Fetch
verb
To go and bring back something from a place.
Can you fetch me a glass of water from the kitchen?
Often appears as...
- fetch a ball
- fetch a drink
verb
To sell for a particular amount of money.
This antique chair can fetch a high price at the auction.
Often appears as...
- fetch a price
- fetch an amount
verb
In computing, to retrieve and display data from a server or database.
The program will fetch the data from the server.
Often appears as...
- fetch data
- fetch information
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Technical
verb
To strike or deliver a blow.
He fetched him a blow on the head.
Often appears as...
- fetch a blow
- fetch a hit
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Disapproving
verb
To take a roundabout route.
We had to fetch a compass to avoid the construction.
Often appears as...
- fetch a circuit
- fetch a compass
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Formal
Nautical
verb
To go and bring back something from a place.
Can you fetch me a glass of water from the kitchen?
Often appears as...
- fetch a ball
- fetch a drink
verb
To sell for a particular amount of money.
This antique chair can fetch a high price at the auction.
Often appears as...
- fetch a price
- fetch an amount
verb
In computing, to retrieve and display data from a server or database.
The program will fetch the data from the server.
Often appears as...
- fetch data
- fetch information
Usage tips
Technical
verb
To strike or deliver a blow.
He fetched him a blow on the head.
Often appears as...
- fetch a blow
- fetch a hit
Usage tips
Disapproving
verb
To take a roundabout route.
We had to fetch a compass to avoid the construction.
Often appears as...
- fetch a circuit
- fetch a compass
Usage tips
Formal
Nautical
Definition 1 of 5
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Retrieval
Used when someone is physically going somewhere to bring back an item.
Please fetch your brother from school.
Pro Tip 2/3Request Politeness
Often used to make requests sound more polite or less demanding.
Could you fetch me my coat?
Pro Tip 3/3Immediate Action
Implies the action should happen right away, without delay.
Fetch the doctor quickly!
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Retrieval
Used when someone is physically going somewhere to bring back an item.
Please fetch your brother from school.
Pro Tip 2/3Request Politeness
Often used to make requests sound more polite or less demanding.
Could you fetch me my coat?
Pro Tip 3/3Immediate Action
Implies the action should happen right away, without delay.
Fetch the doctor quickly!
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Retrieval
Used when someone is physically going somewhere to bring back an item.
Please fetch your brother from school.
Pro Tip 2/3Request Politeness
Often used to make requests sound more polite or less demanding.
Could you fetch me my coat?
Pro Tip 3/3Immediate Action
Implies the action should happen right away, without delay.
Fetch the doctor quickly!
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Safari Live - Day 198 PIPE...
that unless of course you want your backyard to look like that maybe you have a situation you want to have long grass and have I don't know why you'd want actually fetching grass in this it's a farm area I don't know or maybe you like the wilderness feel in your backyard but otherwise if you don't then
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Inside your computer -...
for how to deal with this mouse click, so it looks up the address for the mouse program and sends a request to the memory subsystem for instructions stored there. Each instruction in the mouse device driver is duly fetched and executed. And that's not nearly the end of the story!
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Safari Live - Day 272 PIPE...
fetch our roof at this point I'm trying to decide if it's drizzle has set in or not and decide whether or not the irritation of the roof but it does restrict us in certain respects we've got to be very careful with our vehicle positioning and the poles ruins the
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Investing in fish...
kilos fetching you two or three dollars to feed seven people now imagine how it feels when you pull a bigger octopus out of the water not two or even three times the usual size imagine an octopus ten times the size at eight kilos people saw
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Safari Live - Day 142 PIPE...
please do that'll be marvelous thank you very much that's the lab say about Earth Day anyway we can look at this tree this is Central Road that we're on now this was the road that we told those dear people to come and fetch us on but less
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Defecation Watch PIPE...
come out of grandma's brawl they do it and I fetch it try to visitation requires constant vigilance a watchful eye for rule breakers and today that effort has paid off what seemed like a standard visit between an inmate
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Lale Labuko: Rescuing...
cattles and goats you know the young boys the hurting gods for their fathers and girls are fetching water and collecting firewood that's the life in omaha there is no any civilization it's really isolated for many years
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Safari Live - Day 261 PIPE...
when maybe the locals of the people in the village are going to fetch water either in legs or in rivers from here I saw Sundberg a me first so they can support any this sorry my breakfast kikyo unit o worried about
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Why Do We Find Deadly...
affection for wolves it's been found that our cute canine counterparts can lower our stress levels even something as simple as playing fetch or stroking a dog increases levels of feel-good
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Powerful Photos That...
Life can be harsh for poor girls from these countries. Boys are given preferential treatment, while girls are expected to do household chores -- cook, clean, fetch water,
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Safari Live - Day 198 PIPE...
that unless of course you want your backyard to look like that maybe you have a situation you want to have long grass and have I don't know why you'd want actually fetching grass in this it's a farm area I don't know or maybe you like the wilderness feel in your backyard but otherwise if you don't then
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Inside your computer -...
for how to deal with this mouse click, so it looks up the address for the mouse program and sends a request to the memory subsystem for instructions stored there. Each instruction in the mouse device driver is duly fetched and executed. And that's not nearly the end of the story!
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 272 PIPE...
fetch our roof at this point I'm trying to decide if it's drizzle has set in or not and decide whether or not the irritation of the roof but it does restrict us in certain respects we've got to be very careful with our vehicle positioning and the poles ruins the
Video examples
Investing in fish...
kilos fetching you two or three dollars to feed seven people now imagine how it feels when you pull a bigger octopus out of the water not two or even three times the usual size imagine an octopus ten times the size at eight kilos people saw
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 142 PIPE...
please do that'll be marvelous thank you very much that's the lab say about Earth Day anyway we can look at this tree this is Central Road that we're on now this was the road that we told those dear people to come and fetch us on but less
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Defecation Watch PIPE...
come out of grandma's brawl they do it and I fetch it try to visitation requires constant vigilance a watchful eye for rule breakers and today that effort has paid off what seemed like a standard visit between an inmate
Video examples
Lale Labuko: Rescuing...
cattles and goats you know the young boys the hurting gods for their fathers and girls are fetching water and collecting firewood that's the life in omaha there is no any civilization it's really isolated for many years
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 261 PIPE...
when maybe the locals of the people in the village are going to fetch water either in legs or in rivers from here I saw Sundberg a me first so they can support any this sorry my breakfast kikyo unit o worried about
Video examples
Why Do We Find Deadly...
affection for wolves it's been found that our cute canine counterparts can lower our stress levels even something as simple as playing fetch or stroking a dog increases levels of feel-good
Video examples
Powerful Photos That...
Life can be harsh for poor girls from these countries. Boys are given preferential treatment, while girls are expected to do household chores -- cook, clean, fetch water,
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Ishmael Beah
Sierra Leonean Author
I had a very simple, unremarkable and happy life. And I grew up in a very small town. And so my life was made up of, you know, in the morning going to the river to fetch water - no tap water, and no electricity - and, you know, bathing in the river, and then going to school, and playing soccer afterwards.
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Steve Jobs
American Businessman
It takes these very simple-minded instructions - 'Go fetch a number, add it to this number, put the result there, perceive if it's greater than this other number' - but executes them at a rate of, let's say, 1,000,000 per second. At 1,000,000 per second, the results appear to be magic.
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Ron Rash
American Poet
Sometimes I know what my characters are moving away from or toward; more often I just wait and see. For instance, though I knew Sinkler in 'The Trusty' was going for water, I did not know that he would meet a fetching young farm wife until I got him into her front yard.
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Neil Jackson
English Actor
Being an actor, you can get spoilt a little bit: car services come and pick you up, you get put up in nice hotels, people fetch you coffee, and so on. It is wonderful, but you can get lost in that world pretty quickly and start believing that it is real life.
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Andrew Ross Sorkin
American Journalist
In many ways, education is a lousy business. Teachers are not normal economic actors; almost all of them work for less money than they might fetch in some other industry, given their skills and advanced degrees.
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Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
Nigerian Economist
I know what it means to go to the stream to fetch water... what it means when people are poor and don't have enough to eat. It's not enough to say you know about poverty. You have to live it.
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Joel Edgerton
Australian Actor
Sometimes I think being an actor is like being a dog for a director; it's like they throw a stick, and you want to fetch it and bring it back to them. You want a pat on the head for it.
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Walter Kaufmann
German Philosopher
Here an attempt is made to explain suffering: the outcaste of traditional Hinduism is held to deserve his fetched fate; it is a punishment for the wrongs he did in a previous life.
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Groucho Marx
American Comedian
A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.
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Edward Coke
English Businessman
Things are worth what they will fetch at a sale.
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Ishmael Beah
Sierra Leonean Author
I had a very simple, unremarkable and happy life. And I grew up in a very small town. And so my life was made up of, you know, in the morning going to the river to fetch water - no tap water, and no electricity - and, you know, bathing in the river, and then going to school, and playing soccer afterwards.
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Steve Jobs
American Businessman
It takes these very simple-minded instructions - 'Go fetch a number, add it to this number, put the result there, perceive if it's greater than this other number' - but executes them at a rate of, let's say, 1,000,000 per second. At 1,000,000 per second, the results appear to be magic.
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Ron Rash
American Poet
Sometimes I know what my characters are moving away from or toward; more often I just wait and see. For instance, though I knew Sinkler in 'The Trusty' was going for water, I did not know that he would meet a fetching young farm wife until I got him into her front yard.
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Neil Jackson
English Actor
Being an actor, you can get spoilt a little bit: car services come and pick you up, you get put up in nice hotels, people fetch you coffee, and so on. It is wonderful, but you can get lost in that world pretty quickly and start believing that it is real life.
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Andrew Ross Sorkin
American Journalist
In many ways, education is a lousy business. Teachers are not normal economic actors; almost all of them work for less money than they might fetch in some other industry, given their skills and advanced degrees.
Quote examples
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
Nigerian Economist
I know what it means to go to the stream to fetch water... what it means when people are poor and don't have enough to eat. It's not enough to say you know about poverty. You have to live it.
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Joel Edgerton
Australian Actor
Sometimes I think being an actor is like being a dog for a director; it's like they throw a stick, and you want to fetch it and bring it back to them. You want a pat on the head for it.
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Walter Kaufmann
German Philosopher
Here an attempt is made to explain suffering: the outcaste of traditional Hinduism is held to deserve his fetched fate; it is a punishment for the wrongs he did in a previous life.
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Groucho Marx
American Comedian
A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.
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Edward Coke
English Businessman
Things are worth what they will fetch at a sale.
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