Fry vs Stir - What's the difference?
fry | stir |
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 change the place of in any manner; to move.
*(rfdate), (Sir William Temple)
*:My foot I had never yet in five days been able to stir .
(lb) To disturb the relative position of the particles of, as of a liquid, by passing something through it; to agitate.
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*(rfdate), (William Shakespeare)
*:My mind is troubled, like a fountain stirred .
(lb) To agitate the content of (a container) by passing something through it.
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(lb) To bring into debate; to agitate; to moot.
*(rfdate), (Francis Bacon)
*:Stir not questions of jurisdiction.
(lb) To incite to action; to arouse; to instigate; to prompt; to excite.
*(rfdate) (Chaucer)
*:To stir men to devotion.
*(rfdate), (William Shakespeare)
*:An Ate, stirring him to blood and strife.
*(rfdate), (John Dryden)
*:And for her sake some mutiny will stir .
*1922 , (Margery Williams), (The Velveteen Rabbit)
*:That night he was almost too happy to sleep, and so much love stirred in his little sawdust heart that it almost burst.
(lb) To move; to change one’s position.
*(rfdate) (Byron)
*:I had not power to stir or strive, But felt that I was still alive.
(lb) To be in motion; to be active or bustling; to exert or busy oneself.
*(rfdate) (Byron)
*:All are not fit with them to stir and toil.
*(rfdate) (Charles Merivale)
*:The friends of the unfortunate exile, far from resenting his unjust suspicions, were stirring anxiously in his behalf.
(lb) To become the object of notice; to be on foot.
*(rfdate), (Isaac Watts)
*:They fancy they have a right to talk freely upon everything that stirs or appears.
To rise, or be up and about, in the morning.
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*:"Mid-Lent, and the Enemy grins," remarked Selwyn as he started for church with Nina and the children. Austin, knee-deep in a dozen Sunday supplements, refused to stir ; poor little Eileen was now convalescent from grippe, but still unsteady on her legs; her maid had taken the grippe, and now moaned all day: "Mon dieu! Mon dieu! Che fais mourir! "
The act or result of stirring; agitation; tumult; bustle; noise or various movements.
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Public disturbance or commotion; tumultuous disorder; seditious uproar.
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Agitation of thoughts; conflicting passions.
(lb) Jail; prison.
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*:The Bat—they called him the Bat.. He'd never been in stir , the bulls had never mugged him, he didn't run with a mob, he played a lone hand, and fenced his stuff so that even the fence couldn't swear he knew his face. Most lone wolves had a moll at any rate—women were their ruin—but if the Bat had a moll, not even the grapevine telegraph could locate her.
In transitive terms the difference between fry and stir
is that fry is to cook (something) in hot fat while stir is to incite to action; to arouse; to instigate; to prompt; to excite.In intransitive terms the difference between fry and stir
is that fry is to cook in hot fat while stir is to become the object of notice; to be on foot.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 verbsstir
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) stiren, from (etyl) styrian, from (etyl) .Verb
(stirr)Usage notes
* In all transitive senses except the first, (term) is often followed by (up) with an intensive effect; as, (term); (term).Synonyms
* (to move) incite; awaken; rouse; animate; stimulate; excite; provoke.Derived terms
* stir-fry * stirrer * stir up * straw that stirs the drinkNoun
- Why all these words, this clamor, and this stir ?
- ''Consider, after so much stir about genus and species, how few words we have yet settled definitions of.
- Being advertised of some stirs raised by his unnatural sons in England.