different between friction vs spite

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)

1. The rubbing of one object or surface against another.
2. (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.

3. (medicine, obsolete, countable) Massage of the body to restore circulation.
4. (figuratively) Conflict, as between persons having dissimilar ideas or interests; clash.
5. (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)

1. 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)

1. friction

English

Alternative forms

• spight (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• enPR: sp?t, IPA^(key): /spa?t/
• Rhymes: -a?t

Etymology 1

From a shortening of Middle English despit, from Old French despit (whence despite), from Latin d?spectum (“looking down on”), from Latin d?spici? (“to look down, despise”). Compare also Dutch spijt.

Noun

spite (usually uncountable, plural spites)

1. Ill will or hatred toward another, accompanied with the desire to irritate, annoy, or thwart; a want to disturb or put out another; mild malice

   Synonyms: grudge, rancor.

   He was so filled with spite for his ex-wife, he could not hold down a job.

   They did it just for spite.

   • 2014, Emivita, By Any Means Necessary: My Personal Struggles with Good and Evil

     sex with older men was a way to both internalize my spite towards my mother and to find security in a father figure I lacked with my own father.

   • Out of spite, the human beings pretended not to believe that it was Snowball who had destroyed the windmill: they said that it had fallen down because the walls were too thin.

2. (obsolete) Vexation; chagrin; mortification.

Translations

Verb

spite (third-person singular simple present spites, present participle spiting, simple past and past participle spited)

1. (transitive) To treat maliciously; to try to injure or thwart.

   She soon married again, to spite her ex-husband.

2. (transitive, obsolete) To be angry at; to hate.

   • The Danes, then […] pagans, principally spited places of religion.

3. (transitive) To fill with spite; to offend; to vex.

Related terms

• spiteful
• in spite of
• despite

Translations

See also

• malignant
• malicious

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Preposition

spite

1. Notwithstanding; despite.

Anagrams

• IP set, piets, piste, septi-, stipe

Esperanto

Etymology

From English spite.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?spi.te/

Adverb

spite

1. in spite of
2. defiantly

Usage notes

Often used with the accusative or with the preposition al.

Derived terms

• spit
• spiti

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sp?i.t?/

Adjective

spite

1. inflection of spity:
   1. neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular
   2. nonvirile nominative/accusative/vocative plural