(n.) An implacable or malicious foe; one who is diabolically wicked or cruel; an infernal being; -- applied specifically to the devil or a demon.
Example Sentences:
(1) Punks, poets, painters, dropouts, drug fiends, drag queens - all have been welcome at the Chelsea hotel.
(2) As the 10th-century Nine Herbs Charm put it, "finule" defends "against a fiend's hand and against trick, against witchcraft of vile creatures".
(3) The service is likely to excite gadget fiends and those hoping to reduce their gas and electricity bills.
(4) September 2, 2013 11.48am BST Here's our report on Gareth Bale's medical , during which (if he's anything like the rest of us) he'll have had that awkward internal conversation in which you calculate the number of alcohol units you really consume per week then attempt to come up with a number to tell the doctor that seems a) vaguely realistic, b) not too far from the truth but c) doesn't make you look like the boggle-eyed booze fiend you really are.
(5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest I knew a girl named Nikki I guess you could say she was a sex fiend I met her in a hotel lobby Masturbating with a magazine She said how'd you like to waste some time?
(6) McCarley's 1977 arguments for the determining the significance of the pontine dream generator may have been anticipated by McCay's 1905 Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend in which, at the end of each very Freudian nightmare, the dreamer wakes and swears off eating welsh rarebits as if they caused all his unconscious images.
(7) Player ratings: Go on, get judging you heartless fiends .
(8) Which is why those canny fiends in Fifa refuse to introduce technology, in my opinion.
(9) The problems with the cocoa crop in west Africa aren't just a worry for chocolate fiends like me.
(10) The Mona Lisa would certainly have been a key target for Nazi art hunters: the ERR, Hitler himself, and the art fiend and Nazi number two, Hermann Göring.
(11) Found in both his fiction and his letters, terms such as "posish", "eggs and b", and "f i h s" ("fiend in human shape") create a clubby feeling of intimacy between writer and reader.
(12) You wade your way through questions designed by some fiend with a Ph.D in trick questions.
(13) London, New York, California, Berlin, Paris 1899-1975 Dear Willyum, Snorkles and Denis, Fiend of me boyhood, here's some dread news.
(14) And I was throwing up all the time and I hate throwing up.” Jones says she was never really into cocaine and couldn’t understand how she ended up with a “coke fiend” reputation.
(15) "There are people in the street at the moment, people watching this programme, people think Chris Rennard was some sort of sexual fiend like Jimmy Savile.
(16) The image of methadone is based on both misinformation about treatment and the user's contrasting of a treatment status with the stereotypic ideal of the "righteous dope fiend."
(17) Like King Lear, the president feels the fangs of ingratitude, the marble-hearted fiend, more keenly than anything else.
(18) So where can non-consumerist yoga fiends purchase $98 fitness pants now?
Friend
Definition:
(n.) One who entertains for another such sentiments of esteem, respect, and affection that he seeks his society aud welfare; a wellwisher; an intimate associate; sometimes, an attendant.
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(n.) A paramour of either sex.
(v. t.) To act as the friend of; to favor; to countenance; to befriend.
Example Sentences:
(1) In April, they said the teenager boarded a flight to Turkey with his friend Hassan Munshi, also 17 at the time.
(2) I ask a friend to have a stab at, “down at cafe that does us butties”, and he said: “Something to do with his ass?” “Whose arse?” He looked panicked.
(3) Friend erythroleukemia cells were induced to differentiate by dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) and hexamethylene-bis-acetamide (HBMA) in order to investigate whether their lipid characteristics, common to other systems of transformed cells, revert to a normal differentiation pattern.
(4) Furthermore, in induced Friend cells 100 microM Fe-SIH stimulated 2-14C-glycine incorporation into heme up to 3.6-fold as compared to the incorporation observed with saturating concentrations of Fe-Tf.
(5) Although there was already satisfaction in the development of dementia-friendly pharmacies and Pride in Practice, a new standard of excellence in healthcare for gay, lesbian and bisexual patients, the biggest achievement so far was the bringing together of a strategic partnership of 37 NHS, local government and social organisations.
(6) After friends heard that he was on them, Brumfield started observing something strange: “If we had people over to the Super Bowl or a holiday season party, I’d notice that my medicines would come up short, no matter how good friends they were.” Twice people broke into his house to get to the drugs.
(7) The video, which Kester said was taken by a friend of Savannah’s who came to support her, was circulated online this month and featured in a Mormon LGBTQ podcast.
(8) When the standoff ended after 30 minutes, a French police officer told the migrants: “Here is your friend.
(9) I first saw them live at the location of the terror attack, Manchester Arena – then the MEN – aged 15, a teen at a gig with my friends, as many of the Grande’s fans were.
(10) That’s when you heard the ‘boom’.” Teto Wilson also claimed to have witnessed the shooting, posting on Facebook on Sunday morning that he and some friends had been at the Elk lodge, outside which the shooting took place.
(11) I didn’t come here to play games – I wrote to all my friends and family because I might not see them again,” he told Al-Aan.
(12) The ABI figures revealed that the best annuity for someone who is a heavy smoker and has severely impaired health was at Prudential, which paid out 46% more than the worst, from Friends Life.
(13) Clare Gills, an American journalist and friend of Foley, wrote in 2013: “He is always striving to get to the next place, to get closer to what is really happening, and to understand what moves the people he’s speaking with.
(14) But last year Rosi Santoni, one of the relatives who helped look after her, said she had plenty of family to care for her and had many friends in the town.
(15) When I told my friend Rob that I was coming to visit him in Rio, I suggested we try something a bit different to going to the beach every day and drinking caipirinhas until three in the morning.
(16) But mention the words "eurozone crisis" to other Finns, and you could be rewarded with little more than a confused, albeit friendly, smile.
(17) He numbered the Kennedy family and Ian Fleming, creator of the James Bond thrillers, among his friends and spent millions on amassing a first-class art collection, featuring works by Manet and Monet, as well as Van Gogh.
(18) Fleeting though it may have been (he jetted off to New York this morning and is due in Toronto on Saturday), there was a poignant reason for his appearance: he was here to play a tribute set to Frankie Knuckles, the Godfather of house and one of Morales's closest friends, who died suddenly in March.
(19) The person responsible for pulling the trigger was equally likely to be a friend, a family member, or the victim.
(20) Alec played a role in the resignation of the UK defence secretary Liam Fox last year over his close ties to his friend Adam Werritty.