What is the difference between find and retrieve?

What is the difference between searching and retrieving?

Searches can be based on full-text or other content-based indexing. Information retrieval is the science of searching for information in a document, searching for documents themselves, and also searching for the metadata that describes data, and for databases of texts, images or sounds.

Is retrieve and receive the same?

As verbs the difference between receive and retrieve is that receive is to take, as something that is offered, given, committed, sent, paid, etc; to accept; to be given something while retrieve is to regain or get back something.

What is fetch retrieve?

As verbs the difference between fetch and retrieve is that fetch is to retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get while retrieve is to regain or get back something.