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raccattare — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • fetch verb To go and get something, then bring it back.
  • glean verb To gather information or knowledge gradually, often bit by bit and with some effort.
  • retrieve verb To get something back, especially something that was lost, stored, or left somewhere.

Senses

raccattare is used for these senses in English:

  • fetch (intransitive) To bring oneself; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward.
  • glean To gather (something, now chiefly something intangible such as experience or information) in small amounts over a period of time, often with some difficulty; to scrape together.

fetch — full definition

  1. verb To go and get something, then bring it back.
  2. verb To sell for, or bring in, a certain price.
  3. noun The act of retrieving something, or a program's act of pulling data.

glean — full definition

  1. verb To gather information or knowledge gradually, often bit by bit and with some effort.
  2. verb To collect leftover crops from a field after the main harvest.

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