Fry

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  • intransitive verb. To cook over direct heat in hot oil or fat.
  • intransitive verb. To destroy (electronic circuitry) with excessive heat or current.
  • intransitive verb. To be cooked in a pan over direct heat in hot oil or fat.
  • intransitive verb. To undergo execution in an electric chair.
  • noun. A french fry.
  • noun. A dish of a fried food.
  • noun. A social gathering at which food is fried and eaten.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A recently hatched fish.
  • noun. A young salmon living in fresh water that is older than an alevin and younger than a parr or smolt.
  • noun. A young animal of certain other groups, such as frogs.
  • noun. An individual, especially a young or insignificant person.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. That which is fried; a dish of anything fried.
  • noun. A state of mental ferment or agitation: as, he keeps himself in a constant fry.
  • To dress by heating or roasting with fat in a pan over a fire; cook and prepare for eating in a frying-pan: as, to fry meat or vegetables.
  • Figuratively, to vex; agitate.
  • To heat; parch; render torrid.
  • To be subjected to heat in a pan containing fat over a fire; hence, to suffer a frying effect from great heat; simmer as if in bubbling fat.
  • To ferment, as in the stomach, or, figuratively, in the mind; undergo a seething process.
  • To be agitated; boil.
  • noun. Seed; offspring: especially with reference to human beings.
  • noun. A swarm, as of children or any small animals, now specifically of little fishes; a number of small or insignificant objects: often used in contempt.
  • noun. In particular The young of the salmon or of trout at a certain stage of their development.
  • noun. A kind of sieve.
  • noun. A drain.
  • noun. Any small edible fishes, as those of the family Engraulidæ, the anchovies, and certain fishes of the family Clupeidæ, as the sardines, and of the family Atherinidæ.
  • noun. The roe of fishes, especially that of such fishes as are used for food.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. 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
  • intransitive verb. 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.
  • intransitive verb. To simmer; to boil.
  • intransitive verb. To undergo or cause a disturbing action accompanied with a sensation of heat.
  • intransitive verb. To be agitated; to be greatly moved.
  • noun. The young of any fish.
  • noun. A swarm or crowd, especially of little fishes; young or small things in general.
  • noun. A dish of anything fried.
  • noun. A state of excitement.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Offspring; progeny; children; brood.
  • noun. Young fish; fishlings.
  • noun. A swarm, especially of something small (a fry of children).
  • noun. The spawn of frogs.
  • verb. To cook (something) in hot fat.
  • verb. To cook in hot fat.
  • verb. To suffer because of too much heat.
  • verb. To be executed by the electric chair.
  • verb. To destroy (something, usually electronic) with excessive heat, voltage, or current.
  • noun. (mainly Canada and US) A fried potato.
  • noun. A meal of fried sausages, bacon, eggs, etc.
  • noun. A state of excitement.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. be excessively hot
  • verb. kill by electrocution, as in the electric chair
  • Word Usage
    "The fact that no pictures were taken and that no parts of the fish ever survived the fish fry is telling as well."
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    Ai  Alai  Ally  Bi  Bligh  
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    bacon  bake  biscuit  bread  cheese  
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    fried  fries  frying