Main Difference
The main difference between Spoon and Fork is that the Spoon is a utensil consisting of a small shallow bowl, oval or round, at the end of a handle and Fork is a piece of cutlery or kitchenware with two or more tines
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Spoon
A spoon is a utensil consisting of a small shallow bowl (also known as a head), oval or round, at the end of a handle. A type of cutlery (sometimes called flatware in the United States), especially as part of a place setting, it is used primarily for serving. Spoons are also used in food preparation to measure, mix, stir and toss ingredients. Present day spoons are made from metal (notably flat silver or silverware, plated or solid), wood, porcelain or plastic. There are a wide variety of spoons that are made of variety of materials and by different cultures for many different uses and foods.
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Fork
In cutlery or kitchenware, a fork (from the Latin furca (“pitchfork”)) is a utensil, now usually made of metal, whose long handle terminates in a head that branches into several narrow and often slightly curved tines with which one can spear foods either to hold them to cut with a knife or to lift them to the mouth.
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Spoon (noun)
An implement for eating or serving; a scooped utensil whose long handle is straight, in contrast to a ladle.
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Spoon (noun)
An implement for stirring food while being prepared; a wooden spoon.
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Spoon (noun)
A measure that will fit into a spoon; a spoonful.
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Spoon (noun)
A wooden-headed golf club with moderate loft, similar to the modern three wood.
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Spoon (noun)
An oar.
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Spoon (noun)
A type of metal lure resembling the concave head of a table spoon.
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Spoon (noun)
A spoon excavator.
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Spoon (noun)
A simpleton, a spooney.
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Spoon (noun)
A safety handle on a hand grenade, a trigger.
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Spoon (verb)
To serve using a spoon.
“Sarah spooned some apple sauce onto her plate.”
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Spoon (verb)
To flirt; to make advances; to court, to interact romantically or amorously.
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Spoon (verb)
To lie nestled front-to-back, following the contours of the bodies, in a manner reminiscent of stacked spoons.
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Spoon (verb)
To hit (the ball) weakly, pushing it with a lifting motion, instead of striking with an audible knock.
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Spoon (verb)
To fish with a concave spoon bait.
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Spoon (verb)
To catch by fishing with a concave spoon bait.
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Spoon (verb)
alternative form of spoom
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Fork (noun)
A pronged tool having a long straight handle, used for digging, lifting, throwing etc.
“pitchfork”
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Fork (noun)
A pronged tool for use in the garden; a smaller hand fork for weeding etc., or larger for turning over the soil.
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Fork (noun)
A gallows.
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Fork (noun)
A utensil with spikes used to put solid food into the mouth, or to hold food down while cutting.
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Fork (noun)
A tuning fork.
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Fork (noun)
An intersection in a road or path where one road is split into two.
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Fork (noun)
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.
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Fork (noun)
A point where a waterway, such as a river, splits and goes two (or more) different directions.
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Fork (noun)
Used in the names of some river tributaries, e.g. West Fork White River and East Fork White River, joining together to form the White River of Indiana
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Fork (noun)
A point in time where one has to make a decision between two life paths.
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Fork (noun)
The simultaneous attack of two adversary pieces with one single attacking piece (especially a knight).
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Fork (noun)
A splitting-up of an existing executing parts of the same program.
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Fork (noun)
An event where development of some free software or open-source software is split into two or more separate projects.
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Fork (noun)
The, or one of the, software project(s) that underwent changes in such an event; a software project split off from a main project.
“LibreOffice is a fork of OpenOffice.”
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Fork (noun)
A split in a blockchain resulting from protocol disagreements, or a branch of the blockchain resulting from such a split.
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Fork (noun)
Crotch.
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Fork (noun)
A forklift.
“Are you qualified to drive a fork?”
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Fork (noun)
The individual blades of a forklift.
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Fork (noun)
In a bicycle, the portion of the frameset holding the front wheel, allowing the rider to steer and balance.
“The fork can be equipped with a suspension on mountain bikes.”
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Fork (verb)
To divide into two or more branches.
“A road, a tree, or a stream forks.”
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Fork (verb)
To move with a fork (as hay or food).
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Fork (verb)
To duplicating the existing process.
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Fork (verb)
To split a (software) project into several projects.
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Fork (verb)
To split a (software) distributed version control repository
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Fork (verb)
To kick someone in the crotch.
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Fork (verb)
To shoot into blades, as corn does.