Synonym: clash, conflict, grinding, resistance, scraping. Similar words: restriction, fiction, diction, eviction, addiction, nonfiction, non-fiction, affliction. Meaning: ['frɪkʃn] n. 1. a state of conflict between persons 2. the resistance encountered when one body is moved in contact with another 3. effort expended in moving one object over another with pressure.
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91, There is a strong ethnic community and this causes friction in the community because of the lack of jobs.
92, Two wooden benches, unoccupied, their surface polished by human friction, repeated the corner made by their adjacent walls.
93, Often this gives just enough friction for the spanners to grip.
94, However, this apparent simplicity hides the vital role that friction plays in the process.
95, For much of the time there was continuous subcutaneous and repressed friction, broken by occasional and emotionally trying attempts at reconciliation.
96, Just removing this one major source of friction and attacks on self-esteem may contribute to easier successes.
97, Thirdly, output increases with the height of the blades since, lower down, wind speed is reduced by friction.
98, Rapidly the temperature climbed to 5000 C as friction with the atmosphere turned the kinetic energy of the craft into heat.
99, There has been serious friction between the two army commanders.
100, At the studio, there was growing friction between Horton and Bella Lewitzky, the dancers' artistic parents.
101, Variations of load and friction torques with speed can also be taken into account.
102, Her tweed skirt was soaking and its friction rubbed sore patches behind her knees.
103, Another friction point is the red-ink state budget(sentencedict.com/friction.html), which has been running a deficit of several billion dollars.
104, Factionalism between user subgroups can cause friction which in turn neutralises the democratic process.
105, In our fifty years together we both worked out plans and decisions without any friction.
106, Look at the following examples of friction with your partner.
107, His belting experiments, too, focused on costs more than on horsepower or coefficients of friction.
108, Pay is a continuing source of friction with the workers.
109, As a result of such differences there was sometimes friction between those waiting to be purged and the permanent staff.
110, On rocky ground the friction of rope over crests and round corners much reduces fall impacts.
111, The rock is a very compact andesite lava, generally sound, with a reasonable degree of friction.
112, It's bound to cause friction, and that's not fair with Terry's wedding coming up.
113, The new marketing evangelism at National Geographic has caused considerable friction within the organization, particularly at the magazine.
114, This can lead to friction, acrimony and lack of co-operation between functional groups.
115, The hairs have overlapping scales, which gives them a rough texture and increases the friction between goat and snow.
116, Any friction at the hammer pivot will slow down the movement of the hammer, tending to make the action sluggish.
117, He felt the friction of the ride in his teeth.
118, Water along shore and bottom is slowed by friction, while friction-free water in the center moves faster.
119, It was a part of folk wisdom that providing houseroom for a widowed parent could lead to intense family friction.
120, Boundary friction is independent of the guide material used.
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