Difference between Bring and Fetch

What is the difference between Bring and Fetch?

Bring as a verb is to transport toward somebody/somewhere. while Fetch as a verb is to retrieve; to bear towards; to get.

Bring

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To transport toward somebody/somewhere. To pitch, often referring to a particularly hard thrown fastball.

Example sentence: Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.

Fetch

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The object of fetching; the source and origin of attraction; a force, quality or propensity which is attracting eg., in a given attribute of person, place, object, principle, etc.A stratagem by which a thing is indirectly brought to pass, or by which one thing seems intended and another is done; a trick; an artifice.The apparition of a living person; a wraith.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To retrieve; to bear towards; to get.To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for.To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing.To bring one's self; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward.

Example sentence: For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.

We hope you now know whether to use Bring or Fetch in your sentence.

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