bifurcar

Phonetic: "/kɔːz/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: (often with of, typically of adverse results) The source of, or reason for, an event or action; that which produces or effects a result.

Example: They identified a burst pipe as the cause of the flooding.

Definition: (especially with for and a bare noun) Sufficient reason for a state, as of emotion.

Example: The end of the war was a cause for celebration.

Definition: A goal, aim or principle, especially one which transcends purely selfish ends.

Definition: Sake; interest; advantage.

Definition: Any subject of discussion or debate; a matter; an affair.

Definition: A suit or action in court; any legal process by which a party endeavors to obtain his claim, or what he regards as his right; case; ground of action.

Phonetic: "/kɔːz/"

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: To set off an event or action.

Example: The lightning caused thunder.

Definition: (ditransitive) To actively produce as a result, by means of force or authority.

Example: His dogged determination caused the fundraising to be successful.

Definition: To assign or show cause; to give a reason; to make excuse.

Phonetic: "/tʉː/"

Part Of Speech: adverb

Definition: Toward a closed, touching or engaging position.

Example: Please push the door to.

Definition: Into the wind.

Phonetic: "/tʉː/"

Part Of Speech: preposition

Definition: Indicating destination: In the direction of, and arriving at.

Example: We are walking to the shop.

Definition: Used to indicate the target or recipient of an action.

Example: He devoted himself to education.

Definition: Used to indicate result of action.

Example: His face was beaten to a pulp.

Definition: Used to indicate a resulting feeling or emotion.

Example: To everyone's great relief, the tuneless carol singers finally ceased their warbling.

Definition: Used after an adjective to indicate its application.

Example: similar to ..., relevant to ..., pertinent to ..., I was nice to him, he was cruel to her, I am used to walking.

Definition: Denotes the end of a range.

Example: It takes 2 to 4 weeks to process typical applications.

Definition: As a.

Example: With God to friend (with God as a friend);   with The Devil to fiend (with the Devil as a foe);   lambs slaughtered to lake (lambs slaughtered as a sacrifice);   took her to wife (took her as a wife);   was sold to slave (was sold as a slave).

Definition: Used to indicate a ratio or comparison.

Example: I have ten dollars to your four.

Definition: Used to indicate that the preceding term is to be raised to the power of the following value; indicates exponentiation.

Example: Three squared or three to the second power is nine.

Definition: (time) Preceding.

Example: ten to ten = 9:50; We're going to leave at ten to (the hour).

Definition: Used to describe what something consists of or contains.

Example: Anyone could do this job; there's nothing to it.

Definition: At.

Example: Stay where you're to and I'll come find you, b'y.

Phonetic: "/fɔːk/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: A pronged tool having a long straight handle, used for digging, lifting, throwing etc.

Definition: A pronged tool for use in the garden; a smaller hand fork for weeding etc., or larger for turning over the soil.

Definition: A gallows.

Definition: A utensil with spikes used to put solid food into the mouth, or to hold food down while cutting.

Definition: A tuning fork.

Definition: An intersection in a road or path where one road is split into two.

Definition: 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.

Definition: A point where a waterway, such as a river, splits and goes two (or more) different directions.

Definition: Used in the names of some river tributaries.

Example: West Fork White River and East Fork White River join together to form the White River of Indiana.

Definition: A point in time where one has to make a decision between two life paths.

Definition: The simultaneous attack of two adversary pieces with one single attacking piece (especially a knight).

Definition: A splitting-up of an existing process into itself and a child process executing parts of the same program.

Definition: The splitting of a software development effort into two or more separate projects, especially in free and open-source software.

Definition: Any of the software projects resulting from such a split.

Example: LibreOffice is a fork of OpenOffice.

Definition: (cryptocurrency, by extension) A split in a blockchain resulting from protocol disagreements, or a branch of the blockchain resulting from such a split.

Definition: The crotch.

Definition: A forklift.

Example: Are you qualified to drive a fork?

Definition: The set of blades of a forklift, on which the goods to be raised are loaded.

Definition: 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.

Example: The fork can be equipped with a suspension on mountain bikes.

Definition: The upper front brow of a saddle bow, connected in the tree by the two saddle bars to the cantle on the other end.

Phonetic: "/fɔːk/"

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: To divide into two or more branches.

Example: A road, a tree, or a stream forks.

Definition: To move with a fork (as hay or food).

Definition: To spawn a new child process in some sense duplicating the existing process.

Definition: To split a (software) project into several projects.

Definition: To split a (software) distributed version control repository

Definition: To kick someone in the crotch.

Definition: To shoot into blades, as corn does.

Phonetic: "/fɔːk/"

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: To have sexual intercourse, to copulate.

Example: Fighting for peace is like fucking for virginity.

Definition: To have sexual intercourse with.

Definition: To insert one’s penis, a dildo or other phallic object, into a specified orifice or cleft.

Definition: To put in an extremely difficult or impossible situation.

Example: I'm afraid they're gonna fuck you on this one.

Definition: To defraud, deface or otherwise treat badly.

Example: I got fucked at the used car lot.

Definition: Used to express great displeasure with someone or something.

Example: Fuck those jerks, and fuck their stupid rules!

Definition: (usually followed by up) To break, to destroy.

Definition: To make a joke at one's expense; to make fun of in an embarrassing manner.

Definition: To throw, to lob something. (angrily)

Example: He fucked the dirty cloth out the window.

Definition: To scold

Example: The sergeant fucked me upside down.

Phonetic: "/ɔːf/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: (usually in phrases such as 'from the off', 'at the off', etc.) Beginning; starting point.

Example: He has been very obviously an untrustworthy narrator right from the off.

Phonetic: "/ɔːf/"

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: To kill.

Example: He got in the way so I had him offed.

Definition: To switch off.

Example: Can you off the light?

Phonetic: "/ɔːf/"

Part Of Speech: adjective

Definition: Inoperative, disabled.

Example: All the lights are off.

Definition: Cancelled; not happening.

Example: The party's off because the hostess is sick.

Definition: Not fitted; not being worn.

Example: The drink spilled out of the bottle because the top was off.

Definition: Rancid, rotten, gone bad.

Example: This milk is off!

Definition: Less than normal, in temperament or in result.

Example: sales are off this quarter

Definition: Inappropriate; untoward.

Example: I felt that his comments were a bit off.

Definition: (in phrases such as 'well off', 'better off', 'poorly off') Circumstanced.

Definition: Started on the way.

Example: And they're off! Whatsmyname takes an early lead, with Remember The Mane behind by a nose.

Definition: Far; off to the side.

Example: He took me down the corridor and into an off room.

Definition: Designating a time when one is not strictly attentive to business or affairs, or is absent from a post, and, hence, a time when affairs are not urgent.

Example: He took an off day for fishing.  an off year in politics; the off season

Definition: (in phrases such as 'off day') Designating a time when one is not performing to the best of one's abilities.

Definition: (of a dish on a menu) Presently unavailable.

Example: — I'll have the chicken please.

Definition: (in relation to a vehicle) On the side furthest from the kerb (the right-hand side if one drives on the left).

Example: The off front wheel came loose.

Definition: In, or towards the half of the field away from the batsman's legs; the right side for a right-handed batsman.

Phonetic: "/ɔːf/"

Part Of Speech: adverb

Definition: In a direction away from the speaker or object.

Example: He drove off in a cloud of smoke.

Definition: Into a state of non-operation or non-existence.

Example: Please switch off the light when you leave.

Definition: So as to remove or separate, or be removed or separated.

Example: He bit off the end of the carrot.

Definition: Used in various other ways specific to individual idiomatic phrases, e.g. bring off, show off, put off, tell off, etc. See the entry for the individual phrase.

Phonetic: "/ɔːf/"

Part Of Speech: preposition

Definition: Not positioned upon; away from a position upon.

Example: He's off the roof now.

Definition: Detached, separated, excluded or disconnected from; away from a position of attachment or connection to.

Example: He was thrown off the team for cheating.

Definition: Used to indicate the location or direction of one thing relative to another, implying adjacency or accessibility via.

Example: His office is off this corridor on the right.

Definition: Used to express location at sea relative to land or mainland.

Example: The island is 23 miles off the cape.

Definition: Removed or subtracted from.

Example: There's 20% off the list price.

Definition: No longer wanting or taking.

Example: He's been off his feed since Tuesday.

Definition: (more properly 'from') Out of the possession of.

Example: He didn't buy it off him. He stole it off him.

Definition: Placed after a number (of products or parts, as if a unit), in commerce or engineering.

Example: I'd like to re-order those printer cartridges, let's say 5-off.