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Definition of Fetch

Fetch

  1. 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. To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for.
  3. To recall from a swoon; to revive; -- sometimes with to; as, to fetch a man to.
  4. To reduce; to throw.
  5. 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. To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing.
  7. To cause to come; to bring to a particular state.
  8. To bring one's self; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward.
  9. 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. The apparation of a living person; a wraith.

Fetch Quotations

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.
Groucho Marx

For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.
Christina Rossetti

The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.
Voltaire

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.
Steve Jobs

Competitiveness demands flexibility, choice and openness - or Europe will fetch up in a no-man's land between the rising economies of Asia and market-driven North America.
David Cameron
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Fetch Translations

fetch in Afrikaans is bring
fetch in Danish is hente, bringe
fetch in Dutch is brengen, bezorgen, aandragen
fetch in French is apporter, aveignez, amener, aveignent, apportons
fetch in German is Abruf {m}, abrufen, abrufen, hervorholen
fetch in Italian is portare, prendere
fetch in Latin is arcesso; accerso
fetch in Norwegian is innbringe, hente
fetch in Portuguese is busque
fetch in Spanish is sacar, llevar, traer, buscar, coger

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