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FETCH
fetch
(noun) the action of fetching
bring, get, convey, fetch
(verb) go or come after and bring or take back; “Get me those books over there, please”; “Could you bring the wine?”; “The dog fetched the hat”
fetch
(verb) take away or remove; “The devil will fetch you!”
fetch, bring in, bring
(verb) be sold for a certain price; “The painting brought $10,000”; “The old print fetched a high price at the auction”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Verb
fetch (third-person singular simple present fetches, present participle fetching, simple past and past participle fetched)
To retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get.
To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for.
(nautical) To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing.
(intransitive) To bring oneself; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward.
(rare, literary) To take (a breath), to heave (a sigh)
To cause to come; to bring to a particular state.
(obsolete) To recall from a swoon; to revive; sometimes with to.
To reduce; to throw.
To bring to accomplishment; to achieve; to make; to perform, with certain objects.
(nautical, transitive) To make (a pump) draw water by pouring water into the top and working the handle.
Noun
fetch (plural fetches)
(also, figuratively) An act of fetching, of bringing something from a distance.
The object of fetching; the source of an attraction; a force, propensity, or quality which attracts.
A stratagem or trick; an artifice.
Synonyms: contrivance, dodge
Etymology 2
Noun
fetch (plural fetches)
(originally, Ireland, dialectal) The apparition of a living person; a person's double, the sight of which is supposedly a sign that they are fated to die soon, a doppelganger; a wraith (“a person's likeness seen just after their death; a ghost, a spectre”). [from 18th c.]
Anagrams
• Fecht
Source: Wiktionary
Fetch (; 224), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fetched 2; p. pr. & vb. n.. Fetching.] Etym: [OE. fecchen, AS. feccan, perh. the same word as fetian; or cf. facian to wish to get, OFries. faka to prepare. sq. root 77. Cf. Fet, v. t.]
1. To bear toward the person speaking, or the person or thing from whose point of view the action is contemplated; to go and bring; to get. Time will run back and fetch the age of gold. Milton. He called to her, and said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel, that I may drink. And as she was going to fetch it he called to her, and said, Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bred in thine hand. 1 Kings xvii. 11, 12.
2. To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for. Our native horses were held in small esteem, and fetched low prices. Macaulay.
3. To recall from a swoon; to revive; -- sometimes with to; as, to fetch a man to. Fetching men again when they swoon. Bacon.
4. To reduce; to throw. The sudden trip in wrestling that fetches a man to the ground. South.
5. To bring to accomplishment; to achieve; to make; to perform, with certain objects; as, to fetch a compass; to fetch a leap; to fetch a sigh. I'll fetch a turn about the garden. Shak. He fetches his blow quick and sure. South.
6. To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing. Meantine flew our ships, and straight we fetched The siren's isle. Chapman.
7. To cause to come; to bring to a particular state. They could n't fetch the butter in the churn. W. Barnes. To fetch a compass (Naut.), to make a sircuit; to take a circuitious route going to a place.
– To fetch a pump, to make it draw water by pouring water into the top and working the handle.
– To fetch headway or sternway (Naut.), to move ahead or astern.
– To fetch out, to develop. "The skill of the polisher fetches out the colors [of marble]" Addison.
– To fetch up. (a) To overtake. [Obs.] "Says [the hare], I can fetch up the tortoise when I please." L'Estrange. (b) To stop suddenly.
fetch, v. i.
Definition: To bring one's self; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward. Totten. To fetch away (Naut.), to break loose; to roll slide to leeward.
– To fetch and carry, to serve obsequiously, like a trained spaniel.
Fetch, n.
1. A stratagem by which a thing is indirectly brought to pass, or by which one thing seems intended and another is done; a trick; an artifice. Every little fetch of wit and criticism. South.
2. The apparation of a living person; a wraith. The very fetch and ghost of Mrs. Gamp. Dickens. Fetch candle, a light seen at night, superstitiously believed to portend a person's death.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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UNAMBIGUOUS
(adjective) having or exhibiting a single clearly defined meaning; “As a horror, apartheid...is absolutely unambiguous”- Mario Vargas Llosa
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