retrieve
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Recorded in Middle English c. 1410 as retreve (altered to retrive in the 16th century; modern form is from c. 1650), from Middle French retruev-, stem of Old French retrover (“to find again”, modern retrouver), itself from re- (“again”) + trover (“to find”), probably from Vulgar Latin *tropāre (“to compose”).
Inflected forms:
form: retrieves
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: retrieving
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: retrieved
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: retrieved
pos: verb
tags: past
form: retrieves
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To regain or get back something.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to retrieve one's character or independence; to retrieve a thrown ball
With late repentance now they would retrieve / The bodies they forsook, and wish to live.
gloss: To rescue (a creature).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To salvage something
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To remedy or rectify something.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To remember or recall something.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To fetch or carry back something, especially (computing) a file or data record.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to retrieve them from their cold, trivial conceits
gloss: To fetch and bring in game.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The cook doesn't care what's shot, only what's actually retrieved.
gloss: To fetch and bring in game systematically.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Dog breeds called 'retrievers' were selected for retrieving.
gloss: To fetch or carry back systematically, notably as a game.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Most dogs love retrieving, regardless of what object is thrown.
gloss: To make a difficult but successful return of the ball.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To remedy the evil consequence of, to repair (a loss or damage).
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: Accept my sorrow, and retrieve my fall.
There is much to be done […] and much to be retrieved.
gloss: A retrieval.
pos: noun
examples: Secondly, the number of retrieves given in any one session is restricted according to the dog's level of interest. If he is not madly keen he has perhaps two or three retrieves in a session, and on some days he will have none at all.
gloss: The return of a difficult ball.
pos: noun
gloss: A seeking again; a discovery.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: The recovery of game once sprung.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: we'll bring Wax to the retrieve
Related words: retrieval
Derived words: retrievability
retrievable
retrieveless
retrievement
retriever
unretrieved
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: վերադարձնել
roman: veradarjnel
lang: Armenian
word: հետ բերել
roman: het berel
lang: Dutch
word: terugbrengen
lang: Finnish
word: noutaa
lang: German
word: zurückbringen
lang: German
word: zurückholen
lang: German
word: (Daten) holen
lang: German
word: (Daten) abrufen
lang: German
word: (Daten) einlesen
lang: Hebrew
word: החזיר
roman: hekhzír
lang: Hebrew
word: הביא חזרה
roman: heví khazará
lang: Italian
word: riportare
lang: Italian
word: raccattare
lang: Italian
word: rintracciare
lang: Khmer
word: ទៅយក
roman: tɨw yɔɔk
lang: Polish
word: przynosić
lang: Polish
word: przynieść
lang: Romanian
word: aduce înapoi
lang: Russian
word: приноси́ть
roman: prinosítʹ
lang: Russian
word: принести́
roman: prinestí
lang: Spanish
word: ir a por
lang: Spanish
word: ir por
lang: Spanish
word: entregarse
lang: Spanish
word: diñarse
lang: Spanish
word: coger
lang: Vietnamese
word: thu thập