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fret
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)
- (transitive, obsolete or poetic) Especially when describing animals: to consume, devour, or eat.
- (transitive) To chafe or irritate; to worry.
- (transitive) To make rough, to agitate or disturb; to cause to ripple.
- (transitive) In the form fret out: to squander, to waste.
- (transitive, intransitive) To gnaw; to consume, to eat away.
- (transitive, intransitive) To be chafed or irritated; to be angry or vexed; to utter peevish expressions through irritation or worry.
- (intransitive) To be worn away; to chafe; to fray.
- (intransitive) To be anxious, to worry.
- (intransitive) To be agitated; to rankle; to be in violent commotion.
- (intransitive, brewing, oenology) To have secondary fermentation (fermentation occurring after the conversion of sugar to alcohol in beers and wine) take place.
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Translations
Noun
fret (plural frets)
- Agitation of the surface of a fluid by fermentation or some other cause; a rippling on the surface of water.
- Agitation of the mind marked by complaint and impatience; disturbance of temper; irritation.
- Herpes; tetter (“any of various pustular skin conditions”).
- (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)
- An ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizontal lines, often in relief.
- (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)
- (transitive) To decorate or ornament, especially with an interlaced or interwoven pattern, or (architecture) with carving or relief (raised) work.
- (transitive) To form a pattern on; to variegate.
- (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)
- (obsolete or dialectal) A ferrule, a ring.
- (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)
- To bind, to tie, originally with a loop or ring.
- (transitive, music) Musical senses.
- To fit frets on to (a musical instrument).
- To press down the string behind a fret.
- To fit frets on to (a musical instrument).
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)
- 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)
- (rare) A channel or passage created by the sea.
Etymology 6
Of unknown origin.
Noun
fret (plural frets)
- (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)
- ferret, Mustela putorius furo
Hypernyms
- bunzing
Etymology 2
Borrowed from English fret.
Noun
fret m (plural frets, diminutive fretje n)
- (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)
- (shipping) Freight, cargo fees: the cost of transporting cargo by boat.
- (by extension) Rental of a ship, in whole or in part.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2008 March 9, Reuters, “L'ATV Jules Verne né sous une bonne étoile”,
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
- 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)
- 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
- past participle of fraindre
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chew
English
Etymology
From Middle English chewen, from Old English ??owan, from Proto-West Germanic *keuwan, from Proto-Germanic *kewwan?, from Proto-Indo-European *?yewh?-. Cognate with West Frisian kôgje, Low German käwwen, Dutch kauwen, German kauen); also Latin ging?va (“gums”), Tocharian B ?uwa? (“to eat”), Polish ?u? (“to chew”), Persian ?????? (?av?dan), Pashto ???? (žov?l, “to bite, gnaw”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /t?u?/, /t????/
- (General American) enPR: cho?o, IPA(key): /t?u/
- Rhymes: -u?
Verb
chew (third-person singular simple present chews, present participle chewing, simple past chewed, past participle chewed or (rare) chewn)
- To crush with the teeth by repeated closing and opening of the jaws; done to food to soften it and break it down by the action of saliva before it is swallowed.
- 1578, Henry Lyte, A niewe Herball
- The same chewn upon maketh one to avoid much phlegm.
- 1971-79, Journal of Glenn T. Seaborg
- And gruesome they are? We find cattle still alive with hindquarters chewn off, still alive with their eyes chewn out, their ears chewn off, their noses and faces chewn till they look like (a) Hamburger, their tails hanging in shreds. Or, we find them after a slow and cruel death. Can you understand why cattlemen will shoot YOUR dog if he is seen wandering on ranchland?
- 1976, Leonard Tancock (translator), Rameau's Nephew / D'alembert's Dream, by Denis Diderot
- But meanwhile Mademoiselle's book had at least been found under an arm-chair where it had been dragged, chewn up and torn to pieces by a young pug-dog or by a kitten.
- 2001, Keith Douglass, Seal Team Seven 14: Death Blow
- He wore two sweaters, both moth chewn and filthy but warm.
- 2010, Tony Reynolds, The Lost Stories of Sherlock Holmes
- His left cheek seemed to have been cut and chewn away?
- 1578, Henry Lyte, A niewe Herball
- To grind, tear, or otherwise degrade or demolish something with teeth or as with teeth.
- (informal) To think about something; to ponder; to chew over.
- 1734, Alexander Pope, Epistle to Cobham
- Old politicians chew on wisdom past.
- 1711, Matthew Prior, to Mr. Harley, wounded by Guiscard
- He chews revenge, abjuring his offense.
- 1734, Alexander Pope, Epistle to Cobham
Synonyms
- (crush food with teeth prior to swallowing): bite, chavel, chomp, crunch, masticate
- (degrade or demolish as if with teeth): grind, pulverize, rip, shred, tear
- (think about): contemplate, ruminate, mull, muse, ponder
- See also Thesaurus:ponder
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
chew (countable and uncountable, plural chews)
- The act of chewing; mastication with the mouth.
- Level of chewiness.
- 1996, Adele Puhn, The 5-Day Miracle Diet Companion (?ISBN)
- Once it's cooked, it's not enough of a hard chew to count.
- 2014, Christian F. Puglisi, Relae: A Book of Ideas (?ISBN), page 140:
- A bread with a strong and solidified gluten network has a nice chew to it, and many types of charcuterie call for just enough work by the teeth to be dangerously addictive. But in all cases, chewy must be combined with an appropriate amount of ...
- 2015, Jim "Sunny" Edwards, A Footprint in the Sand: The Fishing Edge, Fulton Books, Inc. (?ISBN):
- No matter what I did to the squid, it was a tough chew. I got out my magnifying glass. Still, there was nothing that I could see to make the squid curl when cooked. I decided to tenderize the squid with my rubber hammer.
- 2015, Aki Kamozawa, H. Alexander Talbot, Gluten-Free Flour Power: Bringing Your Favorite Foods Back to the Table, W. W. Norton & Company (?ISBN)
- To serve, cook the malloredus in a large pot of boiling salted water until just tender, but with a nice chew to them. Fold into a warm sauce or ragout and serve immediately.
- 2016, Heather Christo, Pure Delicious, Penguin (?ISBN), page 178:
- While these are a little complicated to make, the result is a thick, toothsome bun that has a nice chew to it but is still soft.
- 1996, Adele Puhn, The 5-Day Miracle Diet Companion (?ISBN)
- A small sweet, such as a taffy, that is eaten by chewing.
- (informal, uncountable) Chewing tobacco.
- (countable or uncountable) A plug or wad of chewing tobacco; chaw or a chaw.
- (uncountable, informal) The condition of something being torn or ground up mechanically.
- 1995, Keyboard (volume 21, issues 7-12, page 138)
- Avoiding Tape Chew. In the early days of the ADAT, the "V" blocks (two arms that thread the tape around the front of the head) could sometimes get out of alignment and "chew" the outside track […]
- 1995, Keyboard (volume 21, issues 7-12, page 138)
Derived terms
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