Meaning

2 senses
  1. A large, round-bottomed cooking pan used in East Asian cooking.

    Wok

    вокvok

    pan with a convex bottom; used for frying in Chinese cooking

  2. (Europe)Any dish prepared using such a pan.

Examples

5 sentences
  1. 4. Heat the sesame oil in the wok and melt the butter.

    ru4. Нагрейте кунжутное масло в котелке и растопите сливочное масло. — odexed

  2. Where is the wok?

  3. Two women wielding giant spatulas continuously stir a brimming wok of shredded beef simmering in curry sauce.

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  4. Use a wok.

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  5. I sent wires from Woking station to every evening paper in London. This advertisement will appear in each of them.

Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
large round pan:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
large round pan:

Origin

Borrowed from Cantonese 鑊 /镬 (wok⁶).

Borrowed from Cantonese 鑊 /镬 (wok⁶).

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Forms

plural: woks
Singularwok
Pluralwoks

regular

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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