| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Noun | 1. Friendliness.[Websters]. | |
| Verb | 1. Present participle 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] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "FRIENDING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1601. (references) |
Specialty Definition: friend
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Computing | Friend Relationship between classes in the language C++. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. | ||
| Noah Webster | 1: [Noun] frend. . | 2: [Noun] One who is attached to another by affection; one who entertains for another sentiments of esteem, respect and affection, which lead him to desire his company, and to seek to promote his happiness and prosperity; opposed to foe or enemy. A friend loveth at all times. Prov. 17.. | 3: [Noun] One not hostile; opposed to an enemy in war.. | 4: [Noun] One reconciled after enmity. Let us be friends again.. | 5: [Noun] An attendant; a companion.. | 6: [Noun] A favorer; one who is propitious; as a friend to commerce; a friend to poetry; a friend to charitable institution.. | 7: [Noun] A favorite. Hushai was David's friend.. | 8: [Noun] A term of salutation; a familiar compellation. Friend, how camest thou in hither? Matt. 22. So Christ calls Judas his friend, though a traitor. Matt. 26.. | 9: [Noun] Formerly, a paramour.. | 10: [Noun] A friend at court, one who has sufficient interest to serve another.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. |
| Biographical Satire | FRIEND, A., the scarcest thing on earth. A rare visitor, but he came around a few times in a lifetime. F. was glad to know of your success, pitied you in your failures, and shook you by the hand when you were down and out. Never borrowed money, but he frequently lent it. Was a wise counselor. Very popular. His name was frequently given the baby (see Mischief). Ambition: The other fellow's welfare. Recreation: At the other fellow's house. Address: The other fellow's house or his own. Clubs: All. Source: Who was Who: 5000BC - 1914. | ||
| Dream Interpretation | 1: To dream of friends being well and happy, denotes pleasant tidings of them, or you will soon see them or some of their relatives. 2: To dream that you are shaking hands with a person who has wronged you, and he is taking his departure and looks sad, foretells you will have differences with a close friend and alienation will perhaps follow. You are most assuredly nearing loss of some character. 3: To dream you see a friend standing like a statue on a hill, denotes you will advance beyond present pursuits, but will retain former impressions of justice and knowledge, seeking these through every change. If the figure below be low, you will ignore your friends of former days in your future advancement. If it is on a plane or level with you, you will fail in your ambition to reach other spheres. If you seem to be going from it, you will force yourself to seek a change in spite of friendly ties or self-admonition. 4: To see your friend troubled and haggard, sickness or distress is upon them. 5: To see your friend who dresses in somber colors in flaming red, foretells that unpleasant things will transpire, causing you anxiety if not loss, and that friends will be implicated. 6: To see your friends dark-colored, denotes unusual sickness or trouble to you or to them. To see them take the form of animals, signifies that enemies will separate you from your closest relations. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... | ||
| Health | Fentanyl. (references) | ||
| Literature | 1: "Mr. Baillie was to have acted as Disraeli's friend, if there had been a duel between that statesman and Daniel O'Connell." - Newspaper paragraph (December, 1885). 2: Better kinde frend than fremd kinde (motto of the Waterton family) means "better kind friend (i.e. neighbour) than a kinsman who dwells in foreign parts." Probably it is Prov. xxvii. 10, "Better is a neighbour that is near, than a brother far off." In which case fremd would be = stranger. Better a kind friend than a kinsman who is a stranger. 3: Friend (A). The second in a duel, as "Name your friend," "Captain B. acted as his friend." Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | ||
| MultiLingual Slang | Hungarian (haver). (references) | ||
| Physics | The power of OO comes from the twin concepts of a simple interface (abstraction) with all implementation details hidden (encapsulation). However, sometimes one class. say Class B, cooperates so closely with another, say Class A, that it has to know more about than the OO model dictates. In this situation class A can declare that Class B is a friend which gives it the same access as if it were part of A. As in life, friendship is not necessarily reciprocal, A has not special access to B, unless B chooses to declare A as a friend as well. (references) | ||
| Wiktionary | 1: [Noun] (colloquial, ironic, used only in the vocative) Used as a form of address when warning someone. You'd better watch it, friend. (references) | 2: [Noun] (rock-climbing) Brand name of a spring-loaded camming device now manufactured by Wild Country. Now used (often without initial capital) to refer to any such device. See [1]. (references) | 3: [Noun] A boyfriend or girlfriend. See [1]. (references) | 4: [Noun] A person other than a family member, spouse or lover whose company one enjoys and towards whom one feels affection. (references) | 5: [Noun] A person who backs something. I'm not a friend of cheap wine. (references) | 6: [Noun] A person with whom one is vaguely or indirectly acquainted a friend of a friend. (references) | 7: [Noun] A Quaker; a member of the Society of Friends. (references) | 8: [Noun] An associate who provides assistance. The Automobile Association is every motorist's friend. The police is every law abiding citizen's friend. (references) | 9: [Noun] An object or idea that can be used for good. Google is your friend. (references) | 10: [Verb] (online social networking): to join a list of associates of a fellow member of one's social networking site 2006, David Fono and Kate Raynes-Goldie, "Hyperfriendship and Beyond: Friends and Social Norms on LiveJournal" (PDF version), Internet Research Annual Volume 4, Peter Lang, ISBN 0820478571, page 99, The difference between responses to the statement, "If someone friends me, I will friend them," and "If I friend someone, I expect them to friend me back," is telling. 2006, Kevin Farnham and Dale G. Farnham, Myspace Safety: 51 Tips for Teens And Parents, How-To Primers, ISBN 0977883353, page 69, One of the most used features of MySpace is the practice that is nicknamed "friending." If you "friend" someone, then that person is added to your MySpace friends list, and you are added to their friends list. (references) | 11: [Verb] to act as the friend of. (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 | |||
