Meaning of Fetch | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An act of fetching, of bringing something from a distance.
   also, figuratively
2. 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”).
   dialectal
3. An act of fetching data.
   also, figuratively, specifically
4. The object of fetching; the source of an attraction; a force, propensity, or quality which attracts.
5. An area over which wind is blowing (over water) and generating waves.
6. The length of such an area; the distance a wave can travel across a body of water (without obstruction).
7. A stratagem or trick; an artifice.
8. A game played with a dog in which a person throws an object for the dog to retrieve.
   uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“a fetch from a cache”

“When a fetch is close to land, this variability will alter anticipated wind directions and velocities.”

“From recently completed radar maps of the Brazilian Amazon I determined the shape, maximum fetch and width and orientation of all the lakes greater than 100 meters across in the floodplain […]”

“For example, a steady wind of 40-50 kilometres/hour - a Force 6 strong breeze - blowing for 12 hours over an initially calm sea and traversing a fetch of 1000 kilometres could produce a significant wave height […]”

“Wind waves continue to grow within the fetch area, [...] A graphical wave hindcasting method by means of Wilson's fetch diagrams produced an estimate of H_(1/3) = 9.4 m and T_(1/3) = 12.3 s over the fetch of about 1,800 km on the 7th of April.”

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

“Every little fetch of wit and criticism.”

“And as to your cant of living single, nobody will believe you. This is one of your fetches to avoid complying with your duty […].”

“In these dilapidated articles of dress she had, on principle, arrayed herself, time out of mind, on such occasions as the present; for this at once expressed a decent amount of veneration for the deceased, and invited the next of kin to present her with a fresher set of weeds: an appeal so frequently successful, that the very fetch and ghost of Mrs. Gamp, bonnet and all, might be seen hanging up, at any hour of the day, in at least a dozen of the second-hand clothes shops around Holborn.”

“I think it was a fetch. [...] Folk say a fetch is seen at its departing / From a cold house whence it shall lead a soul; / But this comes like a child-birth closing in, / And so perchance it does but signify / The consciousness of death that breaks in all.”

“Several farm maidservants meet to see their future lovers' spirits on Midsummer Eve, but see only the "fetch" or double of one of them, foretelling her death.”

“"If you're after some money," said the millionaire, "move that cat out of the way." Catweazle shook his head. "Mayhap 'tis a fetch." Victor was very taken aback. "A fetch?" he gulped. "That's a witch in the shape of a cat, isn't it?" "Ay," said Catweazle calmly.”

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