Meaning of fetch in English

fetch

verb

mainly UK

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/fetʃ/

fetch verb (GET)

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B1 [ T ]

to go to another place to get something or someone and bring it, him, or her back:

[ + two objects ] Could you fetch me my glasses from the other room, please?

I have to fetch my mother from the station.

fetch something for someone Shall I fetch some tea for you?

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This glass has been used - please fetch me a clean one.
Would you like to wait out here, and the doctor will come and fetch you in a minute?
She fetched another chair from the dining room.
He fetches the children from school on Mondays and Fridays.
That looks uncomfortable. I'll go and fetch a cushion for you.

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Transferring and transporting objects

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fetch verb (SELL)

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to be sold for a particular amount of money:

The paintings fetched over a million dollars.

The house didn't fetch as much as she was hoping it would.

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to have a certain monetary value

costHiring a car for the week will cost close to £300!
beThe cakes were £1.50 each or two for £2.
sell forThe tickets sell for £100 each.
fetchThe medieval manuscript fetched a record-breaking £1.2 million at auction.
go for somethingHouses around here usually go for about £500,000.
set someone back (something)Phew, that ring looks like it set you back.

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fetch verb (HIT)

fetch someone a blow

old-fashioned informal

to hit someone with the hand:

I fetched him a smart blow on the ear!

fetch

noun [ U ]

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play fetch

to play a game with a dog that involves throwing something for it to run after and bring back to you:

I had to teach our new dog how to play fetch.

(Definition of fetch from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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fetch

verb

/fetʃ/

fetch verb (GET)

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[ I/T ]

to go get something or someone and bring the thing or person back:

[ I ] She’s been teaching the dog to fetch (= get a stick or ball that is thrown and bring it back).

fetch verb (SELL)

[ T ]

to be sold for a price:

The collection of paintings fetched over a million dollars.

(Definition of fetch from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of fetch

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All the data are fetched in main-memory before any evaluation task is carried out.

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Nevertheless, the crop occasionally fetched good financial returns, and it was in hope of this that they continued to grow the crop.

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Farmers also sold the grain, but it fetched a low price in the poorly developed market for horsegram.

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Thus, most fetches can be moved past stores and procedure calls, and common subexpressions involving fetches from immutable objects can be eliminated.

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Consider now the definitions fetched via a resolvespec.

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We found that most of the preprocessing time is consumed at fetching lexical entries.

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The task of the autonomous robot is to serve a moving working team on the site by continuously fetching supplies from a central store.

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First, she invents a key, encrypts the known body with it, and checks whether the result matches the encrypted authenticator fetched from the network.

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Note also that only predicates needed for the migratory segment of the continuation are fetched.

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By the early years of the twentieth century most industries had completely abandoned methods of production in which craftsmen made the products and laborers fetched and carried parts.

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Most functions contain conditional computation thus most rewrites will involve access to remote store that results in the rewrite being suspended while the required packets are fetched.

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Similarly, even though there is wood around, potters prefer to buy it from merchants coming into town, rather than fetching it themselves and losing one day's work.

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Backed by anecdotal evidence, the author portrays these as opportunistic exploiters who drain financial resources away from the poor by fetching high prices in times of water scarcity.

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The age comparison becomes more expensive when the cells belong to different blocks, because then the time stamps of the corresponding blocks need to be fetched and compared.

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The high prices that wine fetched throughout the second half of the eighteenth century and at the beginning of the nineteenth accounted for the speed of this expansion.

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