Толковый словарь английского языка - fret
Fret
fret
I. verb (~ted; ~ting) see: eat Date: 12th century transitive verb 1. to eat or gnaw into ; corrode , rub , chafe , to make by wearing away a substance , to cause to suffer emotional strain ; vex , to pass (as time) in ~ting, agitate , ripple , intransitive verb 1. to eat into something, to affect something as if by gnawing or biting ; grate , 2. wear , corrode , chafe , fray 1, 3. to become vexed or worried, to become agitated, II. noun Date: 15th century 1. the action of wearing away ; erosion , a worn or eroded spot, an agitation of mind ; irritation , III. transitive verb (~ted; ~ting) Etymology: Middle English, back-formation from ~, ~ted adorned, interwoven, from Anglo-French ~té, past participle of ~ter to tie, probably from Vulgar Latin *firmitare, from Latin firmus firm Date: 14th century 1. to decorate with interlaced designs, to form a pattern upon, to enrich with embossed or pierced carved patterns, IV. noun Date: 14th century an ornamental network, an ornament or ornamental work often in relief consisting of small straight bars intersecting one another in right or oblique angles, V. noun Etymology: perhaps from Middle French ~e ferrule, from ~er Date: circa 1500 one of a series of ridges fixed across the fingerboard of a stringed musical instrument (as a guitar), ~less adjective ~ted adjective VI. transitive verb (~ted; ~ting) Date: 1602 to press (the strings of a stringed instrument) against the ~s
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1. v. & n. --v. (fretted, fretting) 1 intr. a be greatly and visibly worried or distressed. b be irritated or resentful. 2 tr. a cause anxiety or distress to. b irritate, annoy. 3 tr. wear or consume by gnawing or rubbing. 4 tr. form (a channel or passage) by wearing away. 5 intr. (of running water) flow or rise in little waves. --n. irritation, vexation, querulousness (esp. in a fret). Etymology: OE fretan f. Gmc, rel. to EAT 2. n. & v. --n. 1 an ornamental pattern made of continuous combinations of straight lines joined usu. at right angles. 2 Heraldry a device of narrow bands and a diamond interlaced. --v.tr. (fretted, fretting) 1 embellish or decorate with a fret. 2 adorn (esp. a ceiling) with carved or embossed work. Etymology: ME f. OF frete trellis-work and freter (v.) 3. n. each of a sequence of bars or ridges on the finger-board of some stringed musical instruments (esp. the guitar) fixing the positions of the fingers to produce the desired notes. Derivatives fretless adj. Etymology: 15th c.: orig. unkn. ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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