Fetching vs Downloading - What's the difference?

fetching | downloading |

As verbs the difference between fetching and downloading

is that fetching is present participle of lang=en while downloading is present participle of lang=en.

As an adjective fetching

is attractive; pleasant to regard.

As a noun fetching

is the act by which something is fetched.

fetching

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

Attractive; pleasant to regard.

* 2000 , Bill Bryson, In a Sunburned Country , Chapter 1, page 11:

I am not, I regret to say, a discreet and fetching sleeper. Most people when they nod off look as if they could do with a blanket; I look as if I could do with medical attention.

Verb

(head)

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, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=She was so mad she wouldn't speak to me for quite a spell, but at last I coaxed her into going up to Miss Emmeline's room and fetching down a tintype of the missing Deacon man.}}

Noun

(en noun)

The act by which something is fetched.

* 1834 , Evidence on drunkenness: presented to the House of Commons

These lumpers were also in the habit of inducing their men during the week to send to their pay-house for fetchings of drink, besides the money they were compelled to spend on Saturday night.