fright

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It’s funny that "Schreck" is German for fear/fright/shock.

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Quick take

an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight)

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of fright gathered in one view.

noun

an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight)

verb

cause fear in; "The stranger who hangs around the building frightens me"; "Ghosts could never affright her"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for fright.

noun

an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight)

verb

cause fear in; "The stranger who hangs around the building frightens me"; "Ghosts could never affright her"

Example sentences

It’s funny that "Schreck" is German for fear/fright/shock.

Once we had a bit of a fright when we got the accelerator up and running.

Performers sometimes use it to combat stage fright.

People with stage fright could use this to practice public speaking and hopefully improve.

I find I feel a sort of stage fright at the thought of posting something for my 800 facebook 'friends' to read.

"People fright at the concept of losing their money, yet they slave away their time without a second thought.

Everyone has a computer; a little fright center in their living room, or held up to their head.

There's not a doubt in my mind that my resume's been thrown in the "Non-programming programmer" pile due to my stage fright at least once.

Overtly playing a character is an age-old trick for getting over one's stage fright.

The asian peoples [probably Middle East from his perspective] have a bright and artistic but fright fearful mind, and thus are always servants and slaves.

Also, many of these "disaster" cases may simply be suffering from an unfortunate, but all too human cases of stage fright, especially if it's their first F2F at a big company like Apple.

"Also, many of these "disaster" cases may simply be suffering from an unfortunate, but all too human cases of stage fright, especially if it's their first F2F at a big company like Apple.

I can certainly sympathize with the need for a low false-positive rate, but as a candidate I can't help but wish that overcoming stage fright wasn't also such a prerequisite for working with good programmers.

I've been shocked at the kinds of Excel sheets that, with a mess of spaghetti VB code written by someone long gone, factors into trades worth millions...sure, it "works"...but besides the very minor question of code elegance, who knows what optimization of returns could be made if the code wasn't such a fright that a knowledgable partner could tweak and experiment with it?