frying

«frying» in Mova's school dictionary: cooking food 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

verb, the -ing form of «fry» (fry, fries, fried, frying); adjective (frying, as in «frying pan»)

meaning for a pupil

1) Frying is cooking food in hot oil or fat. tree →

2) A frying pan is a flat, shallow pan with a long handle used for frying. tree →

sense in the lessons

In cooking and safety lessons, frying needs an adult; hot oil can spit and burn. In everyday life: «Dad is frying sausages». The saying «out of the frying pan into the fire» means escaping one problem only to land in a worse one. Phrases: «frying pan», «out of the frying pan into the fire».

examples

• Dad is frying sausages for breakfast. tree →
• The smell of frying bacon filled the house. tree →
• Put the frying pan on the stove. tree →
• Turn the pan handle inward when frying. tree →
• Frying uses more oil than baking. tree →
• We went out of the frying pan into the fire when the second storm came. tree →
• Hot oil spat out of the frying pan. tree →
• ‘No; they are frying pancakes in Europe just now,’ said Little Lasse; and he wanted to jump ashore, but he could not. tree →

note

Keeps «y» before -ing: «frying», not «friing». Safety: turn pan handles inwards so nobody knocks them; stand back from spitting oil; never put water on burning oil. Also called a «skillet» or «fry pan» in the USA. Not a number word.

In the corpora

• The non-stick coating on frying pans is a slippery plastic that food cannot grip; it was discovered by accident in 1938.
• A chip pan is a deep pan of hot oil for frying chips, and it can catch fire if it gets too hot.

Trees and pragmatics

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