Fetch vs Shift - What's the difference?

Fetch is a related term of shift.

In computing|lang=en terms the difference between fetch and shift

is that fetch is (computing) the act of fetching data while shift is (computing) a modifier key whose main function is shifting between two or more functions of any of certain other keys (usually by pressing shift and the other button simultaneously).

As nouns the difference between fetch and shift

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 shift is (computing) a modifier key whose main function is shifting between two or more functions of any of certain other keys (usually by pressing shift and the other button simultaneously).

As a verb fetch

is to retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get.

As an adjective fetch

is (slang) 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

shift
English
(wikipedia shift)
Verb
(en verb)
To change, swap.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2012-03, author=William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter
, volume=100, issue=2, page=87, magazine=(American Scientist) , title= The British Longitude Act Reconsidered , passage=But was it responsible governance to pass the Longitude Act without other efforts to protect British seamen? Or might it have been subterfuge—a disingenuous attempt to shift attention away from the realities of their life at sea.}}
To move from one place to another; to redistribute.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=68, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= T time , passage=The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them, which is then licensed to related businesses in high-tax countries, is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies. […] current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate […] “stateless income”: profit subject to tax in a jurisdiction that is neither the location of the factors of production that generate the income nor where the parent firm is domiciled.}}
To change position.

(obsolete) To change (one's clothes); also to change (someone's) underclothes.

*, II.ii.2:

'Tis very good to wash his hands and face often, to shift his clothes, to have fair linen about him, to be decently and comely attired […].

* Shakespeare

As it were to ride day and night; andnot to have patience to shift me.

To change gears (in a car).

(typewriters) To move the keys of a typewriter over in order to type capital letters and special characters.

(computer keyboards) To switch to a character entry mode for capital letters and special characters.

(computing) To manipulate a binary number by moving all of its digits left or right; compare rotate.

(computing) To remove the first value from an array.

To dispose of.

To hurry.

(Ireland, vulgar, slang) To engage in sexual petting.

To resort to expedients for accomplishing a purpose; to contrive; to manage.

* L'Estrange

Men in distress will look to themselves, and leave their companions to shift as well as they can.

To practice indirect or evasive methods.

* Sir Walter Raleigh

All those schoolmen, though they were exceeding witty, yet better teach all their followers to shift , than to resolve by their distinctions.

Noun
(en noun)
(historical) a type of women's undergarment, a slip

Just last week she bought a new shift at the market.

*

No; without a gown, in a shift that was somewhat of the coarsest, and none of the cleanest, bedewed likewise with some odoriferous effluvia, the produce of the day's labour, with a pitchfork in her hand, Molly Seagrim approached.

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* 1919 ,

Some wear black shifts and flesh-coloured stockings; some with curly hair, dyed yellow, are dressed like little girls in short muslin frocks.

a change of workers, now specifically a set group of workers or period of working time

We'll work three shifts a day till the job's done.

an act of shifting; a slight movement or change

* Sir H. Wotton

My going to Oxford was not merely for shift of air.

There was a shift in the political atmosphere.

* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=November 7, author=Matt Bai, title=Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds, work=New York Times citation
, passage=The generational shift Mr. Obama once embodied is, in fact, well under way, but it will not change Washington as quickly — or as harmoniously — as a lot of voters once hoped.}}
(US) the gear mechanism in a motor vehicle

Does it come with a stick-shift ?

If you press shift -P, the preview display will change.

(computing) a bit shift

(baseball) The infield shift.

Teams often use the shift against this lefty.

The act of sexual petting.

(archaic) A contrivance, device to try when other methods fail

* 1596 , Shakespeare, History of King John

If I get down, and do not break my limbs,

I'll find a thousand shifts to get away:

As good to die and go, as die and stay.

(archaic) a trick, an artifice

* 1593 , Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew

And if the boy have not a woman's gift

To rain a shower of commanded tears,

An onion will do well for such a shift

* Macaulay

Reduced to pitiable shifts .

* Shakespeare

I'll find a thousand shifts to get away.

* Dryden

Little souls on little shifts rely.

In building, the extent, or arrangement, of the overlapping of plank, brick, stones, etc., that are placed in courses so as to break joints.

(mining) A breaking off and dislocation of a seam; a fault.

Derived terms
* blueshift * day shift * graveyard shift * make shift * night shift * preshift * shift break * shiftwork, shift work * split shift * swing shift * stickshift * redshift * (French kissing) get the shift