FRETnoun

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  natural-sciencesphysical-sciencesphysicsFörster resonance energy transfer

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  natural-sciencesphysical-sciencesphysicsfluorescence 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

  • 2010, DeRocco et al., "Four-color single-molecule fluorescence with noncovalent dye labeling to monitor dynamic multimolecular complexes", BioTechniques, vol 49, no 5, pg. 807. FRET interactions among four dyes on DNA have been recorded with a confocal microscope using photodiodes for single point detection.

fretverb詞源 1/fɹɛt/

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  obsoleteEspecially when describing animals: to consume, devour, or eat.

  • At the beginning God gaue the dome him ſelfe / That Adam and Eue and all them that ſewed, / Shuld dye down right and dwell in pyne after, / If that they touched a tree and the frute eaten, / Adam afterwarde agaynſt hys defence / freet of that frute, and forſake as it were, / The loue of our lord and his lore bothe, [...]
  • Their hearts alreadie fretted and cankered at the very roote, for the last disgrace received.
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  To chafe or irritate; to worry.

  • A Perſon of Honour, of a full Body abounding with ſharp Humours, was ſeized with an Herpes on his right Leg. [...] [I]t inflamed and ſwelled very much, many Wheals aroſe, and fretted one into another, with great Excoriation.
  • We sometimes perform an operation on the under lip [...] in consequence of / Cancer Labii [cancer of the lips], / Which disease generally arises from the use of a pipe, and the manner in which it happens is this:—the adhesive nature of the clay of which the pipe is made, causes it to adhere to the lip; at length the cuticle becomes torn off, and the continued irritation frets the sore into true cancerous disease.
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  To make rough, to agitate or disturb; to cause to ripple.

  • Don't fret the surface of the lake.
  • the brooks fretting down their channels
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  In the form fret out: to squander, to waste.

  • Yorke hereupon conſults with his ſpeciall friends; [...] how Yorke might get the Crowne of England, and for that cauſe how to ruine or fret out the Duke of Sommerſet; who ſtanding, they were to looke for ſtrong oppoſition.
  • We are all hurrying down the one common stream to the great ocean of eternity: but are we performing our social duties, as citizens of the world, in sculking away into holes and corners, to fret out time and life, because God has judged fit to withdraw the favourite toy he lent us—not making us destitute—but graciously leaving in our keeping, ten thousand toys beside.
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  To gnaw; to consume, to eat away.

  • VVhen thrid of life is almoſt fret in twaine, To giue it ſtrength breeds thankes, and wonders too.
  • The Mines are cold where the outward Air comes in; but where not, warm. The greateſt trouble they have is by duſt, which ſpoileth their Lungs and Stomachs, and frets their Skins.
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  To mine by agitating or eating away at (ore in the bank of a river).

  • Aided by its burden of detrital matter, the river frets away the rocks along its banks and thus tends to widen its channel; while, at the same time, the coarse sediment scratching along the bottom, helps to tear it up and thus deepen the bed of the river.
  • […]banks of rivers, with the washings of the water, there were divers times fretted out big pieces of gold. […]
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  To be chafed or irritated; to be angry or vexed; to utter peevish expressions through irritation or worry.

  • Fret not thy ſelfe becauſe of euill doers, neither bee thou enuious againſt the workers of iniquitie.
  • For when he knew his Rival freed and gone, / He ſwells with Wrath; he makes outrageous Moan: / He frets, he fumes, he ſtares, he ſtamps the Ground; / The hollow Tow'r with Clamours rings around: [...]
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  To be worn away; to chafe; to fray.

  • A wristband frets on the edges.
  • This, as Maury remarks, "suggested the idea that there was no running water nor abrading forces at play upon the bed of the deep sea, and consequently, if ever an electric cord were lodged upon the telegraphic plateau, there it would lie in cold abstraction; without anything to fret, chafe or wear, save alone the tooth of time."

fretnoun詞源 1/fɹɛt/

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  Agitation of the surface of a fluid by fermentation or some other cause; a rippling on the surface of water.

  • Now though Cider uſed in my Method ſhould not ferment at all, till it come into the Bottle, and then but a little; yet the Cauſe of Fermentation being in a great Degree taken away, the reſt can do no conſiderable Harm to thoſe who drink it, [...] It is in your Power to give the Cider juſt as much fret as you pleaſe, and no more; and that by ſeveral ways: For either you may bottle it ſooner or later, as you pleaſe: Or you may bottle it from two Taps in your Veſſel, and that from the higher Tap will have leſs Fret, and the lower more: [...]
  • The place was a little below Gravesend, quite out of the fret and bustle of the narrower river, and there was not even a steamboat pier to disturb the quiet of this cluster of harmless houses, though they watched upon their beach the passage of great navies down the greatest thoroughfare of England.
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  Agitation of the mind marked by complaint and impatience; disturbance of temper; irritation.

  • He keeps his mind in a continual fret.
  • Yet then did Gildon dravv his venal quill; / I vviſh'd the man a dinner, and ſate ſtill: / Yet then did Dennis rave in furious fret; / I never anſvver'd, I vvas not in debt: / If vvant provok'd, or madneſs made them print, / I vvag'd no vvar with Bedlam or the Mint.
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  Herpes; tetter (“any of various pustular skin conditions”).

  • Vesiculæ, or vesicles, are small, circumscribed elevations of the scarf-skin, containing serum, at first (both in their coats and contents) transparent, afterwards white and opaque, and terminating in the formation of scurf or thin scales. Under this head are ranged varicella (chicken-pox), sudamina, eczema (red fret), herpes (fret), scabies (itch).
  • To cure Gripes in Horses. This disorder goes by different names in different districts of the country; as fret, from the uneasiness attending it; bots, from its being thought to arise from these animals or worms, etc. [...] In speaking of the medicine for gripes, or the flatulent colic sometimes termed fret, Mr. White mentions, domestic remedies may be employed when proper medicines cannot be procured in time.
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  businessminingThe 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.

  • Then we obſerve the Frets in the Banks of Rivers that are newly made by any great Land-Flood, which uſually are then very clean, to ſee, if happily we can diſcover any metalline Stones in the Sides and Bottoms thereof, together with the Caſt of the Country (i.e. any earth of a different colour from the reſt of the Bank), which is a great help to direct us, which ſide or hill to ſearch into.
  • After any great land-flood, in which it is supposed there are usually some new frets made in the banks of the rivers, these are carefully examined, to see whether any metalline stones may be found […] When the frets in the sides of rivers have been traced in vain, after searcher after a mine goes […]

fretnoun詞源 2/fɹɛt/

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  An ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizontal lines, often in relief.

  • Went to visit our good neighbor, Mr. Bohun, whose whole house is a cabinet of all elegancies, especially Indian; [...] [A]bove all, his lady's cabinet is adorned on the fret, ceiling, and chimney-piece with Mr. Gibbons's best carving.
  • Remove spills from grill frets with a cloth and brush the frets with a stiff brush when dry and cold.
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  governmentheraldryhobbiesA saltire interlaced with a mascle.

  • DIAPERED, or Diapre, in heraldry, the dividing of a field in planes, like fret-work, and filling the ſame with variety of figures. This chiefly obtains on bordures, which are diapered or fretted over, and the frets charged with things proper for bordures.

fretverb詞源 2/fɹɛt/

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  To decorate or ornament, especially with an interlaced or interwoven pattern, or (architecture) with carving or relief (raised) work.

  • In a long purple pall, whose ſkirt with gold, / Was fretted all about, ſhe was arayd, [...]
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  To form a pattern on; to variegate.

  • Decius. Here lyes the Eaſt: doth not the Day breake heere? [...] Cin[na]. O pardon, Sir, it doth; and yon grey Lines, / That fret the Clouds, are Meſſengers of Day.
  • The sun shone brilliantly through the trembling leaves, birds of many colors flitted from spray to spray, butterflies and bright insects crossed the fretted work of light and shade.
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  To cut through with a fretsaw, to create fretwork.

fretnoun詞源 3/fɹɛt/

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  entertainmentlifestylemusicOne 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.

  • The long-necked Egyptian Nefer was certainly depicted in the 4th dynasty; and wall-painting of the time of Moses, preserved in the British Museum, shows that it then had frets.
  • The frets of the lute marked whole tones, while those of the guitar were a semi-tone apart.
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  obsoletedialectalA ferrule, a ring.

fretverb詞源 3/fɹɛt/

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  To bind, to tie, originally with a loop or ring.

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  entertainmentlifestylemusic# To fit frets on to (a musical instrument).

  • to fret a guitar
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  entertainmentlifestylemusicTo press down the string behind a fret.

  • Note that right next to the headstock, the boxes may utilize some open notes in place of fretting with the pointer finger because the nut will effectively fret the notes for you[…].

fretnoun詞源 4/fɹɛt/

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  A channel, a strait; a fretum.

  • I came in fine to the fourth part of the world, commonly called America, which by all deſcriptions I found to be an Iſland enuironed around about with the Sea, hauing on the Southſide of it, the frete, or ſtraight of Magellan, [...]
  • The river Velino, after having found its way from among the rocks where it falls, runs into the Nera. The channel of this laſt river is white with rocks, and the ſurface of it, for a long ſpace, covered with froth and bubbles; for it runs all along upon the fret, and is ſtill breaking againſt the ſtones that oppoſe its paſſage: [...]

fretnoun詞源 5/fɹɛt/

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  rareA channel or passage created by the sea.

fretnoun詞源 6/fɹɛt/

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  A fog or mist at sea, or coming inland from the sea.

  • The wind brings a fret off the ocean; not cold, but achingly damp.