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Definition: Tempura |
TempuraNoun1. (Japanese) vegetables and seafood dipped in batter and deep-fried. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Computing | Tempura Language based on temporal logic. "Executing Temporal Logic Programs", B. Moszkowski, Camb U Press 1986. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
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Tempura (てんぷら, less commonly spelled "tenpura") refers to classic Japanese deep fried batter-dipped seafood and vegetables. The batter is made of ice cold water, flour, and egg yolks. Small dry bite-sized pieces of food are dipped in flour, then in batter, and then deep fried for 2-3 minutes. Batter-coated frying was adapted from 16th century Spanish and Portuguese missionaries to Japan.
Cooked bits of tempura are then either dipped in tentsuyu sauce (roughly three parts dashi, one part mirin, and one part shoyu) or sprinkled with scant sea salt before eating. Tempura is commonly served with grated daikon and is eaten hot immediately after frying.
In Japan, restaurants specializing in tempura are called "Tempura-ya" and range from inexpensive fast food chains to highly revered and very expensive five-star restaurants. Many restaurants offer tempura as part of a set meal or a bento (lunch box).
Often cooked in this fashion are shrimp, squid, shiitake mushroom, sweet potato, pumpkin, burdock, carrot, zucchini, a wide variety of fish, and many others. Things not generally served as tempura include rice and other grains, processed food such as tofu (although tofu tempura is occasionally seen in westernized Japanese restaurants), and fruits. Notable exceptions are ice cream and banana.
Tempura is also used in combination with other foods. When served over soba (buckwheat noodles), it is called tempura soba or tennsoba. Tempura is also served as a donburi dish where tempura shrimp and vegetables are served over steamed rice in a bowl (tendon).
Common ingredients include:
Not to be confused with tempera, a painting style.
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| "Tempura" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Tempura" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
tempura | 118 |
tempura batter | 50 |
tempura recipe | 43 |
tempura batter recipe | 26 |
shrimp tempura | 19 |
tempura sauce | 13 |
recipe shrimp tempura | 12 |
tempura dipping sauce | 9 |
cream ice recipe tempura | 7 |
recipe sauce tempura | 6 |
tempura vegetable | 6 |
helado tempura | 5 |
paint tempura | 5 |
mattress tempura | 4 |
cream ice tempura | 4 |
batter mix tempura | 3 |
chicken tempura | 2 |
make tempura | 2 |
bed tempura | 2 |
dipping recipe sauce tempura | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "tempura"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | テロ対策 (10, 99.99999999%, anti-terrorist, temper, tempera, temperament, temperate, tempo, temporary, temporary worker, temptation, ten, ten key, ten nines, tendency, tenderloin, tenderloin steak, ten-gallon hat, tense, tension, tension people, tensor, tent), 天麩羅 (deep-fried fish and vegetables in a light batter), 天婦羅 (deep-fried fish and vegetables in a light batter). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | テンプラ , て"ぷら (deep-fried fish and vegetables in a light batter). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | empuratay темпура. (various references) | ||||||||||
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Words beginning with "tempura": tempuras. (additional references) | |
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"Tempura" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bemporad, Tambora, tempor, tempora, tempra, tempural, temur, Temuraz, tumoural. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-m-p-r-t-u" | |
-1 letter: mature, tamper, uprate, uptear. | |
-2 letters: apter, armet, erupt, mater, muter, pareu, pater, peart, prate, pruta, ramet, remap, tamer, taper, taupe, tramp, trump, urate. | |
-3 letters: aper, arum, mare, mart, mate, maut, meat, meta, mura, mure, mute, pare, part, pate, pear, peat, perm, pert, pram, prat, prau, puma, pure, ramp, rape, rapt, rate, ream, reap, rump, tame, tamp, tape, tare, tarp, team, tear, temp, tepa, term, tram, trap, true, tump, urea. | |
-4 letters: amp, amu, ape, apt, are, arm, art, ate, ear, eat, eau, emu, era, eta, mae, map, mar, mat, met, mut, pam, par, pat, pea, per, pet, pur, put, ram, rap, rat, rem, rep, ret, rue, rum, rut, tae, tam, tap, tar, tau, tea, tup, ump, uta. | |
-5 letters: ae, am, ar, at, em, er, et, ma, me, mu, pa, pe, re, ta, um, up, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-m-p-r-t-u" | |
+1 letter: apterium, tempuras, upmarket, upstream. | |
+2 letters: mousetrap, premature, septarium, trapezium. | |
+3 letters: metacarpus, mousetraps, parimutuel, permutable, petrolatum, prematures, promulgate, psalterium, spermatium, subprimate, supersmart, trapeziums. | |
+4 letters: champertous, importunate, intercampus, lepromatous, multiplayer, pentamerous, perambulate, permutation, petrolatums, planetarium, portmanteau, prematurely, prematurity, proctodaeum, promulgated, promulgates, subprimates, supermarket, supremacist, suprematism, suprematist, temperature, ultrasimple. | |
+5 letters: hypermutable, macropterous, mousetrapped, multipartite, perambulated, perambulates, perambulator, permutations, planetariums, pneumothorax, portmanteaus, portmanteaux, preformulate, premenstrual, proctodaeums, reassumption, somatopleure, subtemperate, supermarkets, superstardom, superstratum, supremacists, suprematisms, suprematists, temperatures, underpayment, unimportance. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 65 6D 70 75 72 61 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- . -- .--. ..- .-. .- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01100101 01101101 01110000 01110101 01110010 01100001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T e m p u r a |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0065 006D 0070 0075 0072 0061 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)54717982878467 |
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