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# tine

«tine» in Mova's school dictionary: **one of the pointed prongs of a fork, rake or garden fork** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a tine, tines)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A tine is one of the pointed prongs of a fork, rake or garden fork. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tine/#m1)

2) A tine is also one of the pointed branches of a deer's antler. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tine/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life it is the "spike" part of a fork. In nature lessons, the number of tines on a stag's antlers can show its age and health roughly. In D and T, a tine is a sharp point on a tool. Phrases: "the tines of a fork", "antler tines".

### examples

- One tine of my fork is bent. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tine/#x1)
- A garden fork has four strong tines. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tine/#x2)
- The stag's antlers had twelve tines. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tine/#x3)
- Push the tines of the rake through the leaves. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tine/#x4)
- Be careful: the tines of a pitchfork are sharp. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tine/#x5)
- The fork's tines left lines in the mashed potato. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tine/#x6)
- Count the tines to see how many points the antlers have. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tine/#x7)

### note

Countable: a tine, tines. Do not confuse with "tin" or "tine" in "tinny". In maths problems, if a fork has 4 tines, 6 forks have 24 tines.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «tine» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tine/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.