Fry vs Steam - What's the difference?
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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.
The vapor formed when water changes from liquid phase to gas phase.
Pressurized water vapour used for heating, cooking, or to provide mechanical energy.
(figuratively) Internal energy for motive power.
(figuratively) Pent-up anger.
A steam-powered vehicle.
Travel by means of a steam-powered vehicle.
(obsolete) Any exhalation.
* Milton
(cooking) To cook with steam.
To expose to the action of steam; to apply steam to for softening, dressing, or preparing.
To produce or vent steam.
* Dryden
To rise in vapour; to issue, or pass off, as vapour.
* Boyle
(figuratively) To become angry; to fume; to be incensed.
(figuratively) To make angry.
To be covered with condensed water vapor.
To travel by means of steam power.
* N. P. Willis
(figuratively, or, literally) To move with great or excessive purposefulness.
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(obsolete) To exhale.
Old-fashioned; from before the digital age.
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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 verbssteam
English
(wikipedia steam)Noun
(-)- After three weeks in bed he was finally able to sit up under his own steam .
- Dad had to go outside to blow off some steam .
- a steam of rich, distilled perfumes
Synonyms
* (a steam-powered vehicle) steamerDerived terms
* blow off steam * build up steam * steam bath * steamboat * steam boiler * steam condenser * steam distillation * steam engine * steam hammer * steam heater * steam iron * steam locomotive * steam power * steam-powered * steam railroad * steamroller * steamship * steam shovel * steam train * steam turbine * run out of steam * under one's own steamVerb
(en verb)- to steam wood or cloth
- My brother's ghost hangs hovering there, / O'er his warm blood, that steams into the air.
- The dissolved amber steamed away into the air.
- It really steams me to see her treat him like that.
- With all the heavy breathing going on the windows were quickly steamed in the car.
- We steamed around the Mediterranean.
- The vessel steamed out of port.
- If he heard of anyone picking the fruit he would steam off and lecture them.
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