Fret vs Acceptance - What's the difference?
fret | acceptance |
To devour, consume; eat.
* (rfdate)— Piers Ploughman.
* Wiseman
(transitive, and, intransitive) To gnaw, consume, eat away.
To be worn away; to chafe; to fray.
To cut through with fretsaw, create fretwork.
To chafe or irritate; to worry.
To worry or be anxious.
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, title= To be vexed; to be chafed or irritated; to be angry; to utter peevish expressions.
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*:Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.
* Dryden
To make rough, agitate, or disturb; to cause to ripple.
To be agitated; to be in violent commotion; to rankle.
(music) To press down the string behind a fret.
To ornament with raised work; to variegate; to diversify.
* Spenser
* Shakespeare
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.
* Pope
Herpes; tetter.
(mining, in the plural) 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.
(music) One of the pieces of metal/wood/plastic across the neck of a guitar or other musical instrument that marks note positions for fingering.
An ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizontal lines (often in relief).
* Evelyn
(heraldiccharge) A saltire interlaced with a mascle.
The act of accepting; a receiving of something offered, with approbation, satisfaction, or acquiescence; especially, favorable reception; approval
* Isaiah 60:7 :
Belief in something; agreement; assent.
State of being accepted.
* Shakespeare: Rape of Lucrece :
(business, finance) An assent and engagement by the person on whom a bill of exchange is drawn, to pay it when due according to the terms of the acceptance.
(business, finance) The bill of exchange itself when accepted.
An agreeing to terms or proposals by which a bargain is concluded and the parties are bound; the reception or taking of a thing bought as that for which it was bought, or as that agreed to be delivered, or the taking possession as owner.
(legal) An agreeing to the action of another, by some act which binds the person in law.
(US, government) The act of an authorized representative of the Government by which the Government assents to ownership by it of existing and identified supplies, or approves specific services rendered, as partial or complete performance of a contract.
The usual or accepted meaning of a word or expression.
(Australia, New Zealand, pluralonly) A list of horses accepted as starters in a race.
As an adjective fret
is cold.As a noun acceptance is
the act of accepting; a receiving of something offered, with approbation, satisfaction, or acquiescence; especially, favorable reception; approval.fret
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Verb
- Adam freet of that fruit, And forsook the love of our Lord.
- Many wheals arose, and fretted one into another with great excoriation.
- A wristband frets on the edges.
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- He frets , he fumes, he stares, he stamps the ground.
- to fret the surface of water
- Rancour frets in the malignant breast.
- whose skirt with gold was fretted all about
- Yon grey lines, / That fret the clouds, are messengers of day.
Noun
(en noun)- (Addison)
- He keeps his mind in a continual fret .
- Yet then did Dennis rave in furious fret .
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Etymology 2
From (etyl) < (etyl), from the verb (m).Noun
(en noun)- His lady's cabinet is adorned on the fret , ceiling, and chimney-piece with carving.
Derived terms
* fretboardEtymology 3
From (etyl)Etymology 4
Anagrams
* ----acceptance
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Alternative forms
* (obsolete) (l)Noun
(en noun)- the acceptance of a gift, office, doctrine, etc.
- They shall come up with acceptance on mine altar.
- Makes it assured of acceptance .
