The difference between Fret and Stew

When used as nouns, fret means agitation of the surface of a fluid by fermentation or some other cause, whereas stew means a cooking-dish used for boiling.

When used as verbs, fret means especially when describing animals: to consume, devour, or eat, whereas stew means to cook (food) by slowly boiling or simmering.


check bellow for the other definitions of Fret and Stew

  1. Fret as a verb (transitive, obsolete, or, poetic):

    Especially when describing animals: to consume, devour, or eat.

  2. Fret as a verb (transitive):

    To chafe or irritate; to worry.

  3. Fret as a verb (transitive):

    To make rough, to agitate or disturb; to cause to ripple.

    Examples:

    "to fret the surface of water"

  4. Fret as a verb (transitive):

    In the form fret out: to squander, to waste.

  5. Fret as a verb (ambitransitive):

    To gnaw; to consume, to eat away.

  6. Fret as a verb (ambitransitive):

    To be chafed or irritated; to be angry or vexed; to utter peevish expressions through irritation or worry.

  7. Fret as a verb (intransitive):

    To be worn away; to chafe; to fray.

    Examples:

    "A wristband frets on the edges."

  8. Fret as a verb (intransitive):

    To be anxious, to worry.

  9. Fret as a verb (intransitive):

    To be agitated; to rankle; to be in violent commotion.

    Examples:

    "Rancour frets in the malignant breast."

  10. Fret as a verb (intransitive, brewing, oenology):

    To have secondary fermentation (fermentation occurring after the conversion of sugar to alcohol in beers and wine) take place.

  1. Fret as a noun:

    Agitation of the surface of a fluid by fermentation or some other cause; a rippling on the surface of water.

  2. Fret as a noun:

    Agitation of the mind marked by complaint and impatience; disturbance of temper; irritation.

    Examples:

    "He keeps his mind in a continual fret."

  3. Fret as a noun:

    Herpes; .

  4. Fret as a noun (mining, in the plural):

    The worn sides of riverbanks, where ores or stones containing them accumulate after being washed down from higher ground, which thus indicate to miners the locality of veins of ore.

  1. Fret as a noun:

    An ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizontal lines, often in relief.

  2. Fret as a noun (heraldic charge):

    A saltire interlaced with a mascle.

  1. Fret as a verb (transitive):

    To decorate or ornament, especially with an interlaced or interwoven pattern, or with carving or relief (raised) work.

  2. Fret as a verb (transitive):

    To form a pattern on; to variegate.

  3. Fret as a verb (transitive):

    To cut through with a fretsaw, to create fretwork.

  1. Fret as a noun (obsolete, or, dialectal):

    A ferrule, a ring.

  2. Fret as a noun (music):

    One of the pieces of metal, plastic or wood across the neck of a guitar or other string instrument that marks where a finger should be positioned to depress a string as it is played.

  1. Fret as a verb:

    To bind, to tie, originally with a loop or ring.

  2. Fret as a verb (transitive, music):

    To fit on to (a musical instrument). To press down the string behind a fret.

    Examples:

    "to fret a guitar"

  1. Fret as a noun:

    A channel, a strait; a fretum.

  1. Fret as a noun (rare):

    A channel or passage created by the sea.

  1. Fret as a noun (Northumbria):

    A fog or mist at sea, or coming inland from the sea.

  1. Stew as a noun (obsolete):

    A cooking-dish used for boiling; a cauldron.

  2. Stew as a noun (now, _, historical):

    A heated bath-room or steam-room; also, a hot bath.

  3. Stew as a noun (archaic):

    A brothel.

  4. Stew as a noun (obsolete):

    A prostitute.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Sir A. Weldon"

  5. Stew as a noun (uncountable, countable):

    A dish cooked by stewing.

  6. Stew as a noun (Sussex):

    A pool in which fish are kept in preparation for eating; a stew pond.

  7. Stew as a noun (US, regional):

    An artificial bed of oysters.

  8. Stew as a noun (slang):

    A state of agitated excitement, worry, and/or confusion.

    Examples:

    "to be in a stew'"

  1. Stew as a verb (transitive, or, intransitive, or, ergative):

    To cook (food) by slowly boiling or simmering.

    Examples:

    "I'm going to stew some meat for the casserole."

    "The meat is stewing nicely."

  2. Stew as a verb (transitive):

    To brew (tea) for too long, so that the flavour becomes too strong.

  3. Stew as a verb (intransitive, figuratively):

    To suffer under uncomfortably hot conditions.

  4. Stew as a verb (intransitive, figuratively):

    To be in a state of elevated anxiety or anger.

  1. Stew as a noun:

    A steward or stewardess on an airplane.