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Fret vs Stew - What's the difference?

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Stew is a synonym of fret.



In transitive terms the difference between fret and stew

is that fret is to chafe or irritate; to worry while stew is to brew (tea) for too long, so that the flavour becomes too strong.

As verbs the difference between fret and stew

is that fret is to devour, consume; eat while stew is to cook (food) by slowly boiling or simmering.

As nouns the difference between fret and stew

is that fret is the agitation of the surface of a fluid by fermentation or other cause; a rippling on the surface of water while stew is a cooking-dish used for boiling; a cauldron.

As an initialism FRET

is förster resonance energy transfer.

As a proper noun Stew is

a diminutive of the male given name Stewart.

fret

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .

Verb

  • To devour, consume; eat.
  • * (rfdate)— Piers Ploughman.
    • Adam freet of that fruit, And forsook the love of our Lord.
  • * Wiseman
    • Many wheals arose, and fretted one into another with great excoriation.
  • (transitive, and, intransitive) To gnaw, consume, eat away.
  • To be worn away; to chafe; to fray.
    • A wristband frets on the edges.
  • To cut through with fretsaw, create fretwork.
  • To chafe or irritate; to worry.
  • To worry or be anxious.
  • * , chapter=5
    • , title= 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.}}
  • To be vexed; to be chafed or irritated; to be angry; to utter peevish expressions.
  • *
  • *:Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.
  • * Dryden
    • He frets , he fumes, he stares, he stamps the ground.
  • To make rough, agitate, or disturb; to cause to ripple.
    • to fret the surface of water
  • To be agitated; to be in violent commotion; to rankle.
    • Rancour frets in the malignant breast.
  • (music) To press down the string behind a fret.
  • To ornament with raised work; to variegate; to diversify.
  • * Spenser
    • whose skirt with gold was fretted all about
  • * Shakespeare
    • Yon grey lines, / That fret the clouds, are messengers of day.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The agitation of the surface of a fluid by fermentation or other cause; a rippling on the surface of water.
    • (Addison)
  • Agitation of mind marked by complaint and impatience; disturbance of temper; irritation.
    • He keeps his mind in a continual fret .
  • * Pope
    • Yet then did Dennis rave in furious fret .
  • Herpes; tetter.
    • (Dunglison)
  • (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.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) < (etyl), from the verb (m).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (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
    • His lady's cabinet is adorned on the fret , ceiling, and chimney-piece with carving.
  • (heraldiccharge) A saltire interlaced with a mascle.
    • Derived terms
    * fretboard

    Etymology 3

    From (etyl)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A strait; channel.
    • Related terms
    * fretum * transfrete

    Etymology 4

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (dialectal, North East England) A fog or mist at sea or coming inland from the sea.

    • Anagrams

    * ----

    stew

    English

    Etymology 1

    (etyl) estuve (modern French .

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (label) A cooking-dish used for boiling; a cauldron.
  • *:
  • *:And when he came to the chamber there as this lady was the dores of yron vnlocked and vnbolted / And so syr launcelot wente in to the chambre that was as hote as ony stewe / And there syr launcelot toke the fayrest lady by the hand / that euer he sawe / and she was naked as a nedel
  • (label) A brothel.
  • *1681 , (John Dryden), (Absalom and Achitophel)
  • *:And rak'd, for converts, even the court and stews .
  • *1835 , (Thomas Babington Macaulay), Sir James Mackintosh
  • *:Because he was chaste, the precinct of his temple is filled with licensed stews .
  • *1977 , Gãmini Salgãdo, The Elizabethan Underworld , Folio Society, 2006, p.37:
  • *:Although whores were permitted to sit at the door of the stew , they could not solicit in any way nor ‘chide or throw stones’ at passers-by.
  • (label) A prostitute.
  • :
  • *1870 , Charles Dickens, The Mystery of Edwin Drood , Wordsworth Classics, 1998, p.367:
  • *:I noticed then that there was nothing to drink on the table but brandy, and nothing to eat but salted herrings, and a hot, sickly, highly peppered stew .
  • (label) A pool in which fish are kept in preparation for eating.
  • An artificial bed of oysters.
  • (label) A state of agitated excitement, worry, and/or confusion.
  • :
    • Synonyms
    * (food) casserole, (British) hotpot
    Coordinate terms
    * casserole * cassoulet * goulash * ragout
    Derived terms
    * in a stew * stewpot

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (transitive, or, intransitive, or, ergative) To cook (food) by slowly boiling or simmering.
    • I'm going to stew some meat for the casserole.
    The meat is stewing nicely.
  • To brew (tea) for too long, so that the flavour becomes too strong.
  • (figuratively) To suffer under uncomfortably hot conditions.
  • (figuratively) To be in a state of elevated anxiety or anger.
    • Synonyms
    * (suffer under hot conditions) bake, boil, sweat, swelter * (be in a state of elevated anxiety) brood, fret, sweat, worry

    Etymology 2

    Abbreviation of steward or stewardess.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A steward or stewardess on an airplane.
  • * 1975 November 3, , volume 8, number 44, page 8 [http://google.com/books?id=OekCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA8&dq=stew]:
    • And then, working as a stew for American Airlines, Mo met another older man.
  • * 1991 , , 1992 edition, ISBN 0425184226, page 480 [http://google.com/books?id=kP84eUjxv-MC&pg=PA480&dq=stew]:
    • "We want to know what he's going to be saying on his airplane."
    "I don't have the legs to dress up as a stew , doc. Besides, I never learned to do the tea ceremony, either."
  • * 1992 January, Skip Hollandsworth, "Doing the Hustle", , ISSN 0148-7736, volume 20, issue 1, page 52 [http://google.com/books?id=dysEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA52&dq=stew]:
    • Dallas was also becoming known as a "stew zoo" because so many flight attendants were relocating there to work for Southwest, Braniff, and American Airlines.

    Anagrams

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