retrieve

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   run after, pick up, and bring to the master

   train the dog to retrieve

2. 2
   verb

   go for and bring back

   retrieve the car from the parking garage

3. 3
   verb

   To regain or get back something.

   to retrieve one's character or independence; to retrieve a thrown ball

4. 4
   verb

   To fetch or carry back something, especially (computing) a file or data record.

   to retrieve them from their cold, trivial conceits

5. 5
   verb

   To fetch and bring in game.

   The cook doesn't care what's shot, only what's actually retrieved.

6. 6
   verb

   To fetch and bring in game systematically.

   Dog breeds called 'retrievers' were selected for retrieving.

7. 7
   verb

   To fetch or carry back systematically, notably as a game.

   Most dogs love retrieving, regardless of what object is thrown.

8. 8
   verb

   To remedy the evil consequence of, to repair (a loss or damage).

   Accept my sorrow, and retrieve my fall.

Etymology

Recorded in Middle English c. 1410 as retreve (altered to retrive in the 16th century; modern form is from c. 1650), from Middle French retruev-, stem of Old French retrover (“to find again”, modern retrouver), itself from re- (“again”) + trover (“to find”), probably from Vulgar Latin *tropāre (“to compose”).