English Dictionary

reach

IPA（発音記号）

/ɹiːt͡ʃ/

名詞

くだけた表現 廃用

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

日本語の意味

伸ばす行為、またはその行為によって生じる拡がり。 / 人や手足、あるいは持っているものや投げたもので届く範囲、または到達可能な能力。

His sudden reach for the falling mug saved it from shattering.

落ちそうになったマグカップをつかもうと彼が急に手を伸ばしたおかげで、それは割れずにすんだ。

意味（1）

The act of stretching or extending; extension.

意味（2）

The ability to reach or touch with the person, a limb, or something held or thrown.

The fruit is beyond my reach.

意味（3）

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.

意味（4）

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

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

意味（5）

(informal) An exaggeration; an extension beyond evidence or normal; a stretch.

To call George eloquent is certainly a reach.

意味（6）

(boxing) The distance a boxer's arm can extend to land a blow.

意味（7）

(nautical) Any point of sail in which the wind comes from the side of a vessel, excluding close-hauled.

意味（8）

(nautical) The distance traversed between tacks.

意味（9）

(nautical) 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.

意味（10）

A level stretch of a watercourse, as between rapids in a river or locks in a canal. (examples?)

意味（11）

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.

意味（12）

(obsolete) An article to obtain an advantage.

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

意味（13）

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

reaches （ plural ）