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| fetching | |
| 1. adj. Attractive; pleasant to regard. |  |
| 2. n. The act by which something is fetched. | |
| fetch | |
| 1. v. To retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get. | |
| 2. v. 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. v. (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. v. (intransitive) To bring oneself; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward. | |
| 5. v. (rare, literary) To take (a breath), to heave (a sigh) | |
| 6. v. To cause to come; to bring to a particular state. | |
| 7. v. (obsolete) To recall from a swoon; to revive; sometimes with to. | |
| to fetch a man to | |
| 8. v. To reduce; to throw. | |
| 9. v. To bring to accomplishment; to achieve; to make; to perform, with certain objects. | |
| to fetch a compass; to fetch a leap | |
| 10. v. (nautical, transitive) To make (a pump) draw water by pouring water into the top and working the handle. | |
| 11. n. 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. | |
| 12. n. 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. | |
| 13. n. (computing) The act of fetching data. | |
| a fetch from a cache | |
| 14. n. 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) | |
