Some articles on friend, friends:
... A friend-to-friend (or F2F) computer network is a type of peer-to-peer network in which users only make direct connections with people they know ... Unlike other kinds of private P2P, users in a friend-to-friend network cannot find out who else is participating beyond their own circle of friends, so ... is the only one of these configured for friend-to-friend operation by default ...
... Ukridge's friend Jimmy Corcoran is persuaded to hire a typist to speed his writing ... Shocked, Corcoran asks his friend how he hopes to find the money ... Ukridge reveals that Hank Philbrick, an old friend from Canada has made it big, and has been persuaded by Ukridge to buy an English country house Ukridge has contracted with an agent, who will split ...
... Ukridge arrives at his friend Jimmy Corcoran's house at 3 a.m ... He relates to his friend how he had been left in charge of his Aunt Julia's house, and had come up with the ingenious idea of renting out rooms to an exclusive clientele of boarders ... However, meeting an old friend of his Aunt's, he hears she is returning sooner than expected, and tries to think of a way to get rid of the guests before their ...
... Mafalda became a full-fledged cartoon strip on the advice of Quino's friend Julián Delgado, at the time senior editor of the weekly Primera Plana ... Her friend Felipe came on the scene in January 1965 ... After creating the characters of Mafalda's little brother Guille and her new friend Libertad, he definitively ceased publication of the strip on 25 June 1973 ...
... Funeral for a Friend are a Welsh post-hardcore band from Bridgend who formed in 2001 ... Funeral for a Friend's popularity rose in the United Kingdom with the release of their debut album, Casually Dressed Deep in Conversation (2003) ... Hours (2005) and Tales Don't Tell Themselves (2007) showed an evolution in Funeral for a Friend's musical style from the style which defined their debut, as the group began to diverge from ...
More definitions of "friend":
- (noun): A person who backs a politician or a team etc..
Synonyms: supporter, protagonist, champion, admirer, booster
- (noun): A person you know well and regard with affection and trust.
Example: "He was my best friend at the university"
- (noun): A member of the Religious Society of Friends founded by George Fox (the Friends have never called themselves Quakers).
Synonyms: Quaker
- (noun): A person with whom you are acquainted.
Synonyms: acquaintance
Famous quotes containing the word friend:
“The service a man renders his friend is trivial and selfish, compared with the service he knows his friend stood in readiness to yield him, alike before he had begun to serve his friend, and now also. Compared with that good-will I bear my friend, the benefit it is in my power to render him seems small.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Diamonds may have been a girl’s best friend in an era when a woman’s only hope of having a high family income was to marry a man who was well-off, but today, marketable skills that will enable a woman to command a good income over her lifetime are a better investment.”
—Grace Baruch (20th century)
“A child... who has learned from fairy stories to believe that what at first seemed a repulsive, threatening figure can magically change into a most helpful friend is ready to believe that a strange child whom he meets and fears may also be changed from a menace into a desirable companion.”
—Bruno Bettelheim (20th century)