Meaning of reach | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A village and civil parish in East Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL5666).
2. Acronym of Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of Chemicals.
   abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
3. The act of stretching or extending; extension.
4. Scope, reach, range.
5. A former township in the Regional Municipality of Durham, Ontario, Canada, now part of the township of Scugog.
6. The ability to reach or touch with the person, a limb, or something held or thrown.
7. The power of stretching out or extending action, influence, or the like; power of attainment or management; extent of force or capacity.
8. Extent; stretch; expanse; hence, application; influence; result; scope.
9. An exaggeration; an extension beyond evidence or normal; a stretch.
   informal
10. The distance a boxer's arm can extend to land a blow.
11. Any point of sail in which the wind comes from the side of a vessel, excluding close-hauled.
12. The distance traversed between tacks.
13. 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.
14. A level stretch of a watercourse, as between rapids in a river or locks in a canal. (examples?)
15. An extended portion or area of land or water.
16. An article to obtain an advantage.
    obsolete
17. The pole or rod connecting the rear axle with the forward bolster of a wagon.

Equivalents

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.”

“Drawn by others who had deeper reaches than themselves to matters which they least intended.”

“Be sure yourself and your own reach to know.”

“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).”

“To call George eloquent is certainly a reach.”

“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].”

“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”

“The Duke of Parma had particular reaches and ends of his own, under hand, to cross the design.”

“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.”

“A spokesperson for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), which is responsible for the UK’s registration, evaluation, authorisation and restriction of chemicals (UK Reach), said: “UK Reach allows the UK to make its own decisions on the regulation of chemicals that are based on the best available scientific evidence, ensuring that chemicals remain safely used and managed. «UK to investigate tattoo ink health risks after EU ban » The Guardian, 2021”

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