Angular and Forked

adjective

• Measured by an angle or by the rate of change of an angle.
  • usage: "angular momentum"
• Having angles or an angular shape.
  • synonyms: angulate

• (n.) A bone in the base of the lower jaw of many birds, reptiles, and fishes.
• (a.) Relating to an angle or to angles; having an angle or angles; forming an angle or corner; sharp-cornered; pointed; as, an angular figure.
• (a.) Fig.: Lean; lank; raw-boned; ungraceful; sharp and stiff in character; as, remarkably angular in his habits and appearance; an angular female.
• (a.) Measured by an angle; as, angular distance.

verb

• Lift with a pitchfork.
  • usage: "pitchfork hay"
  • synonyms: pitchfork, fork
• Place under attack with one's own pieces, of two enemy pieces.
  • synonyms: fork
• Divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork.
  • usage: "The road forks"
  • synonyms: branch, ramify, fork, furcate, separate
• Shape like a fork.
  • usage: "She forked her fingers"
  • synonyms: fork

adjective

• Resembling a fork; divided or separated into two branches.
  • usage: "the biramous appendages of an arthropod"; "long branched hairs on its legson which pollen collects"; "a forked river"; "a forked tail"; "forked lightning"; "horseradish grown in poor soil may develop prongy roots"
  • synonyms: bifurcate, biramous, branched, fork-like, forficate, pronged, prongy
• Having two meanings with intent to deceive.
  • usage: "a sly double meaning"; "spoke with forked tongue"
  • synonyms: double

• (a.) Having a double meaning; ambiguous; equivocal.
• (a.) Formed into a forklike shape; having a fork; dividing into two or more prongs or branches; furcated; bifurcated; zigzag; as, the forked lighting.
• (imp.&p.p.) of Fork.