Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- 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 To rescue or save.
- intransitive verb Sports 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 Sports A difficult but successful return of a ball or shuttlecock.
from The Century Dictionary.
- 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb (Sport.) 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 obsolete A seeking again; a discovery.
- noun obsolete The recovery of game once sprung; -- an old sporting term.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
regain orget back something. - verb transitive To
rescue (a) creature(s) - verb transitive To
salvage something - verb transitive To
remedy orrectify something. - verb transitive To
remember orrecall something. - verb transitive To
fetch orcarry back something. - verb transitive To
fetch and bring ingame . - verb intransitive To fetch and
bring in game systematically. - verb intransitive To
fetch orcarry back systematically, notably as a game. - verb sports (
transitive ) To make adifficult butsuccessful return of the ball. - noun A
retrieval - noun sports The
return of a difficultball - noun obsolete A seeking again; a discovery.
- noun obsolete The recovery of
game once sprung.
from 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
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Finding a bird and Making a difficult retrieve is what the best dogs do as a matter of course, and it occurs as a matter of course and is unworthy of comment.
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“There have been some large legal costs built up in the last week which I hope to retrieve from the Figes family,” Rachel Polonsky tells the paper.
Figes is fucked 2010
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It's funny, there are things I can retrieve from the writing process and things that I can't.
A conversation with Ann Packer, author of The Dive from Clausen's Pier 2010
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Finding a bird and Making a difficult retrieve is what the best dogs do as a matter of course, and it occurs as a matter of course and is unworthy of comment.
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I do not use treats for retrieves for 90% of the dogs as the retrieve is reward enough for hard charging gun dogs.
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And a good retrieve is like the cherry on top of the sunday.
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I find that a slow, steady retrieve is more productive.
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And a good retrieve is like the cherry on top of the sunday.
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I do not use treats for retrieves for 90% of the dogs as the retrieve is reward enough for hard charging gun dogs.
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Enter the Tree Descender, a safety rope that you can retrieve from a pocket and loop around the tree trunk.
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