curry

«curry» in Mova's school dictionary: a dish of meat, fish or vegetables cooked in a spicy… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (curry, a curry, curries); verb (curry, curries, curried, currying)

meaning for a pupil

1) A curry is a dish of meat, fish or vegetables cooked in a spicy sauce, often eaten with rice or bread; it comes from South Asian cooking. tree →

2) Curry powder is a mixture of spices used to make such dishes. tree →

3) To curry favour means to try to make someone like you by flattering them or doing things for them. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life curry is a favourite family meal and takeaway in the UK, Ireland, Australia and other countries; it can be mild or very hot. In food lessons it shows how spices from different cultures are used. Phrases: chicken curry, vegetable curry, a mild curry, a hot curry, curry powder, curry favour with.

examples

• We had chicken curry and rice for dinner. tree →
• This curry is too hot for me! tree →
• Dad makes a mild vegetable curry. tree →
• Add a spoonful of curry powder. tree →
• On Friday we got a curry from the takeaway. tree →
• He tried to curry favour with the teacher by bringing her apples. tree →
• Curries often contain cumin, turmeric and chilli. tree →
• There he saw his seven daughters carefully washing the rice and preparing the curry, and as each dish was completed, they put it by the fire ready to be cooked. tree →

note

Countable for dishes (two curries), uncountable for the food in general (I love curry). Plural curries (y becomes ies). «Hot» about curry means spicy, not just high in temperature.

In the corpora

• Yellow turmeric turns reddish-brown with an alkali, so a curry stain can turn red when washed with soap.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «curry» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.