trunk

Forkverb

lift with a pitchfork;

Forkverb

place under attack with one's own pieces, of two enemy pieces

Forkverb

divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork;

Forkverb

shape like a fork;

Fork

In cutlery or kitchenware, a fork (from Latin: furca 'pitchfork') is a utensil, now usually made of metal, whose long handle terminates in a head that branches into several narrow and often slightly curved tines with which one can spear foods either to hold them to cut with a knife or to lift them to the mouth.