Difference between Fretted and Bar

What is the difference between Fretted and Bar?

Fretted as a verb is especially when describing animals: to consume, devour, or eat. while Bar as a verb is to obstruct the passage of (someone or something).

Fretted

Part of speech: verb

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

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: (of a musical instrument) Having frets. decorated with fretwork

Bar

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To obstruct the passage of (someone or something).To prohibit.To lock or bolt with a bar.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A solid, more or less rigid object with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length.A solid metal object with uniform (round, square, hexagonal, octagonal or rectangular) cross-section; in the US its smallest dimension is .25 inch or greater (US), a piece of thinner material being called a strip.A cuboid piece of any solid commodity.A long, narrow drawn or printed rectangle, cuboid or cylinder, especially as used in a bar code or a bar chart.A business licensed to sell intoxicating beverages for consumption on the premises, or the premises themselves; public house.The counter of such a premisesA similar device or simply a closet containing alcoholic beverages in a private house or a hotel room.An official order or pronouncement that prohibits some activity.A metasyntactic variable representing an unspecified entity, often the second in a series, following foo.The railing surrounding the part of a courtroom in which the judges, lawyers, defendants and witnesses stayShort for the Bar exam, the legal licensing exam.A collective term for lawyers; specifically barristers in some countries but including all lawyers in others.The legal profession of lawyers; specifically barristers in some countries but including all lawyers in others.A vertical line across a musical staff dividing written music into sections, typically of equal durational value.One of those musical sections.The crossbarThe central divider between the inner and outer table of a backgammon board, where stones are placed if they are hit.An addition to a military medal, on account of a subsequent actA linear shoaling landform feature within a body of water.A ridge or succession of ridges of sand or other substance, especially a formation extending across the mouth of a river or harbor or off a beach, and which may obstruct navigation. (FM 55-501).One of the ordinaries in heraldry; a fess.A horizontal pole that must be crossed in high jump and pole vaultA unit of pressure equal to 100,000 pascals.

Part of speech: preposition

Definition: Except, with the exception of.

Example sentence: Heat can also be produced by the impact of imperfectly elastic bodies as well as by friction. This is the case, for instance, when we produce fire by striking flint against steel, or when an iron bar is worked for some time by powerful blows of the hammer.

We hope you now know whether to use Fretted or Bar in your sentence.

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