Retract vs Retrieve - What's the difference?
retract | retrieve |
To pull back inside.
(ambitransitive) To draw back; to draw up.
To take back or withdraw something one has said.
* Bishop Stillingfleet
* Granville
To take back, as a grant or favour previously bestowed; to revoke.
To regain or get back something.
* Dryden
To rescue (a) creature(s)
To salvage something
To remedy or rectify something.
To remember or recall something.
To fetch or carry back something.
* Berkeley
To fetch and bring in game.
To fetch and bring in game systematically.
To fetch or carry back systematically, notably as a game.
(sports) To make a difficult but successful return of the ball.
(obsolete) To remedy the evil consequence of, to repair (a loss or damage).
* Prior
* Burke
A retrieval
(sports) The return of a difficult ball
(obsolete) A seeking again; a discovery.
(obsolete) The recovery of game once sprung.
In transitive terms the difference between retract and retrieve
is that retract is to take back or withdraw something one has said while retrieve is to fetch and bring in game.As a noun retrieve is
a retrieval.retract
English
Verb
(en verb)- An airplane retracts its wheels for flight.
- Muscles retract after amputation.
- A cat can retract its claws.
- I retract all the accusations I made about the senator and sincerely hope he won't sue me.
- I would as freely have retracted this charge of idolatry as I ever made it.
- She will, and she will not; she grants, denies, / Consents, retracts , advances, and then flies.
- (Woodward)
Synonyms
* take back * withcall * withdrawSee also
* unsay * unspeakretrieve
English
Verb
(retriev)- to retrieve''' one's character or independence; to '''retrieve a thrown ball
- With late repentance now they would retrieve / The bodies they forsook, and wish to live.
- to retrieve them from their cold, trivial conceits
- The cook doesn't care what's shot, only what's actually retrieved .
- Dog breeds called 'retrievers' were selected for retrieving .
- Most dogs love retrieving , regardless of what object is thrown.
- Accept my sorrow, and retrieve my fall.
- There is much to be done and much to be retrieved .
Derived terms
* retrieverNoun
(en noun)- (Ben Jonson)
- (Nares)