different between reobtain vs retrieve
reobtain
English
Etymology
re- +? obtain
Verb
reobtain (third-person singular simple present reobtains, present participle reobtaining, simple past and past participle reobtained)
- (transitive) To obtain again.
Translations
Anagrams
- abrotine, baritone, beration, borinate, obtainer, taborine
reobtain From the web:
- what does obtain mean
- what does reobtain
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retrieve
English
Etymology
Recorded in Middle English c.1410 as retreve (altered to retrive in the 16th century; modern form is from c.1650), from Middle French retruev-, stem of Old French (=modern) retrouver (“to find again”), itself from re- (“again”) + trouver (“to find”) (probably from Vulgar Latin *tropare (“to compose”)).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???t?iv/, /???t?iv/, /?i?t?iv/
- Rhymes: -i?v
Verb
retrieve (third-person singular simple present retrieves, present participle retrieving, simple past and past participle retrieved)
- (transitive) To regain or get back something.
- With late repentance now they would retrieve / The bodies they forsook, and wish to live.
- (transitive) To rescue (a creature).
- (transitive) To salvage something
- (transitive) To remedy or rectify something.
- (transitive) To remember or recall something.
- (transitive, especially computing) To fetch or carry back something.
- 1714, Rev. Dean Berkeley, letter to Alexander Pope, May 1, 1714
- to retrieve them from their cold, trivial conceits
- 1714, Rev. Dean Berkeley, letter to Alexander Pope, May 1, 1714
- (transitive) To fetch and bring in game.
- (intransitive) To fetch and bring in game systematically.
- (intransitive) To fetch or carry back systematically, notably as a game.
- (sports, transitive) To make a difficult but successful return of the ball.
- (obsolete) To remedy the evil consequence of, to repair (a loss or damage).
- 1718, Matthew Prior, Solomon on the Vanity of the World
- Accept my sorrow, and retrieve my fall.
- 1796, Edmund Burke, Letters on a Regicide Peace
- There is much to be done […] and much to be retrieved.
- 1718, Matthew Prior, Solomon on the Vanity of the World
Derived terms
- retriever
Related terms
- retrieval
Translations
Noun
retrieve (plural retrieves)
- A retrieval
- (sports) The return of a difficult ball
- (obsolete) A seeking again; a discovery.
- (obsolete) The recovery of game once sprung.
- we'll bring Wax to the retrieve
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Nares to this entry?)
Translations
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- what retrieves the information for the end user
- what retrievers don't shed
- what retrievers do
- what retrieves records and runs a program
- what retrieve data
- what retriever is white
- retriever what does it mean
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