OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 14844

reach

/ɹiːt͡ʃ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
alcance
The ability to reach or touch with the person, a limb, or something held or thrown.
The fruit is beyond my reach.
to be within reach of cannon shot
tramo
An extended portion or area of land or water.
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…
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 wh…
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📚 verb • entry_id 14843

reach

/ɹiːt͡ʃ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
alcanzar
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
tender
To stretch out the hand.
alcanzar • conseguir • percanzar (desus.)
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
“I can't quite reach the pepper. Could you pass it to me?”
alcanzar
To extend to; to stretch out as far as; to touch by virtue of extent.
When the forest reaches the river, you will be able to rest.
his hand reaches the river
percanzar (desus.)
To understand; to comprehend.
Do what, sir? I reach you not.