What is forke?

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

What is a fork in the road meaning?

A deciding moment in
New Word Suggestion. [metaphor] A deciding moment in life or history when a major choice of options is required.

What is spoon and fork?

In Southeast Asia, spoons are the primary utensil used for eating; forks are used to push foods such as rice onto the spoon as well as their western usage for piercing the food.

Where did the fork in the road come from?

By the mid-19th century, these same usages were being applied to roads—the place where a roadway splits as well as each route taken. Washington Irving, the OED says, was the first to use the phrase “a fork in the road,” in his Chronicles of Wolfert’s Roost (1855).

What is a split road called?

bifurcate Add to list Share. When you’re walking through the woods, you sometimes see the path bifurcate, or split in two directions, and have to choose which way to continue. Bifurcate means “to divide into two branches.”

Is cutlery a common word?

It’s a perfectly normal, though perhaps not overly common, word to me in all varieties of English.

What is the Spoonie theory?

“The spoon theory is a self-pacing strategy that emphasizes the need for chronic pain patients to work to a certain quota,” Dr. Tilahun says. “Patients have to be economical in how they spread the use of their spoons in their daily activity.” Imagine, for example, a mother who lives with chronic pain.

Why is a split in the road called a fork?

This kind of “fork” originally meant the point where a river divides in two or where two rivers join, a sense first recorded in the late 17th century.

What does keep left at the fork mean?

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English fork (off) left/rightto go left or right when a road divides into two parts SYN turn Fork left at the bottom of the hill.

What do you call a narrow road?

lane. noun. British a narrow road, especially in the countryside.