fried

«fried» in Mova's school dictionary: Fried food has been cooked in hot oil or fat — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (fried); also the past form of «fry» (fry, fries, fried, frying)

meaning for a pupil

1) Fried food has been cooked in hot oil or fat. tree →

2) Fried is the past of «fry»: cooked in hot oil. tree →

3) Informal: fried can mean very tired, or broken by too much heat or electricity («the computer got fried»). tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life and healthy-eating lessons: fried eggs, fried rice, fried chicken; fried foods are tasty but should be eaten only sometimes. Phrases: «fried egg», «fried rice», «deep-fried», «stir-fried».

examples

• I had a fried egg on toast for breakfast. tree →
• Dad fried some onions in the pan. tree →
• Fried chicken is crunchy outside. tree →
• We ate stir-fried vegetables with noodles. tree →
• Too much fried food is not healthy. tree →
• The lightning fried our TV. tree →
• My brain is fried after that test! tree →
• Pinocchio runs the danger of being fried in a pan like a fish tree →

note

Fry changes y to i: fry, fries, fried; but «frying» keeps y. «Deep-fried» = cooked covered in hot oil. Safety: frying oil is very hot; children should not fry without an adult. Not a number word.

In the corpora

• At a night market in Thailand a child your age buys a paper cone of fried crickets the way you might buy chips.
• le pain perdu ("lost bread") is French toast: old bread soaked in egg and milk and fried.

Trees and pragmatics

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