fetch🔊

(ditransitive) To retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get.

To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for.

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

To bring oneself; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward.

(literary) To take (a breath); to heave (a sigh).

To cause to come; to bring to a particular state.

To recall from a swoon; to revive; sometimes with ''to''.

To reduce; to throw.

To accomplish; to achieve; to perform, with certain objects or actions.

To make (a pump) draw water by pouring water into the top and working the handle.

(figuratively) An act of fetching, of bringing something from a distance.

(specifically) An act of fetching data.

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.

The length of such an area; the distance a wave can travel across a body of water (without obstruction).

A stratagem or trick; an artifice.

A game played with a dog in which a person throws an object for the dog to retrieve.

(Utah) {{n-g|Minced oath for ''fuck''.}}

(dialectal) 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 (t=a person's likeness seen just after their death; a ghost, a spectre).