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Fetch

Verb

Definitionen

1.VerbTo retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get.
"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?"
2.VerbTo obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for.
"If you put some new tyres on it, and clean it up a bit, the car should fetch about $5,000"
3.VerbTo bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing.
"to fetch headway or sternway"
4.VerbTo bring oneself; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward.
5.VerbTo take (a breath); to heave (a sigh).
6.VerbTo cause to come; to bring to a particular state.
7.VerbTo recall from a swoon; to revive; sometimes with to.
"to fetch a man to"
8.VerbTo reduce; to throw.
9.VerbTo accomplish; to achieve; to perform, with certain objects or actions.
"to fetch a compass;  to fetch a leap"
10.VerbTo make (a pump) draw water by pouring water into the top and working the handle.
11.NounAn act of fetching, of bringing something from a distance. An act of fetching data.
"a fetch from a cache"
12.NounAn act of fetching data.
"a fetch from a cache"
13.NounThe object of fetching; the source of an attraction; a force, propensity, or quality which attracts.
14.NounAn area over which wind is blowing (over water) and generating waves.
15.NounThe length of such an area; the distance a wave can travel across a body of water (without obstruction).
16.NounA stratagem or trick; an artifice.
"They used cunning fetches to swindle money out of the gullible."
17.NounA game played with a dog in which a person throws an object for the dog to retrieve.
18.InterjectionMinced oath for fuck.
19.NounThe 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”). .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
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