fry
part of speech
verb (fry, fries, fried, frying); noun (fry — young fish; fries — chips)
meaning for a pupil
1) To fry food is to cook it in hot oil or fat in a pan. tree →
2) Fries (plural) are long thin pieces of potato cooked in oil, called «chips» in the UK and Ireland. tree →
3) Fry are very young fish just hatched. tree →
4) "Small fry" can also mean unimportant people or things. tree →
sense in the lessons
In everyday life and cooking lessons: fry eggs, bacon, fish; «fish and chips»; «a fry-up» (UK breakfast). In science, fish life cycles go from egg to fry to adult. Phrases: «fry an egg», «French fries», «small fry» (unimportant people), «stir-fry».
examples
- Can you fry an egg for me? tree →
- Mum fried the fish in a little oil. tree →
- I'd like a burger and fries. tree →
- The fry swam in the shallow water. tree →
- Let's make a stir-fry with vegetables. tree →
- Fry the onions until they are soft. tree →
- In the UK, fries are usually called chips. tree →
- Don't worry about him — he's just small fry. tree →
- "No small fry for me," he said. tree →
note
Forms: fry, fries, fried, frying. Fish «fry» is the same in singular and plural: «a thousand fry». Safety: never leave a frying pan alone on the hob; if oil catches fire, never pour water on it — an adult covers it with a lid and turns off the heat. In maths, fries appear in money problems.
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.
- The Otter asks the Mole to fry him some ham, and the Mole sets the hedgehogs to do it.
- A chip pan is a deep pan of hot oil for frying chips, and it can catch fire if it gets too hot.
- des frites are chips (French fries) and des chips are crisps.
- 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 «fry» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.