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verb
- (ambitransitive) To divide into two or more branches or copies.
- divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork
- (ambitransitive, software engineering) To launch a separate software development effort based upon a modified copy of an existing software project, especially in free and open-source software.
- (transitive) To move with a fork (as hay or food).
- (chess) To simultaneously attack two opposing pieces with a single attacking piece.
- (mining, transitive) To bale a shaft dry.
- (intransitive) To shoot into blades, as corn does.
- (ambitransitive, computing) To spawn a new child process by duplicating the existing process.
- (transitive, software engineering) To create a copy of a distributed version control repository.
- (transitive, British) To kick someone in the crotch.
- (transitive) Euphemistic form of fuck.
- lift with a pitchfork
- shape like a fork
- place under attack with one's own pieces, of two enemy pieces
noun
- the act of branching out or dividing into branches
- Such a pronged tool having a long straight handle, generally for two-handed use, as used for digging, lifting, mucking, pitching, etc.
- (cycling, motorcycling, by abstraction from a pronged tool's shape) In a bicycle or motorcycle, the portion of the frameset holding the front wheel, allowing the rider to steer and balance, also called front fork.
- Any of several types of pronged tools for use on farms, in fields, or in the garden or lawn, such as a smaller hand fork for weeding or a larger one for turning over the soil.
- (mining) The bottom of a sump into which the water of a mine drains.
- (metonymic) Either of the (figurative) paths thus taken.
- (content management) Any of the pieces/versions of content thus created.
- (cryptocurrencies) A split in a blockchain resulting from protocol disagreements, or a branch of the blockchain resulting from such a split.
- (chess) The simultaneous attack of two adversary pieces with one single attacking piece (especially a knight).
- (figuratively, decision-making) A point in time where one has to make a decision between two life paths.
- (software) Any of the software projects resulting from the launch of such separate software development efforts based upon a copy of the original project.
- A tuning fork.
- (content management) The splitting of the coverage of a topic (within a corpus of content) into two or more pieces.
- (by abstraction, from the tool shape) A point where a waterway, such as a river or other stream, splits and flows into two (or more) different directions.
- (colloquial) A forklift.
- (British, vulgar) The crotch.
- Either of the blades of a forklift (or, in plural, the set of blades), on which the goods to be raised are loaded.
- (metonymic) Any of the pieces/versions (of software, content, or data sets) thus created.
- (computing, file systems) A set of data associated with an individual file in some file systems.
- (software) The launch of one or more separate software development efforts based upon a modified copy of an existing project, especially in free and open-source software.
- (metonymic, analogous to any prong of a pronged tool) 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.
- A utensil with spikes used to put solid food into the mouth, or to hold food down while cutting, or for serving food.
- (physical) An intersection in a road or path where one road is split into two.
- (figurative) A decision point.
- The upper front brow of a saddle bow, connected in the tree by the two saddle bars to the cantle on the other end.
- an agricultural tool used for lifting or digging; has a handle and metal prongs
- the region of the angle formed by the junction of two branches
- the angle formed by the inner sides of the legs where they join the human trunk
- a utensil with two or more prongs, used for serving or eating food
noun
- (biology) A division into two branches.
- Either of the forks or other branches resultant from such a division.
- the act of splitting into two branches
- a bifurcating branch (one or both of them)
- The act of bifurcating; branching or dividing in two.
- (mathematics) The change in the qualitative or topological structure of a given family as described by bifurcation theory.
- (computer science) A command that executes one block or other of commands depending on the result of a condition.
- (by extension) Any place where one thing divides into two.
- (geography) A place where two roads, tributaries etc. part or meet.
- (nautical) The point where a channel divides when proceeding from seaward.
- the place where something divides into two branches
noun
- A division into four parts.
- dividing into four equal parts
- A point on an arch calculated by measuring one quarter of the height along a line from the peak to the outer edge on the ground.
- (heraldry) One of the different coats of arms arranged upon an escutcheon, denoting the descent of the bearer.
- (architecture) A series of quarters, or small upright posts.
- The method of capital punishment where a criminal is cut into four pieces.
- (heraldry) The division of a shield containing different coats of arms into four or more compartments.
- The act of providing housing for military personnel, especially when imposed upon the home of a private citizen.
- (hunting) Searching for prey by traversing a space. From hunting for game, where dogs will run parallel to the wind in search of a scent, thereby 'quartering' the field.
- (historical) The practice of docking 15 minutes' pay from a worker who arrived late (even by less than 15 minutes).
- living accommodations (especially those assigned to military personnel)
- a coat of arms that occupies one quarter of an escutcheon; combining four coats of arms on one shield usually represented intermarriages
adj
- (nautical) Coming from a point well abaft the beam, but not directly astern; said of waves or any moving object.
- (engineering) At right angles, as the cranks of a locomotive, which are in planes forming a right angle with each other.
- (by extension, aviation, of wind) Coming from aft and to one side; having both a crosswind and tailwind component.
verb
verb
- divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork
- grow and send out branches or branch-like structures
- (intransitive) To arise from the trunk or a larger branch of a tree.
- (transitive, colloquial) To discipline (a union member) at a branch meeting.
- (intransitive, computing) To jump to a different location in a program, especially as the result of a conditional statement.
- (transitive) To strip of branches.
- (ambitransitive) To (cause to) divide into separate parts or subdivisions.
- (intransitive) To produce branches.
noun
- a natural consequence of development
- a division of a stem, or secondary stem arising from the main stem of a plant
- a division of some larger or more complex organization
- any projection that is thought to resemble a human arm
- a stream or river connected to a larger one
- a part of a forked or branching shape
- (graph theory) A path of vertices of degree 2, ending at vertices whose degree is not 2.
- An area in business or of knowledge, research.
- (nautical) A certificate given by Trinity House to a pilot qualified to take navigational control of a ship in British waters.
- (computing) A sequence of code that is conditionally executed.
- The woody part of a tree arising from the trunk and usually dividing.
- A line of family descent, in distinction from some other line or lines from the same stock; any descendant in such a line.
- A location of an organization with several locations.
- (chiefly Southern US) A creek or stream which flows into a larger river.
- Any of the parts of something that divides like the branch of a tree.
- (computing) A group of related files in a source control system, including for example source code, build scripts, and media such as images.
- (Mormonism) A local congregation of the LDS Church that is not large enough to form a ward; see Wikipedia article on ward in LDS church.
- (geometry) One of the portions of a curve that extends outwards to an indefinitely great distance.
- (rail transport) A branch line.
verb
- divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork
- make a division or separation
- force, take, or pull apart
- become separated into pieces or fragments
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- treat differently on the basis of sex or race
- mark as different
- go one's own way; move apart
- divide into components or constituents
- move or break apart
- arrange or order by classes or categories
- separate into parts or portions
- act as a barrier between; stand between
- (transitive) To disunite from a group or mass; to disconnect.
- (intransitive) To divide itself into separate pieces or substances.
- (transitive) To cause (things or people) to be separate.
- (transitive) To divide (a thing) into separate parts.
adj
- standing apart; not attached to or supported by anything
- have the connection undone; having become separate
- separated according to race, sex, class, or religion
- independent; not united or joint
- Apart from (the rest); not connected to or attached to (anything else).
- (followed by “from”) Not together (with); not united (to).
noun
- a separately printed article that originally appeared in a larger publication
- a garment that can be purchased separately and worn in combinations with other garments
- (usually in the plural) Anything that is sold by itself, especially articles of clothing such as blouses, skirts, jackets, and pants.
- (bibliography) A printing of an article from a periodical as its own distinct publication and distributed independently, often with different page numbers.
noun
- Each of the separate parts of something resulting from division.
- (music) A florid instrumental variation of a melody in the 17th and 18th centuries, originally conceived as the dividing of each of a succession of long notes into several short ones.
- (computing) Any of the four major parts of a COBOL program source code.
- (botany, mycology) A rank below kingdom and above class, particularly used of plants or fungi, also (particularly of animals) called a phylum; a taxon at that rank.
- (government) A method by which a legislature is separated into groups in order to take a better estimate of vote than a voice vote.
- (UK, Eton College) A lesson; a class.
- A usually high-level section of a large company or conglomerate.
- (Australia) A parliamentary constituency.
- (arithmetic, uncountable) The process of dividing a number by another.
- (uncountable) The act or process of dividing anything.
- (law) A concept whereby a common group of debtors are only responsible for their proportionate sum of the total debt.
- A disagreement; a difference of viewpoint between two sides of an argument.
- (military) A formation, usually made up of two or three brigades.
- (music) A set of pipes in a pipe organ which are independently controlled and supplied.
- (zoology) An optional rank subordinate to the infraclass and superordinate to the legion and cohort; a taxon at that rank.
- (arithmetic) A calculation that involves this process.
- a unit of the United States Air Force usually comprising two or more wings
- a league ranked by quality
- (botany) taxonomic unit of plants corresponding to a phylum
- the act or process of dividing
- one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole
- an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of multiplication; the quotient of two numbers is computed
- a group of ships of similar type
- an army unit large enough to sustain combat
- (biology) a group of organisms forming a subdivision of a larger category
- an administrative unit in government or business
- the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart
- discord that splits a group
noun
- an arrangement of branching parts
- the act of branching out or dividing into branches
- (mathematics) An arrangement of branches.
- a development that complicates a situation
- a part of a forked or branching shape
- (figurative, often in the plural) An offshoot of a decision, fact etc.; a consequence or implication, especially one which complicates a situation.
- (botany, anatomy, also figurative) A branching-out, the act or result of developing branches; specifically the divergence of the stem and limbs of a plant into smaller ones, or of similar developments in blood vessels, anatomical structures etc.
verb
noun
- a wrapped container
- the allotment of some amount by dividing something
- an extended area of land
- a collection of things wrapped or boxed together
- A division of land bought and sold as a unit.
- A portion of anything taken separately; a fragment of a whole; a part.
- An individual consignment of cargo for shipment, regardless of size and form.
- An indiscriminate or indefinite number, measure, or quantity; a collection; a group.
- A package wrapped for shipment.
- A small amount of food that has been wrapped up, for example a pastry.
- An individual item appearing on an invoice or receipt (only in the phrase bill of parcels).
verb
- perform a division
- make a division or separation
- force, take, or pull apart
- move or break apart
- separate into parts or portions
- act as a barrier between; stand between
- To vote, as in the British parliament and other legislatures, by the members separating themselves into two parties (as on opposite sides of the hall or in opposite lobbies), that is, the ayes dividing from the noes.
- (transitive) To share (something) by dividing it.
- (transitive) To split or separate (something) into two or more parts.
- To disunite in opinion or interest; to make discordant or hostile; to set at variance.
- (intransitive, biology) Of a cell, to reproduce by dividing.
- (transitive) To cause (a group of people) to disagree.
- (music) To play or sing in a florid style, or with variations.
- (intransitive) To separate into two or more parts.
- To mark divisions on; to graduate.
- (transitive, arithmetic, with by) To calculate the number (the quotient) by which you must multiply one given number (the divisor) to produce a second given number (the dividend).
- (transitive, arithmetic) To be a divisor of.
noun
- a serious disagreement between two groups of people (typically producing tension or hostility)
- a ridge of land that separates two adjacent river systems
- A distancing between two people or things.
- (hydrology) The topographical boundary dividing two adjacent catchment basins, such as a ridge or a crest.
- (geography) A large chasm, gorge, or ravine between two areas of land.
- A thing that divides.
- An act of dividing.
verb
noun
- a small part or item forming a piece of a whole
- the quotient of two rational numbers
- a component of a mixture that has been separated by a fractional process
- (arithmetic) A ratio of two numbers (numerator and denominator), usually written one above the other and separated by a horizontal bar called the vinculum or, alternatively, in sequence on the same line and separated by a solidus (diagonal bar).
- A small amount.
- (chemistry) A component of a mixture, separated by fractionation.
- (Christianity) In a eucharistic service, the breaking of the host.
- A part of a whole, especially a comparatively small part.
noun
- Division or separation into three groups or pieces.
- (algebra) the property of an order relation whereby, given an ordered pair of elements (of a given algebraic structure), exactly one of these is true: the first element is 'less than' the second one, the second is 'less than' the first, or the two elements are equal.
- being threefold; a classification into three parts or subclasses
verb
- divide into segments
- To cut, divide or separate into pieces.
- To reduce to the degree of thinness required for study with the microscope.
- (medicine) To perform a cesarean section on (someone).
- (UK, Australia, New Zealand) To commit (a person) to a hospital for mental health treatment as an involuntary patient. So called after various sections of legal acts regarding mental health.
noun
- one of several parts or pieces that fit with others to constitute a whole object
- a division of an orchestra containing all instruments of the same class
- (geometry) the area created by a plane cutting through a solid
- a small team of policemen working as part of a police platoon
- a distinct region or subdivision of a territorial or political area or community or group of people
- a small army unit usually having a special function
- one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole
- a segment of a citrus fruit
- a specialized division of a large organization
- a very thin slice (of tissue or mineral or other substance) for examination under a microscope
- a self-contained part of a larger composition (written or musical)
- a small class of students who are part of a larger course but are taught separately
- the cutting of or into body tissues or organs (especially by a surgeon as part of an operation)
- a land unit equal to 1 square mile
- A part of a document, especially a major part; often notated with §.
- (surgery, colloquial) Ellipsis of Caesarean section.
- (music) A group of instruments in an orchestra.
- (Philippines, education) A class in a school; a group of students in a regularly scheduled meeting with a teacher in a certain school year or semester or school quarter year.
- (geology) A sequence of rock layers.
- (topology) A function that generalizes the notion of the graph of a function; formally, a continuous right inverse to the projection map of a fiber bundle.
- A cross-section (image that shows an object as if cut along a plane).
- (botany) A taxonomic rank below the genus (and subgenus if present), but above the species.
- (zoology) An informal taxonomic rank below the order ranks and above the family ranks.
- An act or instance of cutting.
- (sciences) thin section, a thin slice of material prepared as a specimen for research.
- (generalizing the topology sense in a different way, sheaf theory) An object which is defined by analogy with sections of fiber bundles but in a more general setting (that of sheaves). Formally, an element of the image of an open set under the action of a (pre-)sheaf.
- (New Zealand) A piece of residential land; a plot.
- (military) A group of 10-15 soldiers led by a non-commissioned officer and forming part of a platoon.
- (aviation) A cross-section perpendicular the longitudinal axis of an aircraft in flight.
- (US, Canada, law and land surveying) Synonym of square mile, a unit of land area, especially in the contexts of Canadian surveys and American land grants and legal property descriptions.
- (surgery) An incision or the act of making an incision.
- A part, piece, subdivision of anything.
- The symbol §, denoting a section of a document.
- A cutting; a part cut out from the rest of something.
- (technology) Angle section, L-section, angle iron, steel angle, slotted angle.
- (archaeology) Archeological section; vertical plane and cross-section of the ground to view its profile and stratigraphy; part of an archeological sequence.
- (generalizing the topology sense, algebra, category theory) A right inverse of a morphism in some category
verb
noun
- one of several parts or pieces that fit with others to constitute a whole object
- one of the parts into which something naturally divides
- One of the parts into which any body naturally separates or is divided; a part divided or cut off; a section; a portion.
- (broadcasting) A part of a broadcast program, devoted to a topic.
- (zoology) One of several parts of an organism, with similar structure, arranged in a chain; such as a vertebra, or a third of an insect's thorax.
- (botany) A portion of an organ whose cells are derived from a single cell within the primordium from which the organ developed.
- (computing) A region of memory or a fragment of an executable file designated to contain a particular part of a program.
- A length of some object.
- (travel) A portion of an itinerary: it may be a flight or train between two cities, or a car or hotel booked in a particular city.
- (phonology) A discrete unit of speech: a consonant or a vowel.
- (geometry) The part of a sphere cut off by a plane.
- A straight path between two points that is the shortest distance between them; a line segment.
- (topology) Any of the pieces that constitute an order tree.
- (geometry) The part of a circle between its circumference and a chord (usually other than the diameter).
- (computing) An Ethernet bus.
verb
- divide by two; divide into halves
- (architecture, transitive) To join two pieces of timber etc. by cutting away each for half its thickness at the joining place, and fitting together.
- (transitive) To divide into two halves.
- (transitive) To make up half of.
- (golf, transitive) In match play, to achieve a tie or draw on.
- (transitive) To reduce to half the original amount.
verb
noun
- A branch of a tree, bush, or shrub that extends outward; offshoot.
- An offshoot or outgrowth; something that develops from something else.
- A branch of a path, stream, vessel, duct, etc. that carries whatever travels along the patch, etc away from the main path etc.
- (law) Something that results from a law, ruling, or record, but which is separate from that law, ruling, etc.
- (data structures) One of several edges in a directed graph that has an endpoint in a specified vertex and for which the direction of the edge goes from the specified vertex to another vertex.
- A branch of a business that has been spun off from the parent company.
verb
noun
- (computer science) the part of a hard disk that is dedicated to a particular operating system or application and accessed as a single unit
- a vertical structure that divides or separates (as a wall divides one room from another)
- (anatomy) a structure that separates areas in an organism
- the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart
- A vertical structure that divides a room.
- (mathematics) An approach to division in which one asks what the size of each part is, rather than (as in quotition) how many parts there are.
- The division of a territory into two or more autonomous ones.
- (music) A musical score.
- (databases) A division of a database or one of its constituting elements such as tables into separate independent parts.
- A part divided off by walls; an apartment; a compartment.
- An action which divides a thing into parts, or separates one thing from another.
- (set theory) A collection of non-empty, disjoint subsets of a set whose union is the set itself (i.e. all elements of the set are contained in exactly one of the subsets).
- (computing) A division of a data stream, such as a messaging queue or topic (often representing a unit of parallelism, and of fault tolerance).
- A part of something that has been divided.
- That which divides or separates; that by which different things, or distinct parts of the same thing, are separated; boundary; dividing line or space.
- (computing) A section of a hard disk separately formatted.
- (law) The severance of common or undivided interests, particularly in real estate. It may be effected by consent of parties, or by compulsion of law.
adj
- serving to separate or divide into parts
- indicating or characterized by or serving to create partition or division into parts
- (Romance languages) relating to or denoting a part of a whole or a quantity that is less than the whole
- That divides something into parts.
- (grammar) Indicating a part rather than the whole of something.
noun
adj
- serving to separate or divide into parts
- (of a word) referring singly and without exception to the members of a group
- (used of an accent in Hebrew orthography) indicating that the word marked is separated to a greater or lesser degree rhythmically and grammatically from the word that follows it
- (rare) Tending to keep oneself separate from others.
- Serving to separate.
noun
noun
- separation into portions
- a process that uses heat to separate a substance into its components
- (cryptography) A preliminary stage of encryption that divides each plaintext symbol into several ciphertext symbols.
- (chemistry, uncountable, countable) A separation process in which a certain quantity of a mixture is divided up into smaller quantities (fractions) in which the composition changes according to a gradient; an instance of this process.
- (radiotherapy) The division of a total dose of radiation into fractions.
- A form of hypnosis where the patient is made to enter and leave a trance state many times in quick succession.
noun
- (biology) A division into two branches.
- Either of the forks or other branches resultant from such a division.
- the act of splitting into two branches
- a bifurcating branch (one or both of them)
- The act of bifurcating; branching or dividing in two.
- (mathematics) The change in the qualitative or topological structure of a given family as described by bifurcation theory.
- (computer science) A command that executes one block or other of commands depending on the result of a condition.
- (by extension) Any place where one thing divides into two.
- (geography) A place where two roads, tributaries etc. part or meet.
- (nautical) The point where a channel divides when proceeding from seaward.
- the place where something divides into two branches
noun
- A division into four parts.
- dividing into four equal parts
- A point on an arch calculated by measuring one quarter of the height along a line from the peak to the outer edge on the ground.
- (heraldry) One of the different coats of arms arranged upon an escutcheon, denoting the descent of the bearer.
- (architecture) A series of quarters, or small upright posts.
- The method of capital punishment where a criminal is cut into four pieces.
- (heraldry) The division of a shield containing different coats of arms into four or more compartments.
- The act of providing housing for military personnel, especially when imposed upon the home of a private citizen.
- (hunting) Searching for prey by traversing a space. From hunting for game, where dogs will run parallel to the wind in search of a scent, thereby 'quartering' the field.
- (historical) The practice of docking 15 minutes' pay from a worker who arrived late (even by less than 15 minutes).
- living accommodations (especially those assigned to military personnel)
- a coat of arms that occupies one quarter of an escutcheon; combining four coats of arms on one shield usually represented intermarriages
adj
- (nautical) Coming from a point well abaft the beam, but not directly astern; said of waves or any moving object.
- (engineering) At right angles, as the cranks of a locomotive, which are in planes forming a right angle with each other.
- (by extension, aviation, of wind) Coming from aft and to one side; having both a crosswind and tailwind component.
verb
noun
- Each of the separate parts of something resulting from division.
- (music) A florid instrumental variation of a melody in the 17th and 18th centuries, originally conceived as the dividing of each of a succession of long notes into several short ones.
- (computing) Any of the four major parts of a COBOL program source code.
- (botany, mycology) A rank below kingdom and above class, particularly used of plants or fungi, also (particularly of animals) called a phylum; a taxon at that rank.
- (government) A method by which a legislature is separated into groups in order to take a better estimate of vote than a voice vote.
- (UK, Eton College) A lesson; a class.
- A usually high-level section of a large company or conglomerate.
- (Australia) A parliamentary constituency.
- (arithmetic, uncountable) The process of dividing a number by another.
- (uncountable) The act or process of dividing anything.
- (law) A concept whereby a common group of debtors are only responsible for their proportionate sum of the total debt.
- A disagreement; a difference of viewpoint between two sides of an argument.
- (military) A formation, usually made up of two or three brigades.
- (music) A set of pipes in a pipe organ which are independently controlled and supplied.
- (zoology) An optional rank subordinate to the infraclass and superordinate to the legion and cohort; a taxon at that rank.
- (arithmetic) A calculation that involves this process.
- a unit of the United States Air Force usually comprising two or more wings
- a league ranked by quality
- (botany) taxonomic unit of plants corresponding to a phylum
- the act or process of dividing
- one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole
- an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of multiplication; the quotient of two numbers is computed
- a group of ships of similar type
- an army unit large enough to sustain combat
- (biology) a group of organisms forming a subdivision of a larger category
- an administrative unit in government or business
- the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart
- discord that splits a group
noun
- an arrangement of branching parts
- the act of branching out or dividing into branches
- (mathematics) An arrangement of branches.
- a development that complicates a situation
- a part of a forked or branching shape
- (figurative, often in the plural) An offshoot of a decision, fact etc.; a consequence or implication, especially one which complicates a situation.
- (botany, anatomy, also figurative) A branching-out, the act or result of developing branches; specifically the divergence of the stem and limbs of a plant into smaller ones, or of similar developments in blood vessels, anatomical structures etc.
verb
- (ambitransitive) To divide into two or more branches or copies.
- divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork
- (ambitransitive, software engineering) To launch a separate software development effort based upon a modified copy of an existing software project, especially in free and open-source software.
- (transitive) To move with a fork (as hay or food).
- (chess) To simultaneously attack two opposing pieces with a single attacking piece.
- (mining, transitive) To bale a shaft dry.
- (intransitive) To shoot into blades, as corn does.
- (ambitransitive, computing) To spawn a new child process by duplicating the existing process.
- (transitive, software engineering) To create a copy of a distributed version control repository.
- (transitive, British) To kick someone in the crotch.
- (transitive) Euphemistic form of fuck.
- lift with a pitchfork
- shape like a fork
- place under attack with one's own pieces, of two enemy pieces
noun
- the act of branching out or dividing into branches
- Such a pronged tool having a long straight handle, generally for two-handed use, as used for digging, lifting, mucking, pitching, etc.
- (cycling, motorcycling, by abstraction from a pronged tool's shape) In a bicycle or motorcycle, the portion of the frameset holding the front wheel, allowing the rider to steer and balance, also called front fork.
- Any of several types of pronged tools for use on farms, in fields, or in the garden or lawn, such as a smaller hand fork for weeding or a larger one for turning over the soil.
- (mining) The bottom of a sump into which the water of a mine drains.
- (metonymic) Either of the (figurative) paths thus taken.
- (content management) Any of the pieces/versions of content thus created.
- (cryptocurrencies) A split in a blockchain resulting from protocol disagreements, or a branch of the blockchain resulting from such a split.
- (chess) The simultaneous attack of two adversary pieces with one single attacking piece (especially a knight).
- (figuratively, decision-making) A point in time where one has to make a decision between two life paths.
- (software) Any of the software projects resulting from the launch of such separate software development efforts based upon a copy of the original project.
- A tuning fork.
- (content management) The splitting of the coverage of a topic (within a corpus of content) into two or more pieces.
- (by abstraction, from the tool shape) A point where a waterway, such as a river or other stream, splits and flows into two (or more) different directions.
- (colloquial) A forklift.
- (British, vulgar) The crotch.
- Either of the blades of a forklift (or, in plural, the set of blades), on which the goods to be raised are loaded.
- (metonymic) Any of the pieces/versions (of software, content, or data sets) thus created.
- (computing, file systems) A set of data associated with an individual file in some file systems.
- (software) The launch of one or more separate software development efforts based upon a modified copy of an existing project, especially in free and open-source software.
- (metonymic, analogous to any prong of a pronged tool) 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.
- A utensil with spikes used to put solid food into the mouth, or to hold food down while cutting, or for serving food.
- (physical) An intersection in a road or path where one road is split into two.
- (figurative) A decision point.
- The upper front brow of a saddle bow, connected in the tree by the two saddle bars to the cantle on the other end.
- an agricultural tool used for lifting or digging; has a handle and metal prongs
- the region of the angle formed by the junction of two branches
- the angle formed by the inner sides of the legs where they join the human trunk
- a utensil with two or more prongs, used for serving or eating food
noun
- Division or separation into three groups or pieces.
- (algebra) the property of an order relation whereby, given an ordered pair of elements (of a given algebraic structure), exactly one of these is true: the first element is 'less than' the second one, the second is 'less than' the first, or the two elements are equal.
- being threefold; a classification into three parts or subclasses
noun
- separation into portions
- a process that uses heat to separate a substance into its components
- (cryptography) A preliminary stage of encryption that divides each plaintext symbol into several ciphertext symbols.
- (chemistry, uncountable, countable) A separation process in which a certain quantity of a mixture is divided up into smaller quantities (fractions) in which the composition changes according to a gradient; an instance of this process.
- (radiotherapy) The division of a total dose of radiation into fractions.
- A form of hypnosis where the patient is made to enter and leave a trance state many times in quick succession.
verb
- (ambitransitive) To divide into two or more branches or copies.
- divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork
- (ambitransitive, software engineering) To launch a separate software development effort based upon a modified copy of an existing software project, especially in free and open-source software.
- (transitive) To move with a fork (as hay or food).
- (chess) To simultaneously attack two opposing pieces with a single attacking piece.
- (mining, transitive) To bale a shaft dry.
- (intransitive) To shoot into blades, as corn does.
- (ambitransitive, computing) To spawn a new child process by duplicating the existing process.
- (transitive, software engineering) To create a copy of a distributed version control repository.
- (transitive, British) To kick someone in the crotch.
- (transitive) Euphemistic form of fuck.
- lift with a pitchfork
- shape like a fork
- place under attack with one's own pieces, of two enemy pieces
noun
- the act of branching out or dividing into branches
- Such a pronged tool having a long straight handle, generally for two-handed use, as used for digging, lifting, mucking, pitching, etc.
- (cycling, motorcycling, by abstraction from a pronged tool's shape) In a bicycle or motorcycle, the portion of the frameset holding the front wheel, allowing the rider to steer and balance, also called front fork.
- Any of several types of pronged tools for use on farms, in fields, or in the garden or lawn, such as a smaller hand fork for weeding or a larger one for turning over the soil.
- (mining) The bottom of a sump into which the water of a mine drains.
- (metonymic) Either of the (figurative) paths thus taken.
- (content management) Any of the pieces/versions of content thus created.
- (cryptocurrencies) A split in a blockchain resulting from protocol disagreements, or a branch of the blockchain resulting from such a split.
- (chess) The simultaneous attack of two adversary pieces with one single attacking piece (especially a knight).
- (figuratively, decision-making) A point in time where one has to make a decision between two life paths.
- (software) Any of the software projects resulting from the launch of such separate software development efforts based upon a copy of the original project.
- A tuning fork.
- (content management) The splitting of the coverage of a topic (within a corpus of content) into two or more pieces.
- (by abstraction, from the tool shape) A point where a waterway, such as a river or other stream, splits and flows into two (or more) different directions.
- (colloquial) A forklift.
- (British, vulgar) The crotch.
- Either of the blades of a forklift (or, in plural, the set of blades), on which the goods to be raised are loaded.
- (metonymic) Any of the pieces/versions (of software, content, or data sets) thus created.
- (computing, file systems) A set of data associated with an individual file in some file systems.
- (software) The launch of one or more separate software development efforts based upon a modified copy of an existing project, especially in free and open-source software.
- (metonymic, analogous to any prong of a pronged tool) 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.
- A utensil with spikes used to put solid food into the mouth, or to hold food down while cutting, or for serving food.
- (physical) An intersection in a road or path where one road is split into two.
- (figurative) A decision point.
- The upper front brow of a saddle bow, connected in the tree by the two saddle bars to the cantle on the other end.
- an agricultural tool used for lifting or digging; has a handle and metal prongs
- the region of the angle formed by the junction of two branches
- the angle formed by the inner sides of the legs where they join the human trunk
- a utensil with two or more prongs, used for serving or eating food
verb
- divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork
- grow and send out branches or branch-like structures
- (intransitive) To arise from the trunk or a larger branch of a tree.
- (transitive, colloquial) To discipline (a union member) at a branch meeting.
- (intransitive, computing) To jump to a different location in a program, especially as the result of a conditional statement.
- (transitive) To strip of branches.
- (ambitransitive) To (cause to) divide into separate parts or subdivisions.
- (intransitive) To produce branches.
noun
- a natural consequence of development
- a division of a stem, or secondary stem arising from the main stem of a plant
- a division of some larger or more complex organization
- any projection that is thought to resemble a human arm
- a stream or river connected to a larger one
- a part of a forked or branching shape
- (graph theory) A path of vertices of degree 2, ending at vertices whose degree is not 2.
- An area in business or of knowledge, research.
- (nautical) A certificate given by Trinity House to a pilot qualified to take navigational control of a ship in British waters.
- (computing) A sequence of code that is conditionally executed.
- The woody part of a tree arising from the trunk and usually dividing.
- A line of family descent, in distinction from some other line or lines from the same stock; any descendant in such a line.
- A location of an organization with several locations.
- (chiefly Southern US) A creek or stream which flows into a larger river.
- Any of the parts of something that divides like the branch of a tree.
- (computing) A group of related files in a source control system, including for example source code, build scripts, and media such as images.
- (Mormonism) A local congregation of the LDS Church that is not large enough to form a ward; see Wikipedia article on ward in LDS church.
- (geometry) One of the portions of a curve that extends outwards to an indefinitely great distance.
- (rail transport) A branch line.
verb
- divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork
- make a division or separation
- force, take, or pull apart
- become separated into pieces or fragments
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- treat differently on the basis of sex or race
- mark as different
- go one's own way; move apart
- divide into components or constituents
- move or break apart
- arrange or order by classes or categories
- separate into parts or portions
- act as a barrier between; stand between
- (transitive) To disunite from a group or mass; to disconnect.
- (intransitive) To divide itself into separate pieces or substances.
- (transitive) To cause (things or people) to be separate.
- (transitive) To divide (a thing) into separate parts.
adj
- standing apart; not attached to or supported by anything
- have the connection undone; having become separate
- separated according to race, sex, class, or religion
- independent; not united or joint
- Apart from (the rest); not connected to or attached to (anything else).
- (followed by “from”) Not together (with); not united (to).
noun
- a separately printed article that originally appeared in a larger publication
- a garment that can be purchased separately and worn in combinations with other garments
- (usually in the plural) Anything that is sold by itself, especially articles of clothing such as blouses, skirts, jackets, and pants.
- (bibliography) A printing of an article from a periodical as its own distinct publication and distributed independently, often with different page numbers.
verb
noun
- a wrapped container
- the allotment of some amount by dividing something
- an extended area of land
- a collection of things wrapped or boxed together
- A division of land bought and sold as a unit.
- A portion of anything taken separately; a fragment of a whole; a part.
- An individual consignment of cargo for shipment, regardless of size and form.
- An indiscriminate or indefinite number, measure, or quantity; a collection; a group.
- A package wrapped for shipment.
- A small amount of food that has been wrapped up, for example a pastry.
- An individual item appearing on an invoice or receipt (only in the phrase bill of parcels).
verb
- perform a division
- make a division or separation
- force, take, or pull apart
- move or break apart
- separate into parts or portions
- act as a barrier between; stand between
- To vote, as in the British parliament and other legislatures, by the members separating themselves into two parties (as on opposite sides of the hall or in opposite lobbies), that is, the ayes dividing from the noes.
- (transitive) To share (something) by dividing it.
- (transitive) To split or separate (something) into two or more parts.
- To disunite in opinion or interest; to make discordant or hostile; to set at variance.
- (intransitive, biology) Of a cell, to reproduce by dividing.
- (transitive) To cause (a group of people) to disagree.
- (music) To play or sing in a florid style, or with variations.
- (intransitive) To separate into two or more parts.
- To mark divisions on; to graduate.
- (transitive, arithmetic, with by) To calculate the number (the quotient) by which you must multiply one given number (the divisor) to produce a second given number (the dividend).
- (transitive, arithmetic) To be a divisor of.
noun
- a serious disagreement between two groups of people (typically producing tension or hostility)
- a ridge of land that separates two adjacent river systems
- A distancing between two people or things.
- (hydrology) The topographical boundary dividing two adjacent catchment basins, such as a ridge or a crest.
- (geography) A large chasm, gorge, or ravine between two areas of land.
- A thing that divides.
- An act of dividing.
verb
noun
- a small part or item forming a piece of a whole
- the quotient of two rational numbers
- a component of a mixture that has been separated by a fractional process
- (arithmetic) A ratio of two numbers (numerator and denominator), usually written one above the other and separated by a horizontal bar called the vinculum or, alternatively, in sequence on the same line and separated by a solidus (diagonal bar).
- A small amount.
- (chemistry) A component of a mixture, separated by fractionation.
- (Christianity) In a eucharistic service, the breaking of the host.
- A part of a whole, especially a comparatively small part.
verb
- divide into segments
- To cut, divide or separate into pieces.
- To reduce to the degree of thinness required for study with the microscope.
- (medicine) To perform a cesarean section on (someone).
- (UK, Australia, New Zealand) To commit (a person) to a hospital for mental health treatment as an involuntary patient. So called after various sections of legal acts regarding mental health.
noun
- one of several parts or pieces that fit with others to constitute a whole object
- a division of an orchestra containing all instruments of the same class
- (geometry) the area created by a plane cutting through a solid
- a small team of policemen working as part of a police platoon
- a distinct region or subdivision of a territorial or political area or community or group of people
- a small army unit usually having a special function
- one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole
- a segment of a citrus fruit
- a specialized division of a large organization
- a very thin slice (of tissue or mineral or other substance) for examination under a microscope
- a self-contained part of a larger composition (written or musical)
- a small class of students who are part of a larger course but are taught separately
- the cutting of or into body tissues or organs (especially by a surgeon as part of an operation)
- a land unit equal to 1 square mile
- A part of a document, especially a major part; often notated with §.
- (surgery, colloquial) Ellipsis of Caesarean section.
- (music) A group of instruments in an orchestra.
- (Philippines, education) A class in a school; a group of students in a regularly scheduled meeting with a teacher in a certain school year or semester or school quarter year.
- (geology) A sequence of rock layers.
- (topology) A function that generalizes the notion of the graph of a function; formally, a continuous right inverse to the projection map of a fiber bundle.
- A cross-section (image that shows an object as if cut along a plane).
- (botany) A taxonomic rank below the genus (and subgenus if present), but above the species.
- (zoology) An informal taxonomic rank below the order ranks and above the family ranks.
- An act or instance of cutting.
- (sciences) thin section, a thin slice of material prepared as a specimen for research.
- (generalizing the topology sense in a different way, sheaf theory) An object which is defined by analogy with sections of fiber bundles but in a more general setting (that of sheaves). Formally, an element of the image of an open set under the action of a (pre-)sheaf.
- (New Zealand) A piece of residential land; a plot.
- (military) A group of 10-15 soldiers led by a non-commissioned officer and forming part of a platoon.
- (aviation) A cross-section perpendicular the longitudinal axis of an aircraft in flight.
- (US, Canada, law and land surveying) Synonym of square mile, a unit of land area, especially in the contexts of Canadian surveys and American land grants and legal property descriptions.
- (surgery) An incision or the act of making an incision.
- A part, piece, subdivision of anything.
- The symbol §, denoting a section of a document.
- A cutting; a part cut out from the rest of something.
- (technology) Angle section, L-section, angle iron, steel angle, slotted angle.
- (archaeology) Archeological section; vertical plane and cross-section of the ground to view its profile and stratigraphy; part of an archeological sequence.
- (generalizing the topology sense, algebra, category theory) A right inverse of a morphism in some category
verb
noun
- one of several parts or pieces that fit with others to constitute a whole object
- one of the parts into which something naturally divides
- One of the parts into which any body naturally separates or is divided; a part divided or cut off; a section; a portion.
- (broadcasting) A part of a broadcast program, devoted to a topic.
- (zoology) One of several parts of an organism, with similar structure, arranged in a chain; such as a vertebra, or a third of an insect's thorax.
- (botany) A portion of an organ whose cells are derived from a single cell within the primordium from which the organ developed.
- (computing) A region of memory or a fragment of an executable file designated to contain a particular part of a program.
- A length of some object.
- (travel) A portion of an itinerary: it may be a flight or train between two cities, or a car or hotel booked in a particular city.
- (phonology) A discrete unit of speech: a consonant or a vowel.
- (geometry) The part of a sphere cut off by a plane.
- A straight path between two points that is the shortest distance between them; a line segment.
- (topology) Any of the pieces that constitute an order tree.
- (geometry) The part of a circle between its circumference and a chord (usually other than the diameter).
- (computing) An Ethernet bus.
verb
- divide by two; divide into halves
- (architecture, transitive) To join two pieces of timber etc. by cutting away each for half its thickness at the joining place, and fitting together.
- (transitive) To divide into two halves.
- (transitive) To make up half of.
- (golf, transitive) In match play, to achieve a tie or draw on.
- (transitive) To reduce to half the original amount.
verb
noun
- A branch of a tree, bush, or shrub that extends outward; offshoot.
- An offshoot or outgrowth; something that develops from something else.
- A branch of a path, stream, vessel, duct, etc. that carries whatever travels along the patch, etc away from the main path etc.
- (law) Something that results from a law, ruling, or record, but which is separate from that law, ruling, etc.
- (data structures) One of several edges in a directed graph that has an endpoint in a specified vertex and for which the direction of the edge goes from the specified vertex to another vertex.
- A branch of a business that has been spun off from the parent company.
verb
noun
- (computer science) the part of a hard disk that is dedicated to a particular operating system or application and accessed as a single unit
- a vertical structure that divides or separates (as a wall divides one room from another)
- (anatomy) a structure that separates areas in an organism
- the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart
- A vertical structure that divides a room.
- (mathematics) An approach to division in which one asks what the size of each part is, rather than (as in quotition) how many parts there are.
- The division of a territory into two or more autonomous ones.
- (music) A musical score.
- (databases) A division of a database or one of its constituting elements such as tables into separate independent parts.
- A part divided off by walls; an apartment; a compartment.
- An action which divides a thing into parts, or separates one thing from another.
- (set theory) A collection of non-empty, disjoint subsets of a set whose union is the set itself (i.e. all elements of the set are contained in exactly one of the subsets).
- (computing) A division of a data stream, such as a messaging queue or topic (often representing a unit of parallelism, and of fault tolerance).
- A part of something that has been divided.
- That which divides or separates; that by which different things, or distinct parts of the same thing, are separated; boundary; dividing line or space.
- (computing) A section of a hard disk separately formatted.
- (law) The severance of common or undivided interests, particularly in real estate. It may be effected by consent of parties, or by compulsion of law.
adj
- serving to separate or divide into parts
- indicating or characterized by or serving to create partition or division into parts
- (Romance languages) relating to or denoting a part of a whole or a quantity that is less than the whole
- That divides something into parts.
- (grammar) Indicating a part rather than the whole of something.
noun
adj
- serving to separate or divide into parts
- (of a word) referring singly and without exception to the members of a group
- (used of an accent in Hebrew orthography) indicating that the word marked is separated to a greater or lesser degree rhythmically and grammatically from the word that follows it
- (rare) Tending to keep oneself separate from others.
- Serving to separate.