reach
/ɹiːt͡ʃ/ noun B1- The act of stretching or extending; extension.
- The ability to reach or touch with the person, a limb, or something held or thrown. · The fruit is beyond my reach.· to be within reach of cannon shot
- The power of stretching out or extending action, influence, or the like; power of attainment or management; extent of force or capacity.
- Extent; stretch; expanse; hence, application; influence; result; scope.
- An exaggeration; an extension beyond evidence or normal; a stretch. · To call George eloquent is certainly a reach.
- The distance a boxer's arm can extend to land a blow.
- Any point of sail in which the wind comes from the side of a vessel, excluding close-hauled.
- The distance traversed between tacks.
Plural reaches
Phrasal verbs and expressions
From the library
Too high for me to reach myself.
Reach down a hand, my dear, and take
when she got to the door, she found she had forgotten the little golden key, and when she went back to the table for it, she found she could not possibly reach it: she could see it quite plainly through the glass, and she tried her best to climb up one of the legs of the table, but it was too slippery; and when she had tired herself out with trying, the poor little thing sat down and cried.
“Well, I’ll eat it,” said Alice, “and if it makes me grow larger, I can reach the key; and if it makes me grow smaller, I can creep under the door; so either way I’ll get into the garden, and I don’t care which happens!”
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