FETCH
\fˈɛt͡ʃ], \fˈɛtʃ], \f_ˈɛ_tʃ]\
Definitions of FETCH
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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be sold for a certain price; "The painting brought $10,000"; "The old print fetched a high price at the auction"
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take away or remove; "The devil will fetch you!"
By Princeton University
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be sold for a certain price; "The painting brought $10,000"; "The old print fetched a high price at the auction"
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take away or remove; "The devil will fetch you!"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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.
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To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for.
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To reduce; to throw.
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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.
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To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing.
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To cause to come; to bring to a particular state.
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To bring one's self; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward.
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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.
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The apparation of a living person; a wraith.
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To recall from a swoon; to revive; - sometimes with to; as, to fetch a man to.
By Oddity Software
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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.
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To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for.
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To reduce; to throw.
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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.
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To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing.
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To cause to come; to bring to a particular state.
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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.
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The apparation of a living person; a wraith.
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To recall from a swoon; to revive; - sometimes with to; as, to fetch a man to.
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To bring one's self; to make headway; to veer; as, to about; to to windward.
By Noah Webster.
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To go after and bring; obtain as its price; call for and accompany; heave; as, to fetch a sigh; colloquially, fascinate.
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To go after and bring something.
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Fetching.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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To bring; to go and get; to obtain as its price; to accomplish in any way; to reach or attain.
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To turn; (naut.) to arrive at.
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A trick.
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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A stratagem by which a thing is indirectly brought to pass, or in which, while one thing seems intended, another is done; a trick; a ghost.
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To go and bring; to derive; to bring or draw; to make or to perform; to heave; to attain or come to; to obtain as its price.
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To move or turn; to reach or attain. To fetch out, to bring or draw out; to cause to appear. To fetch to, to revive, as from a swoon. To fetch up, to bring up; to cause to come up; to overtake. To fetch a pump, to pour water in to make it draw.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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To go and bring; to heave, as a sigh; to bring, as its price; to reach.
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The apparition of one who is alive; the nocturnal light as of a moving candle; the ignis-fatuus.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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To go and bring; to strike at a distance; to produce by some kind of force; to reach, to arrive at; to obtain as its rice.
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To move with a quick return.
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A stratagem by which any thing is indirectly performed, a trick, an artifice.
By Thomas Sheridan
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