fret
IPA: frˈɛt
noun
- Agitation of the surface of a fluid by fermentation or some other cause; a rippling on the surface of water.
- Agitation of the mind marked by complaint and impatience; disturbance of temper; irritation.
- Herpes; tetter (“any of various pustular skin conditions”).
- (mining, in the plural) The worn sides of riverbanks, where ores or stones containing them accumulate after being washed down from higher ground, which thus indicate to miners the locality of veins of ore.
- An ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizontal lines, often in relief.
- (heraldry) A saltire interlaced with a mascle.
- (obsolete or dialectal) A ferrule, a ring.
- (music) One of the pieces of metal, plastic or wood across the neck of a guitar or other string instrument that marks where a finger should be positioned to depress a string as it is played.
- A channel, a strait; a fretum.
- (rare) A channel or passage created by the sea.
- (Northumbria) A fog or mist at sea, or coming inland from the sea.
- (physics) Förster resonance energy transfer
- (physics) fluorescence resonance energy transfer, which is a type of the Förster phenomenon where one or both of the partners in the energy transfer are fluorescent chromophores
verb
- (transitive, obsolete or poetic) Especially when describing animals: to consume, devour, or eat.
- (transitive) To chafe or irritate; to worry.
- (transitive) To make rough, to agitate or disturb; to cause to ripple.
- (transitive) In the form fret out: to squander, to waste.
- (transitive, intransitive) To gnaw; to consume, to eat away.
- (transitive, intransitive) To be chafed or irritated; to be angry or vexed; to utter peevish expressions through irritation or worry.
- (intransitive) To be worn away; to chafe; to fray.
- (intransitive) To be anxious, to worry.
- (intransitive) To be agitated; to rankle; to be in violent commotion.
- (intransitive, brewing, oenology) To have secondary fermentation (fermentation occurring after the conversion of sugar to alcohol in beers and wine) take place.
- (transitive) To decorate or ornament, especially with an interlaced or interwoven pattern, or (architecture) with carving or relief (raised) work.
- (transitive) To form a pattern on; to variegate.
- (transitive) To cut through with a fretsaw, to create fretwork.
- To bind, to tie, originally with a loop or ring.
- (transitive, music) Musical senses.
- To fit frets on to (a musical instrument).
- To press down the string behind a fret.
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Examples of "fret" in Sentences
- He was so fretful before the wedding.
- His remarks fretted her to irritation.
- You seem all snappish, uneasy, and fretful.
- Americans remain pessimistic or at best fretful.
- The landlady frets that 'the lady' is still unwell.
- The word fret means literally “to burn or consume.”
- A fretful and attractive girl was known for her cooking.
- The fret is one of the most important parts of a guitar.
- They wed, and a depressed and fretful Jeremy became happy.
- Thank's for politely catching the hiccup on the fret article.
- RIM Co-CEO Jim Balsillie says he doesn't "fret" about competition.
- The afflicted are often fretful, irritable, and voraciously hungry.
- Hannah, on purpose to vex them and make them to fret, which is a barbarous thing.
- Modelled here by Robin Horn It's guitar shaped, with 8 "fret" buttons, and two pressure pads.
- Reply nate says actually they do have that its called a fret light guitar there around 500 bucks
- When George Harrison plays "Here Comes the Sun," his guitar is in standard tuning, but he has a capo on the seventh fret, which is what gives it that tinkly sound ...
- For Chapman Stick warmup today, I decided to do something slightly different: instead of playing just behind the fret, which is where I aim for clear tone, I decided to try tapping exactly onto the fret.
- As CD sales plummet and the big labels fret about the Internet, bands are seizing control of the means of distribution, releasing their music as free downloads or throwing it up on social networking sites.
- I've got good workin 'boys and right industrious darkeys, but it takes a man with a head on and his eyes well open to keep up with 'em and watch out for little things -- little damages that aggravate a man and keep him in a fret, that is if he is but human and can't help fretting when things go wrong.
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