Cousin vs Friend - What's the difference?
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The son or daughter of a person’s uncle or aunt; a first cousin.
Any relation who is not a direct ancestor or descendant; one more distantly related than an uncle, aunt, granduncle, grandaunt, nephew, niece, grandnephew, grandniece, etc.
(obsolete)
* Shakespeare
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
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-21, author=(Oliver Burkeman)
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, title= A person who backs or supports something.
(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 cousin and friend
is that cousin is cousin while friend is a quaker; a member of the.As a proper noun friend is
.cousin
English
Noun
(en noun)- I think my cousin is a good man .
- My noble lords and cousins , all, good morrow.
Usage notes
* People who have common grandparents but different parents are first cousins. People who have common great-grandparents but no common grandparents and different parents are second cousins, and so on. * In general, one’s nth cousin is anyone other than oneself, one's siblings or nearer cousins found by going back n+1 generations and then forward n+1 generations. One of my first'' cousin's ''parents'' is one of my ''parents' siblings''. One of my ''second'' cousin's ''grandparents'' is one of my ''grandparents' siblings . * The child of one’s first cousin is one’s first cousin once removed; the grandchild of one’s first cousin is one’s first cousin twice removed, and so on. For example, if Phil and Marie are first cousins, and Marie has a son Andre, then Phil and Andre are first cousins once removed. * In the southern US, the relation is considered the number of links between two people of common ancestry to the common aunt or uncle. * A patrilineal or paternal cousin is a father's niece or nephew, and a matrilineal or maternal cousin a mother's. Paternal and maternal parallel cousins are father's brother's child and mother's sister's child, respectively; paternal and maternal cross cousins are father's sister's child and mother's brother's child, respectively.Derived terms
* cousin brother * cousin german * cousin prime * cousin sister * cousin-aunt * cousin-brother * cousin-german * cousin-in-law * cousin-sister * cousin-uncle * cross-cousin * first cousin * kissing cousin * parallel cousin * second cousin * third cousinSee also
* once removed * twice removedExternal links
* (wikipedia)Anagrams
* ----friend
English
(Friendship)Noun
(en noun)The tao of tech, passage=The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about […], or offering services that let you "stay up to date with what your friends are doing",
- 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
friendprecedes 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.