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Definitions for curry
ˈkɜr i, ˈkʌr icur·ry

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. curryverb

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

  2. curryverb

    season with a mixture of spices; typical of Indian cooking

  3. curryverb

    treat by incorporating fat

    "curry tanned leather"

  4. dress, groom, curryverb

    give a neat appearance to

    "groom the dogs"; "dress the horses"

Wiktionary

  1. Currynoun

    A family name of Irish origin, from Ó Comhraidhe

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. To CURRYverb

    Etymology: corium, leather, Latin.

    A deep design in’t to divide
    The well affected that confide;
    By setting brother against brother,
    To claw and curry one another. Hudibras, p. i. cant. 1.

    I may expect her to take care of her family, and curry her hide in case of refusal. Joseph Addison, Spectator, №. 211.

    Frictions make the parts more fleshy and full; as we see both in men, and in the currying of horses: the cause is, for that they draw a greater quantity of spirits and blood to the parts. Francis Bacon.

    If I had a suit to master Shallow, I would humour his men; if to his men, I would curry with master Shallow. Shakesp.

    He judged them still over-abjectly to fawn upon the heathens, and to curry favour with infidels. Richard Hooker, b. iv. s. 7.

    This humour succeeded so with the puppy, that an ass would go the same way to work to curry favour for himself. Roger L'Estrange.

ChatGPT

  1. curry

    Curry, in culinary terms, is a variety of dishes originating from the Indian subcontinent that use a complex combination of spices or herbs, including ground turmeric, cumin, coriander, ginger, and fresh or dried chilies. The use of the term is generally limited to dishes prepared in a sauce, and it is traditionally served with rice. In the context of computer programming, curry or currying is the process of transforming a function with multiple arguments into a sequence of functions, each with a single argument. The name "currying” is derived from the American mathematician, Haskell Curry.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Curryverb

    to dress or prepare for use by a process of scraping, cleansing, beating, smoothing, and coloring; -- said of leather

  2. Curryverb

    to dress the hair or coat of (a horse, ox, or the like) with a currycomb and brush; to comb, as a horse, in order to make clean

  3. Curryverb

    to beat or bruise; to drub; -- said of persons

  4. Currynoun

    a kind of sauce much used in India, containing garlic, pepper, ginger, and other strong spices

  5. Currynoun

    a stew of fowl, fish, or game, cooked with curry

  6. Curryverb

    to flavor or cook with curry

  7. Etymology: [Tamil kari.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Curry

    kur′i, n. a kind of sauce or seasoning much used in India, compounded of pepper, ginger, and other spices: a stew mixed with curry-powder.—n. Curr′y-pow′der. [Tamil kari, sauce.]

  2. Curry

    kur′i, v.t. to dress leather: to rub down and dress a horse: to beat: to scratch:—pr.p. curr′ying; pa.p. curr′ied.—ns. Curr′ier, one who curries or dresses tanned leather; Curr′y-comb, an iron instrument or comb used for currying or cleaning horses; Curr′ying.—Curry favour (corruption of Curry favell, to curry the chestnut horse), to seek favour by flattery. [O. Fr. correier (mod. corroyer), conrei, outfit, from a supposed Low L. form conredāre, con-, with, rēdāre, seen in Array.]

  3. Curry

    Currie, obsolete forms of Quarry.

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Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. CURRY

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Curry is ranked #436 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Curry surname appeared 74,919 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 25 would have the surname Curry.

    59.1% or 44,337 total occurrences were White.
    34.9% or 26,169 total occurrences were Black.
    2.5% or 1,888 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    2.4% or 1,806 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    0.4% or 367 total occurrences were Asian.
    0.4% or 352 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of curry in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of curry in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of curry in a Sentence

  1. Mario Ziervogel:

    You have to be flexible and keep up with the trends to have a successful business, earlier it was enough to have Bockwurst, Wiener or Knacker sausages. Now they are out of fashion. Then came Curry-Wurst with skin or skinless, then came chicken sausage. Then a customer came in and asked for a vegetarian sausage.

  2. Linzy Bacbotte:

    It's a melting pot, curry from India, noodles from China, it's very colorful, all the spices. And if you want a snack, the dried fish. It's yum.

  3. Sam Mitchell just:

    You commit so much effort to try and slow Steph Curry down and he still scores( 46) points, you sit there and wonder, if you don't do those things and you just try to play him conventionally, he might get 60.

  4. Clay Travis:

    ESPN is so proud of them that they're sharing the clip themselves with all of their audience, it's next level stupidity, first of all, to compare Chinese genocide with American voting rights ID laws. But it's also making me wonder, with all that Disney has connection-wise with China, are they trying to curry favor with China by spreading Chinese talking points propaganda to the American sporting fan? It just blows my mind.

  5. Ral Grijalva:

    The pay-go thing is an absurd idea now given the times and given what’s already been done to curry favor with corporate America, it’s a stupid rule. It is entirely counter-productive to progressive policy goals.

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