Fry
[fraɪ]
Definition
(noun.) English dramatist noted for his comic verse dramas (born 1907).
(noun.) English painter and art critic (1866-1934).
(verb.) cook on a hot surface using fat; 'fry the pancakes'.
(verb.) be excessively hot; 'If the children stay out on the beach for another hour, they'll be fried'.
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Definition
(v. t.) To cook in a pan or on a griddle (esp. with the use of fat, butter, or olive oil) by heating over a fire; to cook in boiling lard or fat; as, to fry fish; to fry doughnuts.
(v. i.) To undergo the process of frying; to be subject to the action of heat in a frying pan, or on a griddle, or in a kettle of hot fat.
(v. i.) To simmer; to boil.
(v. i.) To undergo or cause a disturbing action accompanied with a sensation of heat.
(v. i.) To be agitated; to be greatly moved.
(n.) The young of any fish.
(n.) A swarm or crowd, especially of little fishes; young or small things in general.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Small fishes, swarm of little fishes, small fry.
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Definition
n. a swarm of fishes just spawned: a number of small things.—Small fry small things collectively persons or things of little importance.
v.t. to dress food with oil or fat in a pan over the fire: to vex.—v.i. to undergo the action of heat in a frying-pan: to simmer: (Spens.) to boil:—pr.p. fry′ing; pa.p. fried.—n. a dish of anything fried.—n. Fry′ing-pan a flat iron vessel or pan for frying with.—Out of the frying-pan into the fire out of one evil or danger merely to fall into a greater.
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Examples
- The sea has no appreciation of great men, but knocks them about like the small fry. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- By folk the good ladies of course mean themselves, for indeed they are kept in a continual fry by this system of mutual invasion. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The theory advanced by Mr. Fry of England that a temperature of 122 deg. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Many hundreds of fishes have, in all their varieties, been robbed of life for my repast, and of the smaller fry as many thousands. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Take her into thy bed-room, there, and let me fry the chicken while thee does it. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The big fish of the sea eat the little fish, the little fish the small fry, and these in turn live upon worms and animalcula, and so on all the way down to protoplasm. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Your uncle will not return yet; he has other fish to fry. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- As Fries has well remarked, little groups of species are generally clustered like satellites around other species. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- By the bye, I must mind not to rise on your hearth with only a glass of water then: I must bring an egg at the least, to say nothing of fried ham. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I want some eggs fried too. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- It was potatoes and things that are fried. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- At my own house I had turtle cutlets fried; they were perfectly good, and tasted like turtle. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- He took us to a common village pot-house, where nothing could be put on the table besides fried eggs and bacon. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Quite an elegant dish of fish; the kidney-end of a loin of veal, roasted; fried sausage-meat; a partridge, and a pudding. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Hot mutton chops, fried chicken, omelettes, fried potatoes and coffee --all excellent. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Mrs. Sparsit sat in her afternoon apartment at the Bank, on the shadier side of the frying street. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- I am not going to guess, at five o'clock in the morning, with my brains frying and sputtering in my head. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- The whole town seemed to be frying in oil. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Firkin rushed downstairs to Bowls who was reading out the Fire and the Frying Pan to his aide-de-camp in a loud and ghostly voice. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- You must rub the place with the fat of other adders, and the only way to get that is by frying them. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Or would you rather smell frying bacon in the morning when you are hungry? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- But I had been formerly a great lover of fish, and when it came out of the frying-pan it smelled admirably well. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
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