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FRY

Pronunciation (US):

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Irregular inflected form: fried   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A young person of either sex

Example:

'tiddler' is a British term for youngster

Synonyms:

child; fry; kid; minor; nestling; nipper; shaver; small fry; tiddler; tike; tyke; youngster

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("fry" is a kind of...):

juvenile; juvenile person (a young person, not fully developed)

Meronyms (parts of "fry"):

child's body (the body of a human child)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fry"):

street child; waif (a homeless child especially one forsaken or orphaned)

urchin (poor and often mischievous city child)

bambino; toddler; tot; yearling (a young child)

sprog (a child)

silly (a word used for misbehaving children)

kindergartener; kindergartner; preschooler (a child who attends a preschool or kindergarten)

poster child (a child afflicted by some disease or deformity whose picture is used on posters to raise money for charitable purposes)

picaninny; piccaninny; pickaninny ((ethnic slur) offensive term for a Black child)

bairn (a child: son or daughter)

buster (a robust child)

changeling (a child secretly exchanged for another in infancy)

child prodigy; infant prodigy; wonder child (a prodigy whose talents are recognized at an early age)

foster-child; foster child; fosterling (a child who is raised by foster parents)

imp; monkey; rapscallion; rascal; scalawag; scallywag; scamp (one who is playfully mischievous)

kiddie; kiddy (informal term for a young child)

orphan (a child who has lost both parents)

peanut (a young child who is small for his age)

Sense 2

Meaning:

English dramatist noted for his comic verse dramas (born 1907)

Synonyms:

Christopher Fry; Fry

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

dramatist; playwright (someone who writes plays)

Sense 3

Meaning:

English painter and art critic (1866-1934)

Synonyms:

Fry; Roger Eliot Fry; Roger Fry

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

art critic (a critic of paintings)

painter (an artist who paints)

Holonyms ("Fry" is a member of...):

Bloomsbury Group (an inner circle of writers and artists and philosophers who lived in or around Bloomsbury early in the 20th century and were noted for their unconventional lifestyles)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cook on a hot surface using fat

Example:

fry the pancakes

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "fry" is one way to...):

cook (transform and make suitable for consumption by heating)

Domain category:

cookery; cooking; preparation (the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "fry"):

frizzle (fry something until it curls and becomes crisp)

deep-fat-fry (fry in deep fat)

griddle (cook on a griddle)

pan-fry (fry in a pan)

deep-fry; french-fry (cook by immersing in fat)

stir fry (fry very quickly over high heat)

saute (fry briefly over high heat)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

The chefs fry the vegetables

Derivation:

frier; fryer (flesh of a medium-sized young chicken suitable for frying)

frying (cooking in fat or oil in a pan or griddle)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Kill by electrocution, as in the electric chair

Example:

The serial killer was electrocuted

Synonyms:

electrocute; fry

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "fry" is one way to...):

kill (cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Sentence example:

They want to fry the prisoners

Sense 3

Meaning:

Be excessively hot

Example:

If the children stay out on the beach for another hour, they'll be fried

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Hypernyms (to "fry" is one way to...):

heat; heat up; hot up (gain heat or get hot)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Credits

 Context examples: 

When bacon is frying they must run away from the fire and cough half an hour in the snow.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Just then a man hailed us from the fire that breakfast was ready, and we were soon seated here and there about the sand over biscuit and fried junk.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The main use of corn oil is in cooking, where its high smoke point makes it a useful frying oil.

(Corn Oil, NCI Thesaurus)

My contribution was canned beef fried with crumbled sea-biscuit and water.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

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.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

A chemical that is formed when meat, poultry, or fish is cooked at high temperatures, such as frying, broiling, and barbecuing.

(HCA, NCI Dictionary)

Because of the high temperatures used, frying, broiling, and barbecuing produce the largest amounts of heterocyclic amines.

(Heterocyclic Amine Carcinogen, NCI Thesaurus)

These are found in vegetable shortenings, some margarines, crackers, cookies, snack foods, and other foods made with or fried in partially hydrogenated oils.

(Dietary Fats, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

Trans fatty acids, or trans fats, are commonly found in fried foods, chips, crackers and baked goods.

(Trans Fat Bans Lessen Health Risks, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

She will be back soon, I think, so fry your cakes, and have everything ready, said Meg, looking over the presents which were collected in a basket and kept under the sofa, ready to be produced at the proper time.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)