fetch

To go somewhere, get someone or something, and bring them back.

• Please fetch my bag.
• The dog fetched the ball from the garden.
• Could you fetch a doctor for my grandmother?

How to use it: fetch someone something (Could you fetch me a glass of water?); fetch something from somewhere (He fetched a blanket from the bedroom.)

Similar words: get, retrieve, bring

Common phrases: fetch something, fetch a doctor, fetch someone something

If something does this, it is sold for a particular amount of money.

• The painting fetched a high price.
• Her old car fetched more than she expected.
• How much will this rare book fetch at auction?

How to use it: fetch + amount/price (The old vase fetched two hundred dollars.)

Similar words: sell for, bring in, command

Common phrases: fetch a high price, fetch good money, fetch something at auction, fetch a good price

To reach a place or achieve a position, especially when traveling by boat.

• The ship fetched the harbor before dark.
• They hoped to fetch the island before the wind changed.
• The small boat finally fetched the sheltered shore.

Similar words: reach, arrive at, attain

Common phrases: fetch the harbor, fetch the shore, fetch headway

An operation in which a computer gets data from memory, storage, or another computer.

• The data fetch failed.
• Each instruction fetch reads the next command from memory.
• A second fetch from the server returned the missing records.

How to use it: a fetch from something (A fetch from the cache is usually faster.)

Similar words: retrieval, read operation

Common phrases: a data fetch, an instruction fetch, a cache fetch

A clever trick or plan used to deceive someone.

• His story was a cunning fetch.
• She saw through the merchant's clever fetch.
• The tale describes several fetches used to steal the farmer's money.

Similar words: trick, ruse, stratagem, artifice

Common phrases: a cunning fetch, a clever fetch, a dishonest fetch