What's the difference between freya and friday?

Freya


Definition:

  • (n.) The daughter of Njord, and goddess of love and beauty; the Scandinavian Venus; -- in Teutonic myths confounded with Frigga, but in Scandinavian, distinct.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In his last couple of months as PM he was coming down here often Freya Pharo “It shouldn’t lose any of its magic,” Hackett said, addressing concerns that the pub’s atmosphere would change with its owners.
  • (2) Rescuing George Osborne's cat, Freya, has put me at the centre of a media storm in the past 24 hours.
  • (3) Its abolition is a distressing defeat | Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff Read more ‘ The message it sends is that you’re not welcome, and only the rich can go’ Freya Jeffries, 20, going into her third year studying English at Southampton University, has the full grant.
  • (4) But I was out with an old person and it was out of order.” His partner Tracey Wicks and their daughter Freya, 14, were due to visit him in hospital.
  • (5) My partner James was in the other room and he came in straight afterwards, and then our other children, Freya, who's seven, and four-year-old Lilly, came in to meet their new brother.
  • (6) It's been amazing how much interest has been generated by a simple act of kindness to the chancellor's cat, but Freya is like the people we work with – they all deserve some help in getting home.
  • (7) It is good to see the organisations investigating and I hope they can quickly get to the bottom of it.” Joining Farah in calling for transparency are Jo Pavey, Lisa Dobriskey, Jenny Meadows, Freya Murray, Hatti Archer, Emma Jackson and Andy Baddeley.
  • (8) The interns Freya Edmondson, second-year fashion design student at Kingston University I've dressed models backstage at London Fashion Week quite a few times and it's pretty much all students.
  • (9) Freya Horne, counsel for the San Francisco sheriff’s department, said on Friday that federal detention requests were not sufficient to hold someone.
  • (10) Freya Parker, part of the acclaimed sketch troupe Lazy Susan, said that Williams's drama had been as inspiring to her as his comedy.
  • (11) Freya settled straight away on my pillow and purred peacefully until I had to leave her to head out on an early morning outreach shift helping London's homeless.
  • (12) Tim Lott and Josephine Cox opted for Pip and Oliver respectively; Freya North chose Uriah Heep, describing him as a "loathsome character who seeps from the pages like a noxious gas"; Daisy Goodwin went for "the anti-heroine of Bleak House", Lady Dedlock, while Adele Parks favoured the "morally ambiguous" Nancy from Oliver Twist.
  • (13) The trainer, who details his own near-fatal encounter with an aggressive whale called Freya in the opening pages of his book, weighed everything up and decided, in August 2012, that it was time to quit.
  • (14) The lady who answered the phone expressed surprise at hearing that Freya had made it to Vauxhall from Downing Street, over a mile away.
  • (15) It didn't seem important at the time but we took a photo of Freya with a note calling on the chancellor not to cut funding to homelessness services.
  • (16) I was talking about it with the fish men today, we don’t bat an eyelid, because in the same way we go ‘let’s go and have a Chinese’, I’m sure the Chinese go ‘let’s go out and have an English’.” Freya Pharo, who has been bar manager at the Plough for the past eight months, was also unconcerned about potential changes.

Friday


Definition:

  • (n.) The sixth day of the week, following Thursday and preceding Saturday.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) On Friday night, in a stadium built in an area once deemed an urban wasteland, the flame that has journeyed from Athens to every corner of these islands will light the fire that launches the London Olympics of 2012.
  • (2) Video games specialist Game was teetering on the brink of collapse on Friday after a rescue deal put forward by private equity firm OpCapita appeared to have been given the cold shoulder by lenders who are owed more than £100m.
  • (3) On Friday, a spokesperson for China’s foreign ministry appeared to confirm those fears, telling reporters that the joint declaration, a deal negotiated by London and Beijing guaranteeing Hong Kong’s way of life for 50 years, “was a historical document that no longer had any practical significance”.
  • (4) Total costs of building the three missile destroyers in Australia will amount to more than $9bn, approximately three times the cost of buying the ships ready made from Spanish company Navantia, The Australian reported on Friday .
  • (5) As James said in Friday’s announcement, his goal was to win championships, and in Miami he was able to reach the NBA Finals every year.
  • (6) Coup leader Captain Amadou Sanogo on Friday pleaded for foreign help to preserve the territorial integrity of the former French colony, a major gold and cotton producer.
  • (7) Channel 4 News said on Friday that Manji and the programme’s producer, ITN, had made an official complaint to press regulator Ipso.
  • (8) Living by the "Big River" as a child, Cash soaked up work songs, church music, and country & western from radio station WMPS in Memphis, or the broadcasts from Nashville's Grand Ole Opry on Friday and Saturday evenings.
  • (9) Alternatively, try the Hawaii Fish O nights, every Friday from 26 July until the end of August, featuring a one-hour paddleboard lesson, followed by a fish-and-chip supper looking out over the waves you've just battled (£16.75).
  • (10) Wharton feared that if his bill had not cleared the Commons on this occasion, it would have failed as there are only three sitting Fridays in the Commons next year when the legislation could be heard again should peers in the House of Lords successfully pass amendments.
  • (11) Today we have evacuated six bodies from inside the fuselage,” Supriyadi said on Friday.
  • (12) His words earned a stinging rebuke from first lady Michelle Obama , but at a Friday rally in North Carolina he said of one accuser, Jessica Leeds: “Yeah, I’m gonna go after you.
  • (13) A federal judge struck down Utah's same-sex marriage ban Friday in a decision that brings a nationwide shift toward allowing gay marriage to a conservative state where the Mormon church has long been against it.
  • (14) Markets reacted calmly on Friday to the downgrade by Moody's of 16 European and US banks, with share prices steady after the reduction in credit ratings, which can push up the cost of borrowing for banks which they could pass on to customers.
  • (15) Anthony Ray Hinton, 58, was released on Friday from an Alabama prison.
  • (16) She began on Friday by urging Republican women at a convention to “look at this face”, meaning her own, condemned Trump’s remarks as “unpresidential”, and then the Super Pac campaigning group, Carly For America, used Fiorina’s words as a voiceover for a video ad posted on YouTube on Monday showcasing dozens of women’s faces as the “faces of leadership”.
  • (17) About 250 flights were taken off the Friday morning board at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport and Dallas Love Field.
  • (18) Disagreements over the language of the text continued throughout Friday.
  • (19) Cameron has already announced there will be one minute’s silence on Friday at noon, a week after the start of the killing.
  • (20) After Paris, Europe may never feel as free again | Nick Cohen Read more On Friday evening six separate attacks took place across Paris in what the French president, François Hollande, described as an “act of war”.

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