foot vs fork

foot

verb
  • To use the foot to kick (usually a ball). 

  • To sum up, as the numbers in a column; sometimes with up. 

  • To tread to measure of music; to dance; to trip; to skip. 

  • To walk. 

  • To renew the foot of (a stocking, etc.). 

  • To pay (a bill). 

noun
  • The part of a flat surface on which the feet customarily rest. 

  • The basic measure of rhythm in a poem. 

  • Travel by walking. 

  • The end of a rectangular table opposite the head. 

  • In a bryophyte, that portion of a sporophyte which remains embedded within and attached to the parent gametophyte plant. 

  • The part of a sewing machine which presses downward on the fabric, and may also serve to move it forward. 

  • The bottom edge of a sail. 

  • A unit of measure equal to twelve inches or one third of a yard, equal to exactly 30.48 centimetres. 

  • The base of a piece of type, forming the sides of the groove. 

  • A short foot-like projection on the bottom of an object to support it. 

  • A biological structure found in many animals that is used for locomotion and that is frequently a separate organ at the terminal part of the leg. 

  • A unit of measure for organ pipes equal to the wavelength of two octaves above middle C, approximately 328 mm. 

  • The bottommost part of a typed or printed page. 

  • Specifically, a human foot, which is found below the ankle and is used for standing and walking. 

  • The base or bottom of anything. 

  • The parsing of syllables into prosodic constituents, which are used to determine the placement of stress in languages along with the notions of constituent heads. 

  • The globular lower domain of a protein. 

  • The muscular part of a bivalve mollusc or a gastropod by which it moves or holds its position on a surface. 

  • Fundamental principle; basis; plan. 

  • The point of intersection of one line with another that is perpendicular to it. 

  • Foot soldiers; infantry. 

  • Recognized condition; rank; footing. 

  • The end of a cigar which is lit, and usually cut before lighting. 

  • The end of a billiard or pool table behind the foot point where the balls are racked. 

fork

verb
  • To kick someone in the crotch. 

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

  • To launch a separate software development effort based upon a modified copy of an existing software project, especially in free and open-source software. 

  • To create a copy of a distributed version control repository. 

  • To spawn a new child process by duplicating the existing process. 

  • To divide into two or more branches or copies. 

  • To bale a shaft dry. 

  • To shoot into blades, as corn does. 

noun
  • 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. 

  • Such a pronged tool having a long straight handle, generally for two-handed use, as used for digging, lifting, mucking, pitching, etc. 

  • Either of the (figurative) paths thus taken. 

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

  • The crotch. 

  • A tuning fork. 

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

  • Any of the pieces/versions (of software, content, or data sets) thus created. 

  • A point where a waterway, such as a river or other stream, splits and flows into two (or more) different directions. 

  • Any of several types of pronged tools for use on farms, in fields, or in the garden or lawn, such as a smaller hand fork for weeding or a larger one for turning over the soil. 

  • A decision point. 

  • The bottom of a sump into which the water of a mine drains. 

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

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

  • The launch of one or more separate software development efforts based upon a modified copy of an existing project, especially in free and open-source software. 

  • Any of the software projects resulting from the launch of such separate software development efforts based upon a copy of the original project. 

  • The splitting of the coverage of a topic (within a corpus of content) into two or more pieces. 

  • Any of the pieces/versions of content thus created. 

  • A split in a blockchain resulting from protocol disagreements, or a branch of the blockchain resulting from such a split. 

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

  • 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. 

  • A forklift. 

  • Either of the blades of a forklift (or, in plural, the set of blades), on which the goods to be raised are loaded. 

How often have the words foot and fork occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )