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{
"term": "fork",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "a2",
"image": "data/images/cu/cutlery.png",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "a tool with a handle and three or four sharp points (called prongs), used for picking up and eating food",
"sensetop": "with a fork",
"cefr": "a2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "to eat with a **knife and fork**"
},
{
"text": "Mash the mixture with a fork.",
"contextForm": "with a fork"
},
{
"text": "He put the knives and forks on the table."
},
{
"text": "She impaled a piece of meat on her fork."
}
],
"topics": ["Cooking and eating"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["toasting", "salad", "plastic"],
"verb + fork": ["pick up", "put down", "use"],
"preposition": ["on a/the fork", "with a fork"],
"phrases": ["a knife and fork"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "a garden tool with a long or short handle and three or four sharp metal points, used for digging",
"cefr": "b2",
"examples": [],
"topics": ["Gardens"]
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "a place where a road, river, etc. divides into two parts; either of these two parts",
"sensetop": "fork in something",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Take the right fork."
},
{
"text": "Shortly before dusk they reached a fork and took the left-hand track."
},
{
"text": "Bear left at the fork in the road.",
"contextForm": "fork in something"
}
],
"topics": ["Geography", "Transport by car or lorry"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["left", "right"],
"verb + fork": ["take"],
"preposition": ["at a/the fork", "in fork", "fork in"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 4,
"definition": "a thing that is like a fork in shape, with two or more long parts",
"sensetop": "fork (of something)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "a jagged fork of lightning"
},
{
"text": "a monkey sitting in the fork of the tree"
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 5,
"definition": "either of two metal supporting pieces into which a wheel on a bicycle or motorcycle is fitted",
"examples": []
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/fɔːk/",
"audio": "fo/fork/fork__gb_2.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/fɔːrk/",
"audio": "fo/fork/fork__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Old English forca, force (denoting a farm implement), based on Latin furca ‘pitchfork, forked stick’; reinforced in Middle English by Anglo-Norman French furke (also from Latin furca)."
}