As verbs the difference between fetching and downloading
is that
fetching is present participle of lang=en while
downloading is present participle of lang=en.
As an adjective fetching
is attractive; pleasant to regard.
As a noun fetching
is the act by which something is fetched.
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.
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downloading Verb
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