(n.) An instrument consisting of a handle with a shank terminating in two or more prongs or tines, which are usually of metal, parallel and slightly curved; -- used from piercing, holding, taking up, or pitching anything.
(n.) Anything furcate or like a fork in shape, or furcate at the extremity; as, a tuning fork.
(n.) One of the parts into which anything is furcated or divided; a prong; a branch of a stream, a road, etc.; a barbed point, as of an arrow.
(n.) The place where a division or a union occurs; the angle or opening between two branches or limbs; as, the fork of a river, a tree, or a road.
(n.) The gibbet.
(v. i.) To divide into two or more branches; as, a road, a tree, or a stream forks.
(v. t.) To raise, or pitch with a fork, as hay; to dig or turn over with a fork, as the soil.
Example Sentences:
(1) Subtle differences between Chicago urban and Grand Forks rural climates are reflected in arthritic subjects' degree of pain and their perception of pain-related stress.
(2) Dermot Kelly said: "The England Supporters Band is right up there with the vuvuzela for wanting to stab myself in the head with a fork."
(3) It is likely that the target of camptothecin is the "swivel" topoisomerase required for DNA replication and that it is located at or very near the replication fork in vivo.
(4) The two forks of the GIA or the PLC 50 instrument are introduced into the oesophagus and jejunum, and the two organs are brought together at the hiatus.
(5) Although later studies have suggested that fork encounter during termination is an active process involving specific termination sites and the tus protein, the coupling mechanism between termination and cell division remains to be elucidated.
(6) Among the fork-lift truck drivers, a statistically significant higher occurrence of low-back trouble was reported for the year preceding the study, in comparison, according to age, to that of a reference group of 399 working men (65 against 47%); however, there was no significantly increased frequency when compared to that of a reference group of 66 unskilled male workers (65 against 51%).
(7) The position of replication origins and replication forks relative to the nuclear matrix was analysed by autoradiography.
(8) Electron microscopy of the replicating molecules, after digestion with restriction endonucleases, showed that the replication fork proceeds exclusively counter-clockwise towards the unc operon.
(9) The retarded fork progression and shorter initiation intervals may result either from the continued operation of a subset of replication units resistant to the inhibition of protein synthesis, or be manifestations of the inhibition of protein synthesis on all active sites.
(10) I arrange my coins into ascending size in my pockets, for example, and nothing gives me more comfort than the knowledge that my forks, knives and spoons are all in the correct place, tessellating magnificently in their drawer.
(11) However, the mean length of the single-stranded gaps in Drosophila forks is less than 200 nucleotide residues, much shorter than the gaps in phage forks.
(12) The vibrations generated by tapping a simplified mandible model were similar to those of the transverse type of a bar and tuning fork.
(13) Using this system, we have studied the cycle of Okazaki fragment synthesis at the replication fork.
(14) It speaks with forked tongues Leave aside the now acknowledged mistake of featuring Lampitt in the party political broadcast.
(15) "It's important to remember that at every point when there has been a fork in the road about whether Britain should retreat or lead, when we have led we have always surprised ourselves and others about how successfully we can lead," he says.
(16) Relaxation protein could replace the combined action of an endonuclease and a ligase ahead of the replication fork.
(17) They’re not excited but, dammit, they’ll make the best of what’s there, who’s got a fork?
(18) In the slower second stage of breakdown, the aberrant DNA replication intermediates remained nicked and strongly associated with protein as they underwent DNA replication fork breakage and recombinational changes to produce high molecular weight forms.
(19) Whoever was in charge of promoting that coat, stick a fork in yourself because you're done.
(20) The government is at a fork in the road on prisons policy.
Pitchfork
Definition:
(n.) A fork, or farming utensil, used in pitching hay, sheaves of grain, or the like.
(v. t.) To pitch or throw with, or as with, a pitchfork.
Example Sentences:
(1) It took the first intifada (the largely unarmed, six-year uprising that preceded the current, far more violent one) to transform Yassin wholly and irrevocably, and to pitchfork him into the forefront of the Palestinian struggle as a serious rival to Arafat himself.
(2) When notoriously snooty indie website Pitchfork reviewed True Romance, it gave it an 8.3, which is significant of the coolster demographic she reaches across the Atlantic.
(3) He says : Syro is the “most accessible” of the several albums he’s been working on, according to a forthcoming interview with James on Pitchfork.
(4) But Reznor told Pitchfork that experiments with Belew formed the catalyst for bringing the project back from hiatus , pushing him from "a discussion on performing … to some beard-scratching … to the decision to rethink the idea of what Nine Inch Nails could be".
(5) Speaking from his $1m property, which was originally built in 1934 for the king of Yugoslavia's treasurer, Benmosche defended the company's employees: "A lot of them feel hurt, embarrassed, a lot of people have lived in fear because of what I call lynch mobs with pitchforks."
(6) Independent musician Krukowski (of Galaxie 500 and Damon and Naomi) has already made one influential contribution to the streaming debate with his Making Cents op-ed for Pitchfork last year, breaking down his royalty payments.
(7) And yet, since the spring of 2010, WU LYF have found themselves featured by outlets including the Guardian , Pitchfork, BBC Radio 1, the New York Observer and Vogue Italia.
(8) Those two weeks should not be called paternity leave – they should be called pitchfork duty.
(9) After all, they might get restless – and that’s a lot of possible pitchforks.
(10) Judge Carl Anthony Walker declared on Tuesday that Keef had shown a "wilful disregard of the court" when he took a Pitchfork reporter to a New York gun range.
(11) No one really knows, but we can be clear that those driving the minister forward with pitchforks have a visceral hatred of the appearance of wind turbines.
(12) Pitchfork reports that the clip included archival footage of MIA and Diplo, plus interviews with artists and label executives such as Kanye West , Spike Jonze and XL's Richard Russell.
(13) She provoked uproar with her 2011 memoir, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother , charting her unbending rules for raising her daughters, and spent two years dealing with the fallout, including death threats, racial slurs and pitchfork-waving calls for her arrest on child-abuse charges.
(14) Other radical parties are expected to make it past the 5% threshold, including one led by the controversial Oleh Lyashko, who has taken part in the detention and questioning of separatists in the east, often using dubious methods, and whose party symbol is a pitchfork.
(15) Free Music Damon Krukowski, Pitchfork: "One way we could start is to collectively acknowledge that nobody can really claim digital streams as exclusive property.
(16) Mitt Romney's real success in the first presidential debate was to not emerge from the wings wearing horns and carrying a pitchfork, demanding that all the women in the audience submit immediately to transvaginal ultrasounds and relieving them of 23 cents for every dollar they happened to have on them.
(17) Initially championed by influential American music websites such as Pitchfork, it became one of the most critically lauded albums of the year, selling more than half a million copies globally.
(18) The Chicago Sun-Times reported that prosecutors cited the Pitchfork video as the main reason for his arrest.
(19) On Monday, at Newcastle’s Theatre Royal , someone tweeted me – and I’m not going to name them, as I have no interest in bringing the Twitter pitchfork mobs down on anyone’s head – “Can you do something about the bar prices here being so antisemitic?” I read this one out, even though I knew it wasn’t funny.
(20) Pitchfork took the video down in September after the murder of another Chicago rapper, Lil JoJo, saying the clip was "insensitive and irresponsible" given Chicago's ongoing gun violence.