Look up: fetch

1. Fetch
   An old word used to denote the projected astral body of a person; a form that is deliberately sent on a mission, usually to collect information.
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2. fetch
   The area in which ocean waves are generated by the wind. It is generally delineated by coast lines, fronts , or areas of wind curvature or divergence.
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3. Fetch
   The length of unobstructed open sea surface across which the wind can generate waves (GENERATING AREA).
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4. Fetch
   In an airstream - is the length of its traverse across an area which modifies its properties.
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5. fetch
   [v] - be sold for a certain price 2. [v] - take away or remove
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6. Fetch
   extra code added to the operating system to replace other code that has been found to be buggy or simply in need of improvement
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7. Fetch
   sailing a course upwind. The length of a fetch is the distance the wind blows over uninterrupted. To fetch a mark is to reach it without further tacking
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8. fetch
   the straight line distance between a dam and the farthest reservoir shore; one of the factors used in calculating wave heights in a reservoir Category: Building industry • in wave forecasting, the continuous area of water over which the wind blows in essentially a constant direction. Som...
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9. Fetch
   Fetch (fĕch; 224) transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Fetched 2; present participle & verbal noun . Fetching .] [ Middle English fecchen , Anglo-Saxon feccan...
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10. fetch
    fetch intransitive verb To bring one's self; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward. Totten. To fetch away (Nautical) , to break loose; to roll slide to leeward. -- To fetch...
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11. Fetch
    Fetch noun 1. 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. « Every little fetch of wit and criticism.» South. 2. ...
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12. fetch
    <ecology> Length of water surface exposed to wind during generation of waves. ... (09 Oct 1997) ...
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13. fetch
    noun the action of fetching
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14. fetch
    bring in verb be sold for a certain price; `The painting brought $10,000`; `The old print fetched a high price at the auction`
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15. Fetch
    • (v. t.) To reduce; to throw. • (v. t.) To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing. • (n.) The apparation of a living person; a wraith. • (v. t.) To bring to accomplishment; to achieve; to make; to perform, with certain objects;...
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16. fetch
    area of ocean or lake surface over which the wind blows in an essentially constant direction, thus generating waves. The term also is used as a ... [2 related articles]
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17. Fetch
    The distance of open water in one direction across a body of water over which wind can blow.
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18. FETCH
    An area of the water surface over which waves are generated by a wind having a constant direction and speed. Also, it is the name given to the length of the fetch area, measured in the direction of the wind from which the seas are generated. One of the ingredients for lake effect snow is the fetch o...
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19. Fetch
    The distance over which a wind of nearly constant direction has blown, usually over a consistent surface such as water or a forest or a field. Most often the fetch is applied to a distance over water and used to determine the height of wind-generated waves. However, fetch can be applied to many stud...
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20. fetch
    fetch: see wave, in oceanography.
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21. Fetch
    (1) The retrieving of game by the dog. (2) The command to retrieve game.
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22. Fetch
    A Macintosh program by Jim Matthews (Fetch@Dartmouth.edu) for transferring files using File Transfer Protocol (FTP). Fetch requires a Mac 512KE, System 4.1, and either KSP 1.03 or MacTCP. Latest version: 2.1.2. Fetch is Copyright 1992, Trustees of Dartmouth College. (ftp://ftp.Dartmouth.edu/pub/mac/...
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23. Fetch
    (geography) `Fetch`, often called the `fetch length`, is a term for the length of water over which a given wind has blown. It is used in geography and meteorology and is usually associated with coastal erosion. It plays a large part in longshore drift as well. Fetch length along with the wind...
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24. Fetch
    (game) fetching a ball. `Fetch` is a game usually played with a jstor=3595798-->--> a mathematics professor at Hope College, has found that dogs are somehow able to calculate the optimal path to a ball thrown in the water. While playing Fetch with his Welsh Corgi, he noticed that the dog ran ...
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25. Fetch
    (folklore) A `fetch` is a supernatural double or apparition of a living person in journal=Oxford English Dictionary |volume= |issue= |pages= |id= |url= http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/69589|accessdate=January 15, 2011|quote=| trans_title= -->--> It is largely akin to the doppelgänger. Franci...
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