Friend vs Job - What's the difference?

friend | job |

As proper nouns the difference between friend and job

is that friend is while job is job.

As a noun friend

is a quaker; a member of the.

friend

English

(Friendship)

Noun

(en noun)

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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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++

But don't take the following sections as an endorsement of friends'. Top C++ programmers avoid using ' friends unless absolutely necessary.

* 2001 , Stephen Prata, C++ primer plus

In that case, the function needn't (and shouldn't) be a friend .

* 2008 , D S Malik, C++ Programming: From Problem Analysis to Program Design

To make a function be a friend to a class, the reserved word friend precedes the function prototype

(obsolete) A paramour of either sex.

(Shakespeare)

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 also

Antonyms

* (person whose company one enjoys) enemy, foe, nemesis (nonstandard) * (person who provides assistance) enemy, foe

Usage notes

* We usually make a friend'', or ''make friends with someone. See

Derived 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 * schoolfriend

Verb

(en verb)

(obsolete) To act as a friend to, to befriend; to be friendly to, to help.

* 1596 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , IV.ii:

Lo sluggish Knight the victors happie pray: / So fortune friends the bold [...].

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, " Hyperfriendship and Beyond: Friends and Social Norms on LiveJournal]" ([http://k4t3.org/publications/hyperfriendship.pdf PDF version]), Internet Research Annual Volume 4 , Peter Lang, ISBN 0820478571, page [http://books.google.com/books?q=%22friend+them%22+consalvo&btnG=Search+Books 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.

Synonyms

* (to act as the friend of) befriend

Antonyms

* (social networking) defriend, unfriend

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job

English

Noun

(en noun)

A task.

* 1996 , (Tom Cruise) in the movie (Jerry Maguire)

''And it's my job to take care of the skanks on the road that you bang.

An economic role for which a person is paid.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist), author=Schumpeter

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(in noun compounds) Plastic surgery.

(computing) A task, or series of tasks, carried out in batch mode (especially on a mainframe computer).

A sudden thrust or stab; a jab.

A public transaction done for private profit; something performed ostensibly as a part of official duty, but really for private gain; a corrupt official business.

Any affair or event which affects one, whether fortunately or unfortunately.

A thing (often used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one cannot recall).

Usage notes

* Adjectives often applied to "job": easy, hard, poor, good, great, excellent, decent, low-paying, steady, stable, secure, challenging, demanding, rewarding, boring, thankless, stressful, horrible, lousy, satisfying, industrial, educational, academic.

Derived terms

* blow job * good job * job center * job queue * poor job

Verb

(jobb)

To do odd jobs or occasional work for hire.

* Moore

Authors of all work, to job for the season.

To work as a jobber.

To take the loss.

(trading) To buy and sell for profit, as securities; to speculate in.

(transitive, often, with out) To subcontract a project or delivery in small portions to a number of contractors.

We wanted to sell a turnkey plant, but they jobbed out the contract to small firms.

To seek private gain under pretence of public service; to turn public matters to private advantage.

* Alexander Pope

And judges job , and bishops bite the town.

To strike or stab with a pointed instrument.

(rfquotek, L'Estrange)

To thrust in, as a pointed instrument.

(Moxon)

To hire or let in periods of service.

to job a carriage

(Thackeray)

Derived terms

* blowjob * bob-a-job * boob job * desk job * good job * handjob * jobber * jobless * job of work * job-seeker * jobsware * job title * joe job * nose job * paint job * toe job * rim job

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