Haul vs Fetch - What's the difference?
haul | fetch | Synonyms |
To carry something; to transport something, with a connotation that the item is heavy or otherwise difficult to move.
To pull or draw something heavy.
* Denham
* Alexander Pope
To transport by drawing, as with horses or oxen.
* Ulysses S. Grant
(nautical) To steer a vessel closer to the wind.
* Cook
(nautical, of the wind) To shift fore (more towards the bow).
(figuratively) To pull.
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To pull apart, as oxen sometimes do when yoked.
A long drive, especially transporting/hauling heavy cargo.
An amount of something that has been taken, especially of fish or illegal loot.
A pulling with force; a violent pull.
(ropemaking) A bundle of many threads, to be tarred.
Collectively, all of the products bought on a shopping trip.
A haul video
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.
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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
In nautical terms the difference between haul and fetch
is that haul is to steer a vessel closer to the wind while fetch is to bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing.As verbs the difference between haul and fetch
is that haul is to carry something; to transport something, with a connotation that the item is heavy or otherwise difficult to move while fetch is to retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get.As nouns the difference between haul and fetch
is that haul is a long drive, especially transporting/hauling heavy cargo while 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.As an adjective fetch is
attractive, popular.haul
English
Verb
(en verb)- Some dance, some haul the rope.
- Thither they bent, and hauled their ships to land.
- to haul logs to a sawmill
- When I was seven or eight years of age, I began hauling all the wood used in the house and shops.
- I hauled up for it, and found it to be an island.
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Derived terms
* haulable * haul downAntonyms
* (to steer closer to the wind) veer * (to shift aft) veerDerived terms
* haulage * hauler * haulier * long-haul * longhaulingNoun
(en noun)- The robber's haul was over thirty items.
- The trawler landed a ten-ton haul .
Anagrams
* ----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.
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- 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