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Reach

verb

(past & past part. reached, obs. raught; pres. part. reaching)

1.

Reach a destination, either real or abstract. Synonyms: arrive at, attain, gain, hit, make. "The water reached the doorstep" , "We barely made it to the finish line" , "I have to hit the MAC machine before the weekend starts"

2.

Reach a point in time, or a certain state or level. Synonyms: attain, hit. "This car can reach a speed of 140 miles per hour"

3.

Move forward or upward in order to touch; also in a metaphorical sense. Synonym: reach out.

4.

Be in or establish communication with. Synonyms: contact, get hold of, get through. "He never contacted his children after he emigrated to Australia"

5.

To gain with effort. Synonyms: accomplish, achieve, attain.

6.

To extend as far as. Synonyms: extend to, touch. "Can he reach?" , "The chair must not touch the wall"

7.

Reach a goal, e.g.,. Synonyms: get to, make, progress to. "We made it!" , "She may not make the grade"

8.

Place into the hands or custody of. Synonyms: give, hand, pass, pass on, turn over. "Turn the files over to me, please" , "He turned over the prisoner to his lawyers"

9.

To exert much effort or energy. Synonyms: strain, strive.

noun

1.

The limits within which something can be effective. Synonym: range. "He was beyond the reach of their fire"

2.

An area in which something acts or operates or has power or control:. Synonyms: ambit, compass, orbit, range, scope. "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"

3.

The act of physically reaching or thrusting out. Synonyms: reaching, stretch.

4.

The limit of capability. Synonyms: compass, grasp, range.

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"Reach" Quotes from Famous Books

... sit still. Perhaps you arrive at your destination in a rain-storm at ten at night—you generally do. The multitude spend half an hour verifying their baggage and getting it transferred to the omnibuses; but the courier puts you into a vehicle without a moment's loss of time, and when you reach your hotel you find your rooms have been secured two or three days in advance, everything is ready, you can go at once to bed. Some of those other people will have to drift around to two or three hotels, in the rain, before ...

— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

... and Saracen; and in both poets the inmost theme is broadly the same. It is the consciousness of modern Europe. Jerusalem Delivered and the Lusiads are drenched with the spirit of the Renaissance; and that is chiefly responsible for their lovely poetry. But they reach out towards the new Europe that was then just beginning. Europe making common cause against the peoples that are not Europe; Europe carrying her domination round the world—is that what Tasso and Camoens ultimately mean? It would ...

— The Epic - An Essay • Lascelles Abercrombie

... thwarted. Henceforth he was reduced to trust solely to the compass in the binnacle. Very evidently no one was responsible for the breaking of the second compass, but it might have sad consequences. The novice then took every precaution to keep the other compass beyond the reach ...

— Dick Sand - A Captain at Fifteen • Jules Verne

... to look at Crosbie, who was fidgeting to get away to his office, to whom no power of choosing in the matter was really given, and whom the men regarded as being altogether supernumerary. The ladies had promised to be at the shop by half-past ten, so that Crosbie should reach his office at eleven—or a little after. But it was nearly eleven before they left the Gazebee residence, and it was very evident that half-an-hour among the carpets would be by no means sufficient. It seemed as though miles upon miles of gorgeous colouring were unrolled before them; and then ...

— The Small House at Allington • Anthony Trollope

... Quinault wrote the words, and he is justly considered to be the founder of French opera. Among Lulli's operas are "Armide," "Isis," "Atys," "Alceste," "Psyche," "Proserpine," and "Bellerophon." The composer did not reach old age, but died in 1687, about fifty-four years old, wealthy and honoured, and a great favourite of Louis XIV., who had made him "Superintendent of the King's Music," and treated him with much liberality. ...

— Among the Great Masters of Music - Scenes in the Lives of Famous Musicians • Walter Rowlands

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