FETCH
What does "FETCH" mean?
To go to where something is and bring it back.
Meanings
- To go after and bring back a person or thing. She sent the dog to fetch the stick from the pond.
- To sell for or bring in a particular price. The vintage guitar fetched twelve thousand at auction.
- To retrieve data from a remote source, as in code. The app uses fetch to pull the latest prices from the server. technical
- An apparition or wraith of a living person, in folklore. Villagers swore they had seen his fetch the night before he died. archaic
Did you know?
- When a webpage loads data today, it usually calls a function literally named fetch - the WHATWG Fetch standard built the old verb straight into the language of the web.
Word origin
From Old English 'feccan', a variant of 'fetian' meaning to bring near or go and get, of Germanic origin.
Remember it
FETCH = Fido Eagerly Trots, Carries Home.
A little poem
The thrown ball vanishes-
muddy paws return it warm,
and ask: again? again?
haiku
Wordplay
- Why did the program send the dog to the database? It heard the data needed a good fetch.
What it teaches
Anyone can want a thing; the discipline is going the distance to bring it back.
Quick facts
What does FETCH mean?
To go to where something is and bring it back.
Is FETCH a valid word?
Yes — FETCH is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is FETCH?
FETCH has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does FETCH come from?
From Old English 'feccan', a variant of 'fetian' meaning to bring near or go and get, of Germanic origin.
What can FETCH teach us?
Anyone can want a thing; the discipline is going the distance to bring it back.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.