retrieve

Verb

Synonyms: recover find regain remember recall call back call up recollect think

WordNet 3.0

Verb (4)

get or find back; recover the use of“She regained control of herself”“She found her voice and replied quickly”Synonyms: recover find regain
go for and bring back“retrieve the car from the parking garage”
run after, pick up, and bring to the master“train the dog to retrieve”
recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection“I can't remember saying any such thing”“I can't think what her last name was”“can you remember her phone number?”“Do you remember that he once loved you?”“call up memories”Synonyms: remember recall call back call up recollect think

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Retrieve \Re*trieve"\, v. i. (Sport.) To discover and bring in game that has been killed or wounded; as, a dog naturally inclined to retrieve. --Walsh. [1913 Webster]

Retrieve \Re*trieve"\, n.

1.A seeking again; a discovery. [Obs.] --B. Jonson. [1913 Webster]

2.The recovery of game once sprung; -- an old sporting term. [Obs.] --Nares. [1913 Webster]

Retrieve \Re*trieve"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Retrieved; p. pr. & vb. n. Retrieving.] [OE. retreven, OF. retrover to find again, recover (il retroevee finds again), F. retrouver; pref. re- re- + OF. trover to find, F. trouver. See Trover.]

1.To find again; to recover; to regain; to restore from loss or injury; as, to retrieve one's character; to retrieve independence. [1913 Webster]

With late repentance now they would retrieve The bodies they forsook, and wish to live.— Dryden[1913 Webster]

2.To recall; to bring back. [1913 Webster]

To retrieve them from their cold, trivial conceits.— Berkeley.[1913 Webster]

3.To remedy the evil consequence of, to repair, as a loss or damadge. [1913 Webster]

Accept my sorrow, and retrieve my fall.— Prior.[1913 Webster]

There is much to be done . . . and much to be retrieved.— Burke.[1913 Webster]

Syn: To recover; regain; recruit; repair; restore. [1913 Webster]

Free On-line Dictionary of Computing

Retrieve

<language> A query language inspired JPLDIS which led to Vulcan and then to dBASE II, developed by Tymshare Corp in the 1960s.

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