Toss vs Fry - What's the difference?
toss | fry |
A throw, a lob, of a ball etc., with an initial upward direction, particularly with a lack of care.
(cricket, football) The toss of a coin before a cricket match in order to decide who bats first, or before a football match in order to decide the direction of play.
(British, slang) A jot, in the phrase 'give a toss'.
To throw with an initial upward direction.
To lift with a sudden or violent motion.
* Addison
To agitate; to make restless.
* Milton
To subject to trials; to harass.
* Herbert
To flip a coin, to decide a point of contention.
To discard: to toss out
To stir or mix (a salad).
(British, vulgar, slang) To masturbate
(informal) To search (a room or a cell), sometimes leaving visible disorder, as for valuables or evidence of a crime.
* 2003 , Joseph Wambaugh, Fire Lover , p. 258:
* 2009 , , Red Dragon :
* 2011 , Linda Howard, Kill and Tell: A Novel :
To roll and tumble; to be in violent commotion.
To be tossed, as a fleet on the ocean.
(obsolete) To keep in play; to tumble over.
To peak (the oars), to lift them from the rowlocks and hold them perpendicularly, the handle resting on the bottom of the boat.
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.
As a noun toss
is a throw, a lob, of a ball etc, with an initial upward direction, particularly with a lack of care.As a verb toss
is to throw with an initial upward direction.As a proper noun fry is
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English
Noun
(es)- I couldn't give a toss about her.
Derived terms
* argue the tossVerb
- Toss it over here!
- to toss the head
- He tossed his arm aloft, and proudly told me, / He would not stay.
- Calm region once, / And full of peace, now tossed and turbulent.
- Whom devils fly, thus is he tossed of men.
- I'll toss you for it.
- ''I don't need it anymore, you can just toss it.
- to toss''' a salad; a '''tossed salad.
- "Someone tossed just his living room and bedroom." / "They probably found what they were looking for."
- John Orr had occasion to complain in writing to the senior supervisor that his Playboy and Penthouse magazines had been stolen by deputies. And he believed that was what prompted a random search of his cell for contraband. He was stripped, handcuffed, and forced to watch as they tossed his cell .
- Rankin and Willingham, when they tossed his cell , they took Polaroids so they could get everything back in place.
- Hayes had watched him toss a room before. He had tapped walls, gotten down on his hands and knees and studied the floor, inspected books and lamps and bric-abrac.
- tossing and turning in bed, unable to sleep
- (Shakespeare)
- to spend four years in tossing the rules of grammar
- (Ascham)
See also
* tosser * toss off * toss in * toss and turnAnagrams
* * *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.