Fried vs Nine - What's the difference?
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(fry)
Cooked by frying.
(specifically, of an egg) Being fried with the yolk unbroken.
(colloquial, of computer equipment) Broken as a result of excessive heat or an electrical surge.
(slang) stoned; under the influence of drugs
(cardinal) A numerical value equal to ; the number occurring after eight and before ten.
Describing a set or group with nine components.
The digit or figure .
(card games) A playing card with nine pips.
(weaponry) A nine-millimeter semi-automatic pistol.
(computing, engineering, usually in plural) A statistical unit of proportion (of reliability, purity, etc.).
(label) A baseball club, a baseball team (composed of nine players).
* 1877, Chicago Times, July 8, 1877:Peter Morris,
A Game of Inches: The Stories Behind the Innovations That Shaped Baseball, 15.1.3 Rain Checks, *:The St. Louis club is the only nine in the league which gives its patrons the right to see a full game or no pay.
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As a verb fried
is past tense of fry.As an adjective fried
is cooked by frying.As a numeral nine is
a numerical value equal to 9; the number occurring after eight and before ten.As a noun nine is
the digit or figure {{term|9}}.fried
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- He always ate his eggs fried , never scrambled.
- It looks like your motherboard is fried .
- ''Man, I got totally fried on weed at Chad's party.'
Anagrams
*nine
English
(wikipedia nine)Numeral
(head)- A cat has nine lives.
See also
*Noun
(en noun)- They guaranteed that our Web site would have 99.99% uptime, or four nines .
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