1 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 --
3 a thin, slightly raised metal bar, several of which are positioned across the neck (= long, narrow part) of some musical instruments, such as a guitar --
The long, thin neck suggests the possibility of tracking hand motions while fingering the fret board.
Policy-makers should stop fretting about unemployment and the provision of welfare state safety nets and should concentrate on doing whatever was necessary to achieve inflation free economic growth.
As an aside, one variation for the guitar, suggested by this comparison to the violin, would be to remove the frets after the player has learned the correct note positions.
The videotapes of each infant's behaviors were coded reliably for the frequency of motor activity (movement of the limbs and arching of the back), fretting, and crying.
To place notes between the extremes and the mean, a monochord was fabricated and a canon was fixed, below the string, marked with frets in the manner of a guitar.
Both of them, therefore, fretted about prices.
However, it also incorporates components of a convergent mapping through the inclusion of frets.
However, guitarists have found ways to regain this expressivity that would not be possible without the frets.
