fetch vs pick up

fetch

verb
  • To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for. 

  • To retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get. 

  • To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing. 

  • To make (a pump) draw water by pouring water into the top and working the handle. 

  • To take (a breath), to heave (a sigh) 

  • To reduce; to throw. 

  • To cause to come; to bring to a particular state. 

  • To bring oneself; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward. 

noun
  • An act of fetching, of bringing something from a distance. 

  • A stratagem or trick; an artifice. 

  • The object of fetching; the source of an attraction; a force, propensity, or quality which attracts. 

  • An area over which wind is blowing (over water) and generating waves. 

  • An act of fetching data. 

  • 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”). 

  • The length of such an area; the distance a wave can travel across a body of water (without obstruction). 

intj
  • Minced oath for fuck. 

pick up

verb
  • To pay for. 

  • To acquire (something) accidentally; to catch (a disease). 

  • To collect and detain (a suspect). 

  • To lift; to grasp and raise. 

  • To clean up; to return to an organized state. 

  • To point out the behaviour, habits, or actions of (a person) in a critical manner; used with on. 

  • To meet and seduce somebody for romantic purposes, especially in a social situation. 

  • To receive calls; to function correctly. 

  • To record; to notch up. 

  • To learn, to grasp; to begin to understand; to realize. 

  • To promote somebody who was previously passed over. 

  • To collect an object, especially in passing. 

  • To answer a telephone. 

  • To take control (physically) of something. 

  • To mark, to defend against an opposition player by following them closely. 

  • To behave in a manner that results in a foul. 

  • To restart or resume. 

  • To receive (a radio signal or the like). 

  • To notice, detect or discern; to pick up on 

  • To improve, increase, or speed up. 

  • To reduce the despondency of. 

  • To obtain and publish a story, news item, etc. 

  • To collect a passenger. 

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