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verb (used with object)
1.
to get to or get as far as in moving, going, traveling, etc.: The boat reached the shore.
2.
to come to or arrive at in some course of progress, action, etc.: Your letter never reached me.
3.
to succeed in touching or seizing with an outstretched hand, a pole, etc.: to reach a book on a high shelf.
4.
to stretch or hold out; extend: reaching out a hand in greeting.
5.
EXPANDto stretch or extend so as to touch or meet: The bookcase reaches the ceiling.
6.
to establish communication with: I called but couldn't reach you.
7.
to amount to, as in the sum or total: The cost will reach millions.
8.
to penetrate to: distant stars the eye cannot reach.
9.
to succeed in striking or hitting, as with a weapon or missile: The artillery fire reached the shore.
10.
COLLAPSEto succeed in making contact with, influencing, impressing, interesting, convincing, etc.: a program that reached a large teenage audience.
verb (used without object)
11.
to make a stretch, as with the hand or arm.
12.
to become outstretched, as the hand or arm.
13.
to make a movement or effort as if to touch or seize something: to reach for a weapon.
14.
to extend in operation or effect: power that reaches throughout the land.
15.
EXPANDto stretch in space; extend in direction, length, distance, etc.: a coat reaching to the knee; a tower reaching to the skies.
16.
to extend or continue in time.
17.
to get or come to a specified place, person, condition, etc. (often followed by to).
18.
to amount (often followed by to): sums reaching to a considerable total.
19.
to penetrate: Fields of flowers extended as far as the eye could reach.
20.
to assert or agree without certainty or sufficient evidence; infer hastily: I'd be reaching if I said I had the answer to your question.
21.
COLLAPSENautical.
a.
to sail on a reach.
b.
to sail with the wind forward of the beam but so as not to require sailing close-hauled.
noun
22.
an act or instance of reaching: to make a reach for a gun.
23.
the extent or distance of reaching: within reach of his voice.
24.
range of effective action, power, or capacity.
25.
a continuous stretch or extent of something: a reach of woodland.
26.
EXPANDAlso called pound. a level portion of a canal, between locks.
27.
Nautical. a point of sailing in which the wind is within a few points of the beam, either forward of the beam (close reach), directly abeam (beam reach), or abaft the beam (broad reach).
28.
the pole connecting the rear axle of a wagon to the transverse bar or bolster over the front axle supporting the wagon bed.
29.
COLLAPSEa straight portion of a river between two bends.
Origin:
before 900; (v.) Middle English rechen, Old English rǣcan (cognate with German reichen, Dutch reiken); (noun) derivative of the v.
before 900; (v.) Middle English rechen, Old English rǣcan (cognate with German reichen, Dutch reiken); (noun) derivative of the v.
Related forms
reach·a·ble, adjective
reach·a·bil·i·ty, noun
reach·er, noun
un·reach·a·ble, adjective
un·reached, adjective
Synonyms
1. attain. 24. area, sphere, scope.
1. attain. 24. area, sphere, scope.
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reach
O.E. ræcan "to extend, hold forth," also "to succeed in touching," from W.Gmc. *raikjan "stretch out the hand" (cf. O.Fris. reka, M.Du. reiken), from P.Gmc. *raikijanau, perhaps from PIE base *reig- "to stretch out" (cf. Skt. rjyati "he stretches himself," riag "torture" (by racking); Gk. oregein
EXPAND"to reach, extend;" Lith. raizius "to stretch oneself;" O.Ir. rigim "I stretch"), related to base *reg- "to rule, to lead straight, to put right" (see regal). Shakespeare uses the now-obsolete past tense form raught (O.E. ræhte). Meaning "arrive at" is early 14c.; that of "succeed in influencing" is from 1660s. The noun is first recorded 1520s; earliest use is of stretches of water. Reach-me-down "ready-made" (of clothes) is recorded from 1862, from notion of being on the rack in a finished state.
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