grammatical question

[white little bird]

Hi, teachers.

I have a question regarding technical expressions.

When friction is generated between A and B (A and B being material objects), can I say/write; "A and B are frictioned against (with/to?) each other"?

Can the word "friction" be used as a verb as well?

Looking forward to your answers:)

[blouen]

Hi, teachers.

I have a question regarding technical expressions.

When friction is generated between A and B (A and B being material objects), can I say/write; "A and B are frictioned against (with/to?) each other"?

Can the word "friction" be used as a verb as well?

Looking forward to your answers:)

What I learned in school is that friction is produced when rubbing two surfaces together, so it is a noun... The action is the rubbing together of A and B.... rubbing is the verb...

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[JLP]

Hi, teachers.

I have a question regarding technical expressions.

When friction is generated between A and B (A and B being material objects), can I say/write; "A and B are frictioned against (with/to?) each other"?

Can the word "friction" be used as a verb as well?

Looking forward to your answers:)

I'm not a teacher, but I wouldn't use the word "friction" as a verb at all; it just doesn't sound right.

Instead, I would probably reword the example sentence to, "When A and B are rubbed against each other, friction is produced."

"To rub" is a verb that can easily take the preposition "against," although it does not take "with" or "to."

Two objects can also be rubbed "together," so the example sentence could also be revised to read, "When A and B are rubbed together, friction is produced." If you want to use fewer words, this would probably be the way to go, but either revision would work just fine.

(BTW, if you don't already know, "little white bird" is the usual order in English...)

[white little bird]

Thanks a lot, blouen and JLP

>JLP
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