fetchverb詞源 1/fɛt͡ʃ/

• 1

  To retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get.

  • You have to fetch some sugar in order to proceed with the recipe.
  • I'm thirsty. Can you fetch me a glass of water, please?
• 2

  To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for.

  • Our native horses[…] were held in small esteem, and fetched low prices.
  • My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price.
• 3

  nauticaltransportTo bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing.

  • to fetch headway or sternway
  • Meantime flew our ships, and straight we fetched / The siren's isle.
• 4

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

• 5

  rareliteraryTo take (a breath); to heave (a sigh).

  • The hurt nigger moaned feebly somewhere near by, and then fetched a deep sigh that made me mend my pace away from there.
• 6

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

  • They couldn't fetch the butter in the churn.
• 7

  obsoleteTo recall from a swoon; to revive; sometimes with to.

  • to fetch a man to
  • Fetching men again when they swoon.
• 8

  To reduce; to throw.

  • The sudden trip in wrestling that fetches a man to the ground.

fetchnoun詞源 1/fɛt͡ʃ/

• 1

  An act of fetching, of bringing something from a distance.

• 2

  computingengineeringmathematicsAn act of fetching, of bringing something from a distance.

  • a fetch from a cache
• 3

  The object of fetching; the source of an attraction; a force, propensity, or quality which attracts.

• 4

  An area over which wind is blowing (over water) and generating waves.

  • When a fetch is close to land, this variability will alter anticipated wind directions and velocities.
• 5

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

  • From recently completed radar maps of the Brazilian Amazon I determined the shape, maximum fetch and width and orientation of all the lakes greater than 100 meters across in the floodplain […]
  • For example, a steady wind of 40-50 kilometres/hour - a Force 6 strong breeze - blowing for 12 hours over an initially calm sea and traversing a fetch of 1000 kilometres could produce a significant wave height […]
• 6

  A stratagem or trick; an artifice.

  • They used cunning fetches to swindle money out of the gullible.
  • Every little fetch of wit and criticism.
• 7

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

fetchintj詞源 1/fɛt͡ʃ/

• 1

  Minced oath for fuck.

fetchnoun詞源 2/fɛt͡ʃ/

• 1

  dialectalThe 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 (“a person's likeness seen just after their death; a ghost, a spectre”).

  • In these dilapidated articles of dress she had, on principle, arrayed herself, time out of mind, on such occasions as the present; for this at once expressed a decent amount of veneration for the deceased, and invited the next of kin to present her with a fresher set of weeds: an appeal so frequently successful, that the very fetch and ghost of Mrs. Gamp, bonnet and all, might be seen hanging up, at any hour of the day, in at least a dozen of the second-hand clothes shops around Holborn.
  • I think it was a fetch. [...] Folk say a fetch is seen at its departing / From a cold house whence it shall lead a soul; / But this comes like a child-birth closing in, / And so perchance it does but signify / The consciousness of death that breaks in all.