fet

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/fɛt/

verb

To fetch.

Similar
field-effect transistor
OriginMiddle English fetten ← Old English fetian ← Proto-West Germanic *fetan →
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Meanings

fet1

verbfet (third-person singular simple present fets, present participle fetting, simple past and past participle fet)

present singular third person fets · participle present fetting

  1. obsoleteTo fetch.

    And from the other fiftie soone the prisoner fet

    1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

fet2

nounfet (plural fets)

plural fets

  1. obsoleteA piece.

    That the bottom clear, Now lay'd with many a fet of seed pearl,

    1627, Michael Drayton, The Quest of Cynthia, published 1810

fet3

nounfet (uncountable)
  1. abbreviationattributiveclippinguncountableBDSMClipping of fetish.

    It was 'Lingerie Night' at a local fet club a few years ago.

    2003, Morgane, “Relatives turning up in the scene”, in soc.subculture.bondage-bdsm (Usenet)
    1 more example

    oh, btw...when you consider the fet-clothing available out there, realize how many have a collar attached.

    1997, NuBabyByte, “Iron Shackles, Bare Feet”, in alt.torture (Usenet)

FET4

nounFET (plural FETs)

plural FETs

  1. abbreviationinitialismbusinessInitialism of field-effect transistor.
proper noun
  1. abbreviationellipsishistoricalgovernmentEllipsis of FET y de las JONS, a political party in Francoist Spain.

    FET was the only legal party in Spain in the 60s.

Synonyms & antonyms

nouna transistor in which most current flows in a channel whose effective resistance can be controlled by a transverse electric field

Similar
field-effect transistor
Broader
transistorjunction transistorelectronic transistor

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

fet · verb

  1. Proto-Indo-European*ped-
  2. Proto-Germanic*fatōną“to hold, seize”
  3. Proto-West Germanic*fatōn
  4. Proto-Indo-European*ped-“to walk, stumble, fall”
  5. Proto-Germanic*fetaną“to go”
  6. Proto-West Germanic*fetan
  7. Old Englishfetian
  8. Middle Englishfetten
  9. Englishfet

From Middle English fetten, feten, from Old English fetian, fatian (“to bring, fetch”), probably a conflation of Proto-West Germanic *fetan, from Proto-Germanic *fetaną (“to go”), from Proto-Indo-European *ped- (“to walk, stumble, fall”); and Proto-West Germanic *fatōn, from Proto-Germanic *fatōną (“to hold, seize”), also from Proto-Indo-European *ped-. Cognate with Dutch vatten (“to catch, grab”), German fassen (“to lay hold of, seize, take, hold”). Compare also Icelandic feta (“to find one's way”). More at fetch.

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fet · noun

Compare feat, French fait, and Italian fetta (“slice”), German Fetzen (“rag”).

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Translations

French FET
  • FETfield effect transistor

Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with fet

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Anagrams

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APA

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Chicago

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