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Definition of 'Fret'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (v.i.) fret
to feel or express worry, annoyance, discontent, or the like.

2.  fret
to cause corrosion; gnaw into something:
acids that fret at the strongest metals.

3.  fret
to make a way by gnawing, corrosion, wearing away, etc.

4.  fret
to become eaten, worn, or corroded (often fol. by away).

5.  fret
to move in agitation or commotion, as water.

6. (v.t.) fret
to irritate, annoy, or vex; torment.

7.  fret
to wear away or consume by gnawing, friction, rust, corrosives, etc.

8.  fret
to form or make by wearing away a substance.

9.  fret
to agitate (water).

10. (n.) fret
an irritated state of mind; annoyance; vexation.

11.  fret
erosion; corrosion.

12.  fret
a worn or eroded place.

13. (n.) fret
an interlaced, angular design; fretwork.

14.  fret
an angular design of bands within a border.

15.  fret
a piece of decoratively pierced work placed in a clock case to deaden the sound.

16. (v.t.) fret
to ornament with a fret or fretwork.

17. (n.) fret
any of the ridges of wood, metal, or string, set across the fingerboard of an instrument, as a guitar or lute, to help the fingers stop the strings at the correct points.

18. (v.t.) fret
to provide with frets.

Etymology: (1490–1500)

Definition of 'Fret'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) fret, stew, sweat, lather, swither
agitation resulting from active worry
"don't get in a stew"; "he's in a sweat about exams"

2. (noun) worn spot, fret
a spot that has been worn away by abrasion or erosion

3. (noun) fret, Greek fret, Greek key, key pattern
an ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizontal lines (often in relief)
"there was a simple fret at the top of the walls"

4. (verb) fret
a small bar of metal across the fingerboard of a musical instrument; when the string is stopped by a finger at the metal bar it will produce a note of the desired pitch

5. (verb) fuss, niggle, fret
worry unnecessarily or excessively
"don't fuss too much over the grandchildren--they are quite big now"

6. (verb) fret
be agitated or irritated
"don't fret over these small details"

7. (verb) fret
provide (a musical instrument) with frets
"fret a guitar"

8. (verb) chafe, gall, fret
become or make sore by or as if by rubbing

9. (verb) fret
cause annoyance in

10. (verb) eat into, fret, rankle, grate
gnaw into; make resentful or angry
"The injustice rankled her"; "his resentment festered"

11. (verb) fret
carve a pattern into

12. (verb) fret
decorate with an interlaced design

13. (verb) choke, gag, fret
be too tight; rub or press
"This neckband is choking the cat"

14. (verb) rub, fray, fret, chafe, scratch
cause friction
"my sweater scratches"

15. (verb) erode, eat away, fret
remove soil or rock
"Rain eroded the terraces"

16. (verb) fret, eat away
wear away or erode

Definition of 'Fret'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) Fret
see 1st Frith

2. (noun) Fret
the agitation of the surface of a fluid by fermentation or other cause; a rippling on the surface of water

3. (noun) Fret
agitation of mind marked by complaint and impatience; disturbance of temper; irritation; as, he keeps his mind in a continual fret

4. (noun) Fret
herpes; tetter

5. (noun) Fret
the worn sides of river banks, where ores, or stones containing them, accumulate by being washed down from the hills, and thus indicate to the miners the locality of the veins

6. (noun) Fret
ornamental work in relief, as carving or embossing. See Fretwork

7. (noun) Fret
an ornament consisting of smmall fillets or slats intersecting each other or bent at right angles, as in classical designs, or at obilique angles, as often in Oriental art

8. (noun) Fret
the reticulated headdress or net, made of gold or silver wire, in which ladies in the Middle Ages confined their hair

9. (noun) Fret
a saltire interlaced with a mascle

10. (noun) Fret
a short piece of wire, or other material fixed across the finger board of a guitar or a similar instrument, to indicate where the finger is to be placed

11. (verb) Fret
to devour

12. (verb) Fret
to rub; to wear away by friction; to chafe; to gall; hence, to eat away; to gnaw; as, to fret cloth; to fret a piece of gold or other metal; a worm frets the plants of a ship

13. (verb) Fret
to impair; to wear away; to diminish

14. (verb) Fret
to make rough, agitate, or disturb; to cause to ripple; as, to fret the surface of water

15. (verb) Fret
to tease; to irritate; to vex

16. (verb) Fret
to be worn away; to chafe; to fray; as, a wristband frets on the edges

17. (verb) Fret
to eat in; to make way by corrosion

18. (verb) Fret
to be agitated; to be in violent commotion; to rankle; as, rancor frets in the malignant breast

19. (verb) Fret
to be vexed; to be chafed or irritated; to be angry; to utter peevish expressions

20. (verb) Fret
to ornament with raised work; to variegate; to diversify

21. (verb) Fret
to furnish with frets, as an instrument of music

Translation of 'Fret'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: to worry or show anxiety or discontentment She was always fretting about something or other.
Afrikaans: verknies	Arabic: يَقْلَق	Bulgarian: терзая (се)
Brazilian: atormentar-se	Czech: trápit se, užírat se	German: sich grämen
Danish: bekymre sig; være ængstel	Greek: ανησυχώ, δυσφορώ, δυσανασ	Spanish: preocuparse
Estonian: närvitsema	Farsi: دلخور شدن؛ آشفته شدن	Finnish: harmitella
French: (se) tracasser (pour)	Hebrew: לִדאוֹג	Hindi: चिन्ता प्रकट करना
Croatian: uzrujavati se, izjedati s	Hungarian: nyugtalankodik	Indonesian: khawatir
Icelandic: veraáhyggjufullur/órólegu	Italian: affliggersi	Japanese: いらだつ
Korean: 안달나다	Lithuanian: nerimauti, krimstis	Latvian: satraukties; raizēties; g
Malay: khuatir	Dutch: piekeren	Norwegian: være bekymret, gå og smås
Polish: gryźć się	Persian: دلخور شدن؛ آشفته شدن	Pashto: موښل
Portuguese: atormentar-se	Romanian: a se frământa (pentru)	Russian: волноваться
Slovak: trápiť sa	Slovenian: biti v skrbeh	Serbian: sekirati se
Swedish: oroa sig, gräma sig	Thai: กังวลใจ	Turkish: tasalanmak,üzülmek
Taiwanese: 使煩惱	Ukrainian: турбувати(ся); мучити(ся)	Urdu: نمایاں طور پر پریشان یا م
Vietnamese: lo lắng; băn khoăn	Chinese: 使烦恼
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