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English noun: Fry | |||
| 1. | Fry (person) English painter and art critic (1866-1934) | ||
| Synonyms | Roger Eliot Fry, Roger Fry | ||
| Instance hypernym | art critic, painter | ||
| Member meronym | Bloomsbury Group | ||
| 2. | Fry (person) English dramatist noted for his comic verse dramas (born 1907) | ||
| Synonyms | Christopher Fry | ||
| Instance hypernym | dramatist, playwright | ||
| 3. | fry (person) a young person of either sex | ||
| Samples | She writes books for children. They're just kids. `tiddler' is a British term for youngster. | ||
| Synonyms | child, kid, minor, nestling, nipper, shaver, small fry, tiddler, tike, tyke, youngster | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | juvenile, juvenile person | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | bairn, bambino, buster, changeling, child prodigy, foster child, foster-child, fosterling, imp, infant prodigy, kiddy, kindergartener, kindergartner, monkey, orphan, peanut, picaninny, piccaninny, pickaninny, poster child, preschooler, rapscallion, rascal, scalawag, scallywag, scamp, silly, sprog, street child, toddler, tot, urchin, waif, wonder child, yearling | ||
| Part holonym | child's body | ||
English verb: fry | |||
| 1. | fry (stative) be excessively hot | ||
| Samples | If the children stay out on the beach for another hour, they'll be fried. | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | heat, heat up, hot up | ||
| 2. | fry (change) cook on a hot surface using fat | ||
| Samples | Fry the pancakes. | ||
| Examples | The chefs fry the vegetables | ||
| Pattern of use | Something ----s. Somebody ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | cook | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | deep-fat-fry, deep-fry, french-fry, frizzle, griddle, pan-fry, saute, stir fry | ||
| Domain category | cookery, cooking, preparation | ||
| 3. | fry (social) kill by electrocution, as in the electric chair | ||
| Samples | The serial killer was electrocuted. | ||
| Examples | They want to fry the prisoners | ||
| Synonyms | electrocute | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s somebody | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | kill | ||
Based on WordNet 3.0 copyright © Princeton University.
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