Fetch vs Transfer - 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
To move or pass from one place, person or thing to another.
To convey the impression of (something) from one surface to another.
To be or become transferred.
(legal) To arrange for something to belong to or be officially controlled by somebody else.
(uncountable) The act of conveying or removing something from one place, person or thing to another.
(countable) An instance of conveying or removing from one place, person or thing to another; a transferal.
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(countable) A design conveyed by contact from one surface to another; a heat transfer.
A soldier removed from one troop, or body of troops, and placed in another.
(medicine) A pathological process by which a unilateral morbid condition on being abolished on one side of the body makes its appearance in the corresponding region upon the other side.
Fetch is a related term of transfer.
As nouns the difference between fetch and transfer
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 transfer is transfer.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
- 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)transfer
English
(wikipedia transfer)Verb
(transferr)- to transfer''' the laws of one country to another; to '''transfer suspicion
- to transfer drawings or engravings to a lithographic stone
- The title to land is transferred by deed.
Synonyms
* carry over, move, onpass * (convey impression of from one surface to another) copy, transpose * (to be or become transferred)Derived terms
* transferee * transferorNoun
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