Friend vs Friendlily - What's the difference?
friend | friendlily |
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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, 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 a noun friend
is a person other than a family member, spouse or lover whose company one enjoys and towards whom one feels affection.As a verb friend
is (obsolete) to act as a friend to, to befriend; to be friendly to, to help.As a adverb friendlily is
in a friendly manner; like a friend; warmly; kindly.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
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.