reach
suomi-englanti sanakirjareach englannista suomeksi
ulottuvuus, vaikutusala
ponnistella
venyttäminen
kantama
ylettyä, ulottaa, osua, ulottua
tavoittaa
kurkottaa
saapua
saavuttaa
nousta
toimintasäde
reach englanniksi
To extend, stretch, or thrust out (for example a limb or object held in the hand).
(ux)
To give to someone by stretching out a limb, especially the hand; to give with the hand; to pass to another person; to over.
To stretch out the hand.
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 strike or touch.
To extend an action, effort, or influence to; to penetrate to; to pierce, or cut.
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(RQ:Churchill Celebrity)
To extend to; to stretch out as far as; to touch by virtue of extent.
(RQ:Milton Paradise Lost) leads to no excess / That reaches blame.
(quote-web)
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To arrive at (a place) by effort of any kind.
(RQ:Cheyne Philosophical Principles)
(RQ:Churchill Celebrity). By the time we reached the house we were thanking our stars she had come. Mrs. Cooke came out from under the port-cochere to welcome her.
To make contact with.
(syn)
(usex)
To connect with (someone) on an emotional level, making them receptive of (one); to through to (someone).
To arrive at a particular destination.
(quote-book)
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To continue living until or up to (a certain age).
To understand; to comprehend.
(RQ:Beaumont Fletcher Comedies and Tragedies)
To strain after something; to make (sometimes futile or pretentious) efforts.
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To extend in dimension, time etc.; to stretch out continuously ((m), (m), (m), (m) etc. something).
(RQ:Mandela Long Walk to Freedom).
To sail on the wind, as from one point of tacking to another, or with the wind nearly abeam.
To arrive at a particular destination, especially to join someone; to up.
The act of stretching or extending; extension.
The ability to reach or touch with the person, a limb, or something held or thrown.
(RQ:Burroughs Land That Time Forgot) 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.
(quote-book)|chapter=The Vindictives|year=1936|passage=You like to hear about gold.A king filled his prison roomAs full as the room could holdTo the top of his reach on the wallWith every known shape of the stuff.
The power of stretching out or extending action, influence, or the like; power of attainment or management; extent of force or capacity.
(RQ:Hayward Edward 6)
(RQ:Pope Essay on Criticism)
Extent; stretch; expanse; hence, application; influence; result; scope.
(RQ:Milton Paradise Lost)
(RQ:Shakespeare Othello)
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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 of sail in which the wind comes from the side of a vessel, excluding close-hauled.
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.
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(RQ:Conrad Heart of Darkness)
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.
A level stretch of a watercourse, as between rapids in a river or locks in a canal. (examples?)
An extended portion or area of land or water.
(RQ:Lindsay Age of Consent)
2002, Russell Allen, "Incantations of the Apprentice", on Symphony X, ''The Odyssey''.
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An article to obtain an advantage.
(RQ:Bacon War with Spain)
The pole or rod connecting the rear axle with the forward bolster of a wagon.
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