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"Fry" is an ambiguous word in English
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Fry means to cook with oil.
You have pan frying, deep frying, shallow frying, they all have additional descriptors, and you can usually infer the type from the product. You can always say deep fried chicken, but that’s also assumed when you say “fried chicken” already. If it’s fried different you would maybe say “pan fried chicken” instead.
There's also "air fry", which is just an aggressive convection oven
Usually you need to spray or toss the stuff with a small amount of oil first, or stuff has natural oils. The term is usually for using “another oil” so I would say adding oil would be a must instead of its own oils myself.
I wouldn't say it's always true. If i fry a duck breast in a pan only with fat from it's skin i would still classify it as frying even when all the fat is from the duck breast.