service serving
service of process | the act of delivering a writ or summons upon someone, he accepted service of the subpoena |
branching
ramification
fork
forking | the act of branching out or dividing into branches |
| Caudine Forks | a battle in the Apennines in BC in which the Samnites defeated the Romans |
| carving fork | a large fork used in carving cooked meat |
| fork | cutlery used for serving and eating food |
| fork | an agricultural tool used for lifting or digging, has a handle and metal prongs |
| salad fork | a fork intended for eating salads |
| serving cart | a handcart for serving food |
| serving dish | a dish used for serving food |
| toasting fork | long-handled fork for cooking or toasting frankfurters or bread etc. (especially over an open fire) |
| tuning fork | a metal implement with two prongs that gives a fixed tone when struck, used to tune musical instruments |
crotch
fork | the angle formed by the inner sides of the legs where they join the human trunk |
helping
portion
serving | an individual quantity of food or drink taken as part of a meal, the helpings were all small, his portion was larger than hers, there's enough for two servings each |
servant girl
serving girl | a girl who is a servant |
skeleton fork fern
Psilotum nudum | pantropical epiphytic or terrestrial whisk fern with usually dull yellow branches and minute leaves, America, Japan, Australia |
fork
crotch | the region of the angle formed by the junction of two branches, they took the south fork, he climbed into the crotch of a tree |
| fork | shape like a fork, She forked her fingers |
branch
ramify
fork
furcate
separate | divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork, The road forks |
| fork | place under attack with one's own pieces, of two enemy pieces |
pitchfork
fork | lift with a pitchfork, pitchfork hay |
hand over
fork over
fork out
fork up
turn in
deliver render | to surrender someone or something to another, the guard delivered the criminal to the police, render up the prisoners, render the town to the enemy, fork over the money |
self-serving
self-seeking | interested only in yourself |
bifurcate
biramous
branched
forked
fork-like
forficate
pronged prongy | 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 |