Reach

Definition: Reach

Reach

Noun

1. The limits within which something can be effective; "range of motion"; "he was beyond the reach of their fire".

2. An area in which something acts or operates or has power or control: "the range of a supersonic jet"; "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".

3. The act of physically reaching or thrusting out.

4. The limit of capability; "within the compass of education".

Verb

1. Reach a destination, either real or abstract; "We hit Detroit by noon"; "The water reached the doorstep"; "We barely made the plane"; "I have to hit the MAC machine before the weekend starts".

2. Reach a point in time, or a certain state or level; "The thermometer hit 100 degrees"; "This car can reach a speed of 140 miles per hour".

3. Move forward or upward in order to touch; also in a metaphorical sense: "Government reaches out to the people".

4. Be in communication with, establish communication with; "Our advertisements reach millions"; "He never contacted his children after he emigrated to Australia".

5. To gain with effort: "she achieved her goal despite setbacks.".

6. To extend as far as, "The sunlight reached the wall";"Can he reach?".

7. Reach a goal, e.g., "make the first team"; "We made it!" "She may not make the grade".

8. Place into the hands or custody of; "Turn the files over to me, please"; "He turned over the prisoner to his lawyers".

9. To exert much effort or energy: "straining our ears to hear.".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "reach" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Note: Reach \Reach\, transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Reached( Raught, the old preterit, is obsolete); Reaching.]. (references)

Satire

Business

Food & Agriculture

Geography

Hydrologic

Industry

Literature

Mining

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

REACH

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Reach

Arrival

Verb: arrive; get to, come to; come; reach, attain; come up with, come up to; overtake, make, fetch; complete; join, rejoin.

Authority

Hold, grasp; grip, gripe; reach; iron sway; (severity); fangs, clutches, talons; rod of empire; (scepter).

Completion

Ripen, culminate; come to a head, come to a crisis; come to its end; die a natural death, die of old age; run its course, run one's race; touch the goal, reach the goal, attain the goal; reach; (arrive); get in the harvest.

Deception

Trick, cheat, wile, blind, feint, plant, bubble, fetch, catch, chicane, juggle, reach, hocus, bite; card sharping, stacked deck, loaded dice, quick shuffle, double dealing, dealing seconds, dealing from the bottom of the deck; artful dodge, swindle; tricks upon travelers; stratagem; (artifice); confidence trick, fake, hoax; theft; ballot-box stuffing barney, brace game, bunko game, drop game, gum game, panel game; shell game, thimblerig; skin game.

Degree

Noun: degree, grade, extent, measure, amount, ratio, stint, standard, height, pitch; reach, amplitude, range, scope, caliber; gradation, shade; tenor, compass; sphere, station, rank, standing; rate, way, sort.

Distance

Noun: distance; space; remoteness, farness, far-cry to; longinquity, elongation; offing, background; remote region; removedness; parallax; reach, span, stride.

River

Spring, artesian well, fount, fountain; rill, rivulet, gill, gullet, rillet; streamlet, brooklet; branch; runnel, sike, burn, beck, creek, brook, bayou, stream, river; reach, tributary.

Taking

Catch at, jump at, make a grab at, snap at, snatch at; reach, make a long arm, stretch forth one's hand.

Transference

Verb: transfer, transmit, transport, transplace, transplant, translocate; convey, carry, bear, fetch and carry; carry over, ferry over; hand pass, forward; shift; conduct, convoy, bring, fetch, reach; tote; port, import, export.

Crosswords: Reach

Pidgin English (to reach).

Inside this building there is a level where no elevator can go, and no stair can reach. This level is filled with doors (The Matrix Reloaded; writing credit: Andy Wachowski; Larry Wachowski)

We've been frantically trying to reach you, Dude (The Big Lebowski; writing credit: Ethan Coen; Joel Coen)

If you reach for that gun, I'll kill you. (Rush Hour 2; writing credit: Jeff Nathanson)

I'm lookin' out for you when I reach the top. I'm gonna make you mayor (Rush Hour; writing credit: Jim Kouf)

Big guy, big reach. Skinny guys fight 'til they're burger (Fight Club; writing credit: Jim Uhls)

If I could reach higher (REACH; performing artist: Gloria Estefan)

Until You Reach The Shore (Rock the Boat; performing artist: Aaliyah)

Reach for a star and I'll show you a plan (Lost In Love; performing artist: Air Supply)

And then I see you reach for me (When I See You Smile; performing artist: Bad English)

I reach for you (Heaven Is A Place On Earth; performing artist: Belinda Carlisle)

The severity of the itch is inversely proportional to the ability to reach it. (references; author: unknown)

Some people reach the top of the ladder of success only to find it is leaning against the wrong wall. (references; author: unknown)

Reach for the Stars (1967)

Old Man of Chelsea Reach (1965)

Reach for Glory (1962)

S Club 7: Reach (2000)

Just Out of Reach (1998)

REACH OUT I'LL BE THERE  (performing artist: Four Tops )

Reach Out of The Darkness (performing artist: Friend and Lover)

Reach (performing artist: Gloria Estefan)

Reach Out, I'll Be There (performing artist: The Four Tops)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Dealing with Conflict and Confrontation: How to Keep Your Cool, Stand Your Ground and Reach a Positive Resolution (reference)

• Reach for the Sky: The Story of Douglas Bader, Legless Ace of the Battle of Britain (Bluejacket Books) (reference)

• How To Reach and Teach Children and Teens with Dyslexia : A Parent and Teacher Guide to Helping Students of All Ages Academically, Socially, and Emotionally (reference)

• How to Reach Secular People (reference)

• How to Reach and Teach Add/Adhd Children: Practical Techniques, Strategies, and Interventions for Helping Children With Attention Problems and Hyper (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Arts Reach (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Kathy Ireland: Reach (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Reach for the Sky (reference)

• Reach Out (reference)

• Reach Up & Touch the Sky: Live [LIVE] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Reach for the Stars (reference)

• Compucable Power Reach PC Controller 4-1 4 Computer To 1 Mon/Kbd/Mouse with Osd (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• PANASONIC EV299W Hand Held Reach Easy Swing Massager (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Taxol, found in the bark of the pacific yew tree (taxus brevifolin), is a promising anti-cancer drug. It takes 30,000 pounds of bark (2,000-4,000 trees) to produce one kilogram of taxol. The tree had to be sacrificed to produce the bark. It can take decades for pacific yew to reach shoulder height, small trees yield less bark. Alternatives for producing taxol are being explored. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Scott Gudes prepares to bury a dead pelican. Pelicans are one of the bird species that become entangled in discarded monofilament fishing line. The birds are trapped by the line when it wraps around their legs and can not fly to hunt for food or reach water. Death is prolonged and painful. The monofilament clean up removes line from the roosting sites to protect birds from entanglement. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Immediately after installation of the fishway, water rushes through the Alaskan Steep Pass. This fishway will allow anadromous fish to reach their spawning habitat. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

An old fish ladder and pond are aesthetically beautiful but were not reliable or durable enough to help anadromous fish navigate past the dam at Parker River. The new fish ladder is cost-effective and will allow continued reliable access for anadromous fish to reach the spawning grounds in Parker River. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

This image shows the big stumps of the Brazilian Peppers that have been cut to make way for mangroves. Brazilian Pepper bushes can reach twenty feet in height. During the restoration, bushes as big as 9" in diameter were cleared to provide habitat for mangroves to recolonize. Without restoration efforts to clear Brazilian Pepper, the bush could take over mangrove habitat in two years time. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Airman experiences Global Reach mission firsthand.

More and more citizens are voluntarily labeling storm sewers to discourage people from dumping any pollutants into them that would eventually reach water supplies. Credit: Amy Smith.

Frog on toadstool at Spruce Reach Island. Credit: C. Garland.

Meadow at Spruce Reach Island. Credit: J. Brende.

Tree at Spruce Reach Island. Credit: J. Brende.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

The power of the father doth not reach at all to the property of the child, which is only in his own disposing. (Second Treatise of Government)

The Director shall act as the Secretary of the Conference, and shall transmit the agenda so as to reach the Members four months before the meeting of the Conference, and, through them, the non-Government Delegates when appointed. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

I did not know how I could reach him, where I could overtake him and go on hand in hand with him once more

They sent two ambassadors, to make sure that their invitation to me, to be their new King, should reach me.

A wonderful quietness would decend on the surrounding countryside, peacefull and serene, eminating from this transfigured man. Slowly the dear would approch, step by step, until it was almost nuzzling him, whereupon Ford Prefect would reach out to it and break it's neck

It had shown him where to set his foot, while the light of earth was fast becoming dim, and ere the light of futurity could reach him.

She took his head in both her hands, rising on tiptoe to reach his height, and striving to see his hope in his eyes

He kept on the fringe of his line, out of sight of his prefect, out of the reach of the rude feet, feigning to run now and then

If thou wilt outstrip death, go cross the seas, And live with Richmond, from the reach of hell

Why, you can reach out anywhere and pick an orange

My wife ran out to embrace me, but I stooped lower than her knees, thinking she could otherwise never be able to reach my mouth

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Try to keep the things you need within easy reach. (references)

In humans, however, they fail to reach the intestine. (references)

Make sure that wheelchair users can reach the toilet easily. (references)

Business

The cost is expected to reach USD 150-200 million. (references)

It is not certain when the industry will reach that level. (references)

Radio promotion is also an effective way to reach farmers. (references)

Children

Swaziland

Most students reach grade 7, which is the last year in primary school. (references)

Congo

Widespread poverty puts basic education out of the reach of many families. (references)

Togo

Approximately 3 percent of boys and 0.6 percent of girls reach the university level. (references)

Civil Liberties

Botswana

GBC broadcasts reach viewers only in the capital area. (references)

Sri Lanka

Groups of military personnel sometimes use civilian ships to reach Jaffna. (references)

Poland

Efforts continued during the year to reach a resolution acceptable to all concerned. (references)

Discrimination

Samoa

While there is discrimination against women and nonmatai, who only occasionally may reach high office, women (and particularly female matai) play an important role in society. (references)

Economic History

Norway

It will reach five weeks by 2003 years. (references)

Somalia

The Shebelle, however, does not reach the sea. (references)

Human Rights

Congo

Some cases never reach the court system. (references)

Antigua and Barbuda

Courts can reach verdicts quickly, with some cases coming to conclusion in a matter of days. (references)

Bangladesh

The High Court ordered his release on three separate occasions, but the orders did not reach the jail authorities. (references)

Indigenous People

Australia

The Tribunal also acts as an arbitrator in some cases where the parties cannot reach agreement about proposed mining or other development of land. (references)

Political Economy

ALGERIA

Total Algerian imports in 2001 are expected to reach US$ 10 billion. (references)

El Salvador

The rate of real economic growth was estimated to reach 2 percent during the year. (references)

Political Rights

Samoa

The percentage of women in government and politics does not correspond to their percentage of the population; however, they occasionally reach high public office. (references)

Trade

Armenia

The final size of the Fund is expected to reach $92 million. (references)

Egypt

The guarantee can reach up to 80% of the importer's outstanding debt. (references)

Travel

Slovak Rep

Often mail or faxes do not reach recipients in a timely manner. (references)

Cote D'ivoire

CI-Telcom officials project that the number of subscribers will reach 410,000 within the next three years. (references)

Ukraine

Train travel is the least expensive and most convenient method to reach just about any location in Ukraine. (references)

Women

Samoa

Rape cases that reach the courts are treated seriously. (references)

Chad

The various religious and ethnic communities could not reach any consensus. (references)

Pakistan

A father is bound to maintain his children until they reach the age of 14 for males, or 16 for females. (references)

Worker Rights

Haiti

Among those who have, only 2 percent reach secondary school. (references)

Romania

Women were trafficked through Macedonia and Bulgaria to reach Greece and other countries. (references)

Jamaica

An independent Industrial Disputes Tribunal (IDT) hears cases where management and labor fail to reach agreement. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "reach": a long reach ♦ active reach ♦ affluent reach ♦ Arm's reach ♦ bed load exchange reach ♦ beyond the reach of ♦ degrading reach ♦ easy reach ♦ easy to reach ♦ erosion reach ♦ hard to reach ♦ make a reach for smth. ♦ out of reach ♦ reach a compromise ♦ reach a conclusion ♦ reach a consensus ♦ reach a decision ♦ reach a midway point in smth. ♦ reach a new high ♦ reach a peak ♦ reach across ♦ reach adulthood ♦ reach after ♦ reach after fame ♦ reach an agreement ♦ reach an impasse ♦ reach at ♦ reach back ♦ reach bedrock ♦ reach boiling point ♦ reach down ♦ reach down to ♦ reach for ♦ reach for the moon ♦ reach for the sky ♦ reach for the sky! ♦ reach forth ♦ reach forward ♦ reach gradually ♦ reach into ♦ reach its peak ♦ reach manhood ♦ reach me that newspaper ♦ reach no conclusion ♦ reach on impasse ♦ reach one's ears ♦ reach one's goal ♦ reach one's nostrils ♦ reach out ♦ reach out for ♦ reach over ♦ reach port ♦ reach puberty ♦ reach sixty ♦ reach smb. by rhone ♦ reach smb.'s ears ♦ reach the age limit ♦ reach the bottom ♦ reach the halfway point ♦ reach the middle ♦ reach the peak ♦ reach through ♦ reach understanding with smb. ♦ reach up ♦ snatch a grace beyond the reach of art ♦ stretch out to reach smth. ♦ To reach after ♦ to reach at ♦ to reach for ♦ unstable reach ♦ upper reach ♦ within easy reach ♦ within reach. Additional references.

Beginning with "reach": reach-fall-reach, reach-for-the-moon, reach-in, reach-me-down, reach-me-downs, reach-reverse-circle-thrust-reverse-circle, reach-reverse-thrust, reach-reverse-thrust-withdraw.

Ending with "reach": extended-reach, hard-to-reach, out-reach.

Containing "reach": far-reach-ing.

Afrikaans

presteer (accomplish, achieve, attain, get), bereik (accomplish, achieve, attain, get, range), behaal (accomplish, achieve, acquire, attain, earn, gain, get, obtain, win). (various references)

Albanian

rreze e veprimit, arritje (accomplishment, achievement, acquirement, arrival, attainment, effort, success), dorëzoj (cede, consign, deliver, devolve, disgorge, get through, give, give back, give over, give up, hand in, present, serve, turn over, yield), horizont (horizon, scope, skyline, span, width), jap (accord, adjudge, administer, afford, allow, assign, award, bear, bestow, come through, concede, deliver, dish, dispense, furnish, get through, give, give in, hand in, impart, land, lend, pay, present, produce, provide, throw, vouchsafe, yield), kap (affect, apprehend, arrest, attack, avail oneself of, captivate, capture, catch, catch on, catch out, catch up, clasp, clutch, cop, embrace, gain, get, get hold of, grab, grapple, grasp, grip, gripe, handle, have, hitch, hold, hook, intercept, nab, nail, nip, nobble, overcome, overtake, pick up, pinch, rummage out, seize, snap, snatch, soak up, swoop, tackle, take, track down, unhang), nivel (class, degree, extent, league, level, Mark, notch, pitch, plane, standard, stream), përfshij (add in, comprehend, comprise, contain, count in, cover, embrace, imply, include, incorporate, involve, mix in, span, store, subsume, sweep), përhapem (dilate, enlarge, expatiate, extend, get about, get along, outspread, overreach, overspread, permeate, pervade, proliferate, Ravel, spill out, spread, transpire), përpjesëtime, prek (adjoin, affect, attack, brush, feel, graze, handle, hit, hurt, move, palpate, penetrate, rub, touch, touch on, touch upon), arrij (achieve, aggregate, amount, appear, arrive, attain, catch, catch up, come, come at, come off, develop, end up, exact, gain, gain on, get, get along, get around, get at, get down, get on, get through, go in for, grow up, hit, make, obtain, overreach, overtake, run up, seek for, steal, succeed, take, take care, top, total, touch), shkoj deri, zgjatoj (elongate, hold out, lengthen, linger, prolong, protract), shpërndahem (break up, disband, disperse, dissipate, grow dim, lift, outreach, scatter, spread, spread out, straggle, thin), shtresë (bed, coat, coating, course, covering, estate, flake, floor, horizon, layer, nappe, region, seam, sheet, strata, stratum, streak, tract, wash), shtrij (drape, elongate, expand, hold out, push, recline, roll, spread, spread on, stretch, unfold), shtrirje (compass, dimension, elongation, expansion, extension, extent, lie, make believe, prolongation, proportions, rame, ramification, range, scope, spread, spreading, stretch, swing), takoj (attach, belong, chance on, come across, cross, encounter, happen, meet, run up against, salute), transmetoj (air, broadcast, communicate, conduct, give, pipe, put across, relay, telecast, translate, transmit), vrull (Ardor, ardour, burst, career, dash, drive, driving force, elan, flush, furor, fury, ginger, impetuosity, impetus, momentum, pelt, pep, pith, raciness, rage, spasm, spurt, tear, tearing, thrust, vehemence, verve, vigor, vigour, vim, violence, zest, zip), zgjat (delay, elongate, extend, hold out, last, lengthen, let down, linger, postpone, prolong, protract, reach out, spread, stretch, telescope), zgjatem (continue, dwell on, extend, lengthen, linger, lunge, run, stand out, stretch oneself), zgjatje (duration, elongation, extending, extension, lasting, persistence, persistency, prolongation, protraction, protrusion, spreading, stretch, swing, tension), pushtoj (carry, conquer, creep over, enfold, engross, envelop, fold, hog, invade, jump, obsess, overcome, overreach, overrun, overtake, overwhelm, pervade, possess, reduce, reign, rush back, seize, smite, straddle, sweep, take, take a fancy to, take possession of). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كان في متناول اليد, ‏متناول اليد, ‏مجال (area, domain, field, province, purview, range, room, scope, space, stretch), ‏مدى (ambit, amplitude, carry, extent, gage, gauge, incidence, latitude, length, ocean, range, scope, space, stretch, sweep), ‏مد يده للوصول ل, ‏لسان منبسط من جدول أو نهر, ‏قدم (advance, age, antiquity, arrive, be age-old, become old, become timeworn, bring forward, bring out, chip, come, come back, display, extend, foot, get to, give in, move forward, obsolescence, offer, peg, precede, present, produce, proffer, return, set forth, show, submit, tender, turn in), ‏وصل (arrive, attain, befall, butt, check, come, conduct, connect, convey, hook up, joining, joint, ligature, link, make, mark, plumb, receive, result, roll in, show up, steer, touch, voucher), ‏تاول, ‏إمتداد (expansion, extension, extent, length, lengthiness, propagation, protraction, span, spread, stretch, sweep), ‏إمتد (be extended, be prolonged, continue, elongate, expand, extend, lengthen, pervade, range, sprawl, spread, stretch), ‏إتساع (ampleness, boom, breadth, enlargement, expansion, fullness, fulness, generosity, immenseness, immensity, liberality, propagation, roominess, size, span, stretch), ‏إتصل (approach, communicate, connect, contact, join, pertain, relate, respect), ‏بلغ (accomplish, amount, amount to, attain, break, come, compass, find, run to), ‏بسط (couch, distend, expand, expound, extend, extension, facilitate, fine, lay, simplify, spread, state, stretch, unroll, unwind, unwrap, vulgarize). (various references)

Bulgarian 

пространство (amplitude, area, expansion, extent, ground, sheet, space, stretch), достигам (abut upon, achieve, acquire, carry down, come, come by, come down, fetch, gain, greet, grow, hit, scale, turn, win), достъпност (accessibility, negotiability), идвам (accrue, arrive, come, hail, materialize, mature, pop along, pop over, rise, roll around, roll in, roll up, set in), подавам (feed, hand, hold out, lay, pass, pitch, prefer, present, supply, tender, thrust out), повлиявам на (impress, weigh with), постигам (accomplish, achieve, acquire, come, compass, effect, effectuate, get, notch up, realize, secure, turn, turn in, work out), пристигам (arrive, come, come through, get through, hail, land, pull in, roll around, roll round), правя галс, продължавам (carry on, continue, extend, go ahead, go on, keep, keep on, last, lengthen, proceed, produce, prolong, prosecute, protract, push on, resume, spread, stretch), протежение (expanse, extent, length, run, spread, stretch, sweep), протягане (extension, protraction, stretch), простирам (extend, put out, spread, thrust out), дохождам, простиране, съединителна щанга, близост (adjacency, alliance, appetence, appetency, approach, association, closeness, immediacy, impendence, nearness, neighborhood, neighbourhood, propinquity, proximity, vicinity), обсег (ambit, amplitude, area, coverage, extent, field, incidence, length, orb, purview, radius, range, scope, shot, spread, swing), влияние (action, coloring, colouring, credit, dominance, domination, drag, effect, empire, force, grip, gripe, hold, impact, influence, interest, leaven, prestige, pull, punch, purchase, stimulus, sway), въздействие (action, edge, effect, impact, impingement, influence, leaven, repercussions), въздействувам на (work on), възлизам (add to, amount, figure out, run out, run up, tot up, work out), галс (stretch), трогвам (affect, move, penetrate, touch), част на канал между два шлюза, част на река между два завоя, стигам (carry down, come round, go, last, run down, suffice), стигам до (reach down, remount, run into, touch), сфера (area, demesne, globe, orb, province, purview, range, realm, region, scope, sphere), простирам се (continue, go, lie, range, reach down, run, run down, sweep). (various references)

Chinese 

達 (achieve, attain, clear, dignity, inform, notify, pass through, realize), 抵達 (arrive), 伸手可及的距离. (various references)

Czech

rozpìtí (expansion, span, spread), uèinit, tok (confluence, conflux, flow, river, running, stream), sundat (detach, doff, get down, take down, tumble, tumble down, uncover), sahat (come up to, extend, tail back), prostírat se (extend, range, spread, spread out, stretch), podat (deliver, give, hand, hand back, hand down, hand in, hand over, tender), přijet (arrive, come, come up, draw in, ride up), přibìhnout (come), duševní obzor, dosah (compass, coverage, outreach, purview, radius, range, sweep), dosáhnout (attain, climb, fetch, gain, hammer out, manage, touch), dorazit (arrive, finish off), úsek (leg, section, stage, stretch). (various references)

Danish

spredebredde (bout width, carry, spraying width, spreading width, swath, throw, treated swath, width of spread), lige straekning af en flod, lige flodstraekning mellem to krumninger, lamelzone, kanalafsnit. (various references)

Dutch

inhalen (accomplish, achieve, attain, earn back, get, overhaul, overtake, pass, passing, regain, win back), bereiken (accomplish, achieve, attain, get), behalen (accomplish, achieve, acquire, attain, earn, gain, get, obtain, win). (various references)

Esperanto

atingopovo (range), atingi (accomplish, attain, get). (various references)

Faeroese

náa (accomplish, achieve, attain, get), fáa (accomplish, achieve, acquire, attain, be able, be able to, get, harvest, have, obtain, provide, receive). (various references)

Farsi 

ناءل شدن به (Achieve), کشش (Draw, Extension, Haul, Haulage, Inducement, Jerk, Magnetism, Pull, Tension, Tract, Traction, Tug, Twitch), حصول (Recovery), رسیدن به (Overtake, Touch), رساءی (Gamut, Purview, Range, Shot), برد (Range, Win). (various references)

Finnish

saavuttaa (accomplish, achieve, acquire, attain, catch up with, gain, get, obtain, overtake, win). (various references)

French

atteindre, portée, parvenir, bief. (various references)

German

reichen (accomplish, achieve, administer, attain, be enough, carry, extend, get, give, hand, hand over, hold out, last, pass, range, rich, serve, stretch, suffice, wealthy), erreichen (accomplish, achieve, arrive at, attain, catch, contact, gain, get, get at, get to, make, obtain, to achieve, to attain, to obtain, to reach, touch, win), Reichweite (range, scope), greifen (bite, catch, clasp, clutch, grab, grasp, grip, grope, hold, seize, snatch, span, strike, take hold of, to snatch), erzielen (accomplish, achieve, achievement, arrive at, attain, effect, fetch, get, make, obtain, realize, score, secure, set, to obtain, touchdown), erlangen (accomplish, achieve, acquire, attain, gain, get, obtain, securable, to acquire, to attain). (various references)

Greek 

έκταση (area, distention, expanse, expansion, extension, extent, lengthiness, purview, range, scope, spread, stretch, tract), ρατς, φτάνω (arrive, be enough, get through to, get to, get up to), φθάσιμο (access, arrival), φθάνω (arrive, attain, catch up, come, come on, come through, come up to, get, get in, make), εκτείνω (distend, extend, outspread, stretch), εκτείνομαι (extend, outspread, range, stretch), εφικτή απόσταση, ακτίνα δράσης (carry, throw), απόσταση (distance, range), απλώνω το χέρι, τέντωμα (distention, strain, stretch, stretching). (various references)

Guarani

reguahêrõ (when you reach). (various references)

Hebrew 

משרע (gamut, range, span, spectrum, spread), להושיט (hold out, offer, tender), להשיג (accomplish, achieve, acquire, angle, attain, catch hold of, come by, comprehend, fetch, gain, get hold of, grasp, land, obtain, procure, question, secure), להגיע (arrive, come, happen, suffice, touch), לבוא (arrive, come, enter), השיג (achieve), השגה (acquirement, acquisition, attainment, comprehension, conception, objection, obtainment, perception, procurement), השג יד. (various references)

Hungarian

távolság (distance, fetch, mileage, offset, range, remove, ride, space, way), elérés (attainment), hordtávolság (carry, range, rifle-range, rifle-shot, scope, sweep), elér (accomplish, achieve, attain, gain, get, get at, get hold of, got, made, overtake, to attain, to chalk up, to come up with, to get, to make, to realize), elérhetőség (accessibility, availability), földnyelv (bay bar, head, isthmus, neck of land, Ness, spit), hatáskör (ambit, authority, cognizance, competence, competency, extent, function, jurisdiction, limit of power, orbit, pale, province, purview, scope, scope of authority, sphere of action), hatókörzet (scope), hatósugár (radii, radius, radius of action, radius of operation), duzzasztott vízszint, hegyfok (bill, bluff, brow, foreland, head, headland, hoe, naze, ness, promontory), terjedelem (bulk, content, coverage, dimension, expanse, extend, extension, extent, footage, largeness, latitude, magnitude, purview, quantity, range, size, spread, stretching), karhossz, kinyúlás (extension, projection, protrusion, stretching), kiterjedés (ambit, bulk, coverage, dimension, enlargement, expanse, expansion, extend, extension, extent, latitude, measurement, outspread, range, scope, size, spaciousness, spread, stretching), láthatár (sea-line, skyline), megközelíthetőség, tengeröböl (bay, cove), hatótávolság (effective range, radius of action, range). (various references)

Icelandic

skotmál (range), seiling (range), ná til (accomplish, achieve, attain, get), ná í (accomplish, achieve, attain, get), drægi (range). (various references)

Indonesian

merengkuh (attain, gain, get, obtain), mencapai (achieve, attain, gain, realize, see: capai), membentang, jangkauan (range), capai (achieve, attain, tired, weary). (various references)

Inuktitut

tikittuq (to reach). (various references)

Irish

tiocfaidh. (various references)

Italian

portata (carload, carrying capacity, compass, course, delivery capacity, discharge, flow, importance, range, scope, sweep), arrivare (accomplish, achieve, arrive, attain, be reduced to, come, come about, end up, get, go as far as, go so far as, happen, occur, receive, roll in, roll up, to arrive), estendersi (broaden, extend, range, run, splay, stretch, sweep), conseguire (achieve, attain, deduct, ensue, follow, gain, obtain, result). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

リーダー制 (being in the lead, lead, leadership organization, leading, leading case, leading company, leading hitter, leading industry, lead-off man, leech, reachable, read, readability, reading, read-only, reed, song). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

リーチ (leech). (various references)

Korean 

범위 (Range, Ranges, scope, Scopes). (various references)

Malay

mencapai (accomplish, achieve, attain, get), capai (accomplish, achieve, attain, get). (various references)

Manx

sheeyney magh (attenuate, attenuation, distend, distention, expand, expansion, extend, fork out, hold out, lengthen, pass round, prolong, protract, protraction, push out, put out, stretch out, unfold, unfold as landscape), roshtynys (attainment, extent), roshtyn (accede, accession to power, arrive, arriving, attain, come within, reaching), rosh, reirey (administer, administration, casting, dictation, extend, manage, management, order, procuration, serve). (various references)

Papiamen

alkansá (accomplish, achieve, attain, get). (various references)

Pidgin English

reach (to reach). (various references)

Pig Latin

eachray.(various references)

Polish

uzyskać (accomplish, achieve, attain, get), osiągać (accomplish, achieve, attain, get). (various references)

Portuguese

alcance (ability, aptitude, attain, attainability, compasses, competence, competency, embezzlement, extent, grasp, importance, latitude, meaning, overtake, power, purview, radius, range, scope, significance, signification, span, sphere, sweep, talent, theft), obter (accomplish, accrue, achieve, acquire, attain, come to, derive, draw, drew, gain, gather, get, have, make, obtain, pot, procure, pump up, purchase, pursue, receive, secure, to obtain), atingir (accomplish, achieve, arrive, attain, catch, culminate, gain, get, get around, get hold of, hit, import, measure up to, overtake, run, run across, run to, smite, strike, touch), alcançar (accomplish, achieve, acquire, arrive, attain, catch up, come, compass, comprehend, earn, fetch, gain, get, get around, go, obtain, overtake, reach for, run down, touch, understand), abranger (accomplish, achieve, compass, comprehend, comprise, embrace, get, hug, imply, include). (various references)

Romanian

ajunge (accede, accomplish, achieve, arrive, attain, become, bump, come, do, end up, gain, get, hit, land, manage, overtake, secure, suffice, that will do, touch). (various references)

Romansch

cuntanscher (to reach). (various references)

Russian 

достигать (achieve, approached the, aproached the, arrive, attain, gain, get, overreach, reached, reaching, regain, scored). (various references)

Scottish

ruig (accomplish, achieve, arrive at, attain, extend to, get, half castrated ram, so far as, to, until). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ispružiti (crane, extend, put out, reach out, spread out, stretch out), dogurati, dohvat (grasp), dohvatiti (grab), domašaj (range, throw), dopreti, dodati (add, add to, affix, annex, append, hand, lace, pass, subjoin, tack), dostići (achieve, catch up, come to, make), vidokrug (eyeshot, horizon, ken, perspective, sight, view), na dohvat, navršiti (pass, turn), posegnuti (impinge, infringe), predati (commend, commit, consign, deliver, give in, give in charge, give over, hand, hand down, hand over, pass on, surrender), prikupiti (brace, collect, gather in, marshal, rally, summon, whip up), stići (arrive, catch up, come, get, get in, pull in, reach out), dosezanje. (various references)

Spanish

alcanzar (accomplish, achieve, acquire, add up to, amount, arrive at, attain, carry, catch up, catch up with, come up with, do, gain, get, get at, hit, jockey, last out, make up on, obtain, overhaul, overtake, throw in, throw out, touch, win, win through), alcance (chase, compass, extent, grasp, purview, range, scope, shot, size, stretch). (various references)

Swazi

kú-finyélela (to reach). (various references)

Swedish

räcka (be enough, do, endure, file, fill the bill, go on, hand, last, last out, line, pass, pass over, rank, row, series, suffice, turn), nå (attain, carry, come to, fetch, gain, now, well, well then), hinna (attain, catch, coat, coating, find time, have time, integument, involucre, membrane, scum, skin, velum), anlända (arrive, draw in). (various references)

Thai

เอื้อม, ไปถึง (gain, make), บรรลุผลสำเร็จ, การไปถึง, การบรรลุผลสำเร็จ, ติดต่อสื่อสาร (impart), ครอบงำ (domineer, domineering, dwell in), ขอบเขต (border, boundary, circuit, end, extent, limit, orbit, scope, sweep, tether), มาถึง (arrive, get). (various references)

Turkish

kavrayış (comprehension, perspicacity, realization, savvy, understanding), alan (acceptor, ambit, area, arena, buyer, compass, consignee, court, courtyard, domain, extent, field, maidan, pitch, plaza, public square, purchaser, range, realm, recipient, region, scope, space, sphere, square, susceptive, theater, theatre, tract, yard), bulmak (ascertain, clear up, cogitate, contrive, devise, discover, find, go for, happen on, happen upon, hit, invent, meet, obtain, procure, provide with, reason, strike, strike out, study out, turn up), erişme (access, accession, attainment), erişmek (achieve, attain, compass, range), erim (compass, radius, range, shot, stage, sweep), etkilemek (affect, cast a spell on, catch up, concern, dictate, enamor, enamour, enthral, enthrall, glamor, glamour, grip, impinge, impress, imprint, influence, inthral, lead, militate, operate, prepossess, smite, spell, spellbind, sway, thrill, touch, turn, turn smb.'s head), geçirmek (bash, carry, come through, communicate, conduct, Dot, dot smb. one, extrude, fetch, get over, get through, make pass, outstay, pass, pass away, pass on, post, put in, scarf, screw, see off, see smb. to the door, show smb. to the door, slip, spend, spin out, stick, swipe, take in, transfer, transmit, undergo, while away, wile away, work out), idrak etmek (apperceive, comprehend, get, grip, perceive, realize, wake to), iletişim sağlamak (connect, keep up with), çarpmak (bang, bang into, barge, bash, bump, bump into, cannon, clap, clash, collide, crash, crash into, dash, foul, greet, hit, hurtle, impinge, kayo, knock, knock out, knock over, lash, mulct, multiply, plant, plonk, plonk down, plunk, pound, pulsate, pulse, ram, run, run against, slam, slap, smash, smite upon, spring, strike, strike against, throb), kavrama gücü (presentation), yetişmek (catch, catch up, catch up on, come up with, draw up, equal, grow, hand up, keep up with, overtake, pull up, pull up to, pull up with, run smb. close), menzil (carry, compass, gunshot, halting place, range, rifle range, rifle shot, shot, stage), ulaşılabilecek uzaklık, ulaşmak (achieve, aggregate, approach, arrive, attain, come, come at, come to, come up to, come up with, effect, figure out at, gain, get at, hit, live up to, win), uzanıp vermek, uzanma (lounge, recumbency), uzanmak (be couched, be ranging to the, grasp at, hand up, kip, kip down, lie, lie down, loll, lounge, outstretch, range, reach forth, reach out, reach out for, recline, repose oneself, rest, run, run along, skirt along, snatch at, sprawl, spread), uzatmak (augment, belabor, belabour, continue, drag out, draw out, eke out, elongate, enlarge, extend, grow, hand, hold out, hold over, lengthen, outstretch, pad out, pass, prolong, protract, pull out, rack, renew, repose on, sidestep, span, spin out, sprawl out, spread, stand over, stick, stick out, stretch, stretch out, turn to, wiredraw), varmak (approach, arrive, arrive at, attain, come at, come to, end up, get, get at, get to, go into, hit, make), vermek (accord, adduce, adjudge, administer, allow, assign, award, bear, bestow, bring, bring in, cede, charter, come across with, confer, contribute, dedicate, deliver, deliver up, dispose of, distribute, donate, endow, extend, furnish, give, give away, give in, grant, hand, hand in, hand out, hand over, impart, inflict, inoculate, insert, instate, lend, let, let out, offer, pass, pass in, place, present, produce, put up, render, serve, tender, throw, yield), isabet ettirmek (hit, hit the mark). (various references)

Turkmen 

gowuюmak (give, make it to). (various references)

Ukrainian

розмах (area, caliber, calibre, dimension, spread, swing), радіус дії, простягання, простгатися, простгати, передавати (assign, attribute, circulate, communicate, deliver, devolve, give, give over, hand down, hand on, hand over, pass, present, send, transfer, transmit), діставати (come by, get, obtain, procure), досягати (accomplish, achieve, acquire, amount, attain, compass, gain ground, measure up, obtain), досяжність (approachability, attainability), дотягуватися. (various references)

Vietnamese 

trình độ (diapason, plane), sự chìa ra, phạm vi hoạt động khoảng rộng, khả năng (capability, faculty, possibility, potentiality, power, room). (various references)

Welsh

cyrraedd (accomplish, achieve, amount, arrive at, attain, get). (various references)

2. la. (various references)

adipiscor, adtigerit, adtigimus, adtingas, adtingebat, adtingerent, adtingit, advenerant, advenerat, advenerit, advenerunt, adveniat, adveniebant, adveniens, advenient, adveniet, advenio, adveniret, advenis, advenissemus, advenissent, advenit, adventu, adventum, adventus, capta, captabunt, consecuta, consecutam, consecuti, consecutus, consequamur, consequantur, consequaris, consequebantur, consequens, consequenti, consequeretur, consequeris, consequi, consequitur, contineo, deveni, devenient, devenientes, devenimus, devenio, devenire, devenirent, devenisset, devenit, devenitque, intra, intrabant, intrabat, intrabimus, intrabis, intrabit, intrabitis, intrabitque, intrabunt, intrando, intrans, intrant, intrante, intrantem, intrantes, intrantibus, intrare, intrarent, intraret, intraretis, intrasse, intrassent, intrasset, intrasti, intrat, intrate, intratis, intraturi, intraverant, intraverat, intraveris, intraverit, intraveritis, intravero, intraverunt, intravi, intravimus, intravit, intrem, intremus, intrent, intres, intret, intretis, intro, invenerim, invenerint, inveneris, invenerit, inveneritis, invenero, invenerunt, inveneruntque, inveni, inveniam, inveniamini, inveniamus, inveniant, inveniantur, inveniar, inveniat, inveniatis, inveniatur, inveniebant, inveniebantur, inveniebatur, inveniemus, inveniens, invenient, invenientes, invenienti, invenientibus, invenientur, invenieris, invenies, inveniet, invenietis, invenietur, invenimur, invenimus, invenio, invenire, invenirem, invenirent, inveniret, inveniri, invenisse, invenissemus, invenissent, invenisset, invenissetis, invenisti, invenistis, invenit, invenitque, invenitur, inveniunt, inveniuntur, inventa, inventae, inventaeque, inventamque, inventi, inventique, inventis, invento, inventum, inventus, inventusque, pertineant, pertinebant, pertinebat, pertinebit, pertinens, pertinent, pertinentes, pertinerent, pertinet, pertingat, pertingebat, pertingendi, pertingens, pertingentes, pertingeret, pervenerat, perveneris, pervenero, pervenerunt, perveni, perveniant, pervenias, perveniat, perveniatur, perveniens, pervenient, pervenientes, perveniet, pervenimus, pervenio, pervenire, pervenirent, perveniret, pervenissent, pervenisset, pervenisti, pervenit, pervenitque, perveniunt, prendere, prendidistis, subintravit. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "reach": reachable, reached, reacher, reachers, reaches, reaching. (additional references)

Words ending with "reach": breach, forereach, outpreach, outreach, overreach, preach, upreach. (additional references)

Words containing "reach": breached, breacher, breachers, breaches, breaching, forereached, forereaches, forereaching, outpreached, outpreaches, outpreaching, outreached, outreaches, outreaching, overreached, overreacher, overreachers, overreaches, overreaching, preached, preacher, preachers, preaches, preachier, preachiest, preachified, preachifies, preachify, preachifying, preachily, preachiness, preachinesses, preaching, preachingly, preachment, preachments, preachy, treacheries, treacherous, treacherously, treacherousness, treacherousnesses, treachery, unbreachable, unreachable, unreached, upreached, upreaches, upreaching. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Reach" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dreich, erac, Erbach, fraacht, gemacht, Raach, racah, Rachh, Raech, Raich, rauch, Rayak, reac, reace, reachy, reacj, reah, reahc, reaky, rearch, reash, reath, reca, recao, recb, recc, rech, recht, reech, reeh, refah, reiach, Reiche, reigh, reik, Reisch, Relache, relah, remac, renac, Rench, reoch, Revah, rfac, riac, Riach, Riacs, ricah, riech, rigaku, roochy, ruach, ruah, Rucaj, rwmac, seach, triarch, weach. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: chare.

-1 letter: ache, acre, arch, care, char, each, hare, hear, race, rhea.

-2 letters: ace, arc, are, car, ear, era, hae, her, rah, rec.

-3 letters: ae, ah, ar, eh, er, ha, he, re.

+1 letter: achier, arched, archer, arches, breach, cahier, chafer, chared, chares, charge, chaser, chawer, chorea, echard, eparch, eschar, exarch, hacker, ochrea, orache, preach, rachet, search.

+2 letters: archaea, archers, archery, archine, archive, batcher, becharm, braches, brachet, brecham, brechan, cahiers, caroche, cashier, catcher, chafers, chaffer, chaired, chamber, chamfer, champer, chancre, changer, chanter, chapter, charade, charged, charger, charges, charier, charked, charley, charlie, charmed, charmer, charnel, charred, charted, charter, chasers, chaster, chatter, chaufer, chawers, cheaper, cheater, cheddar, chimera, cholera, chorale, choreal, choreas, clasher, coacher, crashed, crasher, crashes, earache, echards, endarch, eparchs, eparchy, eschars, exarchs, exarchy, gaucher, hachure, hackers, hackler, hatcher, hectare, hyraces, larches, leacher, machree, marched, marchen, marcher, marches, matcher, mesarch, ochreae, oraches, parched, parches, patcher, peacher, poacher, preachy, rachets, ranched, rancher, ranches, ratches, ratchet, reached, reacher, reaches, rechart, recheat, rematch, repatch, reteach, roached, roaches, schmear, teacher, theriac, trachea, trachle, tranche, upreach, watcher, whacker, xerarch, yachter.