FRET

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil Especially when describing animals: to consume, devour, or eat.

   “Their hearts alreadie fretted and cankered at the very roote, for the last disgrace received.”

2. fiil To chafe or irritate; to worry.

   “A Perſon of Honour, of a full Body abounding with ſharp Humours, was ſeized with an Herpes on his right Leg. [...] [I]t inflamed and ſwelled very much, many Wheals aroſe, and fretted one into another, with great Excoriation.”

3. fiil To make rough, to agitate or disturb; to cause to ripple.

   “to fret the surface of water”

4. fiil In the form fret out: to squander, to waste.

   “Yorke hereupon conſults with his ſpeciall friends; [...] how Yorke might get the Crowne of England, and for that cauſe how to ruine or fret out the Duke of Sommerſet; who ſtanding, they were to looke for ſtrong oppoſition.”

5. fiil To gnaw; to consume, to eat away.

   “VVhen thrid of life is almoſt fret in twaine, To giue it ſtrength breeds thankes, and wonders too.”

6. fiil To mine by agitating or eating away at (ore in the bank of a river).

   “Aided by its burden of detrital matter, the river frets away the rocks along its banks and thus tends to widen its channel; while, at the same time, the coarse sediment scratching along the bottom, helps to tear it up and thus deepen the bed of the river.”

7. fiil To be chafed or irritated; to be angry or vexed; to utter peevish expressions through irritation or worry.

   “Fret not thy ſelfe becauſe of euill doers, neither bee thou enuious againſt the workers of iniquitie.”

8. fiil To be worn away; to chafe; to fray.

   “A wristband frets on the edges.”

9. fiil To be anxious, to worry.

   “Critics were vehemently outspoken; but while they fretted about looks, they missed the cleverer points in the design itself.”

10. fiil To be agitated; to rankle; to be in violent commotion.

    “Rancour frets in the malignant breast.”

11. fiil To have secondary fermentation (fermentation occurring after the conversion of sugar to alcohol in beers and wine) take place.
12. isim Agitation of the surface of a fluid by fermentation or some other cause; a rippling on the surface of water.

    “The place was a little below Gravesend, quite out of the fret and bustle of the narrower river, and there was not even a steamboat pier to disturb the quiet of this cluster of harmless houses, though they watched upon their beach the passage of great navies down the greatest thoroughfare of England.”

13. isim Agitation of the mind marked by complaint and impatience; disturbance of temper; irritation.

    “He keeps his mind in a continual fret.”

14. isim Herpes; tetter (“any of various pustular skin conditions”).
15. isim 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.
16. isim An ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizontal lines, often in relief.

    “Went to visit our good neighbor, Mr. Bohun, whose whole house is a cabinet of all elegancies, especially Indian; [...] [A]bove all, his lady's cabinet is adorned on the fret, ceiling, and chimney-piece with Mr. Gibbons's best carving.”

17. isim A saltire interlaced with a mascle.

    “DIAPERED, or Diapre, in heraldry, the dividing of a field in planes, like fret-work, and filling the ſame with variety of figures. This chiefly obtains on bordures, which are diapered or fretted over, and the frets charged with things proper for bordures.”

18. fiil To decorate or ornament, especially with an interlaced or interwoven pattern, or (architecture) with carving or relief (raised) work.

    “In a long purple pall, whose ſkirt with gold, / Was fretted all about, ſhe was arayd, [...]”

19. fiil To form a pattern on; to variegate.

    “Decius. Here lyes the Eaſt: doth not the Day breake heere? [...] Cin[na]. O pardon, Sir, it doth; and yon grey Lines, / That fret the Clouds, are Meſſengers of Day.”

20. fiil To cut through with a fretsaw, to create fretwork.
21. isim 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.

    “The long-necked Egyptian Nefer was certainly depicted in the 4th dynasty; and wall-painting of the time of Moses, preserved in the British Museum, shows that it then had frets.”

22. isim A ferrule, a ring.
23. fiil To bind, to tie, originally with a loop or ring.
24. fiil # To fit frets on to (a musical instrument).

    “to fret a guitar”

25. fiil To press down the string behind a fret.

    “Note that right next to the headstock, the boxes may utilize some open notes in place of fretting with the pointer finger because the nut will effectively fret the notes for you[…].”

26. isim A channel, a strait; a fretum.

    “I came in fine to the fourth part of the world, commonly called America, which by all deſcriptions I found to be an Iſland enuironed around about with the Sea, hauing on the Southſide of it, the frete, or ſtraight of Magellan, [...]”

27. isim A channel or passage created by the sea.
28. isim A fog or mist at sea, or coming inland from the sea.

    “The wind brings a fret off the ocean; not cold, but achingly damp.”

29. isim Förster resonance energy transfer
30. isim 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