"fretless" meaning in English

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        "Of a stringed instrument, not having frets on the fingerboard."
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      "translations": [
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          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "(of an instrument) having no frets",
          "word": "otenauhaton"
        },
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          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "bezladovyj",
          "sense": "(of an instrument) having no frets",
          "word": "безладовый"
        },
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          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "(of an instrument) having no frets",
          "word": "bandlös"
        }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1895, Virginia Reed, Daily Cheer for All the Year, Philadelphia: G.W. Jacobs & Co., →OCLC, page 18",
          "text": "You would live longer and happier if you would only be quiet and fretless.",
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        {
          "ref": "1907 August, J. W. Foley, quotee, “The Menace of Reform”, in Texas Medical News, volume 16, number 10, Austin: Texas Medical News Publishing Co., →ISSN, page 525",
          "text": "Will the fretless world be happy or will restless nature shout / For some old-time fret or worry just to rave and kick about?",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1913, George Lincoln Walton, Calm Yourself, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, →OCLC, page 7",
          "text": "Is it not worth while to try and approximate, if we cannot hope to attain, the ideal of fretless, fussless, and unworrying poise?",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Without worries."
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  "word": "fretless"
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          "ref": "2003, Jim Roberts, American Basses, San Francisco: Backbeat Books, page 150",
          "text": "Read's creations have covered just about all of bass-dom, from vintage-style 4-strings to 32-position fretlesses to 25-fret 8-strings tuned F♯BEADGCF.",
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          "ref": "2006, Adrian Ashton, The Bass Handbook, San Francisco: Backbeat Books, page 47",
          "text": "No other machine can produce sounds which are so often described as 'singing', 'purring', 'humming', and 'ringing'. But this array of mellifluous notes doesn't come cheaply: even those who have mastered the fretless to moderate levels of proficiency have been obliged to spend many hundreds of hours on techniques which fretted-bass players either take for granted or simply do not require.",
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          "ref": "2008, Jonathan Hererra, “ASK BP”, in Chris Jisi, editor, Bass Player Presents The Fretless Bass, Milwaukee: Backbeat Books",
          "text": "Many fretlesses, especially less expensive models that mimic a fretted counterpart, have fretted-bass nut slots.",
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      ],
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          "ref": "1895, Virginia Reed, Daily Cheer for All the Year, Philadelphia: G.W. Jacobs & Co., →OCLC, page 18",
          "text": "You would live longer and happier if you would only be quiet and fretless.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
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          "ref": "1907 August, J. W. Foley, quotee, “The Menace of Reform”, in Texas Medical News, volume 16, number 10, Austin: Texas Medical News Publishing Co., →ISSN, page 525",
          "text": "Will the fretless world be happy or will restless nature shout / For some old-time fret or worry just to rave and kick about?",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
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          "ref": "1913, George Lincoln Walton, Calm Yourself, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, →OCLC, page 7",
          "text": "Is it not worth while to try and approximate, if we cannot hope to attain, the ideal of fretless, fussless, and unworrying poise?",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Without worries."
      ],
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "(of an instrument) having no frets",
      "word": "otenauhaton"
    },
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "bezladovyj",
      "sense": "(of an instrument) having no frets",
      "word": "безладовый"
    },
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      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "(of an instrument) having no frets",
      "word": "bandlös"
    }
  ],
  "word": "fretless"
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          "text": "Read's creations have covered just about all of bass-dom, from vintage-style 4-strings to 32-position fretlesses to 25-fret 8-strings tuned F♯BEADGCF.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Adrian Ashton, The Bass Handbook, San Francisco: Backbeat Books, page 47",
          "text": "No other machine can produce sounds which are so often described as 'singing', 'purring', 'humming', and 'ringing'. But this array of mellifluous notes doesn't come cheaply: even those who have mastered the fretless to moderate levels of proficiency have been obliged to spend many hundreds of hours on techniques which fretted-bass players either take for granted or simply do not require.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Jonathan Hererra, “ASK BP”, in Chris Jisi, editor, Bass Player Presents The Fretless Bass, Milwaukee: Backbeat Books",
          "text": "Many fretlesses, especially less expensive models that mimic a fretted counterpart, have fretted-bass nut slots.",
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        }
      ],
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        "A stringed instrument without frets on the fingerboard."
      ],
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  "word": "fretless"
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