单词 | to take a fetch |
释义 | > as lemmasto take a fetch a. The action of fetching, bringing from a distance, or reaching after (literal and figurative); a long stretch, a far-reaching effort. Also to take a fetch. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > [noun] sightc1175 thoughtc1175 imagination1340 thinking1340 conceptiona1387 imaginativea1398 phantasm1490 concept1536 fetch1549 conceit1556 conceiving1559 fancy1581 notion1647 fantastic1764 ideality1815 ideoplasty1884 phantastikon1917 the world > movement > transference > bringing > [noun] > fetching fetchingc1374 fetch1549 fetch-and-carry1787 the world > action or operation > manner of action > effort or exertion > [noun] > instance of > an effort > far-reaching fetch1549 the world > space > extension in space > [noun] > spreading out > an expanse of something spacea1382 widenessa1382 continuance1398 field1547 sheet1593 universe1598 main1609 reach1610 expansion1611 extent1627 champaign1656 fetch1662 mass1662 expanse1667 spread1712 run1719 width1733 acre1759 sweep1767 contiguity1785 extension1786 stretch1829 breadths1839 outspread1847 outstretch1858 the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > [noun] > sheep herding > action of sheep-dog penning1886 cast1933 fetch1938 outrun1938 lift1942 1549 T. Chaloner tr. Erasmus Praise of Folie sig. Niij To the ende he myght shew his learnyng to the people..he toke a new fetche in his mattier. a1575 N. Harpsfield Treat. Divorce Henry VIII (1878) (modernized text) 88 With all their fine long fetches and..arguments. 1612 T. Shelton tr. M. de Cervantes Don-Quixote: Pt. 1 i. viii. 52 Nor did he hold the Fetch of Adventures to be a Labour. 1662 J. Glanvill Lux Orientalis viii. 78 There being vast fetches in the divine wisdome which we comprehend not. 1668 J. Glanvill Blow at Mod. Sadducism 143 Certainly Wit is not..a wilde fetch. 1692 S. Patrick Answer to Touchstone of Reformed Gospel 74 From that which follows, there is a wonderful fetch. 1831 E. Irving Expos. Rev. I. 354 Deep fetches from the secrets of God. 1855 A. Bain Senses & Intellect ii. ii. 463 We can..leap from one passage to another by the remotest fetches. 1881 J. C. Shairp Aspects Poetry ii. 59 What but a great fetch of imaginative power? 1938 J. H. McCulloch Sheep Dogs iv. 35 (heading) Course: [for qualifying trials]..Gathering—400 yards. In outrun, dog may be directed on either side. Straight fetch through gate set midway. 1946 F. D. Davison Dusty xi. 117 The trial had four phases..the fetch, when he [sc. the dog] brought them [sc. the sheep] down the length of the course to where his owner waited [etc.]. < as lemmas |
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