Centralization and Fork

noun

• The act of consolidating power under a central control.
  • synonyms: centralisation
• Gathering to a center.
  • synonyms: centralisation

(n.) The act or process of centralizing or the state of being centralized; the act or process of combining or reducing several parts into a whole; as, the centralization of power in the general government; the centralization of commerce in a city.

noun

• Cutlery used for serving and eating food.
• The act of branching out or dividing into branches.
  • synonyms: branching, ramification, forking
• The region of the angle formed by the junction of two branches.
  • usage: "they took the south fork"; "he climbed into the crotch of a tree"
  • synonyms: crotch
• An agricultural tool used for lifting or digging; has a handle and metal prongs.
• The angle formed by the inner sides of the legs where they join the human trunk.
  • synonyms: crotch

verb

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

• (v.i.) To divide into two or more branches; as, a road, a tree or a stream forks.
• (n.) 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.
• (n.) An instrument consisting of a handle with a shank terminating in two or more prongs or tines, which are usually of metal, parallel and slightly curved; -- used from piercing, holding, taking up or pitching anything.
• (n.) The place where a division or a union occurs; the angle or opening between two branches or limbs; as, the fork of a river, a tree or a road.
• (v.i.) To shoot into blades, as corn.
• (n.) The gibbet.
• (n.) Anything furcate or like a fork in shape or furcate at the extremity; as, a tuning fork.
• (v.t.) To raise or pitch with a fork, as hay; to dig or turn over with a fork, as the soil.