fetches in English

noun

1

the distance traveled by wind or waves across open water.

Wave disturbance was estimated by measuring the fetch for wave height on maps as the width of the river perpendicular to the center of the riverbank site.

2

a contrivance, dodge, or trick.

it is no ingenious fetches of argument that we want

3

the apparition or double of a living person, formerly believed to be a warning of that person's impending death.

That's when Sky realizes he has a ‘ fetch ’: an apparition or wraith (‘hamr’ in Norwegian) that can connect with his ancestors.

verb

1

go for and then bring back (someone or something).

he ran to fetch help

synonyms: (go and) get, go for, call for, summon, pick up, collect, bring, carry, convey, transport

2

achieve (a particular price) when sold.

handwoven blankets and rugs that can fetch as much as $45,000

synonyms: sell for, bring in, raise, realize, yield, make, command, cost, be priced at, go for, set one back, pull in

3

inflict (a blow or slap) on (someone).

he always used to slam the gate and try and fetch her shins a wallop

4

cause great interest or delight in (someone).

Nadine thought his deductions were good, but she was not as fetched by them as Larry was

verb

(go and) get, go for, call for, summon, pick up, collect, bring, carry, convey, transport
sell for, bring in, raise, realize, yield, make, command, cost, be priced at, go for, set one back, pull in
get, bring, convey
bring, bring in

Use "fetches" in a sentence

1. "Rare JK Rowling book fetches £2m".

2. 17 Antique furniture fetches very high prices these days.

3. The dog that fetches will carry. 

4. 29 The dog that fetches will carry. 

5. Organic milk, in contrast, still fetches around 28p.

6. Hunger fetches the wolf out of the woods. 

7. (_He fetches up two coins Abjectly from his pocket_)

8. It fetches Amp HTML pages, caches them, and improves page performance automatically.

9. Multipass automatically fetches the latest Ubuntu images from Canonical, minimising initial update time

10. After your items are processed, there's a delay before our server fetches your images.

11. The F Series is now available and fetches $ 1000 for the basic configuration .

12. Verso fetches random words from some online dictionaries and displays the words meaning.

13. Accessor: In computer programming, an Accessor method is a method that fetches private data that is stored within an object

14. The prefabricated avatar fetches bits of knowledge for you, based on a profile you create.

15. The best time to hunt is during the August rainy season, when he fetches several a night.

16. Fetches the list of Attachable tags for the given object, omitting the tags that have already been attached

17. Demand for Coltan is so intense, it fetches a higher price on the international market than even gold or diamonds

18. Concertino relies on Open Opus, a free and open database of composers and works, and on its own algorithm, which fetches and analyzes Apple Music data

19. Christie’s Postwar and Contemporary Sale Fetches $130 Million But Misses Target, as a Major Bacon Bellyflops It was up to Jean-Michel Basquiat's 'Red Skull' to save the day

20. The largest use of bots is in web spidering (web crawler), in which an automated script fetches, analyzes and files information from web servers at many times the speed of a human.

21. : broken or refuse glass usually added to new material to facilitate melting in making glass Examples of Cullet in a Sentence Recent Examples on the Web Glass in particular is a material that normally fetches a high price on the resale market when properly handled and transformed into Cullet …

22. Bandies are still relatively unknown in the US, but the meteoric rise in their values in Brazil mimic that of the FJ40 in the U.S., to the point that today a mint condition 50-year old Bandy routinely fetches upwards of 250 monthly minimum wages (a commonly used metric),