Broiled vs Fried - What's the difference?
broiled | fried |
(broil)
To cook by direct, radiant heat.
To expose to great heat.
To be exposed to great heat.
(archaic) A brawl; a rowdy disturbance.
* 1819 , , Otho the Great , Act I, verses 1-2
* Burke
* 1840 , Robert Chambers, ?William Chambers, Chambers's Edinburgh Journal (volume 8, page 382)
(fry)
Cooked by frying.
(specifically, of an egg) Being fried with the yolk unbroken.
(colloquial, of computer equipment) Broken as a result of excessive heat or an electrical surge.
(slang) stoned; under the influence of drugs
As verbs the difference between broiled and fried
is that broiled is past tense of broil while fried is past tense of fry.As an adjective fried is
cooked by frying.broiled
English
Verb
(head)broil
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) broillen, . (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- So, I am safe emerged from these broils ! / Amid the wreck of thousands I am whole
- I will own that there is a haughtiness and fierceness in human nature which will which will cause innumerable broils , place men in what situation you please.
- Since the provinces declared their independence, broils and squabblings of one sort and another have greatly retarded the advancement which they might otherwise have made.
Anagrams
*fried
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- He always ate his eggs fried , never scrambled.
- It looks like your motherboard is fried .
- ''Man, I got totally fried on weed at Chad's party.'
