Fork and Intersection

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.

noun

• A point where lines intersect.
  • synonyms: intersection point, point of intersection
• A junction where one street or road crosses another.
  • synonyms: crossroad, crossway, crossing, carrefour
• A point or set of points common to two or more geometric configurations.
• The set of elements common to two or more sets.
  • usage: "the set of red hats is the intersection of the set of hats and the set of red things"
  • synonyms: product, Cartesian product
• A representation of common ground between theories or phenomena.
  • usage: "there was no overlap between their proposals"
  • synonyms: overlap, convergence
• The act of intersecting (as joining by causing your path to intersect your target's path. ).

• (n.) The act, state or place of intersecting.
• (n.) The point or line in which one line or surface cuts another.