sizzle

«sizzle» in Mova's school dictionary: To make a hissing, spitting sound like food frying in hot… — 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

verb (sizzle, sizzles, sizzled, sizzling); noun (a sizzle)

meaning for a pupil

1) To make a hissing, spitting sound like food frying in hot fat: The sausages sizzled in the pan. tree →

2) (informal) To be very hot: a sizzling summer day. tree →

3) (informal) To be exciting or full of energy: a sizzling performance. tree →

4) (noun) The sound of sizzling. tree →

sense in the lessons

In stories and cooking, sizzle is a sound word (onomatopoeia) that helps readers hear the scene. In safety: hot oil that sizzles can spit and burn, so keep back. In weather talk, «a sizzling 35 degrees» means very hot. In marketing, «sizzle» means excitement. Phrases: «sizzling hot», «sizzle in the pan», «all sizzle and no steak» (all show, no substance).

examples

• The bacon sizzled in the frying pan. tree →
• Stand back — the oil is sizzling! tree →
• It was a sizzling hot day at the beach. tree →
• I love the sizzle of sausages on a barbecue. tree →
• The dancers gave a sizzling show. tree →
• Water drops sizzled on the hot stove. tree →
• That advert is all sizzle and no steak. tree →
• In the middle of it, a pan full of oil sizzled over a smoky fire, sending out a repelling odor of tallow that took away one’s breath. tree →

note

Regular verb: sizzled (drop the e). Onomatopoeia: the word sounds like its meaning. Adjective: sizzling.

In the corpora

• Onomatopoeia means words that sound like their meaning, like crash, bang, buzz and sizzle.

Trees and pragmatics

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