fry /ˈfraɪ/
 (v.)油炸,油煎,油炒油炸食品;魚苗,小生物,小東西


 Fry v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fried p. pr. & vb. n. Frying.]  To cook in a pan or on a griddle (esp. with the use of fat, butter, or olive oil) by heating over a fire; to cook in boiling lard or fat; as, to fry fish; to fry doughnuts.


 Fry, v. i.
 1. To undergo the process of frying; to be subject to the action of heat in a frying pan, or on a griddle, or in a kettle of hot fat.
 2. To simmer; to boil. [Obs.]
    With crackling flames a caldron fries.   --Dryden
    The frothy billows fry.
 3. To undergo or cause a disturbing action accompanied with a sensation of heat.
    To keep the oil from frying in the stomach.   --Bacon.
 4. To be agitated; to be greatly moved. [Obs.]
    What kindling motions in their breasts do fry.   --Fairfax.


 Fry, n.
 1. A dish of anything fried.
 2. A state of excitement; as, to be in a fry. [Colloq.]


 Fry, n.
 1. Zool. The young of any fish.
 2. A swarm or crowd, especially of little fishes; young or small things in general.
    The fry of children young.   --Spenser.
    To sever . . . the good fish from the other fry.   --Milton.
    We have burned two frigates, and a hundred and twenty small fry.   --Walpole.

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 Fry
      n 1: English painter and art critic (1866-1934) [syn: Roger Fry,
            Roger Eliot Fry]
      2: English dramatist noted for his comic verse dramas (born
         1907) [syn: Christopher Fry]
      3: a young person of either sex; "she writes books for
         children"; "they're just kids"; "`tiddler' is a British
         term for youngsters" [syn: child, kid, youngster, minor,
          shaver, nipper, small fry, tiddler, tike, tyke,
          nestling]
      v 1: be excessively hot; "If the children stay out on the beach
           for another hour, they'll be fried"
      2: cook on a hot surface using fat; "fry the pancakes"
      3: kill by electrocution, as in the electric chair; "The serial
         killer was electrocuted" [syn: electrocute]