ALL meanings of fret
fret
F f - noun fret A repeating ornamental design of interlaced vertical and horizontal lines, such as the Greek key pattern. 1
- intransitive verb fret be upset, worry 1
- noun fret on a guitar 1
- transitive verb fret erode 1
- transitive verb fret corrode 1
- verb without object fret to feel or express worry, annoyance, discontent, or the like: Fretting about the lost ring isn't going to help. 1
- verb without object fret to cause corrosion; gnaw into something: acids that fret at the strongest metals. 1
- verb without object fret to make a way by gnawing, corrosion, wearing away, etc.: The river frets at its banks until a new channel is formed. 1
- verb without object fret to become eaten, worn, or corroded (often followed by away): Limestone slowly frets away under pounding by the wind and rain. 1
- verb without object fret to move in agitation or commotion, as water: water fretting over the stones of a brook. 1
- verb with object fret to provide with frets. 1
- noun fret any of the ridges of wood, metal, or string, set across the fingerboard of a guitar, lute, or similar instrument, which help the fingers to stop the strings at the correct points. 1
- noun fret The agitation of the surface of a fluid by fermentation or other cause; a rippling on the surface of water. 0
- noun fret Agitation of mind marked by complaint and impatience; disturbance of temper; irritation. 0
- noun fret Herpes; tetter. 0
- noun fret (mining, in the plural) 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. 0
- noun fret (music) One of the pieces of metal/wood/plastic across the neck of a guitar or other musical instrument that marks note positions for fingering. 0
- noun fret An ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizontal lines (often in relief). 0
- noun fret (heraldry) A saltire interlaced with a mascle. 0
- noun fret A strait; channel. 0
- noun fret (dialectal, North East England) A fog or mist at sea or coming inland from the sea. 0
- verb fret (Transitive Verb) (obsolete/poetic) To devour, consume; eat. 0
- verb fret (transitive and intransitive) To gnaw, consume, eat away. 0
- verb fret (Intransitive Verb) To be worn away; to chafe; to fray. 0
- verb fret (Transitive Verb) To cut through with fretsaw, create fretwork. 0
- verb fret (Transitive Verb) To chafe or irritate; to worry. 0
- verb fret (Intransitive Verb) To worry or be anxious. 0
- verb fret To be vexed; to be chafed or irritated; to be angry; to utter peevish expressions. 0
- verb fret To make rough, agitate, or disturb; to cause to ripple. 0
- verb fret To be agitated; to be in violent commotion; to rankle. 0
- verb fret (music) To press down the string behind a fret. 0
- verb fret To ornament with raised work; to variegate; to diversify. 0
- verb fret If you fret about something, you worry about it. 0
- countable noun fret The frets on a musical instrument such as a guitar are the raised lines across its neck. 0
- verb fret to distress or be distressed; worry 0
- verb fret to rub or wear away 0
- verb fret to irritate or be irritated; feel or give annoyance or vexation 0
- verb fret to eat away or be eaten away by chemical action; corrode 0
- verb fret (of a road surface) to become loose so that potholes develop; scab 0
- verb fret to agitate (water) or (of water) to be agitated 0
- verb fret to make by wearing away; erode 0
- noun fret a state of irritation or anxiety 0
- noun fret the result of fretting; corrosion 0
- noun fret a hole or channel caused by fretting 0
- noun fret a repetitive geometrical figure, esp one used as an ornamental border 0
- noun fret such a pattern made in relief and with numerous small openings; fretwork 0
- noun fret a charge on a shield consisting of a mascle crossed by a saltire 0
- verb fret to ornament with fret or fretwork 0
- noun fret any of several small metal bars set across the fingerboard of a musical instrument of the lute, guitar, or viol family at various points along its length so as to produce the desired notes when the strings are stopped by the fingers 0
- verb transitive fret to eat away; gnaw 0