Definition of "fetch" in 英语

verb

1. (transitive, ditransitive) 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. (transitive) 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. (nautical) 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. (intransitive) To bring oneself; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward.

5. (transitive, rare, literary) To take (a breath); to heave (a sigh).

6. (transitive) To cause to come; to bring to a particular state.

7. (obsolete, transitive) To recall from a swoon; to revive; sometimes with to.

   • to fetch a man to

8. (transitive) To reduce; to throw.

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

9. (archaic, transitive) To accomplish; to achieve; to perform, with certain objects or actions.

   • to fetch a compass;  to fetch a leap
   • He fetches his blow quick and sure.

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

noun

1. (also figuratively) An act of fetching, of bringing something from a distance.

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

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. A stratagem or trick; an artifice.

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

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

interjection

1. (Utah) Minced oath for fuck.

noun

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