different between children vs fry

English

Alternative forms

• childer (archaic, except in Ireland)
• childs (nonstandard, rare)
• chillen (eye dialect)

Etymology

From Middle English children, alteration of earlier childre ("children"; > English dialectal childer), from Old English ?ildru, ?ildra (“children”), nominative and accusative plural of ?ild (“child”), equivalent to child +? -ren.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t???ld??n/
• (Southern American English, AAVE) IPA^(key): [t??l.??n]
• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): [?t???l.d??? ???n]
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): [?t???ld??? ???n] (alternative)
• Hyphenation: child?ren

Noun

children

1. plural of child.

Anagrams

• childern

Middle English

Noun

children

1. plural of child

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: fr?, IPA^(key): /f?a?/
• Rhymes: -a?

Etymology 1

From Middle English frien, borrowed from Old French frire, from Latin fr?g? (“to roast, fry”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?er-. Cognate with Ancient Greek ????? (phrúg?, “I roast, bake”), Sanskrit ??????? (bh?jjati, “to roast, grill, fry”), ???? (bh?g, “the crackling of fire”)

Verb

fry (third-person singular simple present fries, present participle frying, simple past and past participle fried)

1. A method of cooking food.
   1. (transitive) To cook (something) in hot fat.

   2. (intransitive) To cook in hot fat.

2. To be affected by extreme heat or current.
   1. (intransitive, colloquial) To suffer because of too much heat.

   2. (chiefly US, intransitive, slang) To be executed by the electric chair.

   3. (transitive, informal) To destroy (something, usually electronic) with excessive heat, voltage, or current.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:cook

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

fry (plural fries)

1. (usually in the plural, fries, chiefly Canada and US) A fried strip of potato.

   Synonyms: chip, french fry

2. (Ireland, Britain) A meal of fried sausages, bacon, eggs, etc.

   Synonym: fry-up

3. (colloquial, archaic) A state of excitement.

Derived terms

Related terms

• french fry
• fries

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English fry (“seed, offspring”), from Old Norse frjó (“seed, semen”), from Proto-Germanic *fraiw? (“seed, semen, offspring”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)per-, *(s)prei- (“to strew, sow”). Cognate with Icelandic frjó (“pollen, seed”), Icelandic fræ (“seed”), Swedish frö (“seed, embryo, grain, germ”), Danish and Norwegian frø (“seed”), Gothic ???????????????????? (fraiw, “seed”).

Noun

fry (uncountable)

1. (now chiefly Britain dialectal) Offspring; progeny; children; brood.
3. Young fish; fishlings.
4. (archaic) A swarm, especially of something small.

   a fry of children

5. (Britain dialectal) The spawn of frogs.

Derived terms

• small fry

Translations

Etymology 3

Dialectal, of obscure origin.

Noun

fry (plural fries)

1. A kind of sieve.
2. A drain.

Westrobothnian

Etymology

From Old Norse frýja; cognate with Norwegian fry.

Verb

fry (preterite frydd)

1. (transitive) To taunt, challenge one to a fight, wrestling, a bet, etc.
2. (with infinitive) To dare, have the courage.

3. (imperative) As a word of challenge.