different between jarring vs friction

English

Adjective

jarring (comparative more jarring, superlative most jarring)

1. That jars (clashes or disagrees); incongruous, conflictful.

   • The rings of iron that on the doors were hung
     Sent out a jarring sound

   • 2019, Stormzy, Vossi Bop

     I could probably take your chick
     But I just wouldn't 'cause she's jarrin'

Translations

Noun

jarring (plural jarrings)

1. Storage in jars.

   The jarring of peaches took place at the end of the season.

2. A feeling or movement that jars or jolts.

Translations

Verb

jarring

1. present participle of jar

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