different between fetch vs rep

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: f?ch, IPA^(key): /f?t?/
• Rhymes: -?t?

Etymology 1

The verb is derived from Middle English fecchen (“to get and bring back, fetch; to come for, get and take away; to steal; to carry away to kill; to search for; to obtain, procure”)  [and other forms], from Old English fe??an, fæ??an, feccean (“to fetch, bring; to draw; to gain, take; to seek”), a variant of fetian, fatian (“to bring near, fetch; to acquire, obtain; to bring on, induce; to fetch a wife, marry”) and possibly related to Old English facian, f?cian (“to acquire, obtain; to try to obtain; to get; to get to, reach”), both from Proto-Germanic *fat?n?, *fatjan? (“to hold, seize; to fetch”), from Proto-Indo-European *ped- (“to step, walk; to fall, stumble”). The English word is cognate with Dutch vatten (“to apprehend, catch; to grasp; to understand”), English fet (“(obsolete) to fetch”), Faroese fata (“to grasp, understand”), Swedish fatta (“to grasp, understand”), German fassen (“to catch, grasp; to capture, seize”), Icelandic feta (“to go, step”), West Frisian fetsje (“to grasp”).

The noun is derived from the verb.

Verb

fetch (third-person singular simple present fetches, present participle fetching, simple past and past participle fetched)

1. To retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get.
   • 1611 King James Bible, 1 Kings 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.

2. To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for.

3. (nautical) To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing.
4. (intransitive) To bring oneself; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward.
5. (rare, literary) To take (a breath), to heave (a sigh)
6. To cause to come; to bring to a particular state.
   • 1879, William Barnes, A Witch

     They couldn't fetch the butter in the churn.

7. (obsolete) To recall from a swoon; to revive; sometimes with to.
8. To reduce; to throw.
   • 1692, Robert South, sermon 28

     The sudden trip in wrestling that fetches a man to the ground.

9. (archaic) To accomplish; to achieve; to perform, with certain objects or actions.
   • 1631, Ben Jonsons, Chloridia

     Ixion […] turn'd dancer, does nothing but cut capreols, fetch friskals, and leads lavaltoes

   • 1692, Robert South, sermon 28

     He fetches his blow quick and sure.

10. (nautical, transitive) To make (a pump) draw water by pouring water into the top and working the handle.

Conjugation

Alternative forms

• fatch, fotch (dialectal)

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

fetch (plural fetches)

1. (also figuratively) An act of fetching, of bringing something from a distance.
   1. (computing, specifically) An act of fetching data.

2. The object of fetching; the source of an attraction; a force, propensity, or quality which attracts.
3. A stratagem or trick; an artifice.

   Synonyms: contrivance, dodge

   • 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.

   • 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, Letter 29:

     And as to your cant of living single, nobody will believe you. This is one of your fetches to avoid complying with your duty […].

Interjection

fetch

1. (Utah) Minced oath for fuck

References

• 20 Things Only Utahns Will Understand And Appreciate

Etymology 2

Origin uncertain; the following possibilities have been suggested:

• From fetch-life (“(obsolete, rare) a deity, spirit, etc., who guides the soul of a dead person to the afterlife; a psychopomp”).
• From the supposed Old English *fæcce (“evil spirit formerly thought to sit on the chest of a sleeping person; a mare”).
• From Old Irish fáith (“seer, soothsayer”).

Noun

fetch (plural fetches)

1. (originally Ireland, dialectal) The apparition of a living person; a person's double, the sight of which is supposedly a sign that they are fated to die soon, a doppelganger; a wraith (“a person's likeness seen just after their death; a ghost, a spectre”). [from 18th c.]

Derived terms

• fetch candle

Translations

References

Further reading

• fetch (folklore) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• fetch (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Fecht

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??p/
• Rhymes: -?p

Etymology 1

Clippings of various words beginning with rep.

Noun

rep (plural reps)

1. (informal) Clipping of reputation.
2. (weightlifting, countable) Clipping of repetition.

3. (informal) Clipping of representative.
4. (theater) Clipping of repertory.

5. (military, in combination) Clipping of report.

Translations

Verb

rep (third-person singular simple present reps, present participle repping, simple past and past participle repped)

1. To represent; to act as a representative for.
2. (knitting) repeat

Etymology 2

Back-formation from reps, misinterpreted as a plural.

Alternative forms

• repp

Noun

rep (countable and uncountable, plural reps)

1. (textiles) A fabric made of silk or wool, or of silk and wool, and having a transversely corded or ribbed surface. [from 19th c.]

Translations

Anagrams

• EPR, ERP, PER, Per., RPE, per, per-, per., pre, pre-

Catalan

Verb

rep

1. third-person singular present indicative form of rebre
2. second-person singular imperative form of rebre

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?p

Verb

rep

1. first-person singular present indicative of reppen
2. imperative of reppen

Anagrams

• per

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• reip (Nynorsk also)

Etymology

From Old Norse reip

Noun

rep n (definite singular repet, indefinite plural rep, definite plural repa or repene)

1. a rope

Synonyms

• tau

References

• “rep” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *r?p?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rê?p/

Noun

r?p m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. tail

Declension

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *r?p?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /r??p/, /ré?p/

Noun

r?p or r??p m inan

1. tail

Inflection

Further reading

• “rep”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Swedish

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *raip?, *raipaz, from Proto-Indo-European *roypnós (“strap, band, rope”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?re?p/, [?re??p]
• Rhymes: -e?p

Noun

rep n

1. rope

Declension

See also

• lina
• snöre
• tråd
• tåg

Anagrams

• Per, per