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WOK/wɒk/

A wok is a deep round pan with high sides, used for frying food quickly, often Chinese-style. Countable: a wok, woks. A frying pan is flatter and shallower; a pot (or saucepan) is for boiling with a lid. Mix-up: wok vs walk (to go on foot) — o vs a, same start for some speakers; and wok vs work (a job) — extra r.

Meaning

A deep round pan, used for frying food quickly.

Examples

• “Fry the vegetables in the wok.”
• “Heat the oil in the wok first.”
• “This wok is too small for four people.”

Good to know

a wok (deep, round, quick fry). Contrast: frying pan (flat), pot (boil). Mix-up: walk, work.

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