Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The fused or partially fused materials used in making glass.
- n. A vitreous substance used in making porcelain, glazes, or enamels.
- v. To make into frit.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The material of which glass is made as prepared for complete fusion by a previous calcination carried to a point where the silica begins to act on the bases, forming an imperfectly melted or fritted mass.
- n. The composition from which artificial soft or tender porcelain and other partly vitrifiable mixtures are made. See soft porcelain, under porcelain.
- To decompose and fuse partially, as the ingredients mixed for making glass, before completely fusing at a much higher temperature.
Wiktionary
- adj. UK, dialect frightened
- n. A fused mixture of materials used to make glass
- v. To add frit to a glass or ceramic mixture
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Glass Making) The material of which glass is made, after having been calcined or partly fused in a furnace, but before vitrification. It is a composition of silex and alkali, occasionally with other ingredients.
- n. (Ceramics) The material for glaze of pottery.
- v. To prepare by heat (the materials for making glass); to fuse partially.
- v. rare To fritter; -- with away.
Etymologies
- Italian fritta, from feminine past participle of friggere, to fry, from Latin frīgere, to roast, fry. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“In modern French, the term frit is generally reserved for fried potatoes (pommes frites), while fritters are known as beignets.”
“A frit is a combination of a flux or several fluxes (lead, borax, boric acid, potassium carbonate) that is combined with other insoluble materials (quartz, feldspar, lime etc.), melted in a kiln to form an insoluble glass, and ground to be used as the base for making glazes.”
“The insulated glass has a silk-screened pattern -- called a frit or fritting -- that reduces solar glare and helps birds identify it as a solid object.”
“Like Margaret Thatcher with her famous use of the dialect word "frit", Cameron likes to do the common man bit.”
“Small jars filled with sand grain-sized pieces of glass, called frit, line the opposite wall.”
“In 2004, with Blair hanging on by his fingertips, I wrote a piece suggesting Brown might not have what it takes to become a leader, and accusing him of being "frit" — a colloquialism of Margaret Thatcher's from her native Lincolnshire that translates loosely as "cowardly.”
“If Brown backs away, he's "frit" and Davis can make that point.”
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
“No, Mr Bingham, it is a shame that Tories were so "frit" at the prospect of an election that they rolled out a series of dog whistles like this one, added a soupcon of ridiculous mendacious memory man act, and topped it all off with a sprig of big bad money lies.”
“And, you can be sure that the word "frit" will be used some time in the Commons during the next week.”
“The mixture is then poured into hot water, and treated with dilute nitric acid till it ceases to effervesce, and the "frit" is then washed in water till the water comes off tasteless.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘frit’.
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phrontistery - f
from phrontistery.info
fustilarian, fusillation, fustian, futurology, fusiform, futurition, fusee, fuscous, fusain, furunculoid, futtock, furibund and 418 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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Off label definitions
Commonly used words with multiple meanings, the others being obscure or rarely used. Good to know for that dang analogy exam.
marquise, navette, indorse, crew, defile, poop, straiten, heckle, frit, notate, oblate, hotspur and 16 more...
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strangelyrouge's Words
glockenspiel, gewgaw, jetsam, flotsam, gripe, grab, wench, whilst, betwixt, hither, thither, yonder and 1034 more...
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Words that were new to me
but now they're not because I looked them up. In cases of polysemy or homography, *of course* it was the oddest meaning that stumped me. ;)
Procrustean bed, idem sonans, hob, backcap, quango, cheap-jack, pantechnicon, churrigueresco, chopfallen, maritorious, supererogation, catimini and 212 more...
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Words of the Times
Words discovered while reading The New York Times, each with a citation from the paper.
testilying, ghost talk, apneist, solastalgia, izakaya, hooker, telectroscope, airflyte, phomance, bromhidrosis, stinky feet, cupping and 482 more...
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The Glassworks
filigree-glass, vitro-di-trina, reticulated glass, latticinio, schmelze, swing-table, cullet, ratsbane, eskalith, fly-frame, polissoir, flattener and 158 more...
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boggled
legal according to the dicker we use
shaw, taw, nowt, tew, frit, scow, trow, dow, roan, stipe, shew, woad and 31 more...
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potter's delight
kaolin, quartz, cornish stone, feldspar, fluorspar, flint, sand, grog, barytes, bismuth, gypsum, limestone and 27 more...
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Glassmaking terms
avolio, aeolipile, rhyton, came, acid etching, acid stamping, twist, air twist, annealing, at-the-fire, glory hole, glazier and 67 more...
Tweets
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john “The pattern on top of the treads is a baked-on finish, known as a frit, that keeps the surface from being slippery when wet.�?
The New York Times, Come and Meet Those Stepping Feet, by David W. Dunlap, October 16, 2008 Oct 17, 2008
reesetee In glassmaking, this refers to batch ingredients such as sand and alkali that have partially reacted from heating but have not completely melted. After cooling, frit is ground to a powder and melted. Fritting (or sintering) is the process of making frit. Nov 9, 2007