fetch vs transport

fetch

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

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

intj
  • Minced oath for fuck. 

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). 

transport

verb
  • To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey. 

  • To deport to a penal colony. 

  • To move (someone) to strong emotion; to carry away. 

noun
  • The state of being transported by emotion; rapture. 

  • An act of transporting; conveyance. 

  • A vehicle used to transport (passengers, mail, freight, troops etc.) 

  • A tractor-trailer. 

  • A deported convict. 

  • A device that moves recording tape across the read/write heads of a tape recorder or video recorder etc. 

  • The system of transporting passengers, etc. in a particular region; the vehicles used in such a system. 

How often have the words fetch and transport occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )