CURRY (curried)

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Irregular inflected form: curried   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does curry mean? 

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

1. (East Indian cookery) a pungent dish of vegetables or meats flavored with curry powder and usually eaten with rice

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

• CURRY (verb)
  The verb CURRY has 3 senses:

1. season with a mixture of spices; typical of Indian cooking

2. treat by incorporating fat

3. give a neat appearance to

  Familiarity information: CURRY used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CURRY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(East Indian cookery) a pungent dish of vegetables or meats flavored with curry powder and usually eaten with rice

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

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

dish (a particular item of prepared food)

Domain category:

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

Domain region:

East India; East Indies; Malay Archipelago (a group of islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans between Asia and Australia)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "curry"):

lamb curry (curry made with lamb)

Derivation:

curry (season with a mixture of spices; typical of Indian cooking)

• CURRY (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they curry    ... he / she / it curries   
Past simple: curried   
Past participle: curried   
-ing form: currying   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Season with a mixture of spices; typical of Indian cooking

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Hypernyms (to "curry" is one way to...):

flavor; flavour; season (lend flavor to)

Domain category:

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

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

curry ((East Indian cookery) a pungent dish of vegetables or meats flavored with curry powder and usually eaten with rice)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Treat by incorporating fat

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

curry tanned leather

Hypernyms (to "curry" is one way to...):

process; treat (subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

currier (a craftsman who curries leather for use)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Give a neat appearance to

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

curry; dress; groom

Context example:

dress the horses

Hypernyms (to "curry" is one way to...):

beautify; embellish; fancify; prettify (make more beautiful)

Verb group:

arrange; coif; coiffe; coiffure; do; dress; set (arrange attractively)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

They curry the animals

 Context examples 

What are you going to take, Mr. Phelps—curried fowl or eggs, or will you help yourself?

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

An ingredient that is used to give curry its bright color could also improve memory and mood, new research suggests.

(Daily Consumption of Turmeric Could Improve Memory, Mood, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

He has been attempting to curry favour and reinstate himself in the good graces of the captain by carrying tales of the men forward.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Therefore Simpson becomes eliminated from the case, and our attention centres upon Straker and his wife, the only two people who could have chosen curried mutton for supper that night.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A curry was exactly the medium which would disguise this taste.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

At a few minutes after nine the maid, Edith Baxter, carried down to the stables his supper, which consisted of a dish of curried mutton.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was while I was in the carriage, just as we reached the trainer’s house, that the immense significance of the curried mutton occurred to me.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He was equally certain that the same stranger had, while standing at the window, drugged his curried mutton, and so deprived the stables of their watchman.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Mrs. Hudson has risen to the occasion,” said Holmes, uncovering a dish of curried chicken.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

By no possible supposition could this stranger, Fitzroy Simpson, have caused curry to be served in the trainer’s family that night, and it is surely too monstrous a coincidence to suppose that he happened to come along with powdered opium upon the very night when a dish happened to be served which would disguise the flavour.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)