Friend vs. Friendly

Friendnoun

A person other than a family member, spouse or lover whose company one enjoys and towards whom one feels affection.

Friendnoun

A boyfriend or girlfriend.

Friendnoun

An associate who provides assistance.

Friendnoun

A person with whom one is vaguely or indirectly acquainted

Friendnoun

A person who backs or supports something.

Friendnoun

(informal) An object or idea that can be used for good.

Friendnoun

Used as a form of address when warning someone.

Friendnoun

(object-oriented programming) A function or class granted special access to the private and protected members of another class.

Friendnoun

(climbing) A spring-loaded camming device.

Friendnoun

(obsolete) A paramour of either sex.

Friendverb

To act as a friend to, to befriend; to be friendly to, to help.

Friendverb

(transitive) To add (a person) to a list of friends on a social networking site; to officially designate (someone) as a friend.

Friendnoun

One who entertains for another such sentiments of esteem, respect, and affection that he seeks his society and welfare; a wellwisher; an intimate associate; sometimes, an attendant.

Friendnoun

One not inimical or hostile; one not a foe or enemy; also, one of the same nation, party, kin, etc., whose friendly feelings may be assumed. The word is some times used as a term of friendly address.

Friendnoun

One who looks propitiously on a cause, an institution, a project, and the like; a favorer; a promoter; as, a friend to commerce, to poetry, to an institution.

Friendnoun

One of a religious sect characterized by disuse of outward rites and an ordained ministry, by simplicity of dress and speech, and esp. by opposition to war and a desire to live at peace with all men. They are popularly called Quakers.

Friendnoun

A paramour of either sex.

Friendverb

To act as the friend of; to favor; to countenance; to befriend.

Friendnoun

a person you know well and regard with affection and trust;

Friendnoun

an associate who provides assistance;

Friendnoun

a person with whom you are acquainted;

Friendnoun

a person who backs a politician or a team etc.;

Friendnoun

a member of the Religious Society of Friends founded by George Fox (the Friends have never called themselves Quakers)

Friendlyadjective

Generally warm, approachable and easy to relate with in character.

Friendlyadjective

Inviting, characteristic of friendliness.

Friendlyadjective

Having an easy or accepting relationship with something.

Friendlyadjective

Without any hostility.

Friendlyadjective

Promoting the good of any person; favourable; propitious.

Friendlyadjective

(military) Of or pertaining to friendlies (friendly noun sense 2, below). Also applied to other bipolar confrontations, such as team sports

Friendlyadjective

(number theory) Being or relating to two or more natural numbers with a common abundancy.

Friendlyadjective

(in compounds) Not damaging to, or compatible with (the compounded noun)

Friendlynoun

(sports) A game which is of no consequence in terms of ranking, betting etc.

Friendlynoun

A person or entity on the same side in a conflict.

Friendlyadverb

(archaic) In a friendly manner, like a friend.

Friendlyadjective

Having the temper and disposition of a friend; disposed to promote the good of another; kind; favorable.

Friendlyadjective

Appropriate to, or implying, friendship; befitting friends; amicable.

Friendlyadjective

Not hostile; as, a friendly power or state.

Friendlyadjective

Promoting the good of any person; favorable; propitious; serviceable; as, a friendly breeze or gale.

Friendlyadverb

In the manner of friends; amicably; like friends.

Friendlynoun

A friendly person; - usually applied to natives friendly to foreign settlers or invaders.

Friendlynoun

A member of one's own military forces, or of allied forces.

Friendlyadjective

characteristic of or befitting a friend;

Friendlyadjective

favorably disposed; not antagonistic or hostile;

Friendlyadjective

easy to understand or use;

Friendlyadjective

of or belonging to your own country's forces or those of an ally;

Friendlyadjective

kind and pleasant

Friendlyadjective

(of a person) on good or affectionate terms

Friendlyadjective

(of relations) not in conflict

Friendlyadjective

not seriously or unpleasantly competitive or divisive

Friendlyadjective

(of a game or match) not forming part of a serious competition.

Friendlyadjective

denoting something that is adapted for or is not harmful to a specified thing

Friendlyadjective

favourable or serviceable

Friendlyadjective

(of troops or equipment) of, belonging to, or allied with one's own forces

Friendlynoun

a game or match that does not form part of a serious competition