Dictionary Definition
Fry
Noun
1 English painter and art critic (1866-1934)
[syn: Roger
Fry, Roger Eliot
Fry]
2 English dramatist noted for his comic verse
dramas (born 1907) [syn: Christopher
Fry]
3 a young person of either sex; "she writes books
for children"; "they're just kids"; "`tiddler' is a British term
for youngsters" [syn: child, kid, youngster, minor, shaver, nipper, small fry,
tiddler, tike, tyke, nestling]
Verb
1 be excessively hot; "If the children stay out
on the beach for another hour, they'll be fried"
2 cook on a hot surface using fat; "fry the
pancakes"
3 kill by electrocution, as in the electric
chair; "The serial killer was electrocuted" [syn: electrocute]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- , /fraɪ/, /fraI/
- Rhymes with: -aɪ
Etymology 1
from Old French frire, from Latin frigere (to roast or fry), Greek phrygein (to roast, bake), from ProtoIndoEuropean *bhreu- (compare Sanskrit bhrjjati (roasts) bharjanah (roasting), German Braten) - ca. 1290Verb
- To cook (something) in hot fat.
- To cook in hot fat.
- intransitive colloquial To suffer because
of too much heat.
- You'll fry if you go out in this sun with no sunblock on.
- intransitive informal To be executed by the electric
chair.
- He's guilty of murder — he's going to fry.
- transitive informal
To destroy
(something-usually electronic) with excessive heat, voltage, or
current.
- If you apply that much voltage, you'll fry the resistor.
Derived terms
Translations
to cook (something) in hot fat
cook in hot fat
suffer because of too much heat
- Finnish: paistua, sulaa
- Swedish: steka
informal: be executed by the electric chair
- Finnish: käristyä
Noun
- (usually in plural fries) (mainly Canada and US) A fried potato.
- In the context of "Ireland|UK": A meal of fried sausages, bacon, eggs, etc.
Synonyms
- (fried potato): chip (Australia, New Zealand, UK), fried potato
- (meal of fried sausages, bacon, etc): fry-up
Translations
fried potato
- Finnish: ranskalaiset perunat
- French: frite
- Greek, Modern: τηγανιτή πατάτα
- Italian: patata fritta
- Polish: frytka
- Telugu: వేపుడు (veapuDu)
meal of fried sausages, bacon, etc
Etymology 2
from Anglo-French. frei, from Old French frai (spawn), from froier (to rub, spawn (by rubbing abdomen on sand))Noun
- Young fish.
Translations
- Finnish: kalanpoikaset, pikkukalat
- Greek: γόνος (ψαριών) , ψαράκια n p
- Swedish: yngel, fiskyngel
Derived terms
Extensive Definition
Fry may refer to the following:
People
Places
- Fry Canyon, Utah
- Fry's Island, in the River Thames
- Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (when F.R.Y. is capitalized)
In cooking
- Frying,
a method of cooking in a pan or pot which may involve immersion in
a fat
- Pan
frying, frying food in a flat pan
- Frying pan, the pan used for this method of cooking
- Stir frying, frying food in a wok and stirring it while it cooks
- Deep-frying, frying food by immersing it in hot oil
- Pan
frying, frying food in a flat pan
- French fries, potatoes cut into batons and deep-fried, or other foods cooked by frying
- Meals or activities in which fried food is served:
- Fish fry, especially in the Southern United States
- Fry-up, chiefly in the United Kingdom
- Ulster fry, in Ulster, Ireland
In entertainment
- Fry and
Laurie, the comedy act of Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie
- A Bit of Fry and Laurie, the television show featuring this act
- Fry Street (album), an album by Five Times August
- Fry Street Fair, an event in Texas, United States
- Frying the Fat, a compilation album released by Grand Central Records
- Philip J. Fry, protagonist of animated series Futurama
Organizations and businesses
- Fry an Spyrys, a group in Cornwall, England, UK calling for the disestablishment of the Church of England
- Fry Art Gallery, in Essex, England
- Fry's
Electronics, a chain of electronics stores located primarily in
the western United States
- Frys.com Open, the golf tournament currently sponsored by Fry's Electronics
- Fry's Food and Drug, a supermarket chain in Arizona, United States, owned by the Kroger Company
- J.
S. Fry & Sons, a former chocolate manufacturer, now a part
of Cadbury Schweppes
- Fry's Chocolate Cream and Fry's Turkish Delight, products first introduced by this company
Other uses
- Fry Readability Formula, a readability metric for English-language texts
- West Frisian language, the ISO 639-2 and ISO 639-3 language codes for which are "FRY"
- Fry, recently-hatched fish which have absorbed their yolk sacs and can hunt and consume live food
- "Frying" is used to describe a psychedelic experience in American slang.
fry in Czech: Fry
fry in German: Fry
fry in Spanish: Fry
fry in French: Fry
fry in Italian: FRY
fry in Hebrew: פריי
fry in Dutch: Fly
fry in Japanese: フライ
fry in Kölsch: FRY (Watt ėßß datt?)
fry in Russian: Фрай
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Loch Ness monster, alevin, bake, barbecue, baste, be in heat, benthon, benthos, blanch, blaze, bloom, boil, braise, brew, broil, brood, brown, burn, casserole, cetacean, choke, clutch, coddle, combust, cook, course, cover, culinary masterpiece,
culinary preparation, curry, devil, dish, do, do to perfection, dolphin, entree, farrow, fingerling, fire, fish, flame, flame up, flare, flare up, flicker, flush, fricassee, frizz, frizzle, game fish, gasp, get, glow, griddle, grill, grilse, hatch, heat, incandesce, kipper, litter, main dish, man-eater,
man-eating shark, marine animal, minnow, minny, nekton, nest, oven-bake, pan, pan-broil, panfish, pant, parboil, parch, plankton, poach, porpoise, prepare, prepare food, radiate
heat, roast, salmon, saute, scald, scallop, scorch, sea monster, sea pig, sea
serpent, sea snake, sear,
seethe, shark, shimmer with heat, shirr, side dish, simmer, smolder, smolt, smother, spark, spat, spawn, sponge, steam, stew, stifle, stir-fry, suffocate, sweat, swelter, toast, tropical fish, whale, young