friction as a noun: - 1
- 2
- 3
friction
noun
1 friction
A state of conflict between persons.
synonym: clash.
Roget 179:
counteraction,
opposition;
contrariety
etc.
14;
antagonism,
polarity;
clashing
etc.
v.;
collision,
interference,
inhibition,
resistance,
renitency,
friction;
reaction;
retroaction
etc.
(recoil)
277;
counterblast†;
neutralization
etc.
(compensation)
30;
vis inertiae [Lat.];
check
etc.
(hindrance)
706.
voluntary opposition
etc.
708,
voluntary resistance
etc.
719;
repression
etc.
(restraint)
751.
opposites,
action and reaction,
yang and yin,
yang-yin
(contrariety)
14.
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2 friction
The resistance encountered when one body is moved in contact with another.
synonym: rubbing.
Dutch: frictie, wrijving, wrijvingsweerstand
Polish: tarcie
3 friction
Effort expended in moving one object over another with pressure.
synonyms: detrition, rubbing.
Roget 331:
friction,
attrition;
rubbing,
abrasion,
scraping
etc.
v.;
confrication†,
detrition,
contrition†,
affriction†,
abrasion,
arrosion†,
limature†,
frication†,
rub;
elbow grease;
rosin;
massage;
roughness
etc.
256.
rolling friction,
sliding friction,
starting friction.
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Moby thesaurus: Discordia, Eris, abrading, abrasion, animosity, antagonism, antipathy, argument, attrition, backlash, bad blood, belligerence, bickering, caressing, chafing, clash, clashing, collision, competition, conflict, confutation, contention, contradiction, contraposition, contrariety, contrariness, controversy, counteraction, counterposition, counterworking, crankiness, cross-purposes, crotchetiness, despitefulness, disaccord, disaffinity, disagreement, discord, discordance, discordancy, disharmony, dispute, dissension, dissent, enmity, erosion, feeling, fingering, fractiousness, fretting, fricative, frictional, frottage, grating, handling, hate, hatred, hostility, ill feeling, ill will, incompatibility, incompatibleness, inharmoniousness, inharmony, inimicalness, interference, jangle, jar, kick, malevolence, malice, malignity, manipulation, mischief, negativeness, nonconformity, noncooperation, obstinacy, open conflict, opposition, opposure, oppugnance, oppugnancy, palpation, perverseness, petting, pressure, quarrelsomeness, reaction, recalcitrance, recoil, refractoriness, renitency, repercussion, repugnance, resistance, revolt, rivalry, rub, rubbing, scraping, spite, spitefulness, strained relations, strife, stroking, swimming upstream, tension, touching, uncooperativeness, unharmoniousness, unpleasantness, vying, wrangling ... show more.
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