Fetch vs Foo - What's the difference?
fetch | foo |
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
(computing) A metasyntactic variable used to represent an unspecified entity. If part of a series of such entities, it is often the first in the series, and followed immediately by bar.
As a verb fetch
is to retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get.As a noun 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.As an adjective fetch
is (slang) attractive, popular.As a proper noun foo is
(dated|fandom slang|jocular) a mock deity of early science fiction fandom; a fannish ghod.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)foo
English
Etymology 1
Circa 1935 as nonsense word, circa 1960 in programming sense. (detailed etymology) Originated circa 1935 as nonsense word in (Smokey Stover)'' comic strip (1935–73) by (Bill Holman) (from which also foo fighter).“foo]”, ''[http://catb.org/jargon/html/index.html The Jargon FileHolman states that his usage was from seeing “foo” on the base of a jade (etyl) figurine in , meaning “good luck”, presumably a transliteration of the (fu character) , "
The History of Bill Holman]", [http://www.smokey-stover.com/ Smokey-Stover.com], Smokey Stover LLC – article by nephew of Bill Holman"[http://web.archive.org/web/19990222143614/http://members.aol.com/EOCostello/ Warner Brothers Cartoon Companion]" and figurines of the trio of eponymous male "star gods" are common in Chinese communities. Meaning influenced by fooey, fool, and feh. Used throughout the comic strip’s run, with later uses in the 1930s include ''(The Daffy Doc)'' (1938) and ''[[w:Pogo (comic strip), Pogo]. In computing usage, popularized by the (Tech Model Railroad Club) (TMRC), whose 1959 Dictionary of the TMRC Language , had an entry similar to the following, parodying the mantra (Om mani padme hum) (replacing om with foo ): : FOO: The first syllable of the sacred chant phrase “FOO MANE PADME HUM.” Our first obligation is to keep the foo counters turning. Related also to foobar, which is presumably derived from foo rather than the reverse.
Noun
(wikipedia foo) (-)- Suppose we have two objects, foo and bar .