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Synonyms for retrieve

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Synonyms for retrieve

to get back

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Synonyms for retrieve

get or find back

go for and bring back

run after, pick up, and bring to the master

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The owner of the shop confirmed that he saw Tu on video actually win the doll and confirmed that Tu had called him to obtain permission to try to manually retrieve it.
Or, for a retrieve of a shot bird, the dog might be standing or sitting by the handler waiting for the command to fetch.
Compare that to a formal show retrieve, where the dog is supposed to sit motionless in perfect heel position while the owner throws a dumbbell, dash forward when the owner gives the cue, grab the dumbbell cleanly by the center bar, return quickly to the owner, and sit in front, perfectly straight, waiting for his owner to give the cue to release the object carefully into her outstretched hands.
Once it's tossed, you should then throw your dummy in the opposite direction a full 180 degrees away from the first retrieve. If your dog masters this drill, tighten it up to 45 degrees as well.
3 Slow Rolling: This retrieve is nothing more than putting an obnoxious lure in front of the fish, and at their level, by simply allowing the bait to sink to the bottom and then slowly retrieving it while maintaining contact with the bottom, or cover object.
This is characterized by being able to retrieve quite a lot of information about the target word without being able to retrieve the word itself.
Case-based reasoning includes four major steps: retrieve, reuse, revise, and retain.
Use quotes to retrieve only the two words indicated, adjacent and in the order specified.
For obvious reasons it is not possible to send a young gun dog to retrieve a shot pheasant before the season opens on October 1 but there is usually ample time for a little rough shooting to provide that opportunity before the main driven days start.
Also, 9-year-old Rico has been trained by his owners to retrieve toys by their names since he was 9 months old.
A NAS device, by contrast, must retrieve data blocks from its own storage (which may be done over a high performance SAN), plus assume the processing latency of file assemblage.
When you visit a Web site for the first time, your Web browser has to retrieve various files that are required to view that Web site.
Jardine owns a 28-foot steel boat that will be equipped with a "drag-line-style bucket to retrieve the bark from the lake bottom."