foe
An enemyAn enemy.
» Are you a friend or foe?
Bist du Freund oder Feind?
Sind Sie Freund oder Feind?
Ты друг или враг?
Вы друг или враг?
Значение
значений: 2An enemy.
a personal enemy
A unit of energy equal to 10⁴⁴ joules.
Примеры
предложений: 26Are you a friend or foe?
Ты друг или враг?
deBist du Freund oder Feind?
Better a new friend than an old foe.
Лучше новый друг, чем старый враг.
deBesser ein neuer Freund denn ein alter Feind.
They are irreconcilable foes.
Они непримиримые враги.
Are you friend or foe?
Друг ты или враг?
You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
Следует судить о человеке по его врагам также, как и по его друзьям.
Происхождение
From Middle English fo (“foe; hostile”), from earlier yfoh, yvo, ifa (“foe”), from Old EngFrom Middle English fo (“foe; hostile”), from earlier yfoh, yvo, ifa (“foe”), from Old English ġefāh (“enemy”), from fāh (“hostile”), from Proto-West Germanic *faih, from Proto-Germanic *faihaz (compare Old Frisian fāch (“punishable”), Middle High German gevēch (“feuder”)), from Proto-Indo-European *peyk/ḱ- (“to hate, be hostile”) (compare Middle Irish óech (“enemy, fiend”), Lithuanian pi̇̀ktas (“evil”)).
Acronym of [ten to the power of] fifty-one ergs, due to equalling 10⁵¹ ergs; coined by Gerald Brown of Stony Brook University in his work with Hans Bethe.
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Формы
мн. число: foesСинонимы
синонимов: 6- a personal enemy:enemy
- an armed adversary (especially a member of an opposing military force):enemyopposition