reach
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: boxing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
nautical
politics
sports
transport
war
Etymology: From Middle English rechen, from Old English rǣċan (“to reach”), from Proto-West Germanic *raikijan, from Proto-Germanic *raikijaną, from the Proto-Indo-European *Hreyǵ- (“to bind, reach”).
Cognate with Dutch reiken, German reichen.
Inflected forms:
form: reaches
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: reaching
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: reached
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: reached
pos: verb
tags: past
form: raught
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
participle
past
form: raught
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: reach
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: reach
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: reached
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: raught
pos: verb
tags: archaic
first-person
past
singular
form: rought
pos: verb
tags: archaic
first-person
past
singular
form: retcht
pos: verb
tags: archaic
first-person
past
singular
form: reach
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: reachest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: reached
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: reachedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: raught
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: raughtest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: retcht
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: retchtest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: reaches
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: reacheth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: reached
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: raught
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
singular
third-person
form: rought
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
singular
third-person
form: retcht
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
singular
third-person
form: reach
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: reached
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: raught
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
plural
form: rought
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
plural
form: retcht
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
plural
form: reach
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: reached
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: raught
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
subjunctive
form: rought
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
subjunctive
form: retcht
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
subjunctive
form: reach
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: reaching
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: reached
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: raught
pos: verb
tags: archaic
participle
past
form: rought
pos: verb
tags: archaic
participle
past
form: retcht
pos: verb
tags: archaic
participle
past
form: reaches
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To extend, stretch, or thrust out (for example a limb or object held in the hand).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: He reached for a weapon that was on the table.
He reached for his shoe with his legs.
gloss: To give to someone by stretching out a limb, especially the hand; to give with the hand; to pass to another person; to hand over.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to reach someone a book
When Svend Fælling had promised to do so, saying that he thought himself strong and active enough for the encounter, the Troll reached him a heavy iron bar, and bade him show his strength on that.
gloss: To stretch out the hand.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To attain or obtain by stretching forth the hand; to extend some part of the body, or something held, so as to touch, strike, grasp, etc.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to reach an object with the hand, or with a spear
“I can't quite reach the pepper. Could you pass it to me?”
The gun was stored in a small box on a high closet shelf, but the boy managed to reach it by climbing on other boxes.
gloss: To strike or touch.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: His bullet reached its intended target.
gloss: To extend an action, effort, or influence to; to penetrate to; to pierce, or cut.
pos: verb
tags: broadly
transitive
examples: A few words, lovingly, encouragingly spoken failed to reach her heart.
Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair.
gloss: To extend to; to stretch out as far as; to touch by virtue of extent.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: his hand reaches the river
When the forest reaches the river, you will be able to rest.
Thy desire […] leads to no excess / That reaches blame.
Patent filings for neural networks grew at a rate of 46 percent from 2013 to 2016, reaching 6,506, the study found.
gloss: To arrive at (a place) by effort of any kind.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: After three years, he reached the position of manager.
The climbers reached the top of the mountain after a gruelling ten-day hike.
I am very Senſible, the beſt accounts of the Appearances of Nature (in any ſingle Inſtance hovv minute or ſimple ſoever) Humane Penetration can reach, comes infinitely ſhort of its reality, and internal Conſtitution; for vvho can ſearch out the Almighty, or his vvorks to Perfection.
But Miss Thorn relieved the situation by laughing aloud,[…]. By the time we reached the house we were thanking our stars she had come. Mrs. Cooke came out from under the port-cochere to welcome her.
On the trip out our car was full of railway workers, going out to work on the Lanchow-Sinkiang Railway which had already reached Yumen, China’s biggest oil field, and in 1960 will connect with the Soviet Union’s Turkestan-Siberia Railway; or to the Lanchow-Yinchuan section, which cuts through the Great Wall to reach Yinchuan, a major wool, hide and skin trading center in the Northwest.
gloss: To make contact with.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: I tried to reach you all day.
gloss: To connect with (someone) on an emotional level, making them receptive of (one); to get through to (someone).
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: What will it take for me to reach him?
Whether by design or driven by the force of circumstances, they have always directed their main effort toward gaining the support of this "elite," while the more conservative groups have acted, as regularly but unsuccessfully, on a more naive view of mass democracy and have usually vainly tried directly to reach and to persuade the individual voter.
gloss: To arrive at a particular destination.
pos: verb
tags: India
Singapore
intransitive
examples: The particulars that reach from Eastern Bengal require corroboration.
I reached at the right time.
It should be noted that Hare Krishna Konar, an arch leftist, could not vote on the Bhupesh Gupta—S.K. Achaiya issue as he reached late.
In the event of your statement reaching later than 6th March, there will be chances of your requirement left and leading to difficulty of having to explain your excess or saving being as the case may be.
I suggest taking an earlier bus (say 6:00 p.m.), reaching at around midnight, then taking a taxi (might even be able to catch the last MRT) to Changi.
When we reached at 7.30 a.m., we saw groups of men and women bracing themselves for the day's events by writing out posters or painting placards.
Once we reached, we parked our cars beneath the trees and started trekking up the hill after a brief round of introductions.
gloss: To continue living until or up to (a certain age).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: You can only access the inheritance money when you reach the age of 25.
gloss: To understand; to comprehend.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: Do what, sir? I reach you not.
gloss: To strain after something; to make (sometimes futile or pretentious) efforts.
pos: verb
examples: Reach for your dreams.
Reach for the stars!
Repetitious comments are other examples of introjects that we take on as if they were truths. These include: You're lazy; you're selfish; you'll never amount to anything; you have big dreams; don't you think you're reaching a bit; try something more attainable; you were never good in math; you're not quick on your feet; you're oblivious to the world around you.
gloss: To extend in dimension, time etc.; to stretch out continuously (past, beyond, above, from etc. something).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The Thembu tribe reaches back for twenty generations to King Zwide.
gloss: To sail on the wind, as from one point of tacking to another, or with the wind nearly abeam.
pos: verb
gloss: To arrive at a particular destination, especially to join someone; to meet up.
pos: verb
tags: Multicultural-London-English
slang
examples: What time you reaching tomorrow?
If you're calling out at your homies to come over and hang out, you just simply say "reach."
gloss: The act of stretching or extending; extension.
pos: noun
gloss: The ability to reach or touch with the person, a limb, or something held or thrown.
pos: noun
examples: The fruit is beyond my reach.
to be within reach of cannon shot
[…] and we have learned not to fire at any of the dinosaurs unless we can keep out of their reach for at least two minutes after hitting them in the brain or spine, or five minutes after puncturing their hearts—it takes them so long to die.
You like to hear about gold.
A king filled his prison room
As full as the room could hold
To the top of his reach on the wall
With every known shape of the stuff.
gloss: The power of stretching out or extending action, influence, or the like; power of attainment or management; extent of force or capacity.
pos: noun
examples: Drawn by others who had deeper reaches than themselves to matters which they least intended.
Be sure yourself and your own reach to know.
gloss: Extent; stretch; expanse; hence, application; influence; result; scope.
pos: noun
examples: And on the left hand, hell, / With long reach, interposed.
I am to pray you not to strain my speech / To grosser issues, nor to larger reach / Than to suspicion.
While points measure the number of times the average person in a group sees an ad, reach measures the percentage of people in a group that see an ad at least once. Increasing the reach of an ad becomes increasingly expensive as you go along (for the mathematically inclined, it is an exponential function).
gloss: An exaggeration; an extension beyond evidence or normal; a stretch.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: To call George eloquent is certainly a reach.
gloss: The distance a boxer's arm can extend to land a blow.
pos: noun
gloss: Any point of sail in which the wind comes from the side of a vessel, excluding close-hauled.
pos: noun
gloss: The distance traversed between tacks.
pos: noun
gloss: A stretch of a watercourse which can be sailed in one reach (in the previous sense). An extended portion of water; a stretch; a straightish portion of a stream, river, or arm of the sea extending up into the land, as from one turn to another. By extension, the adjacent land.
pos: noun
examples: the gulfe Iasius, and all the coast thereof is very full of creekes and reaches.
The river's wooded reach.
The reaches opened before us and closed behind, as if the forest had stepped leisurely across the water to bar the way for our return.
All three parallel valleys of the Llynvi, Garw and Ogmore are much the same in physical character: the lower reaches are wooded and not unattractive, but as the railway climbs on ever-steepening grades, the hills on either hand grow barer and closer together, while in all respects the scene becomes more sombre, with the terraced, slate-roofed colliery towns and the road, railway and river all struggling for space in the narrowing defiles.
December 2011, Dan Houston, Sailing a classic yacht on the Thames, Classic Boat Magazine
Close-hauled past flats at Island Gardens opposite the old Royal Naval College at Greenwich we’d been making more than seven knots over the ground and we came close enough to touch the wall. It had felt like roller-blading – long lee-bowed boards down the reaches of this historic river. They have such great names: Bugsby’s Reach, Gallions [Reach], Fiddler’s [Reach] or the evocative Lower Hope [Reach].
gloss: A level stretch of a watercourse, as between rapids in a river or locks in a canal. (examples?)
pos: noun
gloss: An extended portion or area of land or water.
pos: noun
examples: Lower down, in a little reach of the lagoon there grew a clump of casuarinas, those timid isolates that withdraw from other trees, selecting their own privacy, which is for ever whispering secrets up in their feathery fronds, set in motion by the slightest breeze.
2002, Russell Allen, "Incantations of the Apprentice", on Symphony X, The Odyssey.
Through eerie reach of ancient woods / Where lumbering mists arise / I journey for nines moons of the year / To where a land of legend lies
gloss: An article to obtain an advantage.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: The Duke of Parma had particular reaches and ends of his own, under hand, to cross the design.
gloss: The pole or rod connecting the rear axle with the forward bolster of a wagon.
pos: noun
examples: They leaped ahead just as Ruth came to the side of the long reach that connected the small pair of front wheels with the huge wheels in the rear.
Derived words: areach
atreach
broad-reaching
far-reaching
farreaching
forereach
highreaching
misreach
outreach
overreach
reachability
reachable
reach across the aisle
reach an early grave
reach down
reacher
reach for
reach for the moon
reach for the skies
reach for the sky
reach for the stars
reach-me-down
reach out
reach past
reach rock bottom
reach-through
rereach
underreach
unreach
unreachable
unreached
upreach
when I hear the word culture, I reach for my gun
Translations:
lang: Southern Altai
word: једер
roman: ǰeder
lang: Arabic
word: بَلَغَ
roman: balaḡa
lang: Azerbaijani
word: çatmaq
lang: Azerbaijani
word: gəlib-çatmaq
lang: Azerbaijani
word: yetmək
lang: Belarusian
word: дахо́дзіць
roman: daxódzicʹ
lang: Belarusian
word: дайсці́
roman: dajscí
lang: Belarusian
word: даязджа́ць
roman: dajazdžácʹ
lang: Belarusian
word: дае́хаць
roman: dajéxacʹ
lang: Belizean Creole
word: reech
lang: Bulgarian
word: дости́гам
roman: dostígam
lang: Bulgarian
word: дости́гна
roman: dostígna
lang: Buryat
word: хүрэхэ
roman: xürexe
lang: Cebuano
word: abot
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 到達 /到达
roman: dàodá
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 抵達 /抵达
roman: dǐdá
lang: Ngazidja Comorian
word: uhondra
lang: Czech
word: dorazit
lang: Czech
word: dojet
lang: Danish
word: nå
lang: Danish
word: nå frem til
lang: Dutch
word: bereiken
lang: Esperanto
word: atingi
lang: Finnish
word: saavuttaa
lang: French
word: atteindre
lang: French
word: arriver à
lang: German
word: erreichen
lang: Gothic
word: 𐍆𐌰𐌹𐍂𐍂𐌹𐌽𐌽𐌰𐌽
roman: fairrinnan
lang: Greek
word: φτάνω
roman: ftáno
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ἱκάνω
roman: hikánō
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ἀφικνέομαι
roman: aphiknéomai
lang: Hindi
word: पहुँचना
roman: pahũcnā
lang: Hungarian
word: elér
lang: Hungarian
word: odaér
lang: Ingrian
word: tavata
lang: Ingrian
word: päässä
lang: Interlingua
word: arrivar a
lang: Irish
word: ionsaigh
lang: Irish
word: sroich
lang: Italian
word: raggiungere
lang: Italian
word: avvicinare
lang: Italian
word: contattare
lang: Japanese
word: 達する
roman: tassuru
lang: Japanese
word: 到達する
roman: tōtatsu suru
lang: Japanese
word: 到着する
roman: tōchaku suru
lang: Kalmyk
word: күрх
roman: kürx
lang: Korean
word: 달하다
roman: dalhada
lang: Korean
word: 도달하다
roman: dodalhada
lang: Korean
word: 도착하다
roman: dochakhada
lang: Latin
word: pervenio
lang: Malayalam
word: എത്തുക
roman: ettuka
lang: Māori
word: tapotu
lang: Mongolian
word: хүрэх
roman: xürex
lang: Norwegian
word: rekke
lang: Polish
word: docierać
lang: Polish
word: dotrzeć
lang: Portuguese
word: chegar
lang: Portuguese
word: alcançar
lang: Portuguese
word: atingir
lang: Romanian
word: ajunge
lang: Russian
word: доходи́ть
roman: doxodítʹ
lang: Russian
word: дойти́
roman: dojtí
lang: Russian
word: прибыва́ть
roman: pribyvátʹ
lang: Russian
word: прибы́ть
roman: pribýtʹ
lang: Upper Sorbian
word: dóńć
lang: Spanish
word: llegar
lang: Spanish
word: alcanzar
lang: Spanish
word: conseguir
lang: Swedish
word: nå
lang: Swedish
word: nå fram till
lang: Tamil
word: போய்சேர்
roman: pōycēr
lang: Tocharian B
word: yäm-
lang: Turkish
word: ulaşmak
lang: Turkish
word: erişmek
lang: Tuvan
word: чедер
roman: çeder
lang: Ugaritic
word: 𐎎𐎙𐎊
roman: mġy
lang: Ukrainian
word: дохо́дити
roman: doxódyty
lang: Ukrainian
word: дійти́
roman: dijtý
lang: Ukrainian
word: доїжджа́ти
roman: dojiždžáty
lang: Ukrainian
word: дої́хати
roman: dojíxaty