Friend

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A person, typically someone other than a family member, spouse or lover, whose company one enjoys and towards whom one feels affection.

   “John and I have been friends ever since we were roommates at college.”

2. isim An associate who provides assistance; patron, mentor.

   “The Automobile Association is every motorist's friend. The police is every law-abiding citizen's friend.”

3. isim A person with whom one is vaguely or indirectly acquainted.

   “a friend of a friend”

4. isim A person who backs or supports something.

   “I’m not a friend of cheap wine.”

5. isim An object or idea that can be used for good.

   “Fruit is your friend.”

6. isim Used as a form of address when warning someone.

   “You’d better watch it, friend.”

7. isim A function or class granted special access to the private and protected members of another class.

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

8. isim A spring-loaded camming device.

   “Since they were introduced in the 1970s, friends have revolutionized climbing, making protection possible in previously impossible places […]”

9. isim A lover; a boyfriend or girlfriend.

   “Nor to the motion of a schoolboy's tongue ; Nor never come in visard to my friend”

10. isim A relative, a relation by blood or marriage.

    “Friends agree best at a distance.”

11. isim Used to refer collectively to a group of associated individuals, especially those comprising a cast, company, or crew

    “Meanwhile on The View, Whoopi Goldberg and friends continue to spout their takes on the hot topics of the day.”

12. fiil To act as a friend to, to befriend; to be friendly to, to help.

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

13. fiil To add (a person) to a list of friends on a social networking site; to officially designate (someone) as a friend.

    “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.”

14. isim A Quaker; a member of the Society of Friends. (See also Friends.)
15. isim Brand name of a spring-loaded camming device, now used to refer to any such device, often uncapitalized, as friend.
16. özel isim A surname transferred from the common noun.
17. özel isim An unincorporated community in Terry Township, Finney County, Kansas.
18. özel isim A minor city in Saline County, Nebraska, named after Charles E. Friend.
19. özel isim A ghost town in Wasco County, Oregon, named after George J. Friend.