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Faulty vs Fried - What's the difference?

faulty | fried |

As an adjective faulty

is having or displaying faults; not perfect; not adequate or acceptable.

As a noun fried is

see in fried und freud.

faulty

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Having or displaying faults; not perfect; not adequate or acceptable.
    • They replaced the faulty wiring and it has worked fine ever since.
    I don't think you can infer that from the premise. It's a faulty argument.
  • (obsolete) At fault, to blame; guilty.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.iv:
    • Her faultie Handmayd, which that bale did breede, / Confest, how Philemon her wrought to chaunge her weede.

    Usage notes

    * Nouns to which "faulty" is often applied: goods, equipment, product, wiring, construction, memory, thinking, design, hardware, software, unit, part, component, assumption, reasoning, premise, gene, operation, technique, merchandise, circuit, code, analysis, posture, machine, method, habit, process, communication.

    Antonyms

    * faultless

    Derived terms

    * faultiness

    fried

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (fry)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Cooked by frying.
  • (specifically, of an egg) Being fried with the yolk unbroken.
    • He always ate his eggs fried , never scrambled.
  • (colloquial, of computer equipment) Broken as a result of excessive heat or an electrical surge.
    • It looks like your motherboard is fried .
  • (slang) stoned; under the influence of drugs
    • ''Man, I got totally fried on weed at Chad's party.'

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