WordWeb Online

1. Resembling a fork; divided or separated into two branches
   "a forked river"; "forked lightning";
   - bifurcate, biramous, branched, fork-like, forficate, pronged, prongy
    
2. Having two meanings with intent to deceive
   "spoke with forked tongue";
   - double

1. Divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork
   "The road forks";
   - branch, ramify, furcate, separate
    
2. Lift with a pitchfork
   "fork hay";
   - pitchfork
    
3. Shape like a fork
   "She forked her fingers"
    
4. (computing) split a project, repository or process into two or more independent copies or parts
    
5. (chess) place under attack with one's own pieces, of two enemy pieces

See also: ambiguous, divided, equivocal

Type of: aggress, attack, diverge, form, lift, shape

Encyclopedia: Forked