Fet
name, noun, verb ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Initialism of field effect transistor. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
- 2 A piece. obsolete
"That the bottom clear, Now lay'd with many a fet of seed pearl,"
- 3 Clipping of fetish. abbreviation, alt-of, attributive, clipping, uncountable
"oh, btw...when you consider the fet-clothing available out there, realize how many have a collar attached."
- 4 a transistor in which most current flows in a channel whose effective resistance can be controlled by a transverse electric field wordnet
- 1 To fetch. obsolete
- 1 Ellipsis of FET y de las JONS, a political party in Francoist Spain. abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, historical
"FET was the only legal party in Spain in the 60s."
Example
More examples"FET was the only legal party in Spain in the 60s."
Etymology
From Middle English fetten, feten, from Old English fetian, fatian (“to bring, fetch”), probably a conflation of Proto-West Germanic *fetan, from Proto-Germanic *fetaną (“to go”), from Proto-Indo-European *ped- (“to walk, stumble, fall”); and Proto-West Germanic *fatōn, from Proto-Germanic *fatōną (“to hold, seize”), also from Proto-Indo-European *ped-. Cognate with Dutch vatten (“to catch, grab”), German fassen (“to lay hold of, seize, take, hold”). Compare also Icelandic feta (“to find one's way”). More at fetch.
Compare feat, French fait, and Italian fetta (“slice”), German Fetzen (“rag”).
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