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fetch
Verb
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If you fetch something, or someone, you go away to get it and return with it.
John fetched me a towel from the bathroom.
Can you fetch your mother to the phone, please?
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If something fetches a price then it is sold for that amount of money.
That old painting fetched more than I expected at the auction.
cycle
Noun
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A cycle is a number of regular things that happen again and again.
Right now we are in an upward-moving part of the business cycle.
Although women's monthly cycles vary in length from person to person, the average length is about 28 days.
Most car engines have a 4-part cycle.
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A cycle is a short way of saying bicycle or motorcycle.
cycle
Verb
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If you cycle somewhere, you go there by bicycle or motorcycle.
The rain was falling harder than ever as I cycled home down the Banbury Road.
It took me less than 7 minutes to cycle the whole trail.
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If you cycle a machine, you run it through one cycle.
The test will cycle the computer through ten start ups.