| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. To bear, sell or drag.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. To collect or pluck. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To pick or convey. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To dig or scour. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To lead or steer. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. To obtain or recover. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. To reach, pass or hit. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. To catch, regain, snatch or find. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. To tell or repeat. [Eve - graph theoretic] 10. To shoot or send.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Present Tense | 1. Present tense conjugation of the verb fetch.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (fetch) | 1. Be sold for a certain price; "The old print fetched a high price at the auction".[Wordnet]. 2. Take away or remove; "The devil will fetch you!".[Wordnet]. 3. 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".[Wordnet]. 4. 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.[Websters]. 5. To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for.[Websters]. 6. To recall from a swoon; to revive; -- sometimes with to; as, to fetch a man to.[Websters]. 7. To reduce; to throw.[Websters]. 8. 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.[Websters]. 9. To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing.[Websters]. 10. To cause to come; to bring to a particular state.[Websters]. 11. To bring one's self; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward.[Websters]. 12. Base verb from the following inflections: fetching, fetched, fetches, fetcher, fetchers, fetchingly and fetchedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Noun Plural | 1. Plural inflection of the noun fetch.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Noun Base (fetch) | 1. The action of fetching.[Wordnet]. 2. 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.[Websters]. 3. The apparation of a living person; a wraith.[Websters]. | |
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Date "FETCHES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1379. (references) |
Specialty Definition: FETCHES
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Literature | 1: Shakespeare: King Lear, ii:4. 2: They have travelled all the night? Mere fetches." 3: Fetches Excuses, tricks, artifices. (Saxon.) 4: "Deny to speak with me? They are sick? they are weary?. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | ||
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Common Expressions: fetch
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Fetch (FTP client) | Fetch is a full-featured GUI-based Mac OS-only FTP client made by Fetch Softworks. The latest version of Fetch is 5.0.4; 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. As of version 5.0, SFTP is also supported. (references) | ||
| Fetch (geography) | Fetch is a term for the length of water over which a given wind has blown. It is used in geography and is usually associated with coastal erosion. It plays a large part in longshore drift as well. (references) | ||
| Fetch candle | A light seen at night, superstitiously believed to portend a person's death. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Fetch quest | The fetch quest is a somewhat derogatory name for a common sort of quest seen in many video game role-playing games (RPGs). (references) | ||
| Fetch up | Finally be or do something. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Smart Fetch | SuperFetch is a caching function, included in newer Windows Vista builds, that automatically preloads parts of commonly-used programs into RAM. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: fetch
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Fetch length | Water | The distance across which the wind can blow without a land obstruction. (references) | |
| Fetch protection | Business | An AIS-provided restriction to prevent a program from accessing data in another user's segment of storage. (references) | |
| Fetch telnet | Aerospace | For the Macintosh, provides interactive access from the Mac to telnet hosts on the network (for example, workstations). Transfers files to and from the Mac. When putting or getting binary files, choose Raw Data, not MacBinary. (references) | |
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Topics by Level of Interest: fetch | ||||
| Topics sorted by level of Interest | Level (1=low, 600=high) | Topics sorted Alphabetically | Level (1=low, 600=high) | |
| Fetch | 21 | Air Bud: Seventh Inning Fetch | 8 | |
| Fetch (game) | 9 | Fetch | 21 | |
| Air Bud: Seventh Inning Fetch | 8 | Fetch (FTP client) | 6 | |
| Go I Know Not Whither and Fetch I Know Not What | 6 | Fetch (game) | 9 | |
| Fetch (FTP client) | 6 | Fetch (geography) | 3 | |
| Fetch the Compass Kids | 5 | Fetch the Compass Kids | 5 | |
| Fetch (geography) | 3 | Go I Know Not Whither and Fetch I Know Not What | 6 | |
Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses). | ||||
