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retrieve Definition

re·trieve (ri trēv′)

transitive verb -·trieved′, -·triev′·ing

  1. to get back; recover
  2. to restore; revive to retrieve one's spirits
  3. to rescue or save
  4. to set right or repair (a loss, error, etc.); make good
  5. to recall to mind
  6. ☆ Comput. to gain access to (data) that is on a floppy disk, hard drive, etc.
  7. Hunting to find and bring back (killed or wounded small game): said of dogs
  8. Racket Sports to return (a ball that is hard to reach)

Etymology: ME retreven < inflected stem of OFr retrouver < re-, again + trouver, to find: see trover

intransitive verb

Hunting to retrieve game

noun

  1. any retrieval
  2. ☆ a retrieving of the ball in tennis, etc.

retrieve Related Forms

re·triev′·able adjective

retrieve Synonyms

retrieve

v.

regain, bring back, reclaim; see recover 1. See syn. study at recover.

retrieve Usage Examples

Object

  • occurrence: It will then retrieve occurrences of entity ONE_B subject again to the profile passed down from the parent component.
  • datum: These elements can be streamed directly into the readFile activity in order to retrieve the file data.
  • document: May be keyed in Netscape's OPEN or Netscape's LOCATION / GO TO box to retrieve a document.
  • ball: Two players from team ' A ' went to retrieve the ball.
  • record: The number of records retrieved is shown at the top of the list.
  • citation: Find Citation Find Citation lets you combine fields to retrieve journal article citations.

Subject

search: The documents may also be retrieved by title search.

Modifying Another Word

  • automatically: Items associated with Robert Burns are automatically retrieved from selected CAIRNS catalogs.
  • easily: On the day of the wedding you can bet guests can easily retrieve all the required details for the day's events!
  • quickly: With a double press of the button you can quickly retrieve what you missed.
  • successfully: On a Windoze machine, Eudora software successfully retrieves email from the machine.
  • subsequently: However, this case does demonstrate the difficulty in learning new information, retaining it and subsequently retrieving it.
  • then: The address of the file is in a format that can be interpreted by a Web server, which then retrieves the file.

Used with why or when

  • when: Alternatively, people can spin the Ball and walk away, only noticing the image that has been retrieved later when they come back.
  • that: As for Scrat he probably still is trying to retrieve that cursed acorn.

Preposition: from

  • cache: Our user might be less aware that when he performs a Google search the results are retrieved from a cache.
  • database: Data is usually retrieved from the database by querying it.
  • server: Nick's public key can be retrieved from the main PGP key servers.
  • memory: This information is collected via sensors or is retrieved from memory.

Preposition: by

search: The documents may also be retrieved by title search.