Cohort vs Friend - What's the difference?
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A group of people supporting the same thing or person.
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* 1916 , (James Joyce), , Chapter III,
* 1919 , (Albert Payson Terhune), , Chapter VI: Lost!,
(statistics) A demographic grouping of people, especially those in a defined age group, or having a common characteristic.
(military, history) Any division of a Roman legion, normally of about 500 men.
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* 1910 , (Arthur Conan Doyle)'', '' ,
* 1913 , '', article in ''(Catholic Encyclopedia) ,
An accomplice; abettor; associate.
Any band or body of warriors.
* 1667 , (John Milton), Paradise Lost
(taxonomy) A natural group of orders of organisms, less comprehensive than a class.
A colleague.
A person other than a family member, spouse or lover whose company one enjoys and towards whom one feels affection.
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A boyfriend or girlfriend.
An associate who provides assistance.
A person with whom one is vaguely or indirectly acquainted
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(informal) An object or idea that can be used for good.
(colloquial, ironic, used only in the vocative) Used as a form of address when warning someone.
(computing, programming) In object-oriented programming, a function or class granted special access to the private and protected members of another class.
* 1991 , Tom Swan, Learning C++
* 2001 , Stephen Prata, C++ primer plus
* 2008 , D S Malik, C++ Programming: From Problem Analysis to Program Design
(obsolete) A paramour of either sex.
(obsolete) To act as a friend to, to befriend; to be friendly to, to help.
* 1596 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , IV.ii:
To add (a person) to a list of friends on a social networking site; to officially designate (someone) as a friend.
* 2006 , David Fono and Kate Raynes-Goldie, "
* 2006 , Kevin Farnham and Dale G. Farnham, Myspace Safety: 51 Tips for Teens And Parents , How-To Primers, ISBN 0977883353, page
As nouns the difference between cohort and friend
is that cohort is a group of people supporting the same thing or person while friend is a quaker; a member of the.As a proper noun friend is
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English
(wikipedia cohort)Noun
(en noun)- Coyness and caprice have in consequence become a heritage of the sex, together with a cohort of allied weaknesses and petty deceits, that men have come to think venial, and even amiable, in women, but which they would not tolerate among themselves.
- A sin, an instant of rebellious pride of the intellect, made Lucifer and a third part of the cohort of angels fall from their glory.
- A lost dog? — Yes. No succoring cohort surges to the relief. A gang of boys, perhaps, may give chase, but assuredly not in kindness.
- The 18-24 cohort shows a sharp increase in automobile fatalities over the proximate age groupings.
- Three cohorts of men were assigned to the region.
- But he lost the whole of his first cohort' and the centurion of the first line, a man of high rank in his own class, Asinius Dento, and the other centurions of the same ' cohort , as well as a military tribune, Sext. Lucilius, son of T. Gavius Caepio, a man of wealth, and high position.
- But here it is as clear as words can make it: 'Bring every man of the Legions by forced marches to the help of the Empire. Leave not a cohort in Britain.' These are my orders.
- The cohort in which he was centurion was probably the Cohors II Italica civium Romanorum , which a recently discovered inscription proves to have been stationed in Syria before A.D. 69.
- He was able to plea down his sentence by revealing the names of three of his cohorts , as well as the source of the information.
- With him the cohort bright / Of watchful cherubim.
friend
English
(Friendship)Noun
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- But don't take the following sections as an endorsement of friends'. Top C++ programmers avoid using ' friends unless absolutely necessary.
- In that case, the function needn't (and shouldn't) be a friend .
- To make a function be a friend to a class, the reserved word
friend
precedes the function prototype
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Synonyms
* (person whose company one enjoys) bud (qualifier), buddy (qualifier), chum (British), mate (British), pal, crony, amigo, bro * (boyfriend or girlfriend) boyfriend, girlfriend, lover * (person with whom you are acquainted) acquaintance * (person who provides assistance) ally * (person who backs something) admirer, booster, champion, protagonist, supporter * (form of address used in warning someone) buster, mate (British), pal, buddy * See alsoAntonyms
* (person whose company one enjoys) enemy, foe, nemesis (nonstandard) * (person who provides assistance) enemy, foeUsage notes
* We usually make a friend'', or ''make friends with someone. SeeDerived terms
* a friend in need is a friend indeed * best friend * befriend * bosom friend * boy friend * boyfriend * circle of friends * close friend * fair-weather friend * false friend * four-legged friend * * friend of mine * friend of ours * friend with benefits * friendish * friendless * friendly * Friends * friendship * friends list * friendsome * friend zone * girl friend * girlfriend * good friend * identification friend or foe * lady friend * man's best friend * old friend * penfriend, pen friend, pen-friend * schoolfriendVerb
(en verb)- Lo sluggish Knight the victors happie pray: / So fortune friends the bold [...].
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- 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.
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- 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.