Fret
verb
To worry or be annoyed.
Don't fret about your test, you will do great!
Often appears as...
- fret about something
- fret over something
verb
To gradually damage or destroy something.
Sea water tends to fret the rocks on the coast.
Often appears as...
- fret the surface
- fret away
noun
A ribbed or raised decoration, especially on a piece of metal or wood.
The artist carved intricate frets into the wooden door.
Often appears as...
- raised fret
- intricate fret
noun
A sequence of bars or ridges on the neck of a guitar or other stringed instrument.
He carefully tuned each string beyond the twelfth fret.
Often appears as...
- guitar fret
- twelfth fret
Usage tips
Music
verb
To worry or be annoyed.
Don't fret about your test, you will do great!
Often appears as...
- fret about something
- fret over something
verb
To gradually damage or destroy something.
Sea water tends to fret the rocks on the coast.
Often appears as...
- fret the surface
- fret away
noun
A ribbed or raised decoration, especially on a piece of metal or wood.
The artist carved intricate frets into the wooden door.
Often appears as...
- raised fret
- intricate fret
noun
A sequence of bars or ridges on the neck of a guitar or other stringed instrument.
He carefully tuned each string beyond the twelfth fret.
Often appears as...
- guitar fret
- twelfth fret
Usage tips
Music
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Tone
Used to express discomfort or worry, often about minor issues.
She always frets over the smallest details before a party.
Pro Tip 2/3Casual Expression
Common in everyday conversation to express personal concern or stress.
I can't help but fret about tomorrow's interview.
Pro Tip 3/3Negative Context
Frequently used in negative situations or to discourage excessive worrying.
Don't fret, we'll figure out a solution.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Tone
Used to express discomfort or worry, often about minor issues.
She always frets over the smallest details before a party.
Pro Tip 2/3Casual Expression
Common in everyday conversation to express personal concern or stress.
I can't help but fret about tomorrow's interview.
Pro Tip 3/3Negative Context
Frequently used in negative situations or to discourage excessive worrying.
Don't fret, we'll figure out a solution.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Tone
Used to express discomfort or worry, often about minor issues.
She always frets over the smallest details before a party.
Pro Tip 2/3Casual Expression
Common in everyday conversation to express personal concern or stress.
I can't help but fret about tomorrow's interview.
Pro Tip 3/3Negative Context
Frequently used in negative situations or to discourage excessive worrying.
Don't fret, we'll figure out a solution.
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The science of stage...
Public speaking can threaten it. Before a speech, you fret, "What if people think I'm awful and I'm an idiot?" That fear of being seen as an awful idiot is a threat reaction from a primitive part of your brain that's very hard to control. It's the fight or flight response, a self-protective process seen in a range of animals,
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Why should you read...
Aristocrats at a cocktail party fret about the looming violence, but then change the topic to those things aristocrats always seem to care money, sex, and death. This first scene is indicative of the way the book bounces between the political and personal
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The physics of playing...
That factor determines the fret spacing. Each fret divides the string's remaining length by 2^, making the frequencies increase by half steps. Fretless instruments, like violins, make it easier to produce the infinite frequencies between each note,
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Martin Rees: Can we...
in our interconnected world, network breakdowns can cascade globally; air travel can spread pandemics worldwide within days; and social media can spread panic and rumor literally at the speed of light. We fret too much about minor hazards —
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Leaving the Nursery PIPE...
how they settle down we'll never Sally leaves them they fret I have to resist the temptation to offer comfort being cruel in order to be kind because if they are to survive in the world outside they must learn to cope on their own
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We're building a...
very often, they invoke images of humanoid robots run amok. You know? Terminator? You know, that might be something to consider, but that's a distant threat. Or, we fret about digital surveillance with metaphors from the past.
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Bill Saturno: Adding...
they predicted the end of the world in just a few weeks time so if you've come out tonight and this is weighing heavily upon your minds fret not I intend to send you home reassured now all too often when we think of lost
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The Global Spermageddon...
See you on the other side. Bye bye. Cheers. TIM With Miriam analyzing my sample upstairs, I'm turned loose on the streets to fret over my count and the modern day phenomena
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Why should you read...
"Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury
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Safari Live - Day 166 PIPE...
now we are heading to the 6th fret where I saw them in the morning chances are it could be where they are I do not think they might have moved because they had
Video examples
The science of stage...
Public speaking can threaten it. Before a speech, you fret, "What if people think I'm awful and I'm an idiot?" That fear of being seen as an awful idiot is a threat reaction from a primitive part of your brain that's very hard to control. It's the fight or flight response, a self-protective process seen in a range of animals,
Video examples
Why should you read...
Aristocrats at a cocktail party fret about the looming violence, but then change the topic to those things aristocrats always seem to care money, sex, and death. This first scene is indicative of the way the book bounces between the political and personal
Video examples
The physics of playing...
That factor determines the fret spacing. Each fret divides the string's remaining length by 2^, making the frequencies increase by half steps. Fretless instruments, like violins, make it easier to produce the infinite frequencies between each note,
Video examples
Martin Rees: Can we...
in our interconnected world, network breakdowns can cascade globally; air travel can spread pandemics worldwide within days; and social media can spread panic and rumor literally at the speed of light. We fret too much about minor hazards —
Video examples
Leaving the Nursery PIPE...
how they settle down we'll never Sally leaves them they fret I have to resist the temptation to offer comfort being cruel in order to be kind because if they are to survive in the world outside they must learn to cope on their own
Video examples
We're building a...
very often, they invoke images of humanoid robots run amok. You know? Terminator? You know, that might be something to consider, but that's a distant threat. Or, we fret about digital surveillance with metaphors from the past.
Video examples
Bill Saturno: Adding...
they predicted the end of the world in just a few weeks time so if you've come out tonight and this is weighing heavily upon your minds fret not I intend to send you home reassured now all too often when we think of lost
Video examples
The Global Spermageddon...
See you on the other side. Bye bye. Cheers. TIM With Miriam analyzing my sample upstairs, I'm turned loose on the streets to fret over my count and the modern day phenomena
Video examples
Why should you read...
"Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 166 PIPE...
now we are heading to the 6th fret where I saw them in the morning chances are it could be where they are I do not think they might have moved because they had
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Quote examples
Eliot Schrefer
American Author
In my business - SAT tutoring - you get used to sighs. A client's mother frets over the sheer amount of work her daughter has to do to get her score up, until she reaches the resigned moment when she will sigh and observe that no one thought you could prepare for the SAT back when she took it - it was 'untutorable.
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Deborah Mailman
Australian Actress
If I look at the one thorn that is in my side, of all my life, it is my weight. I fret about it, I'm anxious about it, being an actor on television - it drives me insane. It just seems to be something that plays a central part in waking up in the morning and thinking, 'How am I with myself today?
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Kate Winslet
Actress
Acting, and the privilege of being able to do it for a living, is so important to me. I don't turn up and just hope for the best. I really fret about it. I do my homework; I prepare myself for the experience of playing a particular character.
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Mouni Roy
Indian Actress
I don't believe in doing one thing after another. I am a bit lazy, laid back, and a happy-go-lucky person. I don't fret too much. I enjoy living in the moment. If I have too much, then I get confused and distressed.
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Jenny Zhang
Chinese Actress
Early in my life, without any supporting evidence, I fretted over what I believed was my fate: accidentally becoming an international pop star. The pages of my diary were filled with hypothetical ethical dilemmas.
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Steve Wynn
American Businessman
In business or in life, focus on the things over which you do have some control. And don't fret about all the other problems. Most of the time, they don't come true anyway!
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Steve Madden
American Businessman
I don't fret much about the natural life spans of shoe companies. If stores don't do the right things, they cease to exist, and that doesn't trouble me at all.
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Mark Manson
American Author
Little things, when we're caught up and fretting about them, often appear to be big and meaningful and world-changing in the moment they are happening.
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Shilpa Shetty
Indian Actress
The best way to survive life is - never fret over what you don't get. There's a bigger plan for you.
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George Bernard Shaw
Irish Playwright
Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.
Quote examples
Eliot Schrefer
American Author
In my business - SAT tutoring - you get used to sighs. A client's mother frets over the sheer amount of work her daughter has to do to get her score up, until she reaches the resigned moment when she will sigh and observe that no one thought you could prepare for the SAT back when she took it - it was 'untutorable.
Quote examples
Deborah Mailman
Australian Actress
If I look at the one thorn that is in my side, of all my life, it is my weight. I fret about it, I'm anxious about it, being an actor on television - it drives me insane. It just seems to be something that plays a central part in waking up in the morning and thinking, 'How am I with myself today?
Quote examples
Kate Winslet
Actress
Acting, and the privilege of being able to do it for a living, is so important to me. I don't turn up and just hope for the best. I really fret about it. I do my homework; I prepare myself for the experience of playing a particular character.
Quote examples
Mouni Roy
Indian Actress
I don't believe in doing one thing after another. I am a bit lazy, laid back, and a happy-go-lucky person. I don't fret too much. I enjoy living in the moment. If I have too much, then I get confused and distressed.
Quote examples
Jenny Zhang
Chinese Actress
Early in my life, without any supporting evidence, I fretted over what I believed was my fate: accidentally becoming an international pop star. The pages of my diary were filled with hypothetical ethical dilemmas.
Quote examples
Steve Wynn
American Businessman
In business or in life, focus on the things over which you do have some control. And don't fret about all the other problems. Most of the time, they don't come true anyway!
Quote examples
Steve Madden
American Businessman
I don't fret much about the natural life spans of shoe companies. If stores don't do the right things, they cease to exist, and that doesn't trouble me at all.
Quote examples
Mark Manson
American Author
Little things, when we're caught up and fretting about them, often appear to be big and meaningful and world-changing in the moment they are happening.
Quote examples
Shilpa Shetty
Indian Actress
The best way to survive life is - never fret over what you don't get. There's a bigger plan for you.
Quote examples
George Bernard Shaw
Irish Playwright
Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.
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