word-request
I would like to know what shape are french fries? For e.g, onion rings are circular shaped, sandwiches are triangular shaped so how would I described the shape of a french fry.
The context I want to use it is something like this,
Let's say I am cooking food with someone, I have to tell them to cut some vegetable like cucumber in the shape of a fry(fries?) basically flat, elongated. You can cut slices of cucumber circular also but I want to cut them flat,long.
how should I say that?
There are a lot of factors at work here.
As Barrie mentioned, doors that open to the backyard are called patio doors. Patio doors can have two styles: sliding, or hinged.
In the U.S., the sliding style doors are often called "sliding glass doors." The term "French doors" is used for double doors that open outward or inward, particularly when they are made of paned glass.
I found these two images on a retail web site:
The door on the left is listed as a Sliding Patio Door; the one on the right is a French Inswing Patio Door. However, in day-to-day conversation, I'd probably refer them as "the sliding glass door" or "the French doors" – although either of them could be called "the patio door."
With all that said, though, I still found a website that sells "French-Style Sliding Doors," which sounds like an oxymoron to me.
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On StackExchange, I'll usually call it a question. "A question" can refer to the whole page, including the answers and comments, especially when written on a different page. On the page, the question usually refers only to the question part of the page, excluding the answers and comments.
Best Answer
If you are talking to someone who understands cooking, you can use the verb french:
So you could say "You should french these cucumbers". (This is apparently an American usage and should probably be avoided in other regions.)
Technically speaking, french fries are in the shape of a parallelepiped:
But that's not very useful in ordinary conversation, and doesn't define the ratio of the sides (long & thin vs. short & fat); if you don't want to use the verb french, simply describing the shape as you have ("long, flat strips") or as the dictionary has ("thin strips") should suffice, so you could say "cut the cucumbers into long, thin strips"; or, since french fries are a very well-known item to begin with, you could say "cut the cucumber into french fry-shaped pieces."
However, as french fries do come in different shapes and varieties (shoestring, steak-cut, waffle-cut, wedge, etc.), you may actually want to be even more specific and give actual dimensions: "Cut the cucumber into long, thin strips approximately 1/4-inch square and 2 to 3 inches long."