Rub vs Fret - What's the difference?
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An act of rubbing.
A difficulty or problem.
* III.i.71-75
* , Episode 16
In the game of crown green bowls: any obstacle by which a bowl is diverted from its normal course.
A mixture of spices applied to meat before it is barbecued.
To move (one object) while maintaining contact with another object over some area, with pressure and friction.
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, title= To rub something against (a second thing).
* Sir T. Elyot
To be rubbed against something.
To spread a substance thinly over; to smear.
* Milton
(dated) To move or pass with difficulty.
To scour; to burnish; to polish; to brighten; to cleanse; often with up'' or ''over .
* South
To hinder; to cross; to thwart.
* Shakespeare
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.
In transitive terms the difference between rub and fret
is that rub is to spread a substance thinly over; to smear while fret is to chafe or irritate; to worry.In intransitive terms the difference between rub and fret
is that rub is to be rubbed against something while fret is to worry or be anxious.In lang=en terms the difference between rub and fret
is that rub is to move or pass with difficulty while fret is one of the pieces of metal/wood/plastic across the neck of a guitar or other musical instrument that marks note positions for fingering.As an initialism FRET is
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English
Noun
(en noun)- Give that lamp a good rub and see if any genies come out
- Therein lies the rub .
- To die, to sleep—/To sleep—perchance to dream. Ay, there's the rub !/For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,/When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,/Must give us pause
- ...the propriety of the cabman's shelter, as it was called, hardly a stonesthrow away near Butt bridge where they might hit upon some drinkables in the shape of a milk and soda or a mineral. But how to get there was the rub .
Verb
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=“[…] This is Mr. Churchill, who, as you are aware, is good enough to come to us for his diaconate, and, as we hope, for much longer; and being a gentleman of independent means, he declines to take any payment.” Saying this Walden rubbed his hands together and smiled contentedly.}}
- It shall be expedient, after that body is cleaned, to rub the body with a coarse linen cloth.
- meat rubbed with spices before barbecuing
- The smoothed plank, / New rubbed with balm.
- to rub up silver
- The whole business of our redemption is to rub over the defaced copy of the creation.
- 'Tis the duke's pleasure, / Whose disposition, all the world well knows, / Will not be rubbed nor stopped.
Derived terms
* rubber * rubbing * rub elbows * rub in * rub it in * rub out * rub off * rub shoulders * rub up * rub up onExternal links
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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.
