Usually means: Metal strips on guitar neck.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. frets: Merriam-Webster
  2. frets, frets, frets: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. frets: Collins English Dictionary
  4. frets: Vocabulary.com
  5. Frets, frets: Wordnik
  6. frets: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. frets: Wiktionary
  8. frets: Dictionary.com
  9. frets: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Frets: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. frets: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Banjo Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. frets: Legal dictionary

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  1. frets: Encyclopedia

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  1. frets: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (FRET)

verb:  (transitive, obsolete or poetic) Especially when describing animals: to consume, devour, or eat.
verb:  (transitive) To chafe or irritate; to worry.
verb:  (transitive) To make rough, to agitate or disturb; to cause to ripple.
verb:  (transitive) In the form fret out: to squander, to waste.
verb:  (ambitransitive) To gnaw; to consume, to eat away.
verb:  (ambitransitive) To be chafed or irritated; to be angry or vexed; to utter peevish expressions through irritation or worry.
verb:  (intransitive) To be worn away; to chafe; to fray.
verb:  (intransitive) To be anxious, to worry.
verb:  (intransitive) To be agitated; to rankle; to be in violent commotion.
verb:  (intransitive, brewing, oenology) To have secondary fermentation (fermentation occurring after the conversion of sugar to alcohol in beers and wine) take place.
noun:  Agitation of the surface of a fluid by fermentation or some other cause; a rippling on the surface of water.
noun:  Agitation of the mind marked by complaint and impatience; disturbance of temper; irritation.
noun:  Herpes; tetter (“any of various pustular skin conditions”).
noun:  (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.
noun:  An ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizontal lines, often in relief.
noun:  (heraldry) A saltire interlaced with a mascle.
verb:  (transitive) To decorate or ornament, especially with an interlaced or interwoven pattern, or (architecture) with carving or relief (raised) work.
verb:  (transitive) To form a pattern on; to variegate.
verb:  (transitive) To cut through with a fretsaw, to create fretwork.
noun:  (obsolete or dialectal) A ferrule, a ring.
noun:  (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.
verb:  To bind, to tie, originally with a loop or ring.
verb:  (transitive, music) Musical senses.
verb:  To fit frets on to (a musical instrument).
verb:  To press down the string behind a fret.
noun:  A channel, a strait; a fretum.
noun:  (rare) A channel or passage created by the sea.
noun:  (Northumbria) A fog or mist at sea, or coming inland from the sea.
noun:  (physics) Förster resonance energy transfer
noun:  (physics) fluorescence resonance energy transfer, which is a type of the Förster phenomenon where one or both of the partners in the energy transfer are fluorescent chromophores
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