Usually means: Retrieve an object that's thrown.
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We found 46 dictionaries that define the word fetch:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. fetch: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. fetch, fetch: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fetch, fetch: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. fetch: Collins English Dictionary
  5. fetch: Vocabulary.com
  6. Fetch, fetch: Wordnik
  7. fetch: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. fetch: Wiktionary
  9. fetch: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. fetch: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. fetch: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Fetch, fetch: Dictionary.com
  13. fetch: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. fetch: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Fetch (FTP client), Fetch (album), Fetch (folklore), Fetch (game), Fetch (geography), Fetch: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Fetch, fetch: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. fetch: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. fetch: Rhymezone
  19. fetch: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. fetch: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. FETCH: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  22. Fetch: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. fetch: Free Dictionary
  24. fetch: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. fetch: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fetch: Legal dictionary

Computing (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Fetch: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Fetch: Netlingo
  3. Fetch, fetch: CCI Computer
  4. Webopedia (No longer online)
  5. fetch: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. FETCH: Acronym Finder
  2. fetch: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Illustrated Glossary of Geologic Terms (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fetch, fetch, fetch, fetch, fetch, fetch, fetch: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Fetch: BEACH-NET! (fishing)
  2. Fetch: Sports Definitions

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  3. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
  4. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  5. Fetch: Latitude Mexico

(Note: See fetched as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive, ditransitive) To retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get.
verb:  (transitive) To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for.
verb:  (nautical) To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing.
verb:  (intransitive) To bring oneself; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward.
verb:  (transitive, rare, literary) To take (a breath); to heave (a sigh).
verb:  (transitive) To cause to come; to bring to a particular state.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To recall from a swoon; to revive; sometimes with to.
verb:  (transitive) To reduce; to throw.
verb:  (archaic, transitive) To accomplish; to achieve; to perform, with certain objects or actions.
verb:  (nautical, transitive) To make (a pump) draw water by pouring water into the top and working the handle.
noun:  (also figuratively) An act of fetching, of bringing something from a distance.
noun:  (computing, specifically) An act of fetching data.
noun:  The object of fetching; the source of an attraction; a force, propensity, or quality which attracts.
noun:  An area over which wind is blowing (over water) and generating waves.
noun:  The length of such an area; the distance a wave can travel across a body of water (without obstruction).
noun:  A stratagem or trick; an artifice.
noun:  (uncountable) A game played with a dog in which a person throws an object for the dog to retrieve.
noun:  (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”).

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