fetch

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

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

   “You have to fetch some sugar in order to proceed with the recipe.”

2. fiil To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for.

   “If you put some new tyres on it, and clean it up a bit, the car should fetch about $5,000”

3. fiil To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing.

   “to fetch headway or sternway”

4. fiil To bring oneself; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward.
5. fiil To 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. fiil To cause to come; to bring to a particular state.

   “They couldn't fetch the butter in the churn.”

7. fiil To recall from a swoon; to revive; sometimes with to.

   “to fetch a man to”

8. fiil To reduce; to throw.

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

9. fiil To accomplish; to achieve; to perform, with certain objects or actions.

   “to fetch a compass;  to fetch a leap”

10. fiil To make (a pump) draw water by pouring water into the top and working the handle.
11. isim An act of fetching, of bringing something from a distance.
12. isim An act of fetching data.

    “a fetch from a cache”

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

15. isim 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 […]”

16. isim A stratagem or trick; an artifice.

    “They used cunning fetches to swindle money out of the gullible.”

17. isim A game played with a dog in which a person throws an object for the dog to retrieve.
18. ünlem Minced oath for fuck.
19. isim 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 (“a person's likeness seen just after their death; a ghost, a spectre”).

    “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.”