单词 | fry |
释义 | fry (once / 447 pages) 1v 2n To fry food is to cook it in very hot oil until it's crispy. For breakfast, you could fry yourself an egg, and maybe fry some bacon to go with it. You can stir fry vegetables and deep fry doughnuts — and you have to be careful on a hot summer day not to (figuratively) fry yourself in the sun. When fry is a noun, it's usually short for "French fry," but it also means youngster, or "small fry." This less common meaning comes from Scottish, possibly from the Old Norse root frjo, "offspring." WORD FAMILYfry: friable, fried, frier, fries, fryer, frying+/friable: friability/fried: frieder, friedly/frier: friers/fries: frieses, friess/fryer: fryers/frying: fryings USAGE EXAMPLESOur new friend invited us to share a lunch buffet of fried chicken, potato salad and sweets. Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016) She recalls visiting one avant garde gallery to discuss her work and as she left, the owner, Rose Fried, called her back. The Guardian(Dec 31, 2016) We also get the chili chicken, sautéed green vegetables and fried rice. New York Times(Dec 31, 2016) 1 1v cook on a hot surface using fat fry the pancakes Hypo|Hyper frizzle fry something until it curls and becomes crisp deep-fat-fryfry in deep fat griddlecook on a griddle pan-fryfry in a pan deep-fry, french-frycook by immersing in fat stir fryfry very quickly over high heat sautefry briefly over high heat cook transform and make suitable for consumption by heating 2v be excessively hot If the children stay out on the beach for another hour, they'll be fried Hyper heat, heat up, hot up gain heat or get hot 3v kill by electrocution, as in the electric chair 2Syn|Hyper electrocute kill cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly n a young person of either sex Syn|Hypo|Hyper child, kid, minor, nestling, nipper, shaver, small fry, tiddler, tike, tyke, youngster bairn a child: son or daughter bustera robust child changelinga child secretly exchanged for another in infancy child prodigy, infant prodigy, wonder childa prodigy whose talents are recognized at an early age foster child, foster-child, fosterlinga child who is raised by foster parents imp, monkey, rapscallion, rascal, scalawag, scallywag, scampone who is playfully mischievous kiddya young child orphana child who has lost both parents peanuta young child who is small for his age poster childa child afflicted by some disease or deformity whose picture is used on posters to raise money for charitable purposes kindergartener, kindergartner, preschoolera child who attends a preschool or kindergarten sillya word used for misbehaving children sproga child bambino, toddler, tot, yearlinga young child urchinpoor and often mischievous city child street child, waifa homeless child especially one forsaken or orphaned foster daughter, foster-daughtersomeone who is raised as a daughter although not related by birth foster son, foster-sonsomeone who is raised as a son although not related by birth poster boya male poster child poster girla female poster child ragamuffin, tatterdemaliona dirty shabbily clothed urchin guttersnipe, street urchina child who spends most of his time in the streets especially in slum areas brat, holy terror, little terror, terrora very troublesome child juvenile, juvenile person a young person, not fully developed Fry (once / 3869 pages) 1n 2n WORD FAMILY Fry: Frys USAGE EXAMPLESThe fast-paced opening sequence of Stephen Fry’s fabulous adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s “Vile Bodies” features a divinely decadent costume party titled “Inferno.” Salon(Dec 31, 2016) She was was famously - and jokingly - referred to by Stephen Fry at the Baftas as a dressing like a "bag lady". BBC(Dec 30, 2016) Fry the broccoli, in small batches until the pieces are a light brown color, 30 seconds to 1 minute. Los Angeles Times(Dec 29, 2016) 1 n English painter and art critic (1866-1934) 2Syn|Exp Roger Eliot Fry, Roger Fry art critic a critic of paintings painteran artist who paints n English dramatist noted for his comic verse dramas (born 1907) Syn|Exp Christopher Fry dramatist, playwright someone who writes plays |
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