Associations to the word «Fetch»

FETCH, verb. To retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get.

FETCH, verb. To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for.

FETCH, verb. (nautical) To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing.

FETCH, verb. (intransitive) To bring oneself; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward.

FETCH, verb. (rare) (literary) To take (a breath), to heave (a sigh)

FETCH, verb. To cause to come; to bring to a particular state.

FETCH, verb. (obsolete) To recall from a swoon; to revive; sometimes with to.

FETCH, verb. To reduce; to throw.

FETCH, verb. To bring to accomplishment; to achieve; to make; to perform, with certain objects.

FETCH, verb. (nautical) (transitive) To make (a pump) draw water by pouring water into the top and working the handle.

FETCH, noun. The object of fetching; the source and origin of attraction; a force, quality or propensity which is attracting eg., in a given attribute of person, place, object, principle, etc.

FETCH, noun. 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.

FETCH, noun. The apparition of a living person; a wraith; one's double (seeing it is supposed to be a sign that one is fey or fated to die)

FETCH, noun. (computing) The act of fetching data.

FETCH A COMPASS, verb. (nautical) To make a circuit; to take a circuitous route to a place.

FETCH AND CARRY, verb. To serve obsequiously.

FETCH AWAY, verb. (intransitive) (now rare) To move off, come loose; to go off suddenly away (from) a given position.

FETCH CANDLE, noun. A light seen at night, superstitiously believed to portend a person's death.

FETCH QUEST, noun. (video games) (gaming) (chiefly role-playing games) A quest in which a MacGuffin must be acquired at some far off location and given to the quest-giver or some other designated party.

FETCH QUESTS, noun. Plural of fetch quest

FETCH UP, verb. To arrive somewhere, especially unexpectedly.

FETCH UP, verb. (obsolete) To overtake.

FETCH, noun. The action of fetching.

FETCH, verb. 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".

FETCH, verb. Be sold for a certain price; "The painting brought $10,000"; "The old print fetched a high price at the auction".

FETCH, verb. Take away or remove; "The devil will fetch you!".