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friction
English
Etymology
From Middle French friction and directly from Latin frictionem, nom. frictio (“a rubbing, rubbing down”). Doublet of frisson.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?f??k??n?/
- Rhymes: -?k??n
Noun
friction (usually uncountable, plural frictions)
- The rubbing of one object or surface against another.
- (physics) A force that resists the relative motion or tendency to such motion of two bodies in contact.
- 1839, Denison Olmsted, A Compendium of Astronomy Page 95
- Secondly, When a body is once in motion it will continue to move forever, unless something stops it. When a ball is struck on the surface of the earth, the friction of the earth and the resistance of the air soon stop its motion.
- 1839, Denison Olmsted, A Compendium of Astronomy Page 95
- (medicine, obsolete, countable) Massage of the body to restore circulation.
- (figuratively) Conflict, as between persons having dissimilar ideas or interests; clash.
- (China, historical) (Second Sino-Japanese War) Conflict, as between the Communists and non-Hanjian Kuomintang forces.
Derived terms
Related terms
- frictive
- frictional
- frictious
- fray
- fricative
- affricate
- dentifrice
Translations
See also
- tribology
- lubrication
French
Etymology
From Latin frictionem, nom. frictio (“a rubbing, rubbing down”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /f?ik.sj??/
Noun
friction f (plural frictions)
- friction: the rubbing, the conflict or the physics force.
Further reading
- “friction” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Interlingua
Noun
friction (uncountable)
- friction
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discord
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English
Etymology
Circa 1230, Middle English descorde, discorde; from Anglo-Norman, Old French descort (derivative of descorder), descorde (“disagreement”); from Latin discordia, from discors (“disagreeing, disagreement”), from dis- (“apart”) + cor, cordis (“heart”).
Verb derives from Middle English discorden, from Anglo-Norman, Old French descorder, from Latin discord?re, from discord-, as above.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?d?sk??d/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?d?sk??d/
Noun
discord (countable and uncountable, plural discords)
- Lack of concord, agreement or harmony.
- A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.
- 1775, Edmund Burke, Conciliation with America
- Peace to arise out of universal discord fomented in all parts of the empire.
- Tension or strife resulting from a lack of agreement; dissension.
- (music) An inharmonious combination of simultaneously sounded tones; a dissonance.
- Any harsh noise, or confused mingling of sounds.
Derived terms
- apple of discord
Related terms
- discordant
- Discordianism
Translations
Pronunciation 2
- (General American) IPA(key): /d?s?k??d/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /d?s?k??d/
- Rhymes: -??(?)d
Verb
discord (third-person singular simple present discords, present participle discording, simple past and past participle discorded)
- (intransitive, archaic) To disagree; to fail to agree or harmonize; clash.
- (transistive, rare) To untie things which are connected by a cord.
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