reachとは

発音

• IPA^(key): /ɹiːt͡ʃ/
• 韻: -iːtʃ

動詞

reach (三人称単数 現在形 reaches, 現在分詞 reaching, 過去形および過去分詞形 reached)

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

   He reached for a weapon that was on the table.

   He reached for his shoe with his legs.

2. (transitive) 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 one a book

3. (intransitive) To stretch out the hand.
4. (transitive) 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?”

   The gun was stored in a small box on a high closet shelf, but the boy managed to reach it by climbing on other boxes.

5. (intransitive) To strike or touch with a missile.

   His bullet reached its intended target.

6. (transitive) Hence, to extend an action, effort, or influence to; to penetrate to; to pierce, or cut.
   • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 4, in The Celebrity:

     Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair.

7. (transitive) To extend to; to stretch out as far as; to touch by virtue of extent.

   his hand reaches the river

   When the forest reaches the river, you will be able to rest.

   • Milton

     Thy desire […] leads to no excess / That reaches blame.

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

   After three years, he reached the position of manager.

   The climbers reached the top of the mountain after a gruelling ten-day hike.

   • Cheyne

     The best account of the appearances of nature which human penetration can reach, comes short of its reality.

   • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 5, in The Celebrity:

     But Miss Thorn relieved the situation by laughing aloud, […] . 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.

9. (transitive, figuratively) To make contact with.

   Synonyms: contact, get hold of, get in touch

   I tried to reach you all day.

10. (intransitive, India, Singapore) To arrive at a particular destination.
    • 1907, George Clifford Whitworth, Indian English: An Examination of the Errors of Idiom made by Indians in Writing English, page 122:

      The particulars that reach from Eastern Bengal require corroboration.

    • 1958, India. Ministry of Education, A Basic Grammar of Modern Hindi: English Version, page 33:

      I reached at the right time.

    • 1960, Gene Donald Overstreet, Marshall Windmiller, Communism in India, page 144:

      It should be noted that Hare Krishna Konar, an arch leftist, could not vote on the Bhupesh Gupta—S.K. Achaiya issue as he reached late.

    • 1975, India. Parliament. Public Accounts Committee, Epitome of the Reports of the Central Committee of Public Accounts from 1967-68 to 1970-71 (Fourth Lok Sabha) and of the Government Orders Thereon, page 144:

      In the event of your statement reaching later than 6th March, there will be chances of your requirement left and leading to difficulty of having to explain your excess or saving being as the case may be.

    • 2004 February 18, Mr. Free Notes, “Getting bus from KL to Singapore leaving night, likely to be any delays in arrival?”, in soc.culture.singapore, Usenet‎^[1]:

      I suggest taking an earlier bus (say 6:00 p.m.), reaching at around midnight, then taking a taxi (might even be able to catch the last MRT) to Changi.

    • 2009, Boria Majumdar, Nalin Mehta, India and the Olympics, page 218:

      When we reached at 7.30 a.m., we saw groups of men and women bracing themselves for the day's events by writing out posters or painting placards.

    • 2012 April 26, Rakesh Chandrasekar, “Post Trek Mail II - Freshers Trek April 22nd Nagala West”, in The Chennai Trekking Club, Usenet‎^[2]:

      Once we reached, we parked our cars beneath the trees and started trekking up the hill after a brief round of introductions.

11. (transitive) To continue living until, or up to, a certain age.

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

12. (obsolete) To understand; to comprehend.
    • Beaumont and Fletcher

      Do what, sir? I reach you not.

13. (obsolete) To overreach; to deceive.

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14. To strain after something; to make (sometimes futile または pretentious) efforts.

    Reach for your dreams.

    Reach for the stars!

    • 2015, Janet S. Steinwedel, The Golden Key to Executive Coaching

      Repetitious comments are other examples of introjects that we take on as if they were truths. These include: You're lazy; you're selfish; you'll never amount to anything; you have big dreams; don't you think you're reaching a bit; try something more attainable; you were never good in math; you're not quick on your feet; you're oblivious to the world around you.

15. (intransitive) To extend in dimension, time etc.; to stretch out continuously (past, beyond, above, from etc. something).
    • 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, Abacus 2010, page 4:

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

16. (航海) To sail on the wind, as from one point of tacking to another, or with the wind nearly abeam.
17. To experience a vomiting reflex; to gag; to retch.

使用する際の注意点

• In the past, raught, rought and retcht could be found as past tense forms; these are now obsolete, except perhaps in some dialects.

派生語

名詞

reach (複数形 reaches)

1. The act of stretching or extending; extension.
2. 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

   • 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter VI

     […] 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.

3. The power of stretching out or extending action, influence, or the like; power of attainment or management; extent of force or capacity.
   • Hayward

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

   • Alexander Pope

     Be sure yourself and your own reach to know.

4. Extent; stretch; expanse; hence, application; influence; result; scope.
   • Milton

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

   • Shakespeare

     I am to pray you not to strain my speech / To grosser issues, nor to larger reach / Than to suspicion.

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

   To call George eloquent is certainly a reach.

6. (boxing) The distance a boxer's arm can extend to land a blow.
7. 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.
   • Tennyson

     The river's wooded reach.

   • Holland

     The coast […] is very full of creeks and reaches.

8. (航海) Any point of sail in which the wind comes from the side of a vessel, excluding close-hauled.
9. (obsolete) An article to obtain an advantage.
   • Francis Bacon

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

10. The pole or rod connecting the rear axle with the forward bolster of a wagon.
11. An effort to vomit; a retching.

派生語

アナグラム

• Arche, acher, chare, chear, rache