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Fetched vs Searched - What's the difference?

fetched | searched |

As verbs the difference between fetched and searched

is that fetched is (fetch) while searched is (search).

fetched

English

Verb

(head)
  • (fetch)
  • Derived terms

    *far-fetched

    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
  • searched

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (search)

  • search

    English

    (wikipedia search)

    Noun

    (es)
  • An attempt to find something.
  • * 2012 October 31, David M. Halbfinger, "[http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/01/nyregion/new-jersey-continues-to-cope-with-hurricane-sandy.html?hp]," New York Times (retrieved 31 October 2012):
  • At least eight people died, and officials expressed deep concerns that the toll would rise as more searches of homes were carried out.
  • The act of searching in general.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-14, author=(Jonathan Freedland)
  • , volume=189, issue=1, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Obama's once hip brand is now tainted , passage=Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet. Perhaps we assume that our name, address and search preferences will be viewed by some unseen pair of corporate eyes, probably not human, and don't mind that much.}}

    See also

    * google * look

    Anagrams

    *

    Verb

    (es)
  • (label) To look in (a place) for something.
  • :
  • To look thoroughly.
  • :
  • *(John Locke)
  • *:It sufficeth that they have once with care sifted the matter, and searched into all the particulars.
  • *
  • *:He tried to persuade Cicely to stay away from the ball-room for a fourth dance.she found her mother standing up before the seat on which she had sat all the evening searching anxiously for her with her eyes, and her father by her side.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-06, volume=408, issue=8843, page=68, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= The rise of smart beta , passage=Investors face a quandary. Cash offers a return of virtually zero in many developed countries; government-bond yields may have risen in recent weeks but they are still unattractive. Equities have suffered two big bear markets since 2000 and are wobbling again. It is hardly surprising that pension funds, insurers and endowments are searching for new sources of return.}}
  • To look for, seek.
  • *1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , III.vi:
  • *:To search the God of loue, her Nymphes she sent / Throughout the wandring forrest euery where.
  • *
  • *:For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even I, will both search my sheep, and seek them out.
  • *(John Milton) (1608-1674)
  • *:Enough is left besides to search and know.
  • To probe or examine (a wound).
  • *:
  • *:Now torne we to the xj kynges that retorned vnto a cyte that hyghte Sorhaute / the whiche cyte was within kynge Vryens / and ther they refresshed hem as wel as they myght / and made leches serche theyr woundys and sorowed gretely for the dethe of her peple
  • *1588 , (William Shakespeare), (Titus Andronicus) , II.3:
  • *:Now to the bottome dost thou search my wound.
  • *1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , III.4:
  • *:Thus when they all had sorowed their fill, / They softly gan to search his griesly wownd.
  • *, II.35:
  • *:His wife perceiving him to droope and languish away, entreated him she might leasurely search and neerely view the quality of his disease.
  • (label) To examine; to try; to put to the test.
  • Synonyms

    * comb, scour * look for, seek, comb, scour

    Derived terms

    * global search and replace * search and replace * searcher * strip search * stop-and-search