fork

fourchette

Petit ustensile à plusieurs pointes pour prendre les aliments ou les maintenir pendant qu’on les coupe.

En anglais simple : 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.

Expressions courantes : knife and fork, dinner fork, with a fork, serving fork

bifurcation, embranchement

Endroit où une route, un chemin ou un autre élément allongé se divise en deux branches.

En anglais simple : 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.

Comment l'utiliser : a fork in something (We stopped at a fork in the trail.)

Synonymes : branch point, junction

Expressions courantes : fork in something, road fork, at the fork

fourche

Pièce qui tient la roue avant d’un vélo ou d’une moto et la fait tourner avec le guidon.

En anglais simple : 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.

Synonymes : front fork

Expressions courantes : front fork, suspension fork, bicycle fork

fourchette

Coup aux échecs où une pièce attaque plusieurs pièces adverses à la fois.

En anglais simple : 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.

Synonymes : double attack

Expressions courantes : knight fork, create a fork, a deadly fork

bifurquer, se diviser

Se séparer en deux ou plusieurs branches ou chemins.

En anglais simple : 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.

Comment l'utiliser : fork into something (The path forks into two narrow trails.)

Synonymes : divide, split, branch

Contraires : merge, join

Expressions courantes : fork left, fork right, fork into something

prendre à la fourchette, déplacer à la fourche

Soulever ou déplacer de la nourriture, du foin ou autre chose avec une fourchette ou une fourche.

En anglais simple : 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.

Comment l'utiliser : fork something into/onto something (She forked the pasta onto a plate.)

Expressions courantes : fork something onto, fork something into, fork hay