fork

tenedor

Utensilio pequeño con varias puntas para coger comida o sujetarla al cortarla.

En inglés sencillo: A small tool with several points, used to pick up food or hold it while cutting.

• I need a fork.
• She ate her salad with a fork.
• Put the forks beside the plates.

Expresiones frecuentes: knife and fork, dinner fork, with a fork, serving fork

bifurcación

Lugar donde una carretera, un camino u otra cosa alargada se divide en dos ramas.

En inglés sencillo: A place where a road, path, or other long thing divides into two branches.

• Turn left at the fork.
• We reached a fork in the road after lunch.
• A bird had built its nest in a fork of the tree.

Cómo se usa: a fork in something (We stopped at a fork in the trail.)

Sinónimos: branch point, junction

Expresiones frecuentes: fork in something, road fork, at the fork

horquilla

Pieza de una bicicleta o moto que sujeta la rueda delantera y la gira al mover el manillar.

En inglés sencillo: The part of a bicycle or motorcycle that holds the front wheel and turns it when you steer.

• The bike has a bent fork.
• This suspension fork makes rough paths more comfortable.
• The mechanic replaced the motorcycle's front fork.

Sinónimos: front fork

Expresiones frecuentes: front fork, suspension fork, bicycle fork

tenedor, ataque doble

Jugada de ajedrez en la que una pieza amenaza a dos o más piezas del rival a la vez.

En inglés sencillo: A chess move in which one piece attacks two or more of the other player's pieces at once.

• His knight created a fork.
• A fork threatened both my king and my queen.
• She spotted the fork before moving her rook.

Sinónimos: double attack

Expresiones frecuentes: knight fork, create a fork, a deadly fork

bifurcarse, dividirse

Dividirse en dos o más ramas o caminos separados.

En inglés sencillo: To divide into two or more branches or separate paths.

• The road forks ahead.
• We forked left after passing the bridge.
• The river forks into two channels near the village.

Cómo se usa: fork into something (The path forks into two narrow trails.)

Sinónimos: divide, split, branch

Antónimos: merge, join

Expresiones frecuentes: fork left, fork right, fork into something

mover con un tenedor, recoger con una horca

Levantar o mover comida, heno u otras cosas con un tenedor, una horca u otra herramienta de puntas.

En inglés sencillo: To lift or move food, hay, or something else using a tool with points.

• He forked hay into the wagon.
• She forked another piece of cake into her mouth.
• We forked the straw into a pile.

Cómo se usa: fork something into/onto something (She forked the pasta onto a plate.)

Expresiones frecuentes: fork something onto, fork something into, fork hay