Read full poem →39. _Fretted_. The _fret_ is, strictly, an ornament used in classical
architecture, formed by small fillets intersecting each other at
right angles. Parker (_Glossary of Architecture_) derives the word
Dictionary Entry
To cut into or between; to cut or cross mutually; to divide into parts.
In a Sentence
“Any two diameters of a circle intersect each other at the centre.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
lines intersectingcircles intersectingplanes intersectingstreets intersectingintersecting twointersecting linesintersecting line
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Poetry examples for “intersecting”
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