Fret vs Concern - What's the difference?
fret | concern |
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.
* , chapter=5
, 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.
That which affects one's welfare or happiness.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=2
, passage=We drove back to the office with some concern on my part at the prospect of so large a case. Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.}}
* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=April 10, author=Alistair Magowan, work=BBC Sport
, title= The expression of solicitude, anxiety, or compassion toward a thing or person.
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, title=The Dust of Conflict, chapter=22 A business, firm or enterprise; a company.
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(computing, programming) Any set of information that affects the code of a computer program.
* 2006 , Awais Rashid, ?Mehmet Aksit, Transactions on Aspect-Oriented Software Development II (page 148)
(label) To relate or belong to; to have reference to or connection with; to affect the interest of; to be of importance to.
*(Bible), (w) xxviii. 31
*:Preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ.
*(Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)
*:Our wars with France have affected us in our most tender interests, and concerned us more than those with any other nation.
*(James Fenimore Cooper) (1789-1851)
*:ignorant, so far as the usual instruction is concerned
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*:As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish, but I would not go out of my way to protest against it. My servant is, so far as I am concerned , welcome to as many votes as he can get. I would very gladly make mine over to him if I could.
(label) To engage by feeling or sentiment; to interest.
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*(Samuel Rogers) (1763-1855)
*:They think themselves out the reach of Providence, and no longer concerned to solicit his favour.
*{{quote-book, year=1935, author=
, title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=3
, passage=It had been his intention to go to Wimbledon, but as he himself said: “Why be blooming well frizzled when you can hear all the results over the wireless. And results are all that concern me.
(label) To make somebody worried.
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As an adjective fret
is cold.As a noun concern is
that which affects one's welfare or happiness.As a verb concern is
(label) to relate or belong to; to have reference to or connection with; to affect the interest of; to be of importance to.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.
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner. […] When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose.}}
- 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 .
- (Dunglison)
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
* ----concern
English
Noun
Aston Villa 1-0 Newcastle, passage=Although the encounter was bathed in sunshine, the match failed to reach boiling point but that will be of little concern to Gerard Houllier's team, who took a huge step forward before they face crucial matches against their relegation rivals.}}
citation, passage=Appleby
What the Muslim World Is Watching," The New York Times (retrieved 26 July 2014):
- Soon after he ascended the throne, an Arabic television joint venture between the BBC and a Saudi concern , Orbit Communications, foundered over the BBC's insistence on editorial independence.
- At the programming level, an aspect is a modular unit that implements a concern .
External links
* *Verb
(en verb)George Goodchild