fret

fret noun [C] (ON A STRINGED INSTRUMENT) any of the small raised metal bars across the long, thin part of a stringed musical instrument such as a guitar, that show you where to put your fingers on the strings in order to produce different notes.

to feel or express worry, annoyance, discontent, or the like: Fretting about the lost ring isn't going to help. to cause corrosion; gnaw into something: acids that fret at the strongest metals.

be worried, concerned, anxious, troubled, or uneasy. verb. worry unnecessarily or excessively. synonyms: fuss, niggle.

Guitars are designed to use this property so that the pitch they produce increases a semitone each time the position the string is held down at changes. The metallic parts on the neck are called frets. A player uses his or her left hand to hold the strings down in the spaces between the frets.

• I was sure we wouldn't get there in time, but she told me not to fret.
• Don't fret. We won't miss the plane.
• It turned out that it was nothing to fret about/over.

The capo on the fourth fret moves the pitch up four half steps. From our original G chord, that would be G#/Ab, A, Bb, B. Our G, C and D chords now sound like B, E and F#. These two versions of the G chord with the capo on the fourth fret now sound like a B chord.

Synonyms of fret (verb worry, be annoyed) agonize. bother. brood. carp. chafe.

He just gets down to work without any fuss. Carol fussed about getting me a drink. Jack was fussing over the food and clothing we were going to take. She fussed with a wisp of hair over her ear.

In fluorescence microscopy, fluorescence confocal laser scanning microscopy, as well as in molecular biology, FRET is a useful tool to quantify molecular dynamics in biophysics and biochemistry, such as protein-protein interactions, protein–DNA interactions, and protein conformational changes.

A fret is a thin strip of varying materials (most commonly metal, but occasionally gut or nylon) found on string instruments. Guitars, mandolins, and banjos have frets.

In music, a chord diagram (also called a fretboard diagram or fingering diagram) is a diagram indicating the fingering of a chord on fretted string instruments, showing a schematic view of the fretboard with markings for the frets that should be pressed when playing the chord.

What exactly is a 12-fret? It refers to the position where the neck meets the guitar body. On other Taylor steel-string models, the neck meets the body at the 14th fret.