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  • adjective Of, relating to, or caused by friction.

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Examples

  • He glided through nothingness for what seemed like hours and indeed, with only the merest frictive particles to slow his trajectory, was miles, finally slowing and eventually halting just within the game's border.

    High Jinks Mark Flanagan 2011

  • There is something increasingly sensuous, even sexual, about the subsequent patterns, with stones rubbing against one another, sometimes seeming to birth torrents of smaller rounded stones from the frictive collisions of the larger rocks.

    Jan Svankmajer shorts: A Game With Stones; Punch and Judy; Historia Naturae (Suita) Ed Howard 2009

  • Blaine was listening to their frictive patterns and diphthong stress-emphasis.

    The Waste Lands King, Stephen, 1947- 1991

  • If he is frictive around those same places, you could find something to blame him for.

    Chronicle.com - Today's News 2009

  • I give him lots of credits when he stands on the world stage shaking hands with even frictive foes.

    CNN Political Ticker 2009

  • If he is frictive around those same places, you could find something to blame him for.

    Chronicle.com - Today's News 2009

  • The line-up covered all bases: the indie-friendly folk of Judson Claiborne, the re-imagined honkytonk of Freakwater, the acoustic blues of David "Honeyboy" Edwards, the beery bar-band rock of the Waco Brothers, the frictive guitar rock of Eleventh Dream Day, and however you classify Andrew Bird.

    Counago & Spaves 2009

  • If he is frictive around those same places, you could find something to blame him for.

    Chronicle.com - Today's News 2009

  • If he is frictive around those same places, you could find something to blame him for.

    Chronicle.com - Today's News 2009

  • And the Interzone generation of writers infused the heartland dreams of SF with a globalized ethos: the future as London’s babylon, a vibrant, sometimes frictive patchwork plurality of cultures -- Somalis in Kentish Town, Bangladeshis in Brick Lane, Turks in Green Lane, Congolese in Tottenham Hale, and so on and so forth -- writ large.

    An Introduction to Cyberabad Days Paul McAuley 2009

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