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TO FETCH UP

Definition: TO FETCH UP

TO FETCH UP

1. (a) To overtake. [Obs.] ``Says [the hare], I can fetch up the tortoise when I please.'' --L'Estrange. (b) To stop suddenly.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Modern Translation: TO FETCH UP

Language Translations for "TO FETCH UP"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Hungarian

  

vezet vmihez (to lead to sg), végződik (to close, to conclude, to end, to eventuate, to pan out), rókázik (to barf, to dump, to dump one's load, to perk up, to shoot the cat, to vomit), megállít (abort, arrest, back-stop, halt, pull up, rein in, stay, stop, to arrest, to check, to hold up, to pull up, to put to a stand, to rein in), megáll (come to a halt, halt, pause, stop, to bring to, to check, to come to a halt, to come to rest, to draw up, to pause, to pull up, to slacken, to stand still, to stay, to stint), kiokád (to bring up, to disgorge, to puke, to regurgitate, to spew, to throw up), kihány (disgorge, regorge, regurgitate, throw up, to disgorge, to puke, to reject, to spew, to throw up, to vomit), jut (got, made, to come into line with the landmarks, to get, to get into, to make), felnevel (bring up, Foster, grow up, to foster, to nurse, to nurture, to raise, to rear, to uprear), felhoz (adduce, allege, to adduce, to bring up, to broach, to raise), behoz (bring in, make up for, to bring in, to fetch in, to get in, to import, to make up, to offset), beállít (adjust, set, ship, to adjust, to blow in, to install, to pose, to regulate, to set, to time, to true, to true up, to tune in, to tune up, to turn up, tune in), érkezik (arrive, arrives, end up, get, to get in, to reach the station). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

otay etchfay upay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: TO FETCH UP

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-f-h-o-p-t-t-u"

-3 letters: touche.

-4 letters: chott, chute, coupe, couth, epoch, fetch, octet, ouphe, petto, pouch, putto, teuch, theft, tophe, touch.

-5 letters: chef, chop, coft, cope, cote, coup, cute, echo, etch, heft, hope, ouch, ouph, pech, phot, phut, poet, pouf, pout, puce, putt, teth, thou, toft, tofu, tope, toph, tote, tout, tuft.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: TO FETCH UP


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 4F      46 45 54 43 48      55 50

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

        

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01001111 00100000 01000110 01000101 01010100 01000011 01001000 00100000 01010101 01010000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#79 &#32 &#70 &#69 &#84 &#67 &#72 &#32 &#85 &#80

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 004F      0046 0045 0054 0043 0048      0055 0050

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

54492403954374225550

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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