(p. p. & a.) Ornamented with fretwork; furnished with frets; variegated; made rough on the surface.
(p. p. & a.) Interlaced one with another; -- said of charges and ordinaries.
Example Sentences:
(1) The FSA was fretting about solvency when liquidity was the problem.
(2) She finds indoor activities to discourage the kids from playing outside on the foulest days, and plans holidays abroad as often as possible – but still frets about what their years in Delhi may do to her children’s health.
(3) It might seem absurd, but she also fretted about the horrendous poll tax bills received by people she knew, people she knew couldn't pay.
(4) And in a broader sense, the sort of Conservatives who think intelligently and strategically – and there are more of them than you think – fret that a bearded 66-year-old socialist has ignited political debate in a way that absolutely nobody in the mainstream predicted.
(5) It certainly saved her fretting over her debut sex scene.
(6) Moyes had already described how he had fretted about his attire when Ferguson initially invited him round to discuss the biggest job in English football and how the colour had drained from his face when he was offered it.
(7) For long periods Argentina had been stifled by a fine counterpunching opposition, but it would be a little hasty to fret too much about them after this performance.
(8) Chipmaker ARM is the biggest faller in London, as analysts fret about a slowdown in royalty revenues.
(9) "I used to be really nervous and sit in my dressing room and fret about a scene," he told Rolling Stone .
(10) Hewitt, playing in probably his last Davis Cup for his country at 34 before retiring from the game at the Australian Open in January, added: “We were able to keep Andy out there for a long time, but he’s still favourite [on Sunday].” For the British team, the Murrays’ win lifted a considerable weight off the shoulders of the captain, Leon Smith, who shared the crowd’s anxiety at several key moments of the match, none more fretful than when Andy Murray failed to serve it out in the fourth set and then when they were unable to convert the first match point in the subsequent tie-break.
(11) While Victorians celebrated the empire on which the sun would never set with successive jubilees (golden, 1887, and diamond, 1897), many readers fretted over foreign (increasingly German) threats to the harmony of English life.
(12) On Tuesday, for every wealthy Kolonaki resident fretting about their cash, there was a less well-off state or company employee convinced it would not come to that.
(13) They fretted as political ambition was given rocket boosters by technology.
(14) But better economic sentiment means more market fretting over the Fed's huge stimulus programme being scaled back.
(15) • Follow the Guardian's World Cup team on Twitter • Sign up to play our daily Fantasy Football game • Stats centre: Get the lowdown on every player • The latest semi-final news, features and more People get fretful.
(16) • Three graphs to stop smartphone fans fretting about market share
(17) After dinner she drove him to the railway station while fretting over leaving her baby son sleeping at home.
(18) Significant differences in the shapes of the cathodic Tafel slopes were also seen with cylinders with different surface conditions, and static versus fretting plates.
(19) Despite their jokey exterior, most had big things on their mind, fretting over marriages and babies, breakups and single life; less "grossout" comedy than "freakout".
(20) City analysts still fret that Bailey has either taken on too much or is an unproven chief executive.
Guitar
Definition:
(n.) A stringed instrument of music resembling the lute or the violin, but larger, and having six strings, three of silk covered with silver wire, and three of catgut, -- played upon with the fingers.
Example Sentences:
(1) He's finding solace, fleeting and fragmentary, and every springy guitar lick is its own benediction," Chinen wrote.
(2) There is Ed Sheeran , with a guitar and loop pedal, and Chris Martin leaping around the stage with the rest of Coldplay providing a dourer backdrop.
(3) Out of the seabird whoops and thrashing drumming of the intro to Endangered Species come guitar-sax exchanges that sound like Prime Time’s seething fusion soundscapes made illuminatingly clearer.
(4) While there's no discernible forró influence in the dreamy 80s indie-guitar music of Fortaleza's Cidadão Instigado, they do take influence from popular local style brega, a 1970s and 80s Brazilian romantic pop music.
(5) Danielle thudded out a bass beat, somehow keeping her guitar baying at the same time.
(6) "A new generation picking up guitars and drums and saying, 'I'm here!
(7) Unlike many music hack days, this is a commercial contest: the winning hack – as judged by Slash, BitTorrent founder Bram Cohen and investor Ben Parr – will earn its creator an autographed guitar, $1,000 and “the chance to have Slash use the winning hack with the release of his new album”.
(8) • The guitar, along with flamenco's signature cry of olé, are believed to be derived from early versions of the instruments brought by the Muslims to Spain.
(9) We went in September and found an annual three-week-long international guitar festival under way.
(10) I know you love me and I love you,” said Jonathan, wearing his trademark fedora and carrying a gold-handled cane, in a speech punctuated by bass guitar and cymbals.
(11) I know that would be an obvious thing to do to promote it, but the thought of strapping a guitar on again and playing all those songs from the past really does fill me with cold dread."
(12) Photograph: Hulton Archive Precisely how Shields achieves his queasy, waking-state guitar sound has long been the subject of stubbly examination.
(13) By 1973, I'd made it to London and I travelled around the UK with just my guitar and the clothes on my back.
(14) Online, you can find a blog by an advertising executive who worked with HMV for 25 years, in which he claims the company's former MD remarked in 2002 that "downloadable music is just a fad", which if it's true may well be music retail's own equivalent of "groups with guitars are on their way out, Mr Epstein".
(15) To the sound of an acoustic guitar and an earnest vocal, it opens with footage of a lonely Ed Miliband, wandering the dark, deserted streets of Westminster.
(16) She took a degree, wrote poetry, had Lord Longford running around for her and guitar lessons.
(17) His live shows begin with a skit mocking the pipsqueak talents of Jimi Hendrix: what price expanding the vocabulary of the rock guitar in a way unseen before or since when compared to a man from Penarth singing Yakety Yak?
(18) It was McKay who decided to bring guitar music to the dance kids in Ibiza.
(19) Chris – lassoed from a parallel universe where Tom Cruise gave Hollywood a swerve to focus on taking his guitar-alt-musings to open mic spots instead – looks on, coldly dissecting technique and cutting to seduction tips.
(20) Asked to define exactly what a music producer did, Ronson gave an example: "Working with someone like Amy Winehouse , she would come to me with just a song on an acoustic guitar and then you'd kind of dream up the rhythm arrangements and the track around it, all sorts of things.