What's the difference between friend and vocative?

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.

Vocative


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to calling; used in calling; specifically (Gram.), used in address; appellative; -- said of that case or form of the noun, pronoun, or adjective, in which a person or thing is addressed; as, Domine, O Lord.
  • (n.) The vocative case.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We report on experiences with diagnostic and therapeutic procedures and the results of vocational rehabilitation.
  • (2) Being the decision-making agent, the rehabilitee must therefore be offered typical situational fragments of a possible educational and vocational future, intended on the one hand to inform him of occupational alternatives and, on the other, to provide initial experience.
  • (3) This empirical fact has in recent years been increasingly dealt with in pertinent German-language literature, the discussion clearly emphasizing the demand that programmes aimed at the vocational qualification of unemployed disabled persons be provided, along with accompanying measures.
  • (4) Education, vocational training and preparation for independent or assisted living situations are integral parts of management, and the pediatrician must be aware of community resources.
  • (5) 380 former patients with different diagnoses treated in a university medical center have been asked by a self developed questionnaire for their experiences in treatment and medical rehabilitation, their actual impairment in physical and vocational functioning, their estimation of rehabilitation success, their actual employment problems and the changes of job conditions due to cancer.
  • (6) Commonwealth annual funding for vocational education and training (VET) had increased by 25% in real terms since Labor came to office in 2007, amounting to more than $19bn, according to Rudd.
  • (7) The author then describes new approaches to improving the vocational integration of persons with epilepsy, by focussing on the one hand on extending the range of occupational assessment, and the adoption of new job placement assessment, and the adoption of new job placement strategies on the other, which concurrently seek to influence those factors that are detrimental to the occupational outlook of the person with a seizure disorder (notably frequent seizures, psychiatric problems, low educational levels, negative employer attitudes).
  • (8) David McCauley, acting industrial officer for the prison officer’s vocational branch of the Public Service Association, said this was just the latest in a long lines of method for getting drugs over walls.
  • (9) Ivanka Trump thinks she is in Beauty and the Beast: more like Macbeth | Jill Abramson Read more Later in the day, the White House spokesman, Sean Spicer, said Trump was due to visit Siemens’ Technische Akademie, a vocational training college, and US architect Peter Eisenmann’s Holocaust memorial.
  • (10) The stress on clinical staff is huge; shortages of key members of the team, high levels of demand and proposed contract changes are driving many to question their vocation and even to take strike action.
  • (11) The results indicate new ways for well-directed, disability-related promotion in vocational rehabilitation.
  • (12) Previous programmes to demobilise troops following the civil war with Sudan – by offering short-term vocational training, for example – have proved largely ineffective , raising questions about how such programmes should be structured and, crucially, who would fund them.
  • (13) Survivors in greater distress reported more problems in other areas of functioning, including sexual, social, vocational, and persistent conditioned nausea.
  • (14) -- this empirical study surveys the vocational and financial as well as the family and interpersonal situation of spinal cord-injured persons in the Federal Republic of Germany.
  • (15) A comparative analysis of the cases indicates that penal care measures are predominantly effective in those cases where the delinquents are subjected to intensive expert diagnosis, therapeutic care and vocational counselling and vocational aidmeasures at the commencement, during and subsequent to their respective periods of confinement.
  • (16) Most disabilities encountered by private vocational rehabilitationists are musculoskeletal injuries resulting from traumatic industrial accidents rather than congenital disabilities most often seen by the state's Department of Vocational Rehabilitation.
  • (17) It is totally unclear to them how they can get the skills needed for a successful career.” The report, Overlooked and Left Behind, argues that “a culture of inequality between vocational and academic routes to work” pervades the education system.
  • (18) Mr Hunt, your plans for the health service have revealed a worrying ignorance of the realities of life in the NHS, and your comments about our lack of professionalism and vocation are unspeakably insulting.
  • (19) Because of course nothing is more destructive of the sanctity of his own vocation than the suggestion that we simply don't need this kind of conservation – if that's what it really is – at all; that on the contrary, the entire "relaunch" is simply the bastard offspring of an orgiastic union between Mammon and science, consummated on the Stonehenge altar stone and observed by the fee-paying public.
  • (20) Improved social functioning of adolescents with behavioral disorders (BD) is of critical importance for the successful integration of these students in school, domestic, vocational, and community settings.