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The ability to reach or touch with the person, a limb, or something held or thrown.

(boxing) The distance a boxer's arm can extend to land a blow.

(nautical) Any point of sail in which the wind comes from the side of a vessel, excluding close-hauled.

The pole or rod connecting the rear axle with the forward bolster of a wagon.

An effort to vomit; a retching.

To extend; to stretch; to thrust out; to put forth, as a limb, a member, something held, or the like.
1. He reached for a weapon that was on the table.   He reached for his shoe with his legs. ‎

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. ‎

To strike or touch with a missile.

Hence, to extend an action, effort, or influence to; to penetrate to; to pierce, or cut, as far as.

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.

To extend to; to stretch out as far as; to touch by virtue of extent.

To arrive at by effort of any kind; to attain to; to gain; to be advanced to.

OBS To overreach; to deceive.

To stretch out the hand.

VI To extend in dimension, time etc.; to stretch out continuously (past, beyond, above, from etc. something).

(nautical) To sail on the wind, as from one point of tacking to another, or with the wind nearly abeam.

To experience a vomiting reflex; to gag; to retch.

Plus d'exemples

Utilisé au milieu de la phrase
- She thrust her yamstick into the hard ground to reach the prized tuber.
- An overfired glaze often blisters by the volatilization of part of its composition. It also reaches a stage where its viscosity is too low to keep it on the pot.
- In the first case (c1), a ray hits the surface pocket before reaching the ligand: this indicates underpacking in the protein-ligand interface.
Utilisé au début de la phrase
- Reaching the level of akarma, the level of acting in spiritual consciousness, is the challenge for every human being.
Utilisé dans la fin de la phrase
- Put your book in front where it will be easier to reach.

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