{
    "term": "fork",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a2",
    "image": "data/images/cu/cutlery.png",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a tool with a handle and three or four sharp points (called prongs), used for picking up and eating food",
            "sensetop": "with a fork",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "to eat with a **knife and fork**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Mash the mixture with a fork.",
                    "contextForm": "with a fork"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He put the knives and forks on the table."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She impaled a piece of meat on her fork."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Cooking and eating"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["toasting", "salad", "plastic"],
                "verb + fork": ["pick up", "put down", "use"],
                "preposition": ["on a/​the fork", "with a fork"],
                "phrases": ["a knife and fork"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "a garden tool with a long or short handle and three or four sharp metal points, used for digging",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [],
            "topics": ["Gardens"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "a place where a road, river, etc. divides into two parts; either of these two parts",
            "sensetop": "fork in something",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Take the right fork."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Shortly before dusk they reached a fork and took the left-hand track."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Bear left at the fork in the road.",
                    "contextForm": "fork in something"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Geography", "Transport by car or lorry"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["left", "right"],
                "verb + fork": ["take"],
                "preposition": ["at a/​the fork", "in fork", "fork in"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "a thing that is like a fork in shape, with two or more long parts",
            "sensetop": "fork (of something)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a jagged fork of lightning"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a monkey sitting in the fork of the tree"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 5,
            "definition": "either of two metal supporting pieces into which a wheel on a bicycle or motorcycle is fitted",
            "examples": []
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/fɔːk/",
                "audio": "fo/fork/fork__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/fɔːrk/",
                "audio": "fo/fork/fork__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Old English forca, force (denoting a farm implement), based on Latin furca ‘pitchfork, forked stick’; reinforced in Middle English by Anglo-Norman French furke (also from Latin furca)."
}