'Forked' definitions:
Definition of 'forked'
(from WordNet)
adjective
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" [syn: bifurcate, biramous, branched, forked, fork-like, forficate, pronged, prongy]
adjective
Having two meanings with intent to deceive; "a sly double meaning"; "spoke with forked tongue" [syn: double, forked]
Definition of 'Forked'
From: GCIDE
- Forked \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. [1913 Webster]
- A serpent seen, with forked tongue. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Having a double meaning; ambiguous; equivocal. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Forked'
From: GCIDE
- Fork \Fork\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Forked; p. pr. & vb. n. Forking.]
- 1. To shoot into blades, as corn. [1913 Webster]
- The corn beginneth to fork. --Mortimer. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To divide into two or more branches; as, a road, a tree, or a stream forks. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'forked'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- saw-toothed,
- sawtooth,
- serrate,
- sharp,
- sharp-cornered,
- split,
- tree-shaped,
- treelike,
- tridentlike,
- trifurcate,
- trifurcated,
- V-shaped,
- Y-shaped,
- zigzag
Words containing 'Forked'
- Fork,
- Forkedly,
- Forking,
- Forks,
- In fork,
- To fork out,
- To fork over,
- fork out,
- fork over,
- fork up,
- American Fork,
- Ash Fork,
- Cherry Fork,
- Clark Fork,
- Coal Fork,
- Cross forked,
- East Fork,
- Five Forks,
- Fork beam,
- Fork chuck,
- Fork head,
- Forked River,
- Forked counsel,
- Forks, WA,
- Grand Forks,
- Greens Fork,
- Greens Fork, IN,
- Harpoon fork,
- Locust Fork,
- Rolling Fork,
- Sand Fork,
- South Fork,
- Spanish Fork,
- The forks of a river,
- The forks of a road,
- Three Forks,
- Toasting fork,
- Tuning fork,
- Weeding fork,
- West Fork,
- carving fork,
- caudine forks,
- forked lightning,
- salad fork,
- American Fork, UT,
- Ash Fork, AZ,
- Au Sable Forks,
- Cherry Fork, OH,
- Clark Fork, ID,
- Coal Fork, WV,
- East Fork, AZ,
- East Grand Forks,
- Five Forks, SC,
- Fork-tailed,
- Forked River, NJ,
- Grand Forks AFB,
- Grand Forks County,
- Grand Forks, ND,
- Locust Fork, AL,
- North Fork Village,
- Rolling Fork, MS,
- Sand Fork, WV,
- South Fork Estates,
- South Fork, CO,
- South Fork, PA,
- Spanish Fork, UT,
- Three Forks, MT,
- Two-forked,
- West Fork, AR,
- fork-like,
- great forked beard,
- lesser forked beard,
- skeleton fork fern,
- Au Sable Forks, NY,
- East Grand Forks, MN,
- Fork-tailed flycatcher,
- Fork-tailed gull,
- Fork-tailed kite,
- Grand Forks AFB, ND,
- Grand Forks County, ND,
- North Fork Village, OH,
- South Fork Estates, TX,
- cross forked of three points