Definitions for fetch
fɛtʃfetch

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. fetchverb

   the action of fetching

2. bring, get, convey, fetchverb

   go or come after and bring or take back

   "Get me those books over there, please"; "Could you bring the wine?"; "The dog fetched the hat"

3. fetch, bring in, bringverb

   be sold for a certain price

   "The painting brought $10,000"; "The old print fetched a high price at the auction"

4. fetchverb

   take away or remove

   "The devil will fetch you!"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. fetchnoun

   The object of fetching; the source and origin of attraction; a force, quality or propensity which is attracting eg., in a given attribute of person, place, object, principle, etc.

2. fetchnoun

   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.

3. fetchnoun

   The apparition of a living person; a wraith; one's double (seeing it is supposed to be a sign that one is fey or fated to die)

4. fetchverb

   To retrieve; to bear towards; to go get.

5. fetchverb

   To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing.

6. fetchverb

   To bring one's self; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Fetchnoun

   A stratagem by which any thing is indirectly performed; by which one thing seems intended and another is done; a trick; an artifice.

   Etymology: from the verb.

   An envious neighbour is easy to find,
   His cumbersome fetches are seldom behind:
   His fetch is to flatter, to get what he can;
   His purpose once gotten, a pin for thee than. Thomas Tusser, Husband.

   It is a fetch of wit;
   You laying these slight sullies on my son,
   As ’twere a thing a little soil’d i’ th’ working. William Shakespeare, Hamlet.

   But Sidrophel, as full of tricks
   As rota men of politicks,
   Streight cast about to over-reach
   Th’ unwary conqu’ror with a fetch. Hudibras, p. ii.

   With this fetch he laughs at the trick he hath plaid me. Edward Stillingfleet.

   The fox had a fetch in’t. Roger L'Estrange, Fab. 42.

   From these instances and fetches
   Thou mak’st of horses, clocks and watches, Quoth Mat, thou seem’st to mean
   That Alma is a mere machine. Matthew Prior.

2. To FETCHverb

   preter. fetched;

   Etymology: feccan, fettan , Saxon.

   1. To go and bring.

   They have devis’d a mean
   How he her chamber-window will ascend,
   And with a corded ladder fetch her down. William Shakespeare.

   We will take men to fetch victuals for the people. Judg. xx.

   Go to the flock, and fetch me from thence two kid goats. Gen. xxvii. 9.

   The seat of empire, where the Irish come,
   And the unwilling Scotch, to fetch their doom. Edmund Waller.

   Draw forth the monsters of th’ abyss profound,
   Or fetch th’ aerial eagle to the ground. Alexander Pope, Ess. on Man.

   2. To derive; to draw.

   On, you noblest English,
   Whose blood is fetcht from fathers of war-proof. William Shakespeare, H. V.

   3. To strike at a distance.

   The conditions of weapons, and their improvements, are the fetching afar off; for that outruns the danger, as it is seen in ordnance and muskets. Francis Bacon, Essays.

   4. To bring to any state by some powerful operation.

   In smells we see their great and sudden effect in fetching men again, when they swoon. Francis Bacon, Natural History.

   At Rome any of those arts immediately thrives, under the encouragement of the prince, as may be fetched up to its perfection in ten or a dozen years, which is the work of an age or two in other countries. Joseph Addison, on Italy.

   5. To draw within any confinement or prohibition.

   General terms may sufficiently convey to the people what our intentions are, and yet not fetch us within the compass of the ordinance. Robert Sanderson.

   6. To produce by some kind of force.

   These ways, if there were any secret excellence among them, would fetch it out, and give it fair opportunities to advance itself by. John Milton, on Education.

   An human soul without education is like marble in the quarry, which shews none of its beauties ’till the skill of the polisher fetches out the colours. Joseph Addison, Spectator.

   7. To perform any excursion.

   I’ll fetch a turn about the garden, pitying
   The pangs of barr’d affections; though the king
   Hath charg’d you should not speak together. William Shakespeare, Cymbel.

   When evening grey doth rise, I fetch my round
   Over the mount, and all this hollow ground. John Milton.

   To come to that place they must fetch a compass three miles on the right hand through a forest. Richard Knolles, History.

   8. To perform with suddenness or violence.

   Note a wild and wanton herd,
   Or race of youthful and unhandled colts,
   Fetching mad bounds, bellowing and neighing loud. William Shakespeare.

   The fox fetched a hundred and a hundred leaps at a delicious cluster of grapes. Roger L'Estrange.

   Talk to her of an unfortunate young lady that lost her beauty by the small-pox, she fetches a deep sigh. Addison.

   9. To reach; to arrive at; to come to.

   Mean time flew our ships, and streight we fetcht
   The syrens isle; a spleenless wind so stretcht
   Her wings to waft us, and so urg’d our keel. George Chapman.

   It needs not thy belief,
   If earth, industrious of herself, fetch day
   Travelling East; and with her part averse
   From the sun’s beam, meet night; her other part
   Still luminous by his ray. John Milton, Paradise Lost, b. viii.

   The hare laid himself down, and took a nap; for, says he, I can fetch up the tortoise when I please. Roger L'Estrange.

   10. To obtain as its price.

   During such a state, silver in the coin will never fetch as much as the silver in bullion. John Locke.

3. To Fetchverb

   To move with a quick return.

   Like a shifted wind unto a sail,
   It makes the course of thoughts to fetch about. William Shakespeare.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. fetch

   Fetch! with Ruff Ruffman (sometimes shortened as Fetch!) is an American live-action/animated television series that aired on PBS Kids Go! and is largely targeted towards middle school children. It is a reality-game show that is hosted by an animated anthropomorphic dog named Ruff Ruffman who dispenses challenges to the show's real-life contestants. The series ran for five seasons and 100 episodes from May 29, 2006, to November 4, 2010, on PBS, with 30 contestants in that time. Although a sixth season was planned, with auditions taking place in January 2010, WGBH announced on June 14, 2010, that due to lack of funding, the series would end. In June 2008, the series received its first Emmy for Best Original Song for its theme.

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1. fetch

   Fetch is a term which generally refers to the act of going after something and then bringing it back. In computing, it may refer to obtaining data from a different location, while in a dog training context, it might refer to a command where the dog retrieves a thrown object.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Fetchverb

   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

2. Fetchverb

   to obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for

3. Fetchverb

   to recall from a swoon; to revive; -- sometimes with to; as, to fetch a man to

4. Fetchverb

   to reduce; to throw

5. Fetchverb

   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

6. Fetchverb

   to bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing

7. Fetchverb

   to cause to come; to bring to a particular state

8. fetchverb

   to bring one's self; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward

9. Fetchnoun

   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

10. Fetchnoun

    the apparation of a living person; a wraith

11. Etymology: [OE. fecchen, AS. feccan, perh. the same word as fetian; or cf. facian to wish to get, OFries. faka to prepare. 77. Cf. Fet, v. t.]

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Fetch

   Fetch is a full-featured GUI-based Mac OS-only FTP client made by Fetch Softworks. The latest version of Fetch is 5.6; the long-awaited version 5 was released on May 24, 2005. In addition to basic FTP functionality, Fetch includes such features as editing files without having to download them and re-upload them. In version 5.0, support for SFTP was added, and in version 5.2, FTPS was added.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. Fetch

   fech, v.t. to bring: to go and get: to obtain as its price: to accomplish in any way: to bring down, to cause to yield: to reach or attain.—v.i. to turn: (naut.) to arrive at.—n. the act of bringing: space carried over: a stratagem.—adj. Fetch′ing, fascinating.—Fetch and carry, to perform humble services for another; Fetch a pump, to pour water in so as to make it draw; Fetch out, to draw forth, develop; Fetch to, to revive, as from a swoon; Fetch up, to recover: to come to a sudden stop. [A.S. feccan, an altered form of fetian, to fetch; cf. Ger. fassen, to seize.]

2. Fetch

   fech, n. the apparition, double, or wraith of a living person.—n. Fetch′-can′dle, a nocturnal light, supposed to portend a death. [Ety. unknown.]

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. FETCH

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Fetch is ranked #47706 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Fetch surname appeared 444 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Fetch.
   
   98.2% or 436 total occurrences were White.

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British National Corpus

1. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'fetch' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2982

2. Verbs Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'fetch' in Verbs Frequency: #758

How to pronounce fetch?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say fetch in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of fetch in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of fetch in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of fetch in a Sentence

1. Welekazi Mkololo:

   We want water, housing and electricity. There have been no changes here, i have to fetch water from a stream, it's far from here.

2. Barry Watts:

   High-end homes in and around Beverly Hills rent for as much as $ 45,000 per week, and giga-mansions are sprouting up around LA that fetch staggering prices, including one being built in Bel Air that could reportedly be priced in the $ 500 million range. There’s a shortage of trophy properties that are available for sale in this pocket of Los Angeles, julie Wagner’ve got high-net-worth people who want to own multiple homes across the world, and Los Angeles offers something different. If Julie Wagner want to drive Julie Wagner convertible car 12 months a year, it’s a city where Julie Wagner can do that.

3. George Washington:

   Money, we know, will fetch anything and command the service of any man.

4. Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte:

   If you are corrupt I will fetch you with a helicopter and I will throw you out on the way to Manila, i have done that before, why should I not do it again?

5. New York:

   The small menu is so appealing and the place itself so charming that you almost forget, as a diner, that you have to do much of the work of dining out yourself. You scout your own table. You fetch and fill your own water glass. And if you’d like another glass of wine, you go back to the counter.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=fetch
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Fetch
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=fetch
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fetch
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fetch
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=fetch
8. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=fetch
9. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html