Fret (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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verb (used without object), fret·ted, fret·ting.
  1. to feel or express worry, annoyance, discontent, or the like: Fretting about the lost ring isn't going to help.
  2. 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.
  4. 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), fret·ted, fret·ting.
  1. to torment; irritate, annoy, or vex: You mustn't fret yourself about that.
  2. to wear away or consume by gnawing, friction, rust, corrosives, etc.: the ocean fretting its shores.
  3. to form or make by wearing away a substance: The river had fretted an underground passage.
  4. to agitate (water): Strong winds were fretting the channel.
noun
  1. an irritated state of mind; annoyance; vexation.
  2. Now Rare.
noun
  1. an interlaced, angular design; fretwork.
  2. an angular design of bands within a border.
  3. a charge composed of two diagonal strips interlacing with and crossing at the center of a mascle.
  4. a piece of decoratively pierced work placed in a clock case to deaden the sound of the mechanism.
verb (used with object), fret·ted, fret·ting.
  1. to ornament with a fret or fretwork.
noun
  1. 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.
verb (used with object), fret·ted, fret·ting.
  1. to provide with frets.
verb frets, fretting or fretted
  1. to distress or be distressed; worry
  2. to rub or wear away
  3. to irritate or be irritated; feel or give annoyance or vexation
  4. to eat away or be eaten away by chemical action; corrode
  5. (of a road surface) to become loose so that potholes develop; scab
  6. to agitate (water) or (of water) to be agitated
  7. to make by wearing away; erode
noun
  1. a state of irritation or anxiety
  2. the result of fretting; corrosion
  3. a hole or channel caused by fretting
noun
  1. a repetitive geometrical figure, esp one used as an ornamental border
  2. such a pattern made in relief and with numerous small openings; fretwork
  3. a charge on a shield consisting of a mascle crossed by a saltire
verb frets, fretting or fretted
  1. to ornament with fret or fretwork
noun
  1. 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
noun
  1. short for sea fret
Fret (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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