Definition of reaches Reaches
/ɹiˈʧʌz/ - [reechuz] -
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Wiktionary 
- reaches (Noun)
Plural of reach. - reaches (Noun)
The extreme limits.
Part of speech
🔤WordNet
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| reach - the act of physically reaching or thrusting out | ||
| reaching, stretch | ||
| motility, move, motion, movement ability to move spontaneously and independently | ||
| reach - 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" | ||
| scope, range, orbit, compass, ambit | ||
| extent the distance or area or volume over which something extends; "the vast extent of the desert"; "an orchard of considerable extent" | ||
| approximate range, ballpark near to the scope or range of something; "his answer wasn't even in the right ballpark" | ||
| confines a bounded scope; "he stayed within the confines of the city" | ||
| contrast the act of distinguishing by comparing differences | ||
| internationality, internationalism quality of being international in scope; "he applauded the internationality of scientific terminology" | ||
| latitude scope for freedom of e.g. action or thought; freedom from restriction | ||
| purview, horizon, view the range of interest or activity that can be anticipated; "It is beyond the horizon of present knowledge" | ||
| expanse, sweep a wide and open space or area as of surface or land or sky | ||
| gamut a complete extent or range: "a face that expressed a gamut of emotions" | ||
| spectrum a broad range of related objects or values or qualities or ideas or activities | ||
| reach - the limits within which something can be effective; "range of motion"; "he was beyond the reach of their fire" | ||
| range | ||
| limit the greatest possible degree of something; "what he did was beyond the bounds of acceptable behavior"; "to the limit of his ability" | ||
| earreach, earshot, hearing the range within which a voice can be heard; "the children were told to stay within earshot" | ||
| eyeshot, view the act of looking or seeing or observing; "he tried to get a better view of it"; "his survey of the battlefield was limited" | ||
| reach - the limit of capability; "within the compass of education" | ||
| compass, range, grasp | ||
| capableness, potentiality, capability the quality of being capable -- physically or intellectually or legally; "he worked to the limits of his capability" | ||
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| reach - 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" | ||
| make, attain, hit, arrive at, gain | ||
| locomote, travel, move, go change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically; "How fast does your new car go?"; "We travelled from Rome to Naples by bus"; "The policemen went from door to door looking for the suspect"; "The soldiers moved towards the city in an attempt to take it before night fell"; "news travelled fast" | ||
| catch up learn belatedly; find out about something after it happened; "I'm trying to catch up with the latest developments in molecular biology" | ||
| surmount, scale be on top of; "The scarf surmounted the gown" | ||
| access, get at reach or gain access to; "How does one access the attic in this house?"; "I cannot get to the T.V. antenna, even if I climb on the roof" | ||
| bottom out hit the ground; "the car bottomed out where the driveway meets the road" | ||
| peak, top out to reach the highest point; attain maximum intensity, activity; "That wild, speculative spirit peaked in 1929";"Bids for the painting topped out at $50 million" | ||
| summit, breast reach the summit (of a mountain); "They breasted the mountain"; "Many mountaineers go up Mt. Everest but not all summit" | ||
| top finish up or conclude; "They topped off their dinner with a cognac"; "top the evening with champagne" | ||
| make act in a certain way so as to acquire; "make friends"; "make enemies" | ||
| make act in a certain way so as to acquire; "make friends"; "make enemies" | ||
| find come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, or indefinite grounds; "I feel that he doesn't like me"; "I find him to be obnoxious"; "I found the movie rather entertaining" | ||
| culminate rise to, or form, a summit; "The helmet culminated in a crest" | ||
| come through, get through finish a task completely; "I finally got through this homework assignment" | ||
| run aground, ground instruct someone in the fundamentals of a subject | ||
| reach - be in or establish communication with; "Our advertisements reach millions"; "He never contacted his children after he emigrated to Australia" | ||
| get through, get hold of, contact | ||
| intercommunicate, communicate be interconnected, afford passage; "These rooms intercommunicate" | ||
| ping send a message from one computer to another to check whether it is reachable and active; "ping your machine in the office" | ||
| ping send a message from one computer to another to check whether it is reachable and active; "ping your machine in the office" | ||
| raise raise the level or amount of something; "raise my salary"; "raise the price of bread" | ||
| reach - to extend as far as; "The sunlight reached the wall"; "Can he reach?" "The chair must not touch the wall" | ||
| extend to, touch | ||
| be spend or use time; "I may be an hour" | ||
| poke out, reach out, extend attempt to communicate; "I try to reach out to my daughter but she doesn't want to have anything to do with me" | ||
| reach into run into or up to | ||
| reach into run into or up to | ||
| reach - move forward or upward in order to touch; also in a metaphorical sense; "Government reaches out to the people" | ||
| reach out | ||
| move go or proceed from one point to another; "the debate moved from family values to the economy" | ||
| reach out attempt to communicate; "I try to reach out to my daughter but she doesn't want to have anything to do with me" | ||
| reach - reach a goal, e.g., "make the first team"; "We made it!"; "She may not make the grade" | ||
| make, get to, progress to | ||
| achieve, accomplish, attain, reach to gain with effort; "she achieved her goal despite setbacks" | ||
| reach - 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" | ||
| pass, hand, pass on, turn over, give | ||
| transfer transfer from one place or period to another; "The ancient Greek story was transplanted into Modern America" | ||
| hand out, pass out, give out, distribute give to several people; "The teacher handed out the exams" | ||
| hand down passed on, as by inheritance; "This ring was handed down through many generations" | ||
| fork out, fork over, fork up, hand over, turn in, deliver, render to surrender someone or something to another; "the guard delivered the criminal to the police"; "render up the prisoners"; "render the town to the enemy"; "fork over the money" | ||
| relegate, pass on, submit assign to a class or kind; "How should algae be classified?"; "People argue about how to relegate certain mushrooms" | ||
| pass on give to or transfer possession of; "She passed the family jewels on to her daughter-in-law" | ||
| impart, pass on, leave, give transmit or serve as the medium for transmission; "Sound carries well over water"; "The airwaves carry the sound"; "Many metals conduct heat" | ||
| pass along, put across, communicate, pass on, pass transmit thoughts or feelings; "He communicated his anxieties to the psychiatrist" | ||
| give proffer (a body part); "She gave her hand to her little sister" | ||
| sneak, slip to go stealthily or furtively; "..stead of sneaking around spying on the neighbor's house" | ||
| deal do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood; "She deals in gold"; "The brothers sell shoes" | ||
| fork out, fork over, fork up, hand over, turn in, deliver, render to surrender someone or something to another; "the guard delivered the criminal to the police"; "render up the prisoners"; "render the town to the enemy"; "fork over the money" | ||
| relinquish, resign, release, free, give up accept as inevitable; "He resigned himself to his fate" | ||
| intrust, confide, entrust, commit, trust reveal in private; tell confidentially | ||
| entrust, leave confer a trust upon; "The messenger was entrusted with the general's secret"; "I commit my soul to God" | ||
| reach - to gain with effort; "she achieved her goal despite setbacks" | ||
| achieve, accomplish, attain | ||
| deliver the goods, bring home the bacon, succeed, come through, win be the successor (of); "Carter followed Ford"; "Will Charles succeed to the throne?" | ||
| score make underscoring marks | ||
| progress to, get to, reach, make arrive at the point of; "She gets to fretting if I stay away from home too long" | ||
| begin set in motion, cause to start; "The U.S. started a war in the Middle East"; "The Iraqis began hostilities"; "begin a new chapter in your life" | ||
| come to, strike return to consciousness; "The patient came to quickly"; "She revived after the doctor gave her an injection" | ||
| culminate rise to, or form, a summit; "The helmet culminated in a crest" | ||
| compass bring about; accomplish; "This writer attempts more than his talents can compass" | ||
| average compute the average of | ||
| finagle, wangle, manage achieve something by means of trickery or devious methods | ||
| reach - to exert much effort or energy; "straining our ears to hear" | ||
| strive, strain | ||
| labor, labour, tug, push, drive undergo the efforts of childbirth | ||
| extend oneself strain to the utmost | ||
| kill oneself, overexert oneself strain oneself more than is healthy | ||
| inconvenience oneself, trouble oneself, trouble, bother take the trouble to do something; concern oneself; "He did not trouble to call his mother on her birthday"; "Don't bother, please" | ||
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Wiktionary
- reach (Noun)
The act of stretching or extending; extension; power of reaching or touching with the person, or a limb, or something held or thrown. - reach (Noun)
The power of stretching out or extending action, influence, or the like; power of attainment or management; extent of force or capacity. - reach (Noun)
Extent; stretch; expanse; hence, application; influence; result; scope. - reach (Noun)
An exaggeration; an extension beyond evidence or normal; a stretch. - reach (Noun)
The distance a boxer's arm can extend to land a blow. - reach (Noun)
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. - reach (Noun)
Any point of sail in which the wind comes from the side of a vessel, excluding close-hauled. - reach (Noun)
An article to obtain an advantage. - reach (Noun)
The pole or rod connecting the rear axle with the forward bolster of a wagon. - reach (Verb)
To extend; to stretch; to thrust out; to put forth , as a limb, a member, something held, or the like. - reach (Verb)
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. - reach (Verb)
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. - reach (Verb)
To strike, hit, or tough with a missile; as, to reach an object with an arrow, a bullet, or a shell. - reach (Verb)
Hence, to extend an action, effort, or influence to; to penetrate to; to pierce, or cut, as far as. - reach (Verb)
To extend to; to stretch out as far as; to touch by virtue of extent; as, his hand reaches the river. - reach (Verb)
To arrive at by effort of any kind; to attain to; to gain; to be advanced to. - reach (Verb)
To understand; to comprehend. - reach (Verb)
To stretch out the hand. - reach (Verb)
To strain after something; to make efforts.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- reach (v. i.)
To retch. - reach (n.)
An effort to vomit. - reach (v. t.)
To extend; to stretch; to thrust out; to put forth, as a limb, a member, something held, or the like. - reach (v. t.)
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. - reach (v. t.)
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. - reach (v. t.)
To strike, hit, or touch with a missile; as, to reach an object with an arrow, a bullet, or a shell. - reach (v. t.)
Hence, to extend an action, effort, or influence to; to penetrate to; to pierce, or cut, as far as. - reach (v. t.)
To extend to; to stretch out as far as; to touch by virtue of extent; as, his land reaches the river. - reach (v. t.)
To arrive at; to come to; to get as far as. - reach (v. t.)
To arrive at by effort of any kind; to attain to; to gain; to be advanced to. - reach (v. t.)
To understand; to comprehend. - reach (v. t.)
To overreach; to deceive. - reach (v. i.)
To stretch out the hand. - reach (v. i.)
To strain after something; to make efforts. - reach (v. i.)
To extend in dimension, time, amount, action, influence, etc., so as to touch, attain to, or be equal to, something. - reach (v. i.)
To sail on the wind, as from one point of tacking to another, or with the wind nearly abeam. - reach (n.)
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. - reach (n.)
The power of stretching out or extending action, influence, or the like; power of attainment or management; extent of force or capacity. - reach (n.)
Extent; stretch; expanse; hence, application; influence; result; scope. - reach (n.)
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. - reach (n.)
An artifice to obtain an advantage. - reach (n.)
The pole or rod which connects the hind axle with the forward bolster of a wagon.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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To come to a destination. -
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Catching up with someone that went ahead. -
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To attain or obtain by stretching forth the hand. -
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To bring to a succesful end; to gain with effort. -
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To exert much effort or energy on (e.g. ears, eyes, etc.). -
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The limit of capability.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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rēch, v.t. to stretch or extend: to attain or obtain by stretching out the hand: to hand over: to extend to: to arrive at: to get at: to gain.—v.i. to be extended: to mount up in quantity or number: to stretch out the hand: to try to obtain: to arrive.—n. act or power of reaching: extent of stretch: extent of force: penetration: artifice: contrivance: a straight portion of a stream between bends: (naut.) the distance traversed between tacks.—adj Reach′able, within reach.—ns. Reach′er, one who reaches; Reach′ing-post, in rope-making, a post fixed at the lower end of a rope-walk.—adjs Reach′less, unattainable; Reach′-me-down, ready-made.—Head reach, the distance to windward traversed by a vessel while tacking. [A.S. rǽcan; Ger. reichen, to reach.]
Marine DictionaryUniversal Dictionary of the Marine ⚓️
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(ræcan, Sax.) the line, or distance, comprehended between any two points or stations on the banks of a river, wherein the current flows in a streight uninterrupted course.
Sailor's Word-BookThe Sailor's Word-Book ⛵
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A straight part of a navigable river; the distance between any two elbows on the banks, wherein the current flows in uninterrupted course.
