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friction
  1. The rubbing of one object or surface against another.
  2. Conflict, as between persons having dissimilar ideas or interests; clash.
  3. (physics) A force that resists the relative motion or tendency to such motion of two bodies in contact.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “Consider the friction of the axles and the friction of the wheels on the rails.”
      “The friction can cause a painful rash that typically resolves when the chafing stops.”
      “The inner skin soils easily, and it cannot be cleaned, except by wearing away, through friction, as one does when erasing pencil marks from paper with a rubber eraser.”
frication
  1. Friction.
  2. (phonetics) Turbulent and noisy airflow.
  3. Examples:
    1. “The shaded areas in a and b indicate the waveforms for the prenasalization of and the frication noise of, respectively.”
      “The first order derivative of the frication noise passes through the parallel filter set.”
      “The cutoff point was the onset of frication, which, in all cases, roughly coincided with the end of voicing.”
frictive
  1. Any substance which increases friction.
frications
  1. plural of frication
frictions
  1. plural of friction
  2. Examples:
    1. “So there was some friction there, but as time passed, they then started reporting that these frictions had begun to ease and the people united.”
      “This disaster has created deep resentments, fuelled interregional frictions, and led to growing political instability.”
      “The foibles and frictions, the political in-fighting and wheels within wheels are the same wherever the spotlights spark up.”
frictives
  1. plural of frictive
  2. Examples:
    1. “The candler also offers his knowledge of various frictives and lotions that enhance and facilitate successful fornication.”
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