Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word FETCH

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Definitions of FETCH

1. The object of fetching; the source of an attraction; a force, propensity, or quality which attracts.
2. A stratagem or trick; an artifice.
3. An area over which wind is blowing (over water) and generating waves.
4. The length of such an area; the distance a wave can travel across a body of water (without obstruction).
5. (transitive, ditransitive) To retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get.
6. (transitive) To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for.
7. (transitive, rare, literary) To take (a breath); to heave (a sigh).
8. (transitive) To cause to come; to bring to a particular state.
9. (obsolete, transitive) To recall from a swoon; to revive; sometimes with to.
10. (nautical) To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing.
11. (intransitive) To bring oneself; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward.
12. (nautical, transitive) To make (a pump) draw water by pouring water into the top and working the handle.
13. (also, figuratively) An act of fetching, of bringing something from a distance.
14. (Utah) Minced oath for fuck.
15. (originally, Ireland, 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 wraith. [from 18th c.]
16. (transitive) To reduce; to throw.
17. (archaic, transitive) To accomplish; to achieve; to perform, with certain objects or actions.

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Examples of Using FETCH in a Sentence

• That service can be anything from a memory fetch, to a disk IO, to a complex database query, or loading a full web page.
• Heracles, as one of his Twelve Labors, was obliged by her father to fetch for her the girdle of Ares, which was worn by Hippolyte, queen of the Amazons.
• According to Apollodorus, Mygdon was killed by Heracles on the way to Pontus to complete his ninth labour, which was to fetch the belt of Queen Hippolyte of the Amazons.
• URLs can be associated with graphical components so that a web browser might fetch a webpage or a new VRML file from the Internet when the user clicks on the specific graphical component.
• Erosion at Shishmaref is unique along the islands because of its fetch exposure and high tidal prism, relatively intense infrastructure development during the 20th century, and multiple shoreline defense structures built beginning in the 1970s.
• Their only release, an EP, consists entirely of instrumentals with the exception of "Fetch the Water" which features D.
• Rather than naming the pipeline stages, "Fetch, Decode, and Execute" (as on Stretch), the pipelined stages were named, "Advanced Control, Delayed Control, and Interplay".
• Particularly in the case of port, certain conscientious merchants' bottling of old ports fetch higher prices even today.
• Thomas Stow is recorded as paying rent of 6s 8d per year for the family dwelling, and as a youth Stow would fetch milk every morning from a farm on the land nearby to the east owned by the Minoresses of the Convent of St.
• Soulseek does not support multi-source downloading or "swarming" like other post-Napster clients, and must fetch a requested file from a single source.
• In the South Central Coast region of Vietnam, especially in Ninh Thuan Province, Leiolepis is considered a delicacy for its nutritional value and can fetch high prices on the market.
• The man walked towards Zhang Liang and chucked his shoe down the bridge on purpose, after which he yelled at Zhang, "Hey boy, go down and fetch me my shoe!" Zhang Liang was astonished and offended, but obeyed silently out of courtesy.
• Tarlton then, with his fellowes, playing at the Bel by, came into the Cross-keyes, amongst many people, to see fashions, which Banks perceiving, to make the people laugh, saies; seignior, to his horse, go fetch me the veryest foole in the company.
• Thus, instruction fetch has a latency of one clock cycle (if using single-cycle SRAM or if the instruction was in the cache).
• The time that is wasted in case of a branch misprediction is equal to the number of stages in the pipeline from the fetch stage to the execute stage.
• See the zlib source code for a more efficient implementation that requires a fetch and two additions per byte, with the modulo operations deferred with two remainders computed every several thousand bytes, a technique first discovered for Fletcher checksums in 1988.
• Dynamic menus; utilities to browse the filesystem, fetch headlines from the internet from menus included.
• HMS Ruler returned to the United States, to New York, to fetch a batch of Grumman TBF Avenger and Grumman F6F Hellcat aircraft, embarking them between the 20 and 23 May 1944 and again transferring to RNAS Speke, on 11 June.
• Based on average viewership, Emily Caron and Eben Novy-Williams of Sportico estimated that the women's tournament could fetch at least $20 million per year if its media rights were sold separately.
• Then, she entreats a bee to ascend to the halls of the over-god Ukko and fetch from there a drop of honey as ointment that would bring Lemminkäinen back to life.
• After the death of his uncle, Pius IV (1566), Borromeo sent a galley to fetch Cardinal Ugo Boncompagni, the Nuncio in Spain, but he did not arrive in time to be considered at the conclave.
• In Book IV, Agamemnon orders Talthybius to fetch the medic Machaon after Menelaus is wounded with an arrow shot by Pandarus.
• 5 million for his contract, but River Plate's president at the time, Hugo Santilli, believed Francescoli could fetch a better price.
• Because they left England in such a hurry, Aubrey was not able to fetch his own set of chronometers from home.
• The Sedgewick family start playing fetch and swimming with Beethoven, but as the Sedgewicks and Beethoven are hiking, Nigel (who turns out to be Simmons' sidekick) kidnaps Beethoven and locks him in a warehouse, for a ransom of $250,000.

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