FRYING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does frying mean? 

• FRYING (noun)
  The noun FRYING has 1 sense:

1. cooking in fat or oil in a pan or griddle

  Familiarity information: FRYING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FRYING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cooking in fat or oil in a pan or griddle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

frying; sauteing

Hypernyms ("frying" is a kind of...):

cookery; cooking; preparation (the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat)

Derivation:

fry (cook on a hot surface using fat)

 Context examples 

I suppose—I never ventured to inquire, but I suppose—that Mrs. Crupp, after frying the soles, was taken ill.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Apricot kernel oil is used for frying and cooking, in the cosmetic industry, and for skin care.

(Apricot Kernel Oil, NCI Thesaurus)

When bacon is frying they must run away from the fire and cough half an hour in the snow.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Similarly, GM potatoes do not bruise easily and, on deep frying, produce less acrylamide, a potentially cancer-causing chemical.

(GM tech expands with more crops to more countries, SciDev.Net)

The main use of corn oil is in cooking, where its high smoke point makes it a useful frying oil.

(Corn Oil, NCI Thesaurus)

The findings are limited because data came from questionnaires that did not include certain types of meats (such as pork and lamb) and certain cooking methods (such as stewing and stir-frying).

(High Temp Grilled Meat May Raise Blood Pressure, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A chemical that is formed when meat, poultry, or fish is cooked at high temperatures, such as frying, broiling, and barbecuing.

(HCA, NCI Dictionary)

Because of the high temperatures used, frying, broiling, and barbecuing produce the largest amounts of heterocyclic amines.

(Heterocyclic Amine Carcinogen, NCI Thesaurus)

When the chair was not in use, it reposed on top of the bed, though sometimes he sat on the chair when cooking, reading a book while the water boiled, and even becoming skilful enough to manage a paragraph or two while steak was frying.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

In the morning, Thomas Mugridge being duly bribed, the galley is pleasantly areek with the odour of their frying; while dolphin meat is served fore and aft on such occasions as Johnson catches the blazing beauties from the bowsprit end.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)