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# frying

«frying» in Mova's school dictionary: **cooking food in hot oil or fat** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

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

### meaning for a pupil

1) Frying is cooking food in hot oil or fat. [tree →](https://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frying/#m2)

### sense 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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frying/#x1)
- The smell of frying bacon filled the house. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frying/#x2)
- Put the frying pan on the stove. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frying/#x3)
- Turn the pan handle inward when frying. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frying/#x4)
- Frying uses more oil than baking. [tree →](https://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frying/#x6)
- Hot oil spat out of the frying pan. [tree →](https://md.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://md.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.

### In the corpora

- [The non-stick coating on frying pans is a slippery plastic that food cannot grip; it was discovered by accident in 1938.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/29-plastics-useful-stubborn/14/)
- [A chip pan is a deep pan of hot oil for frying chips, and it can catch fire if it gets too hot.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/105-knives-kitchen-tools-and-cooking/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «frying» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frying/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.