Retrieve

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  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To get back into one's grasp, possession, or control, especially from a known place or a place of storage.
  • intransitive verb. To go to and bring or escort back (someone).
  • intransitive verb. To search for, find, and bring back.
  • intransitive verb. To search for, find, and carry back (killed game or a thrown object). Used of dogs.
  • intransitive verb. To gain access to (stored information).
  • intransitive verb. To recall to mind (a memory, for example); remember.
  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To rescue or save.
  • intransitive verb. To make a difficult but successful return of (a ball or shuttlecock, as in tennis or badminton).
  • intransitive verb. To restore to a former or desirable condition.
  • intransitive verb. To rectify the unfavorable consequences of; remedy.
  • intransitive verb. To find and bring back game or a thrown object.
  • noun. The act of retrieving; retrieval.
  • noun. A difficult but successful return of a ball or shuttlecock.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A seeking again; a discovery; a recovery; specifically, in hunting, the recovery of game once sprung.
  • To find again; discover again; recover; regain.
  • Specifically, in hunting, to search for and fetch: as, a dog retrieves killed or wounded birds or other game to the sportsman.
  • To bring back to a state of well-being, prosperity, or success; restore; reëstablish: as, to retrieve one's credit.
  • To make amends for; repair; better; ameliorate.
  • To find, recover, or restore anything; specifically, in sporting, to seek and bring killed or wounded game: as, the dog retrieves well.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To discover and bring in game that has been killed or wounded.
  • transitive verb. To find again; to recover; to regain; to restore from loss or injury.
  • transitive verb. To recall; to bring back.
  • transitive verb. To remedy the evil consequence of, to repair, as a loss or damadge.
  • noun. A seeking again; a discovery.
  • noun. The recovery of game once sprung; -- an old sporting term.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To regain or get back something.
  • verb. To rescue (a) creature(s)
  • verb. To salvage something
  • verb. To remedy or rectify something.
  • verb. To remember or recall something.
  • verb. To fetch or carry back something.
  • verb. To fetch and bring in game.
  • verb. To fetch and bring in game systematically.
  • verb. To fetch or carry back systematically, notably as a game.
  • verb. (transitive) To make a difficult but successful return of the ball.
  • noun. A retrieval
  • noun. The return of a difficult ball
  • noun. A seeking again; a discovery.
  • noun. The recovery of game once sprung.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. get or find back; recover the use of
  • verb. go for and bring back
  • verb. recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection
  • verb. run after, pick up, and bring to the master
  • Word Usage
    "I find that a slow, steady retrieve is more productive."