'REACH' definitions:
Definition of 'reach'
(from WordNet)
noun
The limits within which something can be effective; "range of motion"; "he was beyond the reach of their fire" [syn: range, reach]
noun
An area in which something acts or operates or has power or control: "the range of a supersonic jet"; "a piano has a greater range than the human voice"; "the ambit of municipal legislation"; "within the compass of this article"; "within the scope of an investigation"; "outside the reach of the law"; "in the political orbit of a world power" [syn: scope, range, reach, orbit, compass, ambit]
noun
noun
verb
Reach a destination, either real or abstract; "We hit Detroit by noon"; "The water reached the doorstep"; "We barely made it to the finish line"; "I have to hit the MAC machine before the weekend starts" [syn: reach, make, attain, hit, arrive at, gain]
verb
Reach a point in time, or a certain state or level; "The thermometer hit 100 degrees"; "This car can reach a speed of 140 miles per hour" [syn: reach, hit, attain]
verb
Move forward or upward in order to touch; also in a metaphorical sense; "Government reaches out to the people" [syn: reach, reach out]
verb
Be in or establish communication with; "Our advertisements reach millions"; "He never contacted his children after he emigrated to Australia" [syn: reach, get through, get hold of, contact]
verb
To gain with effort; "she achieved her goal despite setbacks" [syn: achieve, accomplish, attain, reach]
verb
To extend as far as; "The sunlight reached the wall"; "Can he reach?" "The chair must not touch the wall" [syn: reach, extend to, touch]
verb
Reach a goal, e.g., "make the first team"; "We made it!"; "She may not make the grade" [syn: reach, make, get to, progress to]
verb
Place into the hands or custody of; "hand me the spoon, please"; "Turn the files over to me, please"; "He turned over the prisoner to his lawyers" [syn: pass, hand, reach, pass on, turn over, give]
verb
Definition of 'Reach'
From: GCIDE
- Reach \Reach\ (r[=e]ch), v. i. To retch. --Cheyne. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Reach'
From: GCIDE
- Reach \Reach\, n. An effort to vomit. [R.] [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Reach'
From: GCIDE
- Reach \Reach\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reached (r[=e]cht) (Raught, the old preterit, is obsolete); p. pr. & vb. n. Reaching.] [OE. rechen, AS. r[=ae]can, r[=ae]cean, to extend, stretch out; akin to D. reiken, G. reichen, and possibly to AS. r[imac]ce powerful, rich, E. rich. [root]115.]
- 1. To extend; to stretch; to thrust out; to put forth, as a limb, a member, something held, or the like. [1913 Webster]
- Her tresses yellow, and long straughten, Unto her heeles down they raughten. --Rom. of R. [1913 Webster]
- Reach hither thy hand and thrust it into my side. --John xx. 27. [1913 Webster]
- Fruit trees, over woody, reached too far Their pampered boughs. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Hence, to deliver by stretching out a member, especially the hand; to give with the hand; to pass to another; to hand over; as, to reach one a book. [1913 Webster]
- He reached me a full cup. --2 Esd. xiv. 39. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To attain or obtain by stretching forth the hand; to extend some part of the body, or something held by one, so as to touch, strike, grasp, or the like; as, to reach an object with the hand, or with a spear. [1913 Webster]
- O patron power, . . . thy present aid afford, Than I may reach the beast. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To strike, hit, or touch with a missile; as, to reach an object with an arrow, a bullet, or a shell. [1913 Webster]
- 5. Hence, to extend an action, effort, or influence to; to penetrate to; to pierce, or cut, as far as. [1913 Webster]
- If these examples of grown men reach not the case of children, let them examine. --Locke. [1913 Webster]
- 6. To extend to; to stretch out as far as; to touch by virtue of extent; as, his land reaches the river. [1913 Webster]
- Thy desire . . . leads to no excess That reaches blame. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 7. To arrive at; to come to; to get as far as. [1913 Webster]
- Before this letter reaches your hands. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- 8. To arrive at by effort of any kind; to attain to; to gain; to be advanced to. [1913 Webster]
- The best account of the appearances of nature which human penetration can reach, comes short of its reality. --Cheyne. [1913 Webster]
- 9. To understand; to comprehend. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Do what, sir? I reach you not. --Beau. & Fl. [1913 Webster]
- 10. To overreach; to deceive. [Obs.] --South. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Reach'
From: GCIDE
- Reach \Reach\, v. i.
- 1. To stretch out the hand. [1913 Webster]
- Goddess humane, reach, then, and freely taste! --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To strain after something; to make efforts. [1913 Webster]
- Reaching above our nature does no good. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To extend in dimension, time, amount, action, influence, etc., so as to touch, attain to, or be equal to, something. [1913 Webster]
- And behold, a ladder set upon the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven. --Gen. xxviii. 12. [1913 Webster]
- The new world reaches quite across the torrid zone. --Boyle. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Naut.) To sail on the wind, as from one point of tacking to another, or with the wind nearly abeam. [1913 Webster]
- To reach after or To reach for or To reach at, to make efforts to attain to or obtain. [1913 Webster]
- He would be in the posture of the mind reaching after a positive idea of infinity. --Locke. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Reach'
From: GCIDE
- Reach \Reach\, n.
- 1. The act of stretching or extending; extension; power of reaching or touching with the person, or a limb, or something held or thrown; as, the fruit is beyond my reach; to be within reach of cannon shot. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The power of stretching out or extending action, influence, or the like; power of attainment or management; extent of force or capacity. [1913 Webster]
- Drawn by others who had deeper reaches than themselves to matters which they least intended. --Hayward. [1913 Webster]
- Be sure yourself and your own reach to know. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Extent; stretch; expanse; hence, application; influence; result; scope. [1913 Webster]
- And on the left hand, hell, With long reach, interposed. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- I am to pray you not to strain my speech To grosser issues, nor to larger reach Than to suspicion. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 4. An extended portion of land or water; a stretch; a straight portion of a stream or river, as from one turn to another; a level stretch, as between locks in a canal; an arm of the sea extending up into the land. "The river's wooded reach." --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
- The coast . . . is very full of creeks and reaches. --Holland. [1913 Webster]
- 5. An artifice to obtain an advantage. [1913 Webster]
- The Duke of Parma had particular reaches and ends of his own underhand to cross the design. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- 6. The pole or rod which connects the hind axle with the forward bolster of a wagon. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'reach'
From: GCIDE
- Retch \Retch\ (r[e^]ch or r[=e]ch; 277), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Retched (r[e^]cht); p. pr. & vb. n. Retching.] [AS. hr[ae]can to clear the throat, hawk, fr. hraca throat; akin to G. rachen, and perhaps to E. rack neck.] To make an effort to vomit; to strain, as in vomiting. [Written also reach.] [1913 Webster]
- Beloved Julia, hear me still beseeching! (Here he grew inarticulate with retching.) --Byron. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'reach'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accomplish,
- achieve,
- aesthetic distance,
- affect,
- ambit,
- amount,
- amount to,
- amplitude,
- answer,
- approach,
- approach anchorage,
- area,
- arm,
- armlet,
- arrive,
- arrive at,
- arrive in,
- arrive upon,
- assail the ear,
- attain,
- attain to,
- auditory range,
- avail,
- balance,
- bay,
- bayou,
- be equal to,
- be heard,
- be received,
- bear,
- bear down on,
- bear down upon,
- bear up for,
- bear up to,
- belt,
- bight,
- bigness,
- blow in,
- bob up,
- boca,
- body,
- breadth,
- break even,
- bribe,
- buck,
- bulk,
- buy,
- buy off,
- caliber,
- capability,
- capacity,
- caress the ear,
- carry,
- carry to,
- carrying distance,
- check in,
- circulate,
- clearance,
- clip off,
- clock in,
- close with,
- come,
- come across with,
- come at,
- come in,
- come to,
- come to hand,
- come up to,
- come upon,
- communicate with,
- compass,
- contact,
- correspond,
- corrupt,
- cove,
- cover,
- coverage,
- creek,
- cut,
- deep space,
- degree,
- deliver,
- deliver over,
- depth,
- depths of space,
- diameter,
- diapason,
- dimension,
- dimensions,
- distance,
- distribute,
- ditto,
- divergence,
- do,
- do it,
- draw,
- earreach,
- earshot,
- encompass,
- environ,
- equal,
- establish connection,
- estuary,
- euripus,
- even,
- even off,
- expanse,
- expansion,
- extend,
- extend to,
- extension,
- extent,
- fall upon,
- farness,
- fetch,
- fetch up at,
- fill the bill,
- find,
- fix,
- fjord,
- fork over,
- forward,
- frith,
- fulfill,
- gain,
- gain a hearing,
- gamut,
- gauge,
- get,
- get across,
- get at,
- get by,
- get in,
- get there,
- get through to,
- get to,
- girth,
- give in,
- give out,
- give over,
- go,
- go aboard,
- go alongside,
- go around,
- go at,
- go out,
- go to,
- grade,
- grease,
- grease the palm,
- greatness,
- grieve,
- gulf,
- gut,
- hack it,
- hand,
- hand in,
- hand out,
- hand over,
- harbor,
- hearing,
- height,
- hit,
- hit town,
- hit upon,
- hold,
- hold out,
- horizon,
- impress,
- infinity,
- influence,
- inlet,
- interrogate,
- interval,
- just do,
- keep pace with,
- ken,
- knot,
- kyle,
- largeness,
- lay aboard,
- lay for,
- lay in,
- lead to,
- leap,
- leeway,
- length,
- lengthiness,
- level,
- lie,
- lie in,
- light upon,
- light-years,
- linear measures,
- loch,
- long time,
- longitude,
- longness,
- magnitude,
- maintain connection,
- make,
- make advances,
- make an impression,
- make at,
- make contact with,
- make for,
- make it,
- make oneself heard,
- make overtures,
- make the grade,
- make up to,
- margin,
- mark,
- mass,
- match,
- match up with,
- measure,
- measure up to,
- measurement,
- meet,
- meet requirements,
- melt,
- melt the heart,
- mileage,
- mouth,
- move,
- narrow,
- narrow seas,
- narrows,
- natural harbor,
- notch,
- nuance,
- orbit,
- outreach,
- outstretch,
- overall length,
- parallel,
- parsecs,
- pas,
- pass,
- pass muster,
- pass out,
- pass over,
- pay off,
- peg,
- period,
- perpetuity,
- perspective,
- piece,
- pitch,
- pitch upon,
- plane,
- plateau,
- point,
- pop up,
- proportion,
- proportions,
- pull in,
- punch in,
- purchase,
- purview,
- put away for,
- put in,
- put into port,
- qualify,
- question,
- radius,
- raise,
- range,
- ratio,
- reach out,
- reach the ear,
- reach to,
- realize,
- register,
- register with,
- relate to,
- remoteness,
- remove,
- render,
- reply to,
- resign,
- respond to,
- ring in,
- rival,
- road,
- roads,
- roadstead,
- roll in,
- round,
- run,
- run abreast,
- run for,
- run to,
- rung,
- sadden,
- sail for,
- satisfy,
- scale,
- scope,
- score,
- separation,
- serve,
- serve the purpose,
- shade,
- shadow,
- shoot,
- show,
- show up,
- sign in,
- size,
- soften,
- sound,
- space,
- span,
- spectrum,
- sphere,
- spread,
- stack up with,
- stair,
- stand,
- stand for,
- stand up,
- standard,
- steer toward,
- step,
- stick out,
- stint,
- stir,
- straddle,
- strait,
- straits,
- stretch,
- stretch away to,
- stretch out,
- stretch to,
- stride,
- strike upon,
- stumble on,
- stumble upon,
- suborn,
- suffice,
- surrender,
- surround,
- sway,
- sweep,
- take care of,
- take in,
- take it,
- tamper with,
- territory,
- thrust out,
- tickle the palm,
- tie,
- time in,
- touch,
- transfer,
- tread,
- turn over,
- turn up,
- volume,
- way,
- ways,
- width,
- win,
- work,
- yardage
Acronyms for 'reach'
From: V.E.R.A.
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