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Commanding vs Fetching - What's the difference?

commanding | fetching |

As verbs the difference between commanding and fetching

is that commanding is while fetching is .

As adjectives the difference between commanding and fetching

is that commanding is tending to give commands, authoritarian while fetching is attractive; pleasant to regard.

As nouns the difference between commanding and fetching

is that commanding is the act of giving a command while fetching is the act by which something is fetched.

commanding

English

Verb

(head)
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Tending to give commands, authoritarian.
  • * , chapter=19
  • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Nothing was too small to receive attention, if a supervising eye could suggest improvements likely to conduce to the common welfare. Mr. Gordon Burnage, for instance, personally visited dust-bins and back premises, accompanied by a sort of village bailiff, going his round like a commanding officer doing billets.}}
  • Impressively dominant.
  • Synonyms

    * (tending to give commands) bossy, imposing * See also

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of giving a command.
  • * 2006 , William E. Mann, Augustine's Confessions (page 172)
  • God could then have dispelled their ignorance by revealing to them that He had issued those commands; the fact of the occurrence of the earlier commandings would be the content of the revelation.

    fetching

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Attractive; pleasant to regard.
  • * 2000 , Bill Bryson, In a Sunburned Country , Chapter 1, page 11:
  • I am not, I regret to say, a discreet and fetching sleeper. Most people when they nod off look as if they could do with a blanket; I look as if I could do with medical attention.

    Verb

    (head)
  • *, chapter=6
  • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=She was so mad she wouldn't speak to me for quite a spell, but at last I coaxed her into going up to Miss Emmeline's room and fetching down a tintype of the missing Deacon man.}}

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is fetched.
  • * 1834 , Evidence on drunkenness: presented to the House of Commons
  • These lumpers were also in the habit of inducing their men during the week to send to their pay-house for fetchings of drink, besides the money they were compelled to spend on Saturday night.