From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
fried
adj 1: cooked by frying in fat [syn: fried, deep-fried]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Fried \Fried\ (fr[imac]d),
imp. & p. p. of Fry.
[1913 Webster]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Fry \Fry\ (fr[imac]), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fried (fr[imac]d);
p. pr. & vb. n. Frying.] [OE. frien, F. frire, fr. L.
frigere to roast, parch, fry, cf. Gr. ?, Skr. bhrajj. Cf.
Fritter.]
To cook in a pan or on a griddle (esp. with the use of fat,
butter, or olive oil) by heating over a fire; to cook in
boiling lard or fat; as, to fry fish; to fry doughnuts.
[1913 Webster]
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008) [foldoc]:
fried
1. <hardware> Non-working due to hardware failure; burnt out.
Especially used of hardware brought down by a "power glitch"
(see glitch), drop-outs, a short, or some other electrical
event. (Sometimes this literally happens to electronic
circuits! In particular, resistors can burn out and
transformers can melt down, emitting noxious smoke - see
friode, SED and LER. However, this term is also used
metaphorically.) Compare frotzed.
2. <jargon> Of people, exhausted. Said particularly of those
who continue to work in such a state. Often used as an
explanation or excuse. "Yeah, I know that fix destroyed the
file system, but I was fried when I put it in." Especially
common in conjunction with "brain": "My brain is fried today,
I'm very short on sleep."
[Jargon File]
(1996-04-28)
From Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) [jargon]:
fried
adj.
1. [common] Non-working due to hardware failure; burnt out. Especially
used of hardware brought down by a power glitch (see glitch),
drop-outs, a short, or some other electrical event. (Sometimes this
literally happens to electronic circuits! In particular, resistors can
burn out and transformers can melt down, emitting noxious smoke -- see
friode, SED and LER. However, this term is also used
metaphorically.) Compare frotzed.
2. [common] Of people, exhausted. Said particularly of those who
continue to work in such a state. Often used as an explanation or
excuse. "Yeah, I know that fix destroyed the file system, but I was
fried when I put it in." Esp.: common in conjunction with brain: "My
brain is fried today, I'm very short on sleep."