Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word REACH

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Definitions of REACH

1. To strain after something; to make (sometimes futile or pretentious) efforts.
2. The act of stretching or extending; extension.
3. The ability to reach or touch with the person, a limb, or something held or thrown.
4. The power of stretching out or extending action, influence, or the like; power of attainment or management; extent of force or capacity.
5. Extent; stretch; expanse; hence, application; influence; result; scope.
6. A level stretch of a watercourse, as between rapids in a river or locks in a canal. (examples?)
7. An extended portion or area of land or water.
8. The pole or rod connecting the rear axle with the forward bolster of a wagon.
9. (intransitive) To extend, stretch, or thrust out (for example a limb or object held in the hand).
10. (transitive) 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.
11. (intransitive) To stretch out the hand.
12. (transitive) 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.
13. (transitive, of a missile) To strike or touch.
14. (transitive, by extension) To extend an action, effort, or influence to; to penetrate to; to pierce, or cut.
15. (transitive) To extend to; to stretch out as far as; to touch by virtue of extent.
16. (transitive) To arrive at (a place) by effort of any kind.
17. (transitive, figurative) To make contact with.
18. (transitive, figurative) To connect with (someone) on an emotional level, making them receptive of (one); to get through to (someone).
19. (intransitive, India, Singapore) To arrive at a particular destination.
20. (transitive) To continue living until or up to (a certain age).
21. (obsolete) To understand; to comprehend.
22. (intransitive) To extend in dimension, time etc.; to stretch out continuously (past, beyond, above, from etc. something).
23. (nautical) To sail on the wind, as from one point of tacking to another, or with the wind nearly abeam.
24. (slang, MTE, MLE) To arrive at a particular destination, especially to join someone; to meet up.
25. (informal) An exaggeration; an extension beyond evidence or normal; a stretch.
26. (boxing) The distance a boxer's arm can extend to land a blow.
27. (nautical) Any point of sail in which the wind comes from the side of a vessel, excluding close-hauled.
28. (nautical) The distance traversed between tacks.
29. (nautical) 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.
30. (obsolete) An article to obtain an advantage.
31. (obsolete or dialect) Alternative form of retch..
32. Acronym of Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of Chemicals.

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Examples of Using REACH in a Sentence

• Apollo 8 (December 21–27, 1968) was the first crewed spacecraft to leave Earth's gravitational sphere of influence, and the first human spaceflight to reach the Moon.
• Absolute zero is the lowest limit of the thermodynamic temperature scale; a state at which the enthalpy and entropy of a cooled ideal gas reach their minimum value.
• Affinity marketing, a method of extending market reach by forming partnerships and cross-selling relationships.
• The original Athlon (now called Athlon Classic) was the first seventh-generation x86 processor and the first desktop processor to reach speeds of one gigahertz (GHz).
• The northeastern parts reach into the Pannonian basin, while in the south it borders the Adriatic Sea.
• To achieve a hit, the batter must reach first base before any fielder can either tag him with the ball, throw to another player protecting the base before the batter reaches it, or tag first base while carrying the ball.
• A broadcast domain is a logical division of a computer network, in which all nodes can reach each other by broadcast at the data link layer.
• They emigrated from the Cape to live beyond the reach of the British colonial administration, with their reasons for doing so primarily being the new Anglophone common law system being introduced into the Cape and the British abolition of slavery in 1833.
• In 1960, it became the first crewed vessel to reach the bottom of Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench, the deepest point in Earth's seabed.
• The Cook Islands are named after Captain James Cook, who visited the islands in 1773 and 1777, although Spanish navigator Alvaro de Mendaña was the first European to reach the islands in 1595.
• Chain reactions are one way that systems which are not in thermodynamic equilibrium can release energy or increase entropy in order to reach a state of higher entropy.
• Furthermore, the country has recently built a 175-km long two-lane expressway that runs between Bata and President Obiang Nguema International Airport, and it is expected to soon reach the city of Mongomo, located on the border with Gabon.
• The end of the world or end times is predicted by several world religions (both Abrahamic and non-Abrahamic), which teach that negative world events will reach a climax.
• The "Final Solution to the Jewish question" was the official code name for the murder of all Jews within reach, which was not restricted to the European continent.
• 5 hectares with trees higher than 5 meters and a canopy cover of more than 10 percent, or trees able to reach these thresholds in situ.
• Those kingdoms are spread across nine regions: the North, the Iron Islands, the Riverlands, the Vale, the Westerlands, the Stormlands, the Reach, the Crownlands, and Dorne.
• In the 19th century, it was a popular seaside resort, as the railway allowed tourists and visitors to reach the town.
• The young develop through holometabolism (complete metamorphosis)—that is, they have a wormlike larval stage and an inactive pupal stage before they reach adulthood.
• In baseball, a home run, homerun or homer (abbreviated HR) is scored when the ball is hit in such a way that the batter is able to circle the bases and reach home plate safely in one play without any errors being committed by the defensive team.
• To travel between stars within a reasonable amount of time (decades or centuries), an interstellar spacecraft must reach a significant fraction of the speed of light, requiring enormous energy.

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