fetch

IPA: fˈɛtʃ

(also figuratively) An act of fetching, of bringing something from a distance.
(computing, specifically) An act of fetching data.
The object of fetching; the source of an attraction; a force, propensity, or quality which attracts.
An area over which wind is blowing (over water) and generating waves.
The length of such an area; the distance a wave can travel across a body of water (without obstruction).
A stratagem or trick; an artifice.
(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”).

(transitive, ditransitive) To retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get.
(transitive) To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for.
(nautical) To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing.
(intransitive) To bring oneself; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward.
(transitive, rare, literary) To take (a breath); to heave (a sigh).
(transitive) To cause to come; to bring to a particular state.
(obsolete, transitive) To recall from a swoon; to revive; sometimes with to.
(transitive) To reduce; to throw.
(archaic, transitive) To accomplish; to achieve; to perform, with certain objects or actions.
(nautical, transitive) To make (a pump) draw water by pouring water into the top and working the handle.

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