Frit vs. Fret: What's the Difference?

The fused or partially fused materials used in making glass.

To be vexed or troubled; worry.

A vitreous substance used in making porcelain, glazes, or enamels.

To be worn or eaten away; become corroded.

To make into frit.

To move agitatedly.

A fused mixture of materials used to make glass.

To gnaw with the teeth in the manner of a rodent.

(archaeology) A similar material used in the manufacture of ceramic beads and small ornaments. eastern Mediterranean; Bronze and Iron Age

To cause to be uneasy; vex

To add frit to a glass or ceramic mixture

To gnaw or wear away; erode.

To prepare by heat (the materials for making glass); to fuse partially.

To produce a hole or worn spot in; corrode.

Frightened.

To form (a passage or channel) by erosion.

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.

To disturb the surface of (water or a stream); agitate.

The material for glaze of pottery.

To provide with frets.

To prepare by heat (the materials for making glass); to fuse partially.

To press (the strings of an instrument) against the frets.

To fritter; - with away.

To provide with such a design or headdress.

The act or an instance of fretting.

A hole or worn spot made by abrasion or erosion.

Irritation of mind; agitation.

One of several ridges set across the fingerboard of certain stringed instruments, such as guitars.

An ornamental design consisting of repeated and symmetrical geometric figures, often in relief, contained within a band or border. Also called key pattern.

A headdress, worn by women of the Middle Ages, consisting of interlaced wire.

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.

(ambitransitive) To gnaw; to consume, to eat away.

(ambitransitive) 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.

To have secondary fermentation (fermentation occurring after the conversion of sugar to alcohol in beers and wine) take place.

(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.

To bind, to tie, originally with a loop or ring.

Musical senses.

To fit frets on to (a musical instrument).

To press down the string behind a fret.

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.

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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.

An ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizontal lines, often in relief.

(heraldic charge) A saltire interlaced with a mascle.

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.

A channel, a strait; a fretum.

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

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

See 1st Frith.

The agitation of the surface of a fluid by fermentation or other cause; a rippling on the surface of water.

Agitation of mind marked by complaint and impatience; disturbance of temper; irritation; as, he keeps his mind in a continual fret.

Herpes; tetter.

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.

Ornamental work in relief, as carving or embossing. See Fretwork.

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.

The reticulated headdress or net, made of gold or silver wire, in which ladies in the Middle Ages confined their hair.

A saltire interlaced with a mascle.

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.

To devour.

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.

To impair; to wear away; to diminish.

To make rough, agitate, or disturb; to cause to ripple; as, to fret the surface of water.

To tease; to irritate; to vex.

To be worn away; to chafe; to fray; as, a wristband frets on the edges.

To eat in; to make way by corrosion.

To be agitated; to be in violent commotion; to rankle; as, rancor frets in the malignant breast.

To be vexed; to be chafed or irritated; to be angry; to utter peevish expressions.

To ornament with raised work; to variegate; to diversify.

To furnish with frets, as an instrument of music.

Agitation resulting from active worry;

A spot that has been worn away by abrasion or erosion

An ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizonal lines (often in relief);

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

Worry unnecessarily or excessively;

Be agitated or irritated;

Provide (a musical instrument) with frets;

Become or make sore by or as if by rubbing

Cause annoyance in

Gnaw into; make resentful or angry;

Carve a pattern into

Decorate with an interlaced design

Be too tight; rub or press;

Cause friction;

Remove soil or rock;

Wear away or erode