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fret has 22 distinct synonyms spread across 10 of its 16 senses. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. WordNet records no antonym for it — antonymy is a relation between word forms rather than concepts, so it is deliberately sparse.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
provide (a musical instrument) with frets
“fret a guitar”
a spot that has been worn away by abrasion or erosion
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for fret come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.
an ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizontal lines (often in relief)
“there was a simple fret at the top of the walls”
a small bar of metal across the fingerboard of a musical instrument; when the string is stopped by a finger at the metal bar it will produce a note of the desired pitch