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Guitar neck feature
Answer for the clue "Guitar neck feature ", 4 letters:
fret
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"ridge on the fingerboard of a guitar," c.1500, of unknown origin, possibly from another sense of Old French frete "ring, ferule." Compare Middle English fret "a tie or lace" (early 14c.), freten (v.) "to bind, fasten" (mid-14c.).
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fret \Fret\, n. 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; as, he keeps his mind in a continual ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. verb EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ I'd sit in meetings, fretting about what was happening at home. ▪ Opponents fret that the system might not provide enough help in times of rural economic crisis. ▪ She worries and frets all the time -- I think it's ...
Usage examples of fret.
Nothing mattered more--over nothing did Adams fret more--than the state of negotiations in France.
He ran the slide back down the frets, pausing to jiggle it on the eighth and third frets, then shot it back up the board again, at the same time touching the chord sequencer to repeat the backbeat he had programmed a couple of minutes earlier.
Then Condy promptly got the hiccoughs from drinking his tea too fast, and fretted up and down the room like a chicken with the pip till Travis grew faint and weak with laughter.
His salvation is to be freed from the vortex of births and deaths, the fret and storm of finite existence.
Lake Fret revert to prairie, thereby costing the company a fortune for a new air or dryland freighting system.
So at one moment I would be twiddling with my fingers as on the frets of a viella, and the next I would be using my lips in the manner of playing a dulzaina, and the next I would be flutter-tonguing in the way a flutist blows his flute.
It frets me so awfully to see you lingering here when baby wants her comforts.
But, as was to be expected from so much heat and bluster, the tumult subsided as fresher frets or more profitable engagements distracted the attention of the injured.
Whenever a man gets reckless about what happens to himself, and frets over what may happen to his friend, then he begins to take on weight!
Lucy frets at the postponement of seeing him, but it does not touch her looks.
In Shreveport, the headquarters of the Confederate Army of the West, Lieutenant General Kirby Smith, the third of that auspicious surname to be involved, worried and fretted, but could not release General Taylor and his thin Louisiana division to the attack until the scattered grayback Army of the West could be collected from its far-flung posts and concentrated against the advancing Union Army.
In a culture where women fret over vaginal looseness and are chided continuously to practice kegels or even to consider extreme newfangled vaginal rejuvenation surgeries, the reality is that a well-positioned manual clasp will serve the purpose more effectively.
I could tell kingwood from pearwood, splats from stretchers, and frets from friezes.
The marshals perspiring, shouting, fretting, galloping about, urging this one forward, ordering this one back, ranged the thousands of conveyances and cavaliers in a long line, shaped like a wide open crescent.
The captains also from the castle did hold them in continual play with their slings, to the chafing and fretting of the minds of the enemies.