Fry vs Poach - What's the difference?
fry | poach |
To cook (something) in hot fat.
To cook in hot fat.
(colloquial) To suffer because of too much heat.
(informal) To be executed by the electric chair.
(informal) To destroy (something, usually electronic) with excessive heat, voltage, or current.
(usually in plural'' fries ) (''mainly Canada and US ) A fried potato.
(Ireland, British) A meal of fried sausages, bacon, eggs, etc.
(colloquial, archaic) A state of excitement.
Offspring; progeny; children; brood.
Young fish; fishlings.
* 1644 , (John Milton), Aeropagitica :
(archaic) A swarm, especially of something small (a fry of children ).
The spawn of frogs.
To cook something in simmering water.
* {{quote-book, year=1931, author=
, title=Death Walks in Eastrepps
, chapter=1/1 To be cooked in simmering water
* Francis Bacon
To become soft or muddy.
* Mortimer
To make soft or muddy.
(obsolete) To stab; to pierce; to spear, as fish.
(obsolete) To force, drive, or plunge into anything.
* Sir W. Temple
(obsolete) To begin and not complete.
(intransitive) To take game or fish illegally.
(intransitive) To take anything illegally or unfairly.
(intransitive) To cause an employee or customer to switch from a competing company to your own company.
Poach is a coordinate term of fry.
Poach is a hyponym of fry.
In transitive terms the difference between fry and poach
is that fry is to cook (something) in hot fat while poach is to cook something in simmering water.In intransitive terms the difference between fry and poach
is that fry is to cook in hot fat while poach is to be cooked in simmering water.As a noun fry
is (usually in plural fries) (mainly Canada and US) A fried potato.As a proper noun Fry
is {{surname}.fry
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) frien, from (etyl) frire, from (etyl)Verb
(en-verb)- You'll fry if you go out in this sun with no sunblock on.
- He's guilty of murder — he's going to fry.
- If you apply that much voltage, you'll fry the resistor.
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* fried * frying * have other fish to fryNoun
(fries)- to be in a fry
Synonyms
* (fried potato''): chip (''Australia, New Zealand, UK ), fried potato * (meal of fried sausages, bacon, etc ): fry-upEtymology 2
From (etyl) .Noun
(fries)- it is not possible for man to sever the wheat from the tares, the good fish from the other frie ; that must be the Angels Ministery at the end of mortall things.
Derived terms
* small fry English ergative verbspoach
English
Etymology 1
Verb
(es)citation, passage=Eldridge closed the despatch-case with a snap and, rising briskly, walked down the corridor to his solitary table in the dining-car. Mulligatawny soup, poached turbot, roast leg of lamb—the usual railway dinner.}}
- The white of an egg with spirit of wine, doth bake the egg into clots, as if it began to poach .
- Chalky and clay lands chap in summer, and poach in winter.
- Cattle coming to drink had punched and poached the river bank into a mess of mud.
- (Tennyson)
- (Carew)
- his horse poaching one of his legs into some hollow ground
- (Francis Bacon)