Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word FRET

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Definitions of FRET

1. Agitation of the surface of a fluid by fermentation or some other cause; a rippling on the surface of water.
2. Agitation of the mind marked by complaint and impatience; disturbance of temper; irritation.
3. Herpes; tetter.
4. An ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizontal lines, often in relief.
5. To bind, to tie, originally with a loop or ring.
6. A channel, a strait; a fretum.
7. (transitive, obsolete or poetic) Especially when describing animals: to consume, devour, or eat.
8. (transitive) To chafe or irritate; to worry.
9. (transitive) To make rough, to agitate or disturb; to cause to ripple.
10. (transitive) In the form fret out: to squander, to waste.
11. (ambitransitive) To gnaw; to consume, to eat away.
12. (ambitransitive) To be chafed or irritated; to be angry or vexed; to utter peevish expressions through irritation or worry.
13. (intransitive) To be worn away; to chafe; to fray.
14. (intransitive) To be anxious, to worry.
15. (intransitive) To be agitated; to rankle; to be in violent commotion.
16. (intransitive, brewing, oenology) To have secondary fermentation (fermentation occurring after the conversion of sugar to alcohol in beers and wine) take place.
17. (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.
18. (heraldic charge) A saltire interlaced with a mascle.
19. (transitive) To decorate or ornament, especially with an interlaced or interwoven pattern, or (architecture) with carving or relief (raised) work.
20. (transitive) To form a pattern on; to variegate.
21. (transitive) To cut through with a fretsaw, to create fretwork.
22. (obsolete or dialectal) A ferrule, a ring.
23. (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.
24. (transitive, music) Musical senses.
25. (rare) A channel or passage created by the sea.
26. (Northumbria) A fog or mist at sea, or coming inland from the sea.
27. (physics) Förster resonance energy transfer
28. (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

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Examples of Using FRET in a Sentence

• The word is usually used in reference to a kind of fret in architecture, or to a badge or insignia used in military or police uniforms to indicate rank or length of service, or in heraldry and the designs of flags (see flag terminology).
• They were certainly substantially in evidence during the Romano-British period with widespread examples of the duplicated Greek fret motif appearing on mosaics.
• A fret is any of the thin strips of material, usually metal wire, inserted laterally at specific positions along the neck or fretboard of a stringed instrument.
• In effect, a capo uses a fret of an instrument to create a new nut at a higher note than the instrument's actual nut.
• For example, a right-handed guitarist might press down abruptly ("hammer") onto fret twelve with the index finger of the right hand and, in the motion of removing that finger, pluck ("pull") the same string already fretted at the eighth fret by the little finger of their left hand.
• A hammer-on is a playing technique performed on a stringed instrument (especially on a fretted string instrument, such as a guitar) by sharply bringing a fretting-hand finger down on to the fingerboard behind a fret, causing a note to sound.
• Oscar, true to form, starts needling him about how the Easter Bunny can hide all the eggs in one night, only to be rebuked by Gordon and Susan as Big Bird begins to fret about the holidays all over again.
• Specifically, the Guitar Hero controller was designed with five color-coded "fret" buttons and a "strum bar".
• The trade-off is the loss of the open bass E note in chords or fingerings, which the player can adjust to include fretting the sixth string at the second fret (now E).
• It uses a dried gourd as a resonator, and has a neck with very wide frets, which allow a glissando or "meend" of as much as an octave on the same fret through the method of pulling.
• In 2006, Brian May Guitars introduced a "Mini May" guitar, based on a 3/4 sized Red Special body shape with a 24 fret, 19” scale (but with no zero fret) featuring a single pick-up, no switches and a maple neck.
• This allowed for the signal to be sent to two separate amplifiers: for "Hotel California", an Echoplex and a Leslie for the swirling tones (played on the 12 string neck capo at the seven fret), and then later through his standard guitar amp (a Blackface Deluxe Reverb or Tweed Deluxe) using the six string neck for the duet/harmony guitar solo shared with Joe Walsh.
• Dunlop products now range from capos and picks to slides, strings, fret wire, strap retainers, and a variety of electronic effects, including the original Cry Baby wah-wah pedal, the Uni-Vibe phaser, Heil Talk Box, and the MXR and Way Huge lines of stompboxes.
• On the fretless guitar, the performer's fingers press the string directly against the fingerboard, as with a violin, resulting in a vibrating string that extends from the bridge (where the strings are attached) to the fingertip instead of to a fret.
• Differences typically include more pointed, aggressive-looking body and neck shapes with increased cutaways to facilitate access to the higher frets, an increased number of frets on the fingerboard, a contoured heel at the neck joint facilitating easier higher fret access, the usage of humbucking pickups, and locking vibrato systems, most commonly the Floyd Rose.
• An 18 or 19 fret fingerboard give the tiple Colombiano a range of about 2-2/3 octaves, from C3 - G#5 (or A5).
• She incorporated fingerstyle "fanning," with both flamenco style percussion and fret tapping techniques, as well as using double open tunings, viola tunings, and traditional Russian guitar (7 strings).
• Linkletter fret about their daughter's recent behavior, which includes taking drugs and dating a lowlife named Jim.
• It had three-on-a-side tuners and diamond shaped mother of pearl inlays with an abalone "V" at the 12th fret.
• Similarly, G Major can be played as an open G-shaped chord and the next shape in which the chord appears is as an E-shape (barred at the third fret), followed by the D-shape (barred at the 5th fret); the CAGED pattern then begins again with a C-shape barred at the 7th fret, an A-shape at the 10th fret, and so on.

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