FETCH

Fetch

The fetch, also called the fetch length, is the length of water over which a given wind has blown. Fetch is used in geography and meteorology and its effects are usually associated with sea state and when it reaches shore it is the main factor that creates storm surge which leads to coastal erosion and flooding. It also plays a large part in longshore drift as well.

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fetch

Noun

  1. The object of fetching; the source and origin of attraction; a force, quality or propensity which is attracting eg., in a given attribute of person, place, object, principle, etc.
  2. A stratagem by which a thing is indirectly brought to pass, or by which one thing seems intended and another is done; a trick; an artifice.
  3. The apparition of a living person; a wraith; one's double (seeing it is supposed to be a sign that one is fey or fated to die)
  4. The act of fetching data.
    a fetch from a cache

Verb

  1. To retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get.
  2. To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for.
  3. To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing.
  4. To bring oneself; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward.
  5. To take (a breath), to heave (a sigh)
  6. To cause to come; to bring to a particular state.
  7. To recall from a swoon; to revive; sometimes with to.
    to fetch a man to
  8. To reduce; to throw.
  9. To bring to accomplishment; to achieve; to make; to perform, with certain objects.
    to fetch a compass; to fetch a leap

Adjective

  1. attractive, popular


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