Ally vs Friends - What's the difference?
ally | friends |
To unite, or form a connection between, as between families by marriage, or between princes and states by treaty, league, or confederacy
* (rfdate) :
To connect or form a relation between by similitude, resemblance, friendship, or love.
* (rfdate) :
* (rfdate) :
One united to another by treaty or league; — usually applied to sovereigns or states; a confederate.
* (rfdate) :
Anything associated with another as a helper; an auxiliary.
* (rfdate) Buckle:
Anything akin to something else by structure, etc.
(taxonomy) A closely related species, usually within the same family.
(obsolete) A relative; a kinsman.
(a glass marble or taw)
Participants in a two-way friendship relationship.
As proper nouns the difference between ally and friends
is that ally is a diminutive of the female given names alison, alice and alexandra while friends is the quakers; the.As a noun friends is
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English
(Webster 1913)Etymology 1
From (etyl) alien, (etyl) alier (Modern French allier), from (etyl) . Compare alligate, allay, alloy and ligament.Verb
(en-verb)- O chief! in blood, and now in arms allied .
- These three did love each other dearly well, And with so firm affection were allied .
- The virtue nearest to our vice allied .
Usage notes
* Generally used in the passive form or reflexively. * Often followed by to'' or ''with .Synonyms
* make common causeNoun
(allies)- the English soldiers and their French allies
- Science, instead of being the enemy of religion, becomes its ally.
- Gruiformes — cranes and allies
- (Shakespeare)
Etymology 2
Diminutive of alabaster.Noun
(allies)References
*Anagrams
* English heteronymsfriends
English
Noun
(head)- I tried to be a friend to Jane but we never ''really'' made friends . She was never a friend to me.
- Jane and I made friends right away.
- We became''' friends in the war and remain ' friends to this day.
- We were friends''' with some girls from the other school and stayed '''friends with them.