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FORK
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Traducere în limba română
fork I. substantiv
1. (agr.) furcă.
2. furculiţă.
3. (şi tuning fork) (muz.) diapazon.
4. ramificaţie, bifurcaţie; răspântie; răscruce;
fork of lightning zigzag de fulger.
5. arac (de vie).
6. (tehn.) furcă;
belt / strap fork furcă de curea (pentru debreiaj);
front fork furcă din faţă (la bicicletă).
7. (mine) fund de puţ;
the mine is in fork mina este secată.
8. (sl.) pungaş de buzunare.
9. (sl.) deget.
fork II. verb A. intranzitiv
1. (despre copaci etc.) a se ramifica; (despre drumuri) a se bifurca;
fork right for York ia-o la dreapta pentru a ajunge la York.
2. (despre grâu) a da în spic.
3. to fork out / over a) a desface baierele pungii; b) a se executa, a plăti.
fork II. verb B. tranzitiv
1. a încărca cu furca; a strânge cu furca.
2. (mine) a seca, a epuiza (o mină).
3. (amer.) a priponi (un cal).
Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:
“What have we got here?” he said, putting a fork into my dish.
(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)
Then he turned deliberately and took the right fork.
(White Fang, de Jack London)
I remember when Glumdalclitch carried me, out of curiosity, to see some of the tables at court, where ten or a dozen of those enormous knives and forks were lifted up together, I thought I had never till then beheld so terrible a sight.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)
“There never was a happier one!” I exclaimed, laying down the carving-knife and fork.
(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)
He continued up the right fork.
(White Fang, de Jack London)
I thought it was better to borrow Captain Hopkins's knife and fork, than Captain Hopkins's comb.
(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)
After that, the she-wolf in her hunting avoided the left fork.
(White Fang, de Jack London)
What meals I had in silence and embarrassment, always feeling that there were a knife and fork too many, and that mine; an appetite too many, and that mine; a plate and chair too many, and those mine; a somebody too many, and that I!
(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)
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