ornamented or provided with frets: a fretted molding.
Origin: 1375–1425; late Middle English; see fret2, -ed2
Related forms
un·fret·ted, adjective
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Frettedis always a great word to know.
So is ort. Does it mean:
So is doohickey. Does it mean:
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an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.
to feel or express worry, annoyance, discontent, or the like: Fretting about the lost ring isn't going to help.
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to cause corrosion; gnaw into something: acids that fret at the strongest metals.
3.
to make a way by gnawing, corrosion, wearing away, etc.: The river frets at its banks until a new channel is formed.
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to become eaten, worn, or corroded (often followed by away): Limestone slowly frets away under pounding by the wind and rain.
5.
to move in agitation or commotion, as water: water fretting over the stones of a brook.
verb (used with object)
6.
to torment; irritate, annoy, or vex: You mustn't fret yourself about that.
7.
to wear away or consume by gnawing, friction, rust, corrosives, etc.: the ocean fretting its shores.
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to form or make by wearing away a substance: The river had fretted an underground passage.
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to agitate (water): Strong winds were fretting the channel.
noun
10.
an irritated state of mind; annoyance; vexation.
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erosion; corrosion; gnawing.
12.
a worn or eroded place.
Origin: before 900; Middle English freten,Old English fretan to eat up, consume; cognate with Old Saxon fretan,Gothic fraitan,Old High German frezzan (German fressen)
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.
"ornamental interlaced pattern," late 14c., from O.Fr. frete "interlaced work, trellis work," probably from Frank. *fetur (cf. O.E. fetor, O.H.G. feggara "fetter") perhaps from notion of "decorative anklet," or of materials "bound" together. The other noun, "ridge on the fingerboard of a guitar," is