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Reach

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.to 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.to 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. to 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. Nautical.

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. Also 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. a 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.

Related forms

reach·a·ble, adjective

reach·a·bil·i·ty, noun

reach·er, noun

un·reach·a·ble, adjective

un·reached, adjective

Synonyms

attain, area, sphere, scope.