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Definition: Wok |
WokNoun1. Pan with a convex bottom; used for frying in Chinese cooking. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Personal Care & Hotels | A traditional Chinese cooking ustensil shaped somewhat like a bowl. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
It is a round-bottomed pan that ranges from 1 foot to 4 feet in diameter. Almost every Chinese family owns one. It is most often used for stir frying, but can also be used many other ways, such as in steaming and deep frying or to make soup. One advantage of woks is that the shape produces a small, hot area at the bottom while using relatively little fuel.
Woks are also sold in western countries, where they tend to be given flat bottoms and nonstick coatings. This makes them more similar to a deep frying pan than a true wok. However, the flat bottoms mean that they can be used on an electric cooker.
In a joke sports introduced by the German comedian Stefan Raab woks are used in bobsleigh track. In November 2003 a first "official" championships was held in Winterberg, Germany.
See also: Chinese cuisine (for sports Stefan Raab)
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Wok."
Crosswords: Wok |
| English words defined with "wok": stir fry. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Wok" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Swedish (wok). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Wok 'n Roll (1993) | |
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Consumer Goods | |
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| "Wok" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 90.48% of the time. "Wok" is used about 42 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) | 90.48% | 38 | 55,818 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 7.14% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Unclassified Items | 2.38% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 42 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "wok": wok-on-the-wall. | |
Ending with "wok": four-wok. | |
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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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
wok | 400 | sultan wok | 9 |
wok cooking | 71 | grill wok | 8 |
wok recipe | 62 | king wok | 8 |
electric wok | 55 | wok with yan | 8 |
china wok | 29 | hunan wok | 8 |
golden wok | 23 | le creuset wok | 7 |
chinese wok | 19 | first wok | 7 |
magic wok | 18 | iron wok | 7 |
manchu wok | 17 | wok seasoning | 7 |
cast iron wok | 16 | wok recepten | 7 |
hot wok | 13 | wok cooking recipe | 7 |
wok roll | 13 | season a wok | 6 |
happy wok | 12 | wok range | 6 |
california wok | 11 | wok set | 6 |
wok n roll | 11 | village wok | 6 |
stainless steel wok | 10 | wok rezepte | 6 |
wok burner | 10 | skillman wok | 6 |
wok wongs | 10 | restaurant wok | 6 |
hand hammered wok | 9 | commercial wok | 5 |
great wok of china | 9 | carbon steel wok | 5 |
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| Language | Translations for "wok"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | "". (various references) | ||||||||||
German | chinesische Pfanne. (various references) | ||||||||||
Hungarian | kínai főzőedény. (various references) | ||||||||||
Indonesian | wajan (casserole, pan), penggorengan. (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 中華鍋 (a wok). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ちゅうかなべ (a wok). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | okway wok. (various references) | ||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "wok": woke, woken, woks. (additional references) | |
Words containing "wok": awoke, awoken, reawoke, reawoken, rewoke, rewoken. (additional references) | |
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"Wok" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: awoc, awok, eok, gok, Iwak, okk, Qwak, Qwik, qwol, swook, vok, wak, wauk, wek, whoc, Wijk, wik, wika, wiky, Wlo, woa, woak, wob, woc, woca, Woch, wock, woct, wof, wog, woi, wom, wooky, woq, wot, wou, wouk, wov, woy, woz, wroc, wso, Wuko, wyo, wyol, zok, zwo. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "wok" (pronounced wÄ"k) |
| 3 | w Ä" k | walk. |
| 2 | -Ä" k | antiknock, antilock, Bach, Bangkok, bloc, block, Bock, Brock, caulk, chalk, chock, clock, cock, Croc, crock, Doc, dock, floc, flock, frock, hock, interlock, Jock, knock, Loch, lock, Mach, mock, Nock, overstock, pock, restock, Roc, rock, schlock, shock, smock, sock, stock, undock, unlock. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "k-o-w" | |
-1 letter: ow, wo. | |
| Words containing the letters "k-o-w" | |
+1 letter: gowk, howk, know, woke, woks, wonk, work. | |
+2 letters: awoke, gowks, howks, known, knows, kotow, wacko, woken, wonks, wonky, works. | |
+3 letters: awoken, bywork, howked, knower, knowns, kotows, kowtow, rewoke, rework, wackos, whacko, worked, worker, workup. | |
+4 letters: artwork, bawcock, bowknot, bowlike, byworks, cowlick, cowpoke, cowskin, cutwork, daywork, dorhawk, folkway, goshawk, howking, inkwood, keyword, knowers, knowing, kotowed, kotower, kowtows, lawbook, legwork, lockjaw, misknow, network, nonwork, outwalk, outwork, owllike, pinwork, prework, reawoke, rewoken, reworks, rowlock, tinwork, topwork, unknown, wackoes, walkout, warlock, warwork, waxwork, webwork, wedlock, whackos, winnock, wonkier, workbag, workbox, workday, workers, working, workman, workmen, workout, workups. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)57 6F 6B |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. --- -.- |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010111 01101111 01101011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)W o k |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0057 006F 006B |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)578177 |
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