Fetch vs Estimate - What's the difference?
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To retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get.
* Bible, 1 (w) xvii. 11, 12
* 1908 , (Kenneth Grahame), (The Wind in the Willows)
To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for.
* (1800-1859)
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, title= (label) To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing.
* (George Chapman) (1559-1634)
(label) To bring oneself; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward.
To take (a breath), to heave (a sigh)
* 1899 , (Joseph Conrad),
To cause to come; to bring to a particular state.
* (William Barnes) (1801-1886)
(obsolete) To recall from a swoon; to revive; sometimes with to .
* (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
To reduce; to throw.
* (Robert South) (1634–1716)
To bring to accomplishment; to achieve; to make; to perform, with certain objects.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
* (Robert South) (1634–1716)
To make (a pump) draw water by pouring water into the top and working the handle.
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.
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.
* 1665 , Robert South, "Jesus of Nazareth proved the true and only promised Messiah", in ''Twelve Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions, Volume 3, 6th Edition, 1727
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)
* 1921 , Sterling Andrus Leonard, The Atlantic book of modern plays .
* 1844 , (Charles Dickens), (The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit) , Page 236
(computing) The act of fetching data.
(rfv-sense) (slang) attractive, popular
A rough calculation or guess.
(construction and business) A document (or verbal notification) specifying how much a job will probably cost.
* {{quote-book, year=1928, author=Lawrence R. Bourne
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, chapter=3 To calculate roughly, often from imperfect data.
* {{quote-book, year=1965, author=Ian Hacking, title=Logic of Statistical Inference, passage=I estimate that I need 400 board feet of lumber to complete a job, and then order 350 because I do not want a surplus, or perhaps order 450 because I do not want to make any subsequent orders.
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To judge and form an opinion of the value of, from imperfect data.
* John Locke
* J. C. Shairp
As verbs the difference between fetch and estimate
is that fetch is to retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get while estimate is to calculate roughly, often from imperfect data.As nouns the difference between fetch and estimate
is that fetch is 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 while estimate is a rough calculation or guess.As an adjective fetch
is (slang) attractive, popular.fetch
English
(wikipedia fetch)Alternative forms
* (l), (l) (dialectal)Verb
- He called to her, and said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel, that I may drink.
- When they got home, the Rat made a bright fire in the parlour, and planted the Mole in an arm-chair in front of it, having fetched down a dressing-gown and slippers for him, and told him river stories till supper-time.
- Our native horses were held in small esteem, and fetched low prices.
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price.}}
Yesterday’s fuel, passage=The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania. The first barrels of crude fetched $18 (around $450 at today’s prices).}}
- to fetch headway or sternway
- Meantime flew our ships, and straight we fetched / The siren's isle.
- The hurt n***** moaned feebly somewhere near by, and then fetched a deep sigh that made me mend my pace away from there.
- They couldn't fetch the butter in the churn.
- Fetching men again when they swoon.
- The sudden trip in wrestling that fetches a man to the ground.
- I'll fetch a turn about the garden.
- He fetches his blow quick and sure.
Derived terms
* fetch away * fetch and carry * fetch a wife * fetch up * prefetchNoun
(es)- Every little fetch of wit and criticism.
- but see only the "fetch " or double of one of them, foretelling her death.
- The very fetch and ghost of Mrs. Gamp.
- a fetch from a cache
Derived terms
* fetch candleAdjective
(er)estimate
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Alternative forms
* (archaic)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=“They know our boats will stand up to their work,” said Willison, “and that counts for a good deal. A low estimate from us doesn't mean scamped work, but just that we want to keep the yard busy over a slack time.”}}
Synonyms
* estimation * appraisalDerived terms
* ballpark estimateVerb
citation
- It is by the weight of silver, and not the name of the piece, that men estimate commodities and exchange them.
- It is always very difficult to estimate the age in which you are living.