different between annoy vs fret

English

Etymology

From Middle English annoien, anoien, enoien, a borrowing from Anglo-Norman anuier, Old French enuier (“to molest, harm, tire”), from Late Latin inodi? (“cause aversion, make hateful”, verb), from the phrase in odi? (“hated”), from Latin odium (“hatred”). Doublet of ennui. Displaced native Middle English grillen (“to annoy, irritate”), from Old English grillan (see grill).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??n??/
• Rhymes: -??

Verb

annoy (third-person singular simple present annoys, present participle annoying, simple past and past participle annoyed)

1. (transitive) To disturb or irritate, especially by continued or repeated acts; to bother with unpleasant deeds.
   • 1691, Matthew Prior, Pastoral to Dr. Turner, Bishop of Ely

     Say, what can more our tortured souls annoy / Than to behold, admire, and lose our joy?

2. (intransitive) To do something to upset or anger someone; to be troublesome.
3. (transitive) To molest; to harm; to injure.

   to annoy an army by impeding its march, or by a cannonade

   • tapers put into lanterns or sconces of several-coloured, oiled paper, that the wind might not annoy them

Synonyms

• (to disturb or irritate) bother, bug, hassle, irritate, pester, nag, irk
• See also Thesaurus:annoy

Antonyms

• please
• See also Thesaurus:annoy

Related terms

Translations

Noun

annoy (plural annoys)

1. (now rare, literary) A feeling of discomfort or vexation caused by what one dislikes.
   • 1532 (first printing), Geoffrey Chaucer, The Romaunt of the Rose:

     I merveyle me wonder faste / How ony man may lyve or laste / In such peyne and such brennyng, / [...] In such annoy contynuely.

   • c. 1610, John Fletcher, “Sleep”:

     We that suffer long annoy / Are contented with a thought / Through an idle fancy wrought: / O let my joys have some abiding!
2. (now rare, literary) That which causes such a feeling.
   • 1594, William Shakespeare, King Rchard III, IV.2:

     Sleepe in Peace, and wake in Ioy, / Good Angels guard thee from the Boares annoy [...].

   • 1872, Robert Browning, "Fifine at the Fair, V:

     The home far and away, the distance where lives joy, / The cure, at once and ever, of world and world's annoy [...].

Synonyms

• (both senses) annoyance

Translations

References

• annoy in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• annoy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• Yonan, anyon, noyan, yanno

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /f??t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Etymology 1

From Middle English fr?ten (“to eat; to devour, eat up; to bite, chew; to consume, corrode, destroy; to rub, scrape away; to hurt, sting; to trouble, vex”), from Old English fretan (“to eat up, devour; to fret; to break, burst”), from Proto-Germanic *fraetan? (“to consume, devour, eat up”), from Proto-Germanic *fra- (“for-, prefix meaning ‘completely, fully’”) (from Proto-Indo-European *pro- (“forward, toward”)) + *etan? (“to eat”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h?ed- (“to eat”)).

The word is cognate with Dutch vreten, fretten (“to devour, hog, wolf”), Low German freten (“to eat up”), German fressen (“to devour, gobble up, guzzle”), Gothic ???????????????????????????? (fraitan, “to devour”), Swedish fräta (“to eat away, corrode, fret”); and also related to Danish fråse (“to gorge”).

The senses meaning “to chafe, rub” could also be due to sound-association with Anglo-Norman *freiter (modern dialectal French fretter), from Vulgar Latin *frict?re, frequentative of Latin fric?re, from fric? (“to chafe, rub”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *b?reyH- (“to cut”); compare Old French froter (modern French frotter). The chief difficulty is the lack of evidence of the Old French word.

Verb

fret (third-person singular simple present frets, present participle fretting, simple past fretted or fret or frate, past participle fretted or (usually in compounds) fretten)

1. (transitive, obsolete or poetic) Especially when describing animals: to consume, devour, or eat.
2. (transitive) To chafe or irritate; to worry.
3. (transitive) To make rough, to agitate or disturb; to cause to ripple.
4. (transitive) In the form fret out: to squander, to waste.
5. (transitive, intransitive) To gnaw; to consume, to eat away.
6. (transitive, intransitive) To be chafed or irritated; to be angry or vexed; to utter peevish expressions through irritation or worry.
7. (intransitive) To be worn away; to chafe; to fray.
8. (intransitive) To be anxious, to worry.
9. (intransitive) To be agitated; to rankle; to be in violent commotion.
10. (intransitive, brewing, oenology) To have secondary fermentation (fermentation occurring after the conversion of sugar to alcohol in beers and wine) take place.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

fret (plural frets)

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 (“any of various pustular skin conditions”).
4. (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.

Etymology 2

From Middle English fr?ten (“to adorn, decorate, ornament”), from Old French freté, freter, fretter (“to fret (decorate with an interlacing pattern)”), from Old French fret (from fraindre (“to break”), from Latin frang? (“to break, shatter”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *b?reg- (“to break”)) + Old French -er (“suffix forming verbs”) (from Latin -?re, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h?enh?- (“to burden, charge”)).

Noun

fret (plural frets)

1. An ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizontal lines, often in relief.
2. (heraldry) A saltire interlaced with a mascle.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

fret (third-person singular simple present frets, present participle fretting, simple past and past participle fretted)

1. (transitive) To decorate or ornament, especially with an interlaced or interwoven pattern, or (architecture) with carving or relief (raised) work.
2. (transitive) To form a pattern on; to variegate.
3. (transitive) To cut through with a fretsaw, to create fretwork.

Derived terms

• unfret

Translations

Etymology 3

From Old French frete (“ferrule, ring”) (modern French frette). The origin of the music senses are uncertain; they are possibly from frete or from fret (“to chafe, rub”).

Noun

fret (plural frets)

1. (obsolete or dialectal) A ferrule, a ring.
3. (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.

Derived terms

• fretboard
• fretless
• fretman

Translations

Verb

fret (third-person singular simple present frets, present participle fretting, simple past and past participle fretted)

1. To bind, to tie, originally with a loop or ring.
2. (transitive, music) Musical senses.
   1. To fit frets on to (a musical instrument).

   2. To press down the string behind a fret.

Related terms

• refret

Translations

References

• fret on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• fret at OneLook Dictionary Search

Etymology 4

From Latin fretum (“channel, strait”).

Noun

fret (plural frets)

2. A channel, a strait; a fretum.

Related terms

• fretum
• transfretation
• transfrete

Etymology 5

From Old French frete, fraite, fraicte, possibly partly confused with fret (“channel, strait”).

Noun

fret (plural frets)

1. (rare) A channel or passage created by the sea.

Etymology 6

Of unknown origin.

Noun

fret (plural frets)

1. (Northumbria) A fog or mist at sea, or coming inland from the sea.

Derived terms

• sea fret

References

Anagrams

• TERF, reft, terf, tref

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fr?t/
• Hyphenation: fret
• Rhymes: -?t
• Homophone: Fred

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch furet, fret, from Old French furet, from Vulgar Latin *f?rittus, diminutive of Latin f?r (“thief”).

Noun

fret m (plural fretten, diminutive fretje n)

1. ferret, Mustela putorius furo

Hypernyms

• bunzing

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English fret.

Noun

fret m (plural frets, diminutive fretje n)

1. (music) fret, on the neck on for example a guitar

Anagrams

• erft, tref

French

Etymology

From Old French fret, from Middle Dutch vrecht, from Old Dutch *fr?ht, from Proto-Germanic *fra- + *aihtiz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f??/
• Homophones: feraient, ferais, ferait, frais, frets

Noun

fret m (plural frets)

1. (shipping) Freight, cargo fees: the cost of transporting cargo by boat.
2. (by extension) Rental of a ship, in whole or in part.
3. Freight, cargo, payload (of a ship).
   • 2008 March 9, Reuters, “L'ATV Jules Verne né sous une bonne étoile”,

     Il n'y aura plus alors que les vaisseaux Progress russes pour emmener du fret à bord de la station spatiale, et les Soyouz pour les vols habités.

     So there will only be the Russian Progress shuttles to take freight aboard the space station, and the Soyuz for manned flights.

Descendants

• ? Portuguese: frete
• ? Spanish: flete

Further reading

• “fret” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Gothic

Romanization

fr?t

1. Romanization of ????????????????

Old French

Alternative forms

• frait

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Middle Dutch vrecht.

Noun

fret m (oblique plural frez or fretz, nominative singular frez or fretz, nominative plural fret)

1. charge (demand of payment in exchange for goods or services)

Descendants

• French: fret
  • ? Portuguese: frete
  • ? Spanish: flete
• ? Galician: frete

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

fret

1. past participle of fraindre