Frit vs. Fret

Frit and Fret Definitions
Frit
The fused or partially fused materials used in making glass.
Fret
To be vexed or troubled; worry.
Frit
A vitreous substance used in making porcelain, glazes, or enamels.
Fret
To be worn or eaten away; become corroded.
Frit
To make into frit.
Fret
To move agitatedly.
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Frit
A fused mixture of materials used to make glass.
Fret
To gnaw with the teeth in the manner of a rodent.
Frit
(archaeology) A similar material used in the manufacture of ceramic beads and small ornaments. eastern Mediterranean; Bronze and Iron Age
Fret
To cause to be uneasy; vex
"fret thy soul with crosses and with cares" (Edmund Spenser).
Frit
To add frit to a glass or ceramic mixture
Fret
To gnaw or wear away; erode.
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Frit
To prepare by heat (the materials for making glass); to fuse partially.
Fret
To produce a hole or worn spot in; corrode.
Frit
Frightened.
Fret
To form (a passage or channel) by erosion.
Frit
The material of which glass is made, after having been calcined or partly fused in a furnace, but before vitrification. It is a composition of silex and alkali, occasionally with other ingredients.
Fret
To disturb the surface of (water or a stream); agitate.
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Frit
The material for glaze of pottery.
Fret
To provide with frets.
Frit
To prepare by heat (the materials for making glass); to fuse partially.
Fret
To press (the strings of an instrument) against the frets.
Frit
To fritter; - with away.
Fret
To provide with such a design or headdress.
Fret
The act or an instance of fretting.
Fret
A hole or worn spot made by abrasion or erosion.
Fret
Irritation of mind; agitation.
Fret
One of several ridges set across the fingerboard of certain stringed instruments, such as guitars.
Fret
An ornamental design consisting of repeated and symmetrical geometric figures, often in relief, contained within a band or border. Also called key pattern.
Fret
A headdress, worn by women of the Middle Ages, consisting of interlaced wire.
Fret
Especially when describing animals: to consume, devour, or eat.
Fret
(transitive) To chafe or irritate; to worry.
Fret
(transitive) To make rough, to agitate or disturb; to cause to ripple.
To fret the surface of water
Fret
(transitive) In the form fret out: to squander, to waste.
Fret
(ambitransitive) To gnaw; to consume, to eat away.
Fret
(ambitransitive) To be chafed or irritated; to be angry or vexed; to utter peevish expressions through irritation or worry.
Fret
(intransitive) To be worn away; to chafe; to fray.
A wristband frets on the edges.
Fret
(intransitive) To be anxious, to worry.
Fret
(intransitive) To be agitated; to rankle; to be in violent commotion.
Rancour frets in the malignant breast.
Fret
To have secondary fermentation (fermentation occurring after the conversion of sugar to alcohol in beers and wine) take place.
Fret
(transitive) To decorate or ornament, especially with an interlaced or interwoven pattern, or (architecture) with carving or relief (raised) work.
Fret
(transitive) To form a pattern on; to variegate.
Fret
(transitive) To cut through with a fretsaw, to create fretwork.
Fret
To bind, to tie, originally with a loop or ring.
Fret
Musical senses.
Fret
To fit frets on to (a musical instrument).
To fret a guitar
Fret
To press down the string behind a fret.
Fret
Agitation of the surface of a fluid by fermentation or some other cause; a rippling on the surface of water.
Fret
Agitation of the mind marked by complaint and impatience; disturbance of temper; irritation.
He keeps his mind in a continual fret.
Fret
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Fret
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.
Fret
An ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizontal lines, often in relief.
Fret
(heraldic charge) A saltire interlaced with a mascle.
Fret
A ferrule, a ring.
Fret
(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.
Fret
A channel, a strait; a fretum.
Fret
(rare) A channel or passage created by the sea.
Fret
(Northumbria) A fog or mist at sea, or coming inland from the sea.
Fret
See 1st Frith.
Fret
The agitation of the surface of a fluid by fermentation or other cause; a rippling on the surface of water.
Fret
Agitation of mind marked by complaint and impatience; disturbance of temper; irritation; as, he keeps his mind in a continual fret.
Yet then did Dennis rave in furious fret.
Fret
Herpes; tetter.
Fret
The worn sides of river banks, where ores, or stones containing them, accumulate by being washed down from the hills, and thus indicate to the miners the locality of the veins.
Fret
Ornamental work in relief, as carving or embossing. See Fretwork.
Fret
An ornament consisting of small fillets or slats intersecting each other or bent at right angles, as in classical designs, or at oblique angles, as often in Oriental art.
His lady's cabinet is a adorned on the fret, ceiling, and chimney-piece with . . . carving.
Fret
The reticulated headdress or net, made of gold or silver wire, in which ladies in the Middle Ages confined their hair.
A fret of gold she had next her hair.
Fret
A saltire interlaced with a mascle.
Fret
A short piece of wire, or other material fixed across the finger board of a guitar or a similar instrument, to indicate where the finger is to be placed.
Fret
To devour.
The sow frete the child right in the cradle.
Fret
To rub; to wear away by friction; to chafe; to gall; hence, to eat away; to gnaw; as, to fret cloth; to fret a piece of gold or other metal; a worm frets the plants of a ship.
With many a curve my banks I fret.
Fret
To impair; to wear away; to diminish.
By startsHis fretted fortunes give him hope and fear.
Fret
To make rough, agitate, or disturb; to cause to ripple; as, to fret the surface of water.
Fret
To tease; to irritate; to vex.
Fret not thyself because of evil doers.
Fret
To be worn away; to chafe; to fray; as, a wristband frets on the edges.
Fret
To eat in; to make way by corrosion.
Many wheals arose, and fretted one into another with great excoriation.
Fret
To be agitated; to be in violent commotion; to rankle; as, rancor frets in the malignant breast.
Fret
To be vexed; to be chafed or irritated; to be angry; to utter peevish expressions.
He frets, he fumes, he stares, he stamps the ground.
Fret
To ornament with raised work; to variegate; to diversify.
Whose skirt with gold was fretted all about.
Yon gray lines,That fret the clouds, are messengers of day.
Fret
To furnish with frets, as an instrument of music.
Fret
Agitation resulting from active worry;
Don't get in a stew
He's in a sweat about exams
Fret
A spot that has been worn away by abrasion or erosion
Fret
An ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizonal lines (often in relief);
There was a simple fret at the top of the walls
Fret
A small bar of metal across the fingerboard of a musical instrument; when the string is stopped by a finger at the metal bar it will produce a note of the desired pitch
Fret
Worry unnecessarily or excessively;
Don't fuss too much over the grandchildren--they are quite big now
Fret
Be agitated or irritated;
Don't fret over these small details
Fret
Provide (a musical instrument) with frets;
Fret a guitar
Fret
Become or make sore by or as if by rubbing
Fret
Cause annoyance in
Fret
Gnaw into; make resentful or angry;
The unjustice rankled her
His resentment festered
Fret
Carve a pattern into
Fret
Decorate with an interlaced design
Fret
Be too tight; rub or press;
This neckband is choking the cat
Fret
Cause friction;
My sweater scratches
Fret
Remove soil or rock;
Rain eroded the terraces
Fret
Wear away or erode