fetch
Part of speech: verb
noun
intj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
nautical
physical-sciences
sciences
transport
Etymology: The verb is derived from Middle English fecchen (“to get and bring back, fetch; to come for, get and take away; to steal; to carry away to kill; to search for; to obtain, procure”) [and other forms], from Old English feċċan, fæċċan, feccean (“to fetch, bring; to draw; to gain, take; to seek”), a variant of fetian, fatian (“to bring near, fetch; to acquire, obtain; to bring on, induce; to fetch a wife, marry”) and possibly related to Old English facian, fācian (“to acquire, obtain; to try to obtain; to get; to get to, reach”), both from Proto-Germanic *fatōną, *fatjaną (“to hold, seize; to fetch”), from Proto-Indo-European *ped- (“to step, walk; to fall, stumble”).
The English word is cognate with Dutch vatten (“to apprehend, catch; to grasp; to understand”), German fassen (“to catch, grasp; to capture, seize”), English fet (“(obsolete) to fetch”), Faroese fata (“to grasp, understand”), Danish fatte (“to grasp, understand”), Swedish fatta (“to grasp, understand”), Icelandic feta (“to go, step”), West Frisian fetsje (“to grasp”).
The noun is derived from the verb.
Inflected forms:
form: fetches
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: fetching
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: fetched
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: fetched
pos: verb
tags: past
form: fatch
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: fotch
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: fetches
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get.
pos: verb
tags: ditransitive
transitive
examples: You have to fetch some sugar in order to proceed with the recipe.
I'm thirsty. Can you fetch me a glass of water, please?
SATURNINUS: Go fetch them hither to us presently.
TITUS: Why, there they are, both baked in that pie,
Whereof their mother daintily hath fed,
Eating the flesh that she herself hath bred.
He called to her, and said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel, that I may drink.
When they got home, the Rat made a bright fire in the parlour, and planted the Mole in an arm-chair in front of it, having fetched down a dressing-gown and slippers for him, and told him river stories till supper-time.
gloss: To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Our native horses[…] were held in small esteem, and fetched low prices.
My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price.
The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania. The first barrels of crude fetched $18 (around $450 at today’s prices).
If you put some new tyres on it, and clean it up a bit, the car should fetch about $5,000
gloss: To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing.
pos: verb
examples: to fetch headway or sternway
Meantime flew our ships, and straight we fetched / The siren's isle.
gloss: To bring oneself; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To take (a breath); to heave (a sigh).
pos: verb
tags: literary
rare
transitive
examples: The hurt nigger moaned feebly somewhere near by, and then fetched a deep sigh that made me mend my pace away from there.
gloss: To cause to come; to bring to a particular state.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: They couldn't fetch the butter in the churn.
gloss: To recall from a swoon; to revive; sometimes with to.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: to fetch a man to
Fetching men again when they swoon.
gloss: To reduce; to throw.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The sudden trip in wrestling that fetches a man to the ground.
gloss: To accomplish; to achieve; to perform, with certain objects or actions.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
examples: to fetch a compass;  to fetch a leap
I'll fetch a turn about the garden.
Ixion[…]turn'd dancer, does nothing but cut capreols, fetch friskals, and leads lavaltoes
He fetches his blow quick and sure.
gloss: To make (a pump) draw water by pouring water into the top and working the handle.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: An act of fetching, of bringing something from a distance.
pos: noun
tags: also
figuratively
gloss: An act of fetching, of bringing something from a distance.
pos: noun
tags: also
figuratively
specifically
examples: a fetch from a cache
gloss: The object of fetching; the source of an attraction; a force, propensity, or quality which attracts.
pos: noun
gloss: An area over which wind is blowing (over water) and generating waves.
pos: noun
examples: When a fetch is close to land, this variability will alter anticipated wind directions and velocities.
gloss: The length of such an area; the distance a wave can travel across a body of water (without obstruction).
pos: noun
examples: From recently completed radar maps of the Brazilian Amazon I determined the shape, maximum fetch and width and orientation of all the lakes greater than 100 meters across in the floodplain […]
For example, a steady wind of 40-50 kilometres/hour - a Force 6 strong breeze - blowing for 12 hours over an initially calm sea and traversing a fetch of 1000 kilometres could produce a significant wave height […]
Wind waves continue to grow within the fetch area, [...] A graphical wave hindcasting method by means of Wilson's fetch diagrams produced an estimate of H_(1/3) = 9.4 m and T_(1/3) = 12.3 s over the fetch of about 1,800 km on the 7th of April.
gloss: A stratagem or trick; an artifice.
pos: noun
examples: They used cunning fetches to swindle money out of the gullible.
Every little fetch of wit and criticism.
And as to your cant of living single, nobody will believe you. This is one of your fetches to avoid complying with your duty […].
gloss: A game played with a dog in which a person throws an object for the dog to retrieve.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Minced oath for fuck.
pos: intj
Synonyms: collect
Derived words: farfetch
fetchable
fetcher
fetchy
misfetch
prefetch
refetch
unfetchable
unfetched
fetch about
fetch a compass
fetch and carry
fetch away
fetch a wife
fetch in
fetch off
fetch quest
fetch up
fetch way
Translations:
lang: Polish
word: aport