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Reach


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To retch.
  • (n.) An effort to vomit.
  • (v. t.) To extend; to stretch; to thrust out; to put forth, as a limb, a member, something held, or the like.
  • (v. t.) Hence, to deliver by stretching out a member, especially the hand; to give with the hand; to pass to another; to hand over; as, to reach one a book.
  • (v. t.) To attain or obtain by stretching forth the hand; to extend some part of the body, or something held by one, so as to touch, strike, grasp, or the like; as, to reach an object with the hand, or with a spear.
  • (v. t.) To strike, hit, or touch with a missile; as, to reach an object with an arrow, a bullet, or a shell.
  • (v. t.) Hence, to extend an action, effort, or influence to; to penetrate to; to pierce, or cut, as far as.
  • (v. t.) To extend to; to stretch out as far as; to touch by virtue of extent; as, his land reaches the river.
  • (v. t.) To arrive at; to come to; to get as far as.
  • (v. t.) To arrive at by effort of any kind; to attain to; to gain; to be advanced to.
  • (v. t.) To understand; to comprehend.
  • (v. t.) To overreach; to deceive.
  • (v. i.) To stretch out the hand.
  • (v. i.) To strain after something; to make efforts.
  • (v. i.) To extend in dimension, time, amount, action, influence, etc., so as to touch, attain to, or be equal to, something.
  • (v. i.) To sail on the wind, as from one point of tacking to another, or with the wind nearly abeam.
  • (n.) The act of stretching or extending; extension; power of reaching or touching with the person, or a limb, or something held or thrown; as, the fruit is beyond my reach; to be within reach of cannon shot.
  • (n.) The power of stretching out or extending action, influence, or the like; power of attainment or management; extent of force or capacity.
  • (n.) Extent; stretch; expanse; hence, application; influence; result; scope.
  • (n.) An extended portion of land or water; a stretch; a straight portion of a stream or river, as from one turn to another; a level stretch, as between locks in a canal; an arm of the sea extending up into the land.
  • (n.) An artifice to obtain an advantage.
  • (n.) The pole or rod which connects the hind axle with the forward bolster of a wagon.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Philip Shaw, chief economist at broker Investec, expects CPI to hit 5.1%, just shy of the 5.2% reached in September 2008, as the utility hikes alone add 0.4% to inflation.
  • (2) The final number of fibers--140,000-165,000--is reached by the sixth week after birth.
  • (3) However, direct measurements of mediator release should be carried out to reach a firm conclusion.
  • (4) Here we show that this induction of AP-2 mRNA is at the level of transcription and is transient, reaching a peak 48-72 hr after the addition of RA and declining thereafter, even in the continuous presence of RA.
  • (5) The peak molecular weight never reached that of a complete 2:1 complex.
  • (6) After vascular injury, smooth muscle cells proliferate, reaching a maximum rate at day 2.
  • (7) Since the start of this week, markets have been more cautious, with bond yields in Spain reaching their highest levels in four months on Tuesday amid concern about the scale of the austerity measures being imposed by the government and fears that the country might need a bailout.
  • (8) Both development of EDTA-resistant fibrinogen binding and fibrinogen association with the cytoskeleton were time dependent and reached maxima 45 to 60 minutes after fibrinogen binding to stimulated platelets.
  • (9) Foetal serum TSH concentration declined significantly between 20 and 21 days of gestation, reached a low level at delivery, and remained low for several days after birth.
  • (10) The highest antishock effect of dopamine is reached when cardiac output fraction addressed to thoracic region vitals is supported by dopamine on the 43-45% level.
  • (11) Earlier this month, Khamenei insisted that all sanctions be lifted immediately on a deal being reached, a condition that the US State Department dismissed.
  • (12) This indicates that [Ca2+]i may reach greater than 10 microM during an RCC.
  • (13) Keep it in the ground campaign Though they draw on completely different archives, leaked documents, and interviews with ex-employees, they reach the same damning conclusion: Exxon knew all that there was to know about climate change decades ago, and instead of alerting the rest of us denied the science and obstructed the politics of global warming.
  • (14) The move to an alliance model is not only to achieve greater scale and reach, although growing from 15 partner organisations to 50 members is not to be sniffed at.
  • (15) It is possible that the elements provide common precursor proteins that reach the secretory intermediate lobe cells through their dendritic branches.
  • (16) More evil than Clocky , the alarm clock that rolls away when you reach out to silence it, or the Puzzle Alarm , which makes you complete a simple puzzle before it'll go quiet, the Money Shredding Alarm Clock methodically destroys your cash unless you rouse yourself.
  • (17) A failure to reach a solution would potentially leave 200,000 homes without affordable cover, leaving owners unable to sell their properties and potentially exposing them to financial hardship.
  • (18) These O2-exposed cells were resistant to 4HNE, requiring 2.6 times as long in 80 microM 4HNE to reach 30% survival as compared to density-matched normoxia control.
  • (19) But the amount of time spent above SPA has differed substantially between men and women due to women both living longer, and reaching state pension age earlier.
  • (20) He said the 8.13am train from the French capital to London reached Calais before suffering “network problems”.

Reacher


Definition:

  • (n.) One who reaches.
  • (n.) An exaggeration.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Now Deadline reports that Christopher McQuarrie , the screenwriter-turned-director who worked with the world's most famous scientologist on his recent film Jack Reacher , is likely to step in for part five.
  • (2) Deadline also reports that a sequel to this year's Jack Reacher, the big-screen adaptation of Lee Child's popular series of books that controversially starred Cruise in the title role, is in the works.
  • (3) • Mission: Impossible 5 chooses to accept Christmas 2015 release • Stuart Heritage: No Jack Reacher sequel?
  • (4) The five-day £4.96m debut compares with £2.79m for GI Joe: Retaliation from a couple of weeks ago, and a previews-inflated £3.58m opening for star Tom Cruise's previous effort Jack Reacher in late December.
  • (5) The first Jack Reacher film, directed by Christopher McQuarrie, starred Cruise as the eponymous ex-US army-policeman, opposite Rosamund Pike as a lawyer trying to save an army sniper from the death penalty.
  • (6) Jack Reacher opens with a scene in which an expert sniper shoots dead five people in Pittsburgh, where its premiere was due to be held.
  • (7) The sequel is reportedly to be based on the eighteenth and most recent Reacher novel, Never Go Back, in which Reacher's attempt to meet up with the commander of his old unit is thwarted when she is arrested.
  • (8) David's is called Skydance, and is arguably the more commercial, with recent offerings including World War Z , Star Trek Into Darkness and Jack Reacher .
  • (9) As well as All You Need Is Kill, he is due to star in sci-fi tale Oblivion in 2013 and will shortly be seen as former military policemen Jack Reacher in a film of the same name, based on Lee Child's successful series of novels.
  • (10) Reports suggest that a scene in which Cruise's character fires a semi-automatic weapon has been removed from promotional spots for Jack Reacher ahead of its Christmas Day release in the US.
  • (11) Meanwhile, footage of a scene in the new Tom Cruise action movie, Jack Reacher , has reportedly been excised from all publicity for the Christopher McQuarrie film.
  • (12) As a property, it benefited from significantly less pre-existing brand awareness than Jack Reacher, which is based on the popular crime fiction of Lee Child.
  • (13) Maximum C4 levels (2 to 8% of normal were reachered by day 73 and restored total C to 40% of normal.
  • (14) The kind of crime fiction consumed is disparate, as shown by the top two titles: 10th Anniversary (1) is part of the Women's Murder Club series – think Sex and the City , but with homicide not hanky-panky as the girls' shared interest – while Worth Dying For (2) is a macho novel featuring Lee Child's nomadic vigilante Jack Reacher.
  • (15) Studios Paramount and 20th Century Fox announced the cancellation of Saturday's US premieres for Jack Reacher and comedy Parental Guidance , starring Billy Crystal and Bette Midler, on Friday.
  • (16) Cruise would be taking on a third action franchise, with Mission: Impossible certain to get a fifth outing in the wake of Brad Bird-directed Ghost Protocol's $694m (£459m) box-office haul last year and his recent Jack Reacher film (a hearty $215m worldwide on a $60m budget) also set for a follow up.
  • (17) Cruise, 50, is due to return as master spy Ethan Hunt in M:I5, which is to be directed by Usual Suspects writer Christopher McQuarrie, who previously directed Cruise in the military-cop thriller Jack Reacher .
  • (18) Tom Cruise action thriller Jack Reacher is to get a long-mulled over sequel, according to Deadline .
  • (19) But if you know the name, it's likely from the credits of American films – Jack Reacher and Lincoln , Lee Daniels' The Paperboy and Daniels' new one, The Butler , which just topped an Oscar tipsters' chart of the key films of the 2013-14 awards season.
  • (20) The finer analysis revealed no differences in the reaching behaviour to objects and pictures of objects, even among the most active reachers.

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