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# frying

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

«frying» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Frying is cooking food in hot oil or fat. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frying/#m1)
2. A frying pan is a flat, shallow pan with a long handle used for frying. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frying/#m2)

### 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frying/#x1)
- The smell of frying bacon filled the house. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frying/#x2)
- Put the frying pan on the stove. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frying/#x3)
- Turn the pan handle inward when frying. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frying/#x4)
- Frying uses more oil than baking. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frying/#x5)
- We went out of the frying pan into the fire when the second storm came. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frying/#x6)
- Hot oil spat out of the frying pan. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frying/#x7)
- ‘No; they are frying pancakes in Europe just now,’ said Little Lasse; and he wanted to jump ashore, but he could not. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frying/#x8)

### 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.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «frying» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frying/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«frying» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/frying.html) on Mova free.