| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Of Friend.[Websters]. | |
| Verb Past Tense | 1. Past tense conjugation of the verb friend.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (friend) | 1. To act as the friend of; to favor; to countenance; to befriend.[Websters]. 2. Base verb from the following inflections: friending, friended, friends, friender, frienders, friendingly and friendedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adjective | 1. Having friends;.[Websters]
2. Inclined to love; well-disposed.[Websters] 3. Being allied. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. Being chapped. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. Being membered or limbed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. Being manned. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. Being honeyed or sugared.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "FRIENDED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Specialty Definition: FRIENDED
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | 1: [Verb] frend'ed.. | 2: [Verb] Favored; befriended.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | |
| Wiktionary | [Verb] Simple past tense and past participle of friend. (references) | ||
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Common Expressions: friend
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| A Letter to a Friend | A Letter to a Friend, by the 17th century alchemist and physician Sir Thomas Browne is a medical treatise full of case-histories and witty speculations upon the human condition. (references) | ||
| Bar Keeper's Friend | Bar Keeper's Friend is a powdered household cleaner sold for use particularly on metals, but also on other household items. (references) | ||
| Best friend | The one friend who is closest to you. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Best Friend | A Best Friend is usually a chosen friend with whom one shares a deeper level of understanding, trust and affection than most others they are close to. (references) | ||
| Best Friend of Charleston | The Best Friend of Charleston was a steam-powered railroad locomotive. It is widely acclaimed as the first locomotive to be built entirely within the United States. It was also the engine involved in the first locomotive boiler explosion in the US. (references) | ||
| Bob Friend | Robert Bartmess Friend (born November 24, 1930 in Lafayette, Indiana) is a former right-handed starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who pitched primarily for the Pittsburgh Pirates (1951-1965), joining the New York Yankees and New York Mets in his final season of 1966. (references) | ||
| Bob Friend (newscaster) | Bob Friend (born 1938) was the original news anchor for the flagship Sky News programme, Sky News Live At Five, which he presented from the channels first day in 1989 until late 2003. (references) | ||
| Color Friend | The Color Friend (Full name, Color Friend Hyper 48) was a failed experimental gaming system, circa 1988. It was created by the Korean company Color Friend, and was one of the earliest (if little known) attempts in the gaming industry to overpower the competition. (references) | ||
| Diamonds Are A Man's Best Friend | Diamonds Are A Man's Best Friend (originally aired 18 April 1973) was the final episode of the first season of Are You Being Served?. After commiserating over their meager wages, the staff search frantically for a diamond lost in the store by a customer who is offering a reward for its return. Though they initially all agree to split the reward among them, should any of them find the diamond, they soon team up, plotting to cheat one another out of the reward money, when each believes they have found the it. In the end, however, the "diamonds" they've found all turn out be rhinestones that have fallen off of a dress. (references) | ||
| Donald Friend | Donald Stuart Leslie Friend (6 February 1915 - 16 August 1989) was an Australian artist, writer and diarist. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: friend
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Bosom Friend | Literature | 1: (A ). A very dear friend. Nathan says, "It lay in his bosom, and was unto him as a daughter." (2 Sam. xii. 3.) Bosom friend, amie du cur. St. John is represented in the New Testament as the "bosom friend" of Jesus. 2: Properly means a friend in a court of law who watches the trial, and tells the judge if he can nose out an error; but the term is more generally applied to a friend in the royal court, who will whisper a good word for you to the sovereign at the proper place and season. (See Amicus Curiae.) 3: (A). A friend in need is a friend indeed. "Amicus certus in re incerta cernitur. " 4: Marquis de Mirabeau. So called from one of his works, L'Ami des Hommes (5 vols.). This was the father of the great Mirabeau, called by Barnave "the Shakespeare of eloquence." (1715-1789.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | |
| Friend Virus | Health | A murine leukemia virus producing leukemia of the reticulum-cell type with massive infiltration of liver, spleen, and bone marrow. It infects DBA/2 and Swiss mice. (references) | |
| Identification friend or foe | Post & Telecom | Recognition system using secondary radar. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Identification, friend or foe | Military | A system using electromagnetic transmissions to which equipment carried by friendly forces automatically responds, for example, by emitting pulses, thereby distinguishing themselves from enemy forces. Also called IFF. (references) | |
| Lady Friend | Slang | Noun. Source: Linguistic 101 students at the University of Oregon. Definition: Another word for Wife. Context: Used when talking about women who are married or are getting married. Social Source: Developmentally Disabled. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) | |
| Lady's friend | Law | LADY'S FRIEND. The name of a functioner in the British house of commons. When the husband sues for a divorce, or asks the passage of an act to divorce him from his wife, he is required to make a provision for her before the passage of the act; it is the duty of the lady's friend to see that such a provision is made. Macq. on H. & W. 213. (references) | |
| My friend | MultiLingual Slang | Arabic (sadikie). (references) | |
| Nero's Friend | Literature | After Nero's fall, when his statues and monuments were torn down by order of the Senate, and every mark of dishonour was accorded to his memory, some unknown hand during the night went to his grave and strewed it with violets. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | |
| Next friend | Law | NEXT FRIEND. One who, without being regularly appointed guardian, acts for the benefit of an infant, married woman, or other person, not sui juris. Vide Amy; Prochein Amy. (references) | |
| Straight friend | MultiLingual Slang | English (queer). (references) | |
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Abbreviations & Acronyms: friend
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | ||||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field | |
| FRIEND | English | Financial Regulations,Instructions,Explanations,Notes and Directives | Finance | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | Top | |||
