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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
fries
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
french
▪ Steak, french fries and chocolate, delicious new delicacies, were all put before her and she gorged enthusiastically.
▪ Q: If there was life on Mars, did they eat french fries?
▪ The satiety index decreased progressively from boiled potatoes to french fries to potato chips.
▪ Unsweetened iced tea, fried catfish, hold the french fries and corn bread.
▪ He had had a lot of hamburg and french fries in nineteen years.
▪ He orders two french fries and two Cokes.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And a double helping of fries.
▪ Houses collapse, hail shatters windshields, lightning fries golfers.
▪ In drunken lunacy we had two execrable hamburgers and three orders of cold, greasy fries at the refreshment stand.
▪ Steak, french fries and chocolate, delicious new delicacies, were all put before her and she gorged enthusiastically.
▪ The fries, made through a counter-top machine, can then be deep-fried before serving.
▪ The cheeseburger's a sports fan's cheeseburger, big and juicy and married to those big steak-size fries.
▪ There is a reason for the deli's popularity, and it isn't the chili fries.
Wiktionary
fries

n. 1 (plural of fry English)Category:English plurals 2 french fries vb. (en-third-person singularfry)

WordNet
fries

n. strips of potato fried in deep fat [syn: french fries, french-fried potatoes]

Gazetteer
Fries, VA -- U.S. town in Virginia
Population (2000): 614
Housing Units (2000): 337
Land area (2000): 0.647796 sq. miles (1.677783 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.163542 sq. miles (0.423572 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.811338 sq. miles (2.101355 sq. km)
FIPS code: 29920
Located within: Virginia (VA), FIPS 51
Location: 36.715537 N, 80.975849 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 24330
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Fries, VA
Fries
Wikipedia
Fries (surname)

Fries is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Elias Magnus Fries (1794–1878), botanist
  • Ellen Fries (1885-1900), writer
  • Theodor Magnus Fries (1832–1913), botanist, son of Elias Fries
  • Robert Elias Fries (1876–1966), botanist, son of Thore Fries, brother of Thore Christian Elias Fries
  • Thore Christian Elias Fries, botanist, son of Thore Fries, brother of Robert Elias Fries
  • Fritz Rudolf Fries, German writer and translator
  • Gladys Fries Harriman (1896-1983), American philanthropist, equestrian and big game hunter
  • Hans Fries, 1460–1520, Swiss painter
  • Jakob Friedrich Fries (1773–1843), a German philosopher
  • Jan Fries, occultist
  • John Fries (1764–1825), American tax rebel and namesake of the Fries' Rebellion
  • Karl Theophil Fries (1875–1962) German chemist discoverer of the Fries rearrangement
  • Kenny Fries (1960-), American memoirist and poet

Fictional characters:

  • Victor Fries, a DC Comics character, also known as Mr. Freeze
  • Nora Fries, a DC Comics character, wife to Mr. Freeze
Fries (disambiguation)

Fries, or french fries, are strips of deep-fried potato.

Fries or FRIES may also refer to:

  • Fries (surname), including list of people with the name
  • Frisian languages , languages spoken in Friesland (Netherlands) and East Friesland (Germany)
  • Fast Rope Insertion Extraction System, or fast-roping, a technique for descending a thick rope
  • Lamb fries, lamb testicles used as food
  • A form of the verb "to fry": see frying
  • Home fries
  • Fries, Virginia

Usage examples of "fries".

They went on in, to be met there by the Honorable Jonathan Fries, Mayor of Rock City.

Stone was away they ate in his restaurant Mrs Fries was an excellent cook and she raised a great variety in her hydroponics garden.

Mrs Fries pushed the twins aside and applied artificial respira­tion herself, to be displaced ten minutes later by Dr.

Mayor Fries made a speech and presented them with a scroll which made them all honorary citizens of Rock City, now and forever.

Mrs Fries pushed the twins aside and applied artificial respiration herself, to be displaced ten minutes later by Dr Stone.

Podkayne Fries, I mean, the famous Space Explorer and Master of Men-Captain Poddy dear, you probably will never read this because it wouldn't occur to you that I not only would break your "code" but also write comments in the big, wide margins you leave.

Nurse, will you be so kind as to phone the Director and tell him that Miss Fries is on her way?

Schoenstein, the release I obtained from Professor Fries explicitly binds him to silence, for separate good and sufficient consideration, over and above damages conceded by us and made good.

When the Fries contingent wearily reached the inspection counter, the inspector said, all in one word: "Nything-t'-d'clare?

By pointing out that I was Miss Fries, niece of Senator Fries, Mars Republic, I did get as far as his secretary, or maybe his secretary's secretary.

The room was still not made up and still cluttered with dirty dishes because, despite the language barrier, I have made clear to Maria and Maria that Miss Fries becomes quite vexed if anybody disturbs my room until I signal that I no longer want privacy by leaving the door open.

Yes, sir, Captain Podkayne Fries the Famous Explorer had keeled over like a silly girl.

Furthermore, he didn't understand why an advertisement assuring him that the restaurant's French fries were tastier than house flies should charm him.

This book is dedicated to the memory of my mother, Beatrice Friesner, who passed away in the autumn of 1999.