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In intransitive terms the difference between fetch and import

is that fetch is to bring oneself; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward while import is to be important; to be significant; to be of consequence.

As verbs the difference between fetch and import

is that fetch is to retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get while import is to bring (something) in from a foreign country, especially for sale or trade.

As nouns the difference between fetch and import

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 import is something brought in from an exterior source, especially for sale or trade.

As an adjective fetch

is attractive, popular.

fetch

English

(wikipedia fetch)

Alternative forms

* (l), (l) (dialectal)

Verb

  • To retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get.
  • * Bible, 1 (w) xvii. 11, 12
    • He called to her, and said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel, that I may drink.
  • * 1908 , (Kenneth Grahame), (The Wind in the Willows)
    • 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.
  • To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for.
  • * (1800-1859)
    • Our native horses were held in small esteem, and fetched low prices.
  • * , chapter=3
    • , title= 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.}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= 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).}}
  • (label) To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing.
    • to fetch headway or sternway
  • * (George Chapman) (1559-1634)
    • Meantime flew our ships, and straight we fetched / The siren's isle.
  • (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),
    • The hurt n***** moaned feebly somewhere near by, and then fetched a deep sigh that made me mend my pace away from there.
  • To cause to come; to bring to a particular state.
  • * (William Barnes) (1801-1886)
    • They couldn't fetch the butter in the churn.
  • (obsolete) To recall from a swoon; to revive; sometimes with to .
  • * (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
    • Fetching men again when they swoon.
  • To reduce; to throw.
  • * (Robert South) (1634–1716)
    • The sudden trip in wrestling that fetches a man to the ground.
  • To bring to accomplishment; to achieve; to make; to perform, with certain objects.
  • * (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
    • I'll fetch a turn about the garden.
  • * (Robert South) (1634–1716)
    • He fetches his blow quick and sure.
  • To make (a pump) draw water by pouring water into the top and working the handle.

    • Derived terms

    * fetch away * fetch and carry * fetch a wife * fetch up * prefetch

    Noun

    (es)
  • 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
    • Every little fetch of wit and criticism.
  • 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 .
    • but see only the "fetch " or double of one of them, foretelling her death.
  • * 1844 , (Charles Dickens), (The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit) , Page 236
    • The very fetch and ghost of Mrs. Gamp.
  • (computing) The act of fetching data.
    • a fetch from a cache

    Derived terms

    * fetch candle

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (rfv-sense) (slang) attractive, popular

    • import

    English

    Etymology 1

    (verb) From (etyl) importen, from (etyl) importer, from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (wikipedia import)
  • (countable) Something brought in from an exterior source, especially for sale or trade.
  • (uncountable) The practice of importing.
  • (uncountable) Significance, importance.
    • Synonyms
    * (significance) importancy, importance, meaning, significance, weight
    Antonyms
    * (practice of importing) export * (something brought in from a foreign country) export * insignificance

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To bring (something) in from a foreign country, especially for sale or trade.
  • To load a file into a software application from another version or system.
    • How can I import files from older versions of this application?
    Quotations
    * (English Citations of "import")
    Derived terms
    * importable * important * importer * importation
    Antonyms
    * (bring in from a foreign country) export

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) importare, and (etyl) importer, from (etyl) .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To be important; to be significant; to be of consequence.
  • * 1661 , Thomas Salusbury:
    • See how much it importeth to learn to take Time by the Fore-Top.''
  • To be of importance to (someone or something).
  • * 1593 , Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost :
    • This Letter is mistooke: it importeth none here: It is writ to laquenetta.
  • * Dryden
    • If I endure it, what imports it you?
  • To be incumbent on (someone to do something).
  • * 1762 , David Hume, The History of England :
    • It imports us to get all the aid and assistance we can.
  • To be important or crucial to (that something happen).
  • * 1819 , Shelley, "The Cenci":
    • It much imports your house That all should be made clear.
  • To mean, signify.
  • * Hooker
    • Every petition always import a multitude of speakers together.
  • (archaic) To express, to imply.

    • References

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