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Narrator: Today's word is "Retrieve" — verb, pronounced /rɪˈtriːv/, with the stress on "trieve".
Narrator: To retrieve is to find something and bring it back.
Narrator: In plain English, it means fetch it back.
Narrator: It comes from old French retrover, to find again.
Narrator: A common collocation is "retrieve data", which describes getting information from a system.
Narrator: It differs from "find", because find only locates, while retrieve also brings it back.
Narrator: In a second sense, you can retrieve a bad situation by rescuing it.
Narrator: Computing, sport, policing and dog training all rely on the word.
Narrator: So remember: retrieve means find and fetch.
Speaker A: Why is that dog so good at fetching?
Speaker B: It's a RETRIEVER! It comes from old French for finding again.
Speaker A: Bred to bring things back?
Speaker B: Ducks, balls, slippers.
Speaker A: Example sentences?
Speaker B: "Retrieve your password by email", tech. "Divers retrieved the black box", an investigation. "She retrieved the ball from the hedge", a garden.
Speaker A: Common mistakes?
Speaker B: Remember "i before e", so it is "retrieve", not "retreive".
Speaker A: Close relatives?
Speaker B: Fetch is its cousin, recover its twin, and bring back an alternative — yet retrieve keeps its loyal charm!
Speaker B: Let's use "retrieve" in AI prompts — useful for APIs and account recovery.
Speaker A: How for APIs?
Speaker B: Fetch records.
Prompt: Write a function that retrieves a customer by email and returns null if none is found.
Speaker A: And accounts?
Speaker B: Recover access.
Prompt: Design a secure flow to retrieve a forgotten username.
Speaker A: Could it help archives?
Speaker B: Yes, for search.
Prompt: Retrieve all letters in this archive that mention the harbour between 1900 and 1910.
Speaker A: One more?
Speaker B: Caching.
Prompt: Retrieve data from the cache first and fall back to the database if it is missing.
Retrieve — meaning in Arabic & definition More R courses GL Dictionary