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  forked
       
          (Unix; probably after "fucked") Terminally slow, or dead.
          Originated when one system was slowed to a snail's pace by an
          inadvertent fork bomb.
       
          [{Jargon File]
       
          (1994-12-14)
       
       

  Fork \Fork\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Forked; p. pr. & vb. n.
     Forking.]
     1. To shoot into blades, as corn.
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              The corn beginneth to fork.           --Mortimer.
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     2. To divide into two or more branches; as, a road, a tree,
        or a stream forks.
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  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.
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              A serpent seen, with forked tongue.   --Shak.
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     2. Having a double meaning; ambiguous; equivocal.
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     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.
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  forked adj.,vi. 1. [common after 1997, esp. in the Linux community] An
     open-source software project is said to have forked or be forked when
     the project group fissions into two or more parts pursuing separate
     lines of development (or, less commonly, when a third party unconnected
     to the project group begins its own line of development). Forking is
     considered a Bad Thing - not merely because it implies a lot of wasted
     effort in the future, but because forks tend to be accompanied by a
     great deal of strife and acrimony between the successor groups over
     issues of legitimacy, succession, and design direction. There is serious
     social pressure against forking. As a result, major forks (such as the
     Gnu-Emacs/XEmacs split, the fissionings of the 386BSD group into three
     daughter projects, and the short-lived GCC/EGCS split) are rare enough
     that they are remembered individually in hacker folklore. 2. [Unix;
     uncommon; prob. influenced by a mainstream expletive] Terminally slow,
     or dead. Originated when one system was slowed to a snail's pace by an
     inadvertent fork bomb.
  
  

  Fork \Fork\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Forked; p. pr. & vb. n.
     Forking.]
     1. To shoot into blades, as corn.
  
              The corn beginneth to fork.           --Mortimer.
  
     2. To divide into two or more branches; as, a road, a tree,
        or a stream forks.

  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.
  
              A serpent seen, with forked tongue.   --Shak.
  
     2. Having a double meaning; ambiguous; equivocal.
  
     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.

  forked
       adj 1: 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, forficate,
               pronged, prongy]
       2: having two meanings with intent to deceive; "a sly double
          meaning"; "spoke with forked tongue" [syn: double]

  forked
     a.
     1 That splits into two or more directions, or parts.
     2 (lb en possessional) Having forks (gloss: parts into which anything
  is furcated or divided).
     alt.
     1 That splits into two or more directions, or parts.
     2 (lb en possessional) Having forks (gloss: parts into which anything
  is furcated or divided).
     vb.
     (infl of en fork  ed-form)

  forked
     a.
     1 That splits into two or more directions, or parts.
     2 (lb en possessional) Having forks (gloss: parts into which anything
  is furcated or divided).
     alt.
     1 That splits into two or more directions, or parts.
     2 (lb en possessional) Having forks (gloss: parts into which anything
  is furcated or divided).
     vb.
     (infl of en fork  ed-form)

  forked
     a.
     1 That splits into two or more directions, or parts.
     2 (lb en possessional) Having forks (gloss: parts into which anything
  is furcated or divided).
     alt.
     1 That splits into two or more directions, or parts.
     2 (lb en possessional) Having forks (gloss: parts into which anything
  is furcated or divided).
     vb.
     (infl of en fork  ed-form)

  forked
     a.
     1 That splits into two or more directions, or parts.
     2 (lb en possessional) Having forks (gloss: parts into which anything
  is furcated or divided).
     alt.
     1 That splits into two or more directions, or parts.
     2 (lb en possessional) Having forks (gloss: parts into which anything
  is furcated or divided).
     vb.
     (infl of en fork  ed-form)

  forked
     Englanti vb.
     (en-v-taivm f ork ed)

  forked
     Engelska a.
     (avledning en fork ordform=perfpart)
     Engelska vb.
     (böjning en verb fork)

  Forked /fˈɔːkt/
  متشعّب

  forked /fˈɔːkt/ 
  разклонен, чаталест
  that splits

  forked /fˈɔːkt/ 
  vidlicovitý

  forked /fˈɔːkt/ 
  rozvětvený

  forked /fˈɔːkt/
  gegabelt, abgezweigt
   see: fork, forking
  

  forked /fˈɔːkt/
  gegabelt, gabelförmig 

  forked /fˈɔːkt/
  gewendet
   see: fork, forking
  

  forked /fˈɔːkt/ 
  haarautuva, halkipäinen
  that splits

  forked /fˈɔːkt/ 
  1. काँटे~जैसा
        "Snake has a forked tongue."

  forked /fɔ:kt/ 
    rozwidlony

  forked /fˈɔːkt/
  1. çatal şeklinde, çatallı, kollara ayrılmış. forked lightning zikzaklı şimşek.

  
/ˈfɔɹkt/

  52 Moby Thesaurus words for "forked":
     V-shaped, Y-shaped, 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, zigzag
  
  

  a. 成叉的,叉的,叉状的;

     a. 成叉的,叉的,叉状的