Pronunciations (2)
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/fɛt͡ʃ/
Pronunciation notes
- General-American
- Received-Pronunciation
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/fɑt͡ʃ/
Verb
To retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get.
Usage- Ditransitive
- Transitive
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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?
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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.
Jack and Gill Went up the hill, To fetch a bottle of water.
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.
To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for.
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Our native horses[…] were held in small esteem, and fetched low prices.
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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
To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing.
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to fetch headway or sternway
Meantime flew our ships, and straight we fetched / The siren's isle.
To bring oneself; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward.
Usage- Intransitive
To take (a breath); to heave (a sigh).
Usage- Literary
- Rare
- Transitive
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The hurt nigger moaned feebly somewhere near by, and then fetched a deep sigh that made me mend my pace away from there.
To cause to come; to bring to a particular state.
Usage- Transitive
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They couldn't fetch the butter in the churn.
To recall from a swoon; to revive; sometimes with to.
Usage- Obsolete
- Transitive
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to fetch a man to
Fetching men again when they swoon.
To reduce; to throw.
Usage- Transitive
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The sudden trip in wrestling that fetches a man to the ground.
To accomplish; to achieve; to perform, with certain objects or actions.
Usage- Archaic
- Transitive
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to fetch a compass; to fetch a leap
I'll fetch a turn about the garden.
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Ixion[…]turn'd dancer, does nothing but cut capreols, fetch friskals, and leads lavaltoes
He fetches his blow quick and sure.
To make (a pump) draw water by pouring water into the top and working the handle.
Usage- Transitive
Noun
An act of fetching, of bringing something from a distance.
Usage- also
- Figurative
An act of fetching, of bringing something from a distance. An act of fetching data.
Usage- also
- Figurative
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a fetch from a cache
The object of fetching; the source of an attraction; a force, propensity, or quality which attracts.
An area over which wind is blowing (over water) and generating waves.
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When a fetch is close to land, this variability will alter anticipated wind directions and velocities.
The length of such an area; the distance a wave can travel across a body of water (without obstruction).
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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.
A stratagem or trick; an artifice.
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They used cunning fetches to swindle money out of the gullible.
Every little fetch of wit and criticism.
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And as to your cant of living single, nobody will believe you. This is one of your fetches to avoid complying with your duty […].
A game played with a dog in which a person throws an object for the dog to retrieve.
Usage- Uncountable
Interjection
Minced oath for fuck.
Noun
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”).
Usage- dialectal
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In these dilapidated articles of dress she had, on principle, arrayed herself, time out of mind, on such occasions as the present; for this at once expressed a decent amount of veneration for the deceased, and invited the next of kin to present her with a fresher set of weeds: an appeal so frequently successful, that the very fetch and ghost of Mrs. Gamp, bonnet and all, might be seen hanging up, at any hour of the day, in at least a dozen of the second-hand clothes shops around Holborn.
I think it was a fetch. [...] Folk say a fetch is seen at its departing / From a cold house whence it shall lead a soul; / But this comes like a child-birth closing in, / And so perchance it does but signify / The consciousness of death that breaks in all.
Several farm maidservants meet to see their future lovers' spirits on Midsummer Eve, but see only the "fetch" or double of one of them, foretelling her death.
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"If you're after some money," said the millionaire, "move that cat out of the way." Catweazle shook his head. "Mayhap 'tis a fetch." Victor was very taken aback. "A fetch?" he gulped. "That's a witch in the shape of a cat, isn't it?" "Ay," said Catweazle calmly.
Noun
the action of fetching
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Verb
go or come after and bring or take back
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Get me those books over there, please
Could you bring the wine?
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The dog fetched the hat
be sold for a certain price
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The painting brought $10,000
The old print fetched a high price at the auction
take someone to hell
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The devil will fetch you!