Reach

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To extend, stretch, or thrust out (for example a limb or object held in the hand).

   “He reached for a weapon that was on the table.”

2. fiil 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.

   “to reach someone a book”

3. fiil To stretch out the hand.
4. fiil 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.

   “to reach an object with the hand, or with a spear”

5. fiil To strike or touch.

   “His bullet reached its intended target.”

6. fiil To extend an action, effort, or influence to; to penetrate to; to pierce, or cut.

   “A few words, lovingly, encouragingly spoken failed to reach her heart.”

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

   “his hand reaches the river”

8. fiil To arrive at (a place) by effort of any kind.

   “After three years, he reached the position of manager.”

9. fiil To make contact with.

   “I tried to reach you all day.”

10. fiil To connect with (someone) on an emotional level, making them receptive of (one); to get through to (someone).

    “What will it take for me to reach him?”

11. fiil To arrive at a particular destination.

    “The particulars that reach from Eastern Bengal require corroboration.”

12. fiil To continue living until or up to (a certain age).

    “You can only access the inheritance money when you reach the age of 25.”

13. fiil To understand; to comprehend.

    “Do what, sir? I reach you not.”

14. fiil To strain after something; to make (sometimes futile or pretentious) efforts.

    “Reach for your dreams.”

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

    “The Thembu tribe reaches back for twenty generations to King Zwide.”

16. fiil To sail on the wind, as from one point of tacking to another, or with the wind nearly abeam.
17. fiil To arrive at a particular destination, especially to join someone; to meet up.

    “What time you reaching tomorrow?”

18. isim The act of stretching or extending; extension.
19. isim The ability to reach or touch with the person, a limb, or something held or thrown.

    “The fruit is beyond my reach.”

20. isim The power of stretching out or extending action, influence, or the like; power of attainment or management; extent of force or capacity.

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

21. isim Extent; stretch; expanse; hence, application; influence; result; scope.

    “And on the left hand, hell, / With long reach, interposed.”

22. isim An exaggeration; an extension beyond evidence or normal; a stretch.

    “To call George eloquent is certainly a reach.”

23. isim The distance a boxer's arm can extend to land a blow.
24. isim Any point of sail in which the wind comes from the side of a vessel, excluding close-hauled.
25. isim The distance traversed between tacks.
26. isim 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.

    “the gulfe Iasius, and all the coast thereof is very full of creekes and reaches.”

27. isim A level stretch of a watercourse, as between rapids in a river or locks in a canal. (examples?)
28. isim An extended portion or area of land or water.

    “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.”

29. isim An article to obtain an advantage.

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

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

    “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.”