Synonyms of the word reach


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reach

  • v. (intransitive) To extend, stretch, or thrust out (for example a limb or object held in the hand).
  • v. (transitive) To give to someone by stretching out a limb, especially the hand; to give with the hand;…
  • v. (intransitive) To stretch out the hand.
  • v. (transitive) To attain or obtain by stretching forth the hand; to extend some part of the body, or something…
  • v. (intransitive) To strike or touch with a missile.
  • v. (transitive) Hence, to extend an action, effort, or influence to; to penetrate to; to pierce, or cut.
  • v. (transitive) To extend to; to stretch out as far as; to touch by virtue of extent.
  • v. (transitive) To arrive at (a place) by effort of any kind.
  • v. (transitive) To continue living until, or up to, a certain age.
  • v. (obsolete) To understand; to comprehend.
  • v. (obsolete) To overreach; to deceive.
  • v. To strain after something; to make efforts.
  • v. (intransitive) To extend in dimension, time etc.; to stretch out continuously (past, beyond, above, from…
  • v. (nautical) To sail on the wind, as from one point of tacking to another, or with the wind nearly abeam.
  • v. To experience a vomiting reflex; to gag; to retch.
  • n. The act of stretching or extending; extension.
  • n. The ability to reach or touch with the person, a limb, or something held or thrown.
  • n. The power of stretching out or extending action, influence, or the like; power of attainment or management;…
  • n. Extent; stretch; expanse; hence, application; influence; result; scope.
  • n. (informal) An exaggeration; an extension beyond evidence or normal; a stretch.
  • n. (boxing) The distance a boxer's arm can extend to land a blow.
  • n. An extended portion of land or water; a stretch; a straight portion of a stream or river, as from one…
  • n. (nautical) Any point of sail in which the wind comes from the side of a vessel, excluding close-hauled.
  • n. (obsolete) An article to obtain an advantage.
  • n. The pole or rod connecting the rear axle with the forward bolster of a wagon.
  • n. An effort to vomit; a retching.

accomplish

  • v. (transitive) To finish successfully.
  • v. (transitive) To complete, as time or distance.
  • v. (transitive) To execute fully; to fulfill; to complete successfully.
  • v. (transitive, archaic) To equip or furnish thoroughly; hence, to complete in acquirements; to render accomplished;…
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To gain; to obtain.

achieve

  • v. (intransitive) To succeed in something, now especially in academic performance.
  • v. (transitive) To carry out successfully; to accomplish.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To conclude, finish, especially successfully.
  • v. (transitive) To obtain, or gain (a desired result, objective etc.), as the result of exertion; to succeed…
  • v. (obsolete, intransitive) To conclude, to turn out.
  • v. (transitive, now literary) To obtain (a material thing).

ambit

  • n. The sphere or area of control and influence of something.
  • n. A circuit, or a boundary around a property.
  • n. A span of actions, thoughts, or words.

arrive

  • v. (intransitive, copulative) To reach; to get to a certain place.
  • v. (intransitive) To obtain a level of success or fame.
  • v. (intransitive) To come; said of time.
  • v. (intransitive) To happen or occur.
  • v. (transitive, archaic) To reach; to come to.
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To bring to shore.

attain

  • v. (transitive) To accomplish; to achieve.
  • v. To get at the knowledge of; to ascertain.
  • v. (transitive) To reach or come to, by progression or motion; to arrive at.
  • v. (intransitive) To come or arrive, by motion, growth, bodily exertion, or efforts toward a place, object,…
  • v. To reach in excellence or degree; to equal.
  • v. (obsolete) To overtake.

be

  • v. (intransitive, now literary) To exist; to have real existence.
  • v. (with there, or dialectally it, as dummy subject) To exist.
  • v. (intransitive) To occupy a place.
  • v. (intransitive) To occur, to take place.
  • v. (intransitive, in perfect tenses, without predicate) elliptical form of "be here", "go to and return from"…
  • v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject and object are the same.
  • v. (transitive, copulative, mathematics) Used to indicate that the values on either side of an equation are…
  • v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject plays the role of the predicate nominal.
  • v. (transitive, copulative) Used to connect a noun to an adjective that describes it.
  • v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by a noun or noun…
  • v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the passive voice.
  • v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the continuous forms of various tenses.
  • v. (archaic, auxiliary) Used to form the perfect aspect with certain intransitive verbs, most of which indicate…
  • v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form future tenses, especially the future periphrastic.
  • v. (transitive, copulative) Used to link a subject to a measurement.
  • v. (transitive, copulative, with a cardinal numeral) Used to state the age of a subject in years.
  • v. (with a dummy subject it) Used to indicate the time of day.
  • v. (With since) Used to indicate passage of time since the occurrence of an event.
  • v. (often impersonal, with it as a dummy subject) Used to indicate weather, air quality, or the like.
  • v. (dynamic/lexical "be", especially in progressive tenses, conjugated non-suppletively in the present tense,…
  • v. (African American Vernacular, Caribbean, auxiliary, not conjugated) To tend to do, often do; marks the…

capability

  • n. the power or ability to generate an outcome.

capableness

  • n. The state or quality of being capable.

come

  • v. (intransitive) To move from further away to nearer to.
  • v. (intransitive) To arrive.
  • v. (intransitive) To appear, to manifest itself.
  • v. (intransitive) To take a position to something else in a sequence.
  • v. (intransitive, slang) To achieve orgasm; to cum; to ejaculate.
  • v. (copulative, figuratively, with close) To approach a state of being or accomplishment.
  • v. (figuratively, with to) To take a particular approach or point of view in regard to something.
  • v. (copulative, archaic) To become, to turn out to be.
  • v. (intransitive) To be supplied, or made available; to exist.
  • v. (slang) To carry through; to succeed in.
  • v. (intransitive) Happen.
  • v. (intransitive, with from or sometimes of) To have a social background.
  • v. (intransitive, of grain) To germinate.
  • n. (obsolete) Coming, arrival; approach.
  • n. (slang) Semen.
  • n. (slang) Female ejaculatory discharge.
  • prep. Used to indicate an event, period, or change in state occurring after a present time.
  • interj. An exclamation to express annoyance.
  • interj. An exclamation to express encouragement, or to precede a request.
  • n. (typography, obsolete) Alternative form of comma in its medieval use as a middot ⟨·⟩ serving as a form…

communicate

  • v. To impart.
  • v. To share.

compass

  • n. A magnetic or electronic device used to determine the cardinal directions (usually magnetic or true north).
  • n. A pair of compasses (a device used to draw an arc or circle).
  • n. (music) The range of notes of a musical instrument or voice.
  • n. (obsolete) A space within limits; area.
  • n. (obsolete) An enclosing limit; boundary; circumference.
  • n. Moderate bounds, limits of truth; moderation; due limits; used with within.
  • n. Scope.
  • n. (obsolete) A passing round; circuit; circuitous course.
  • v. To surround; to encircle; to environ; to stretch round.
  • v. To go about or round entirely; to traverse.
  • v. (dated) To accomplish; to reach; to achieve; to obtain.
  • v. (dated) To plot; to scheme (against someone).
  • adv. (obsolete) In a circuit; round about.

contact

  • n. The act of touching physically; being in close association.
  • n. The establishment of communication (with).
  • n. A nodule designed to connect a device with something else.
  • n. Someone with whom one is in communication.
  • n. (informal) A contact lens.
  • n. (electricity) A device designed for repetitive connections.
  • n. (informal, by ellipsis) Contact juggling.
  • n. (mining) The plane between two adjacent bodies of dissimilar rock.
  • v. (transitive) To touch; to come into physical contact with.
  • v. (transitive) To establish communication with something or someone.

drive

  • n. Motivation to do or achieve something; ability coupled with ambition.
  • n. Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; especially, a forced or hurried dispatch of business.
  • n. An act of driving animals forward, such as to be captured, hunted etc.
  • n. (military) A sustained advance in the face of the enemy to take a strategic objective.
  • n. A motor that does not take fuel, but instead depends on a mechanism that stores potential energy for subsequent…
  • n. A trip made in a motor vehicle.
  • n. A driveway.
  • n. A type of public roadway.
  • n. (dated) A place suitable or agreeable for driving; a road prepared for driving.
  • n. (psychology) Desire or interest.
  • n. (computing) An apparatus for reading and writing data to or from a mass storage device such as a disk,…
  • n. (computing) A mass storage device in which the mechanism for reading and writing data is integrated with…
  • n. (golf) A stroke made with a driver.
  • n. (baseball, tennis) A ball struck in a flat trajectory.
  • n. (cricket) A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a vertical arc, through the line of the ball, and…
  • n. (soccer) A straight level shot or pass.
  • n. (American football) An offensive possession, generally one consisting of several plays and/ or first downs,…
  • n. A charity event such as a fundraiser, bake sale, or toy drive.
  • n. (typography) An impression or matrix formed by a punch drift.
  • n. A collection of objects that are driven; a mass of logs to be floated down a river.
  • v. (transitive) To impel or urge onward by force; to push forward; to compel to move on.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To direct a vehicle powered by a horse, ox or similar animal.
  • v. (transitive) To cause animals to flee out of.
  • v. (transitive) To move (something) by hitting it with great force.
  • v. (transitive) To cause (a mechanism) to operate.
  • v. (transitive, ergative) To operate (a wheeled motorized vehicle).
  • v. (transitive) To motivate; to provide an incentive for.
  • v. (transitive) To compel (to do something).
  • v. (transitive) To cause to become.
  • v. (intransitive, cricket, tennis, baseball) To hit the ball with a drive.
  • v. (intransitive) To travel by operating a wheeled motorized vehicle.
  • v. (transitive) To convey (a person, etc) in a wheeled motorized vehicle.
  • v. (intransitive) To move forcefully.
  • v. (intransitive) To be moved or propelled forcefully (especially of a ship).
  • v. (transitive) To urge, press, or bring to a point or state.
  • v. (transitive) To carry or to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute.
  • v. (transitive) To clear, by forcing away what is contained.
  • v. (mining) To dig horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel.
  • v. (American football) To put together a drive (n.): to string together offensive plays and advance the ball…
  • v. (obsolete) To distrain for rent.
  • v. To be the dominant party where two people are engaged in a sex act.

extent

  • n. A range of values or locations.
  • n. The space, area, volume, etc., to which something extends.
  • n. (computing) A contiguous area of storage in a file system.
  • adj. (obsolete) Extended.

gain

  • prep. (obsolete) Against.
  • adj. (obsolete) Straight, direct; near; short.
  • adj. (obsolete) Suitable; convenient; ready.
  • adj. (dialectal) Easy; tolerable; handy, dexterous.
  • adj. (dialectal) Honest; respectable; moderate; cheap.
  • adv. (obsolete) Straightly; quickly; by the nearest way or means.
  • adv. (dialectal) Suitably; conveniently; dexterously; moderately.
  • adv. (dialectal) Tolerably; fairly.
  • n. The act of gaining; acquisition.
  • n. What is gained.
  • n. (electronics) The factor by which a signal is multiplied.
  • v. (transitive) To acquire possession of.
  • v. (intransitive) To have or receive advantage or profit; to acquire gain; to grow rich; to advance in interest,…
  • v. (transitive, dated) To come off winner or victor in; to be successful in; to obtain by competition.
  • v. (transitive) To increase.
  • v. (intransitive) To be more likely to catch or overtake an individual.
  • v. (transitive) To reach.
  • v. To draw into any interest or party; to win to one's side; to conciliate.
  • v. (intransitive) To put on weight.
  • v. (of a clock or watch) To run fast.
  • n. (architecture) A square or bevelled notch cut out of a girder, binding joist, or other timber which supports…

get

  • v. (transitive) To obtain; to acquire.
  • v. (transitive) To receive.
  • v. (transitive, in a perfect construction, with present-tense meaning) To have. See usage notes.
  • v. (copulative) To become.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to become; to bring about.
  • v. (transitive) To fetch, bring, take.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to do.
  • v. (intransitive, with various prepositions, such as into, over, or behind; for specific idiomatic senses…
  • v. (transitive) To cover (a certain distance) while travelling.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to come or go or move.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to be in a certain status or position.
  • v. (intransitive) To begin (doing something).
  • v. (transitive) To take or catch (a scheduled transportation service).
  • v. (transitive) To respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc).
  • v. (intransitive, followed by infinitive) To be able, permitted (to do something); to have the opportunity…
  • v. (transitive, informal) To understand. (compare get it).
  • v. (transitive, informal) To be subjected to.
  • v. (informal) To be. Used to form the passive of verbs.
  • v. (transitive) To become ill with or catch (a disease).
  • v. (transitive, informal) To catch out, trick successfully.
  • v. (transitive, informal) To perplex, stump.
  • v. (transitive) To find as an answer.
  • v. (transitive, informal) To bring to reckoning; to catch (as a criminal); to effect retribution.
  • v. (transitive) To hear completely; catch.
  • v. (transitive) To getter.
  • v. (now rare) To beget (of a father).
  • v. (archaic) To learn; to commit to memory; to memorize; sometimes with out.
  • v. (imperative, informal) Used with a personal pronoun to indicate that someone is being pretentious or grandiose.
  • v. (imperative, informal) Go away; get lost.
  • v. (euphemistic) To kill.
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To make acquisitions; to gain; to profit.
  • n. Offspring.
  • n. Lineage.
  • n. (sports, tennis) A difficult return or block of a shot.
  • n. Something gained.
  • n. (Britain, regional) A git.
  • n. (Judaism) A Jewish writ of divorce.

give

  • v. (transitive, may take two objects) To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or…
  • v. (transitive, may take two objects) To estimate or predict (a duration or probability) for (something).
  • v. (intransitive) To yield slightly when a force is applied.
  • v. (intransitive) To collapse under pressure or force.
  • v. (transitive) To provide, as, a service or a broadcast.
  • v. (intransitive) To lead (onto or into).
  • v. (transitive, dated) To provide a view of.
  • v. To exhibit as a product or result; to produce; to yield.
  • v. To cause; to make; used with the infinitive.
  • v. To allow or admit by way of supposition.
  • v. To attribute; to assign; to adjudge.
  • v. To communicate or announce (advice, tidings, etc.); to pronounce or utter (an opinion, a judgment, a shout,…
  • v. (dated) To grant power or permission to; to allow.
  • v. (reflexive) To devote or apply (oneself).
  • v. (obsolete) To become soft or moist.
  • v. (obsolete) To shed tears; to weep.
  • v. (obsolete) To have a misgiving.
  • v. To be going on, to be occurring.
  • n. (uncountable) The amount of bending that something undergoes when a force is applied to it.

grasp

  • v. To grip; to take hold, particularly with the hand.
  • v. To understand.
  • v. To take advantage of something, to seize, to jump at a chance.
  • n. Grip.
  • n. Understanding.
  • n. That which is accessible; that which is within one's reach or ability.

hand

  • n. The part of the fore limb below the forearm or wrist in a human, and the corresponding part in many other…
  • n. (heading) That which resembles, or to some extent performs the office of, a human hand.
  • n. (heading) In linear measurement.
  • n. A side; part, camp; direction, either right or left.
  • n. Power of performance; means of execution; ability; skill; dexterity.
  • n. An agent; a servant, or manual laborer, especially in compounds; a workman, trained or competent for special…
  • n. An instance of helping.
  • n. Handwriting; style of penmanship.
  • n. A person's autograph or signature.
  • n. Personal possession; ownership.
  • n. (usually in the plural, hands) Management, domain, control.
  • n. (heading) That which is, or may be, held in a hand at once.
  • n. Applause.
  • n. (historical) A Native American gambling game, involving guessing the whereabouts of bits of ivory or similar,…
  • n. (firearms) The small part of a gunstock near the lock, which is grasped by the hand in taking aim.
  • n. A whole rhizome of ginger.
  • n. The feel of a fabric; the impression or quality of the fabric as judged qualitatively by the sense of…
  • n. (archaic) Actual performance; deed; act; workmanship; agency; hence, manner of performance.
  • n. (archaic) Agency in transmission from one person to another.
  • n. (obsolete) Rate; price.
  • v. (transitive) To give, pass, or transmit with the hand, literally or figuratively.
  • v. (transitive) To lead, guide, or assist with the hand; to conduct.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To manage.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To seize; to lay hands on.
  • v. (transitive, rare) To pledge by the hand; to handfast.
  • v. (transitive, nautical, said of a sail) To furl.
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To cooperate.

hit

  • v. (heading, physical) To strike.
  • v. (transitive, colloquial) To briefly visit.
  • v. (transitive, informal) To encounter an obstacle or other difficulty.
  • v. (heading) To attain, to achieve.
  • v. (transitive) To affect negatively.
  • v. (heading, games) To make a play.
  • v. (transitive, computing, programming) To use; to connect to.
  • v. (transitive, US, slang) To have sex with.
  • v. (transitive, US, slang) To inhale an amount of smoke from a narcotic substance, particularly marijuana.
  • n. A blow; a punch; a striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches…
  • n. (music) A recorded song that receives widespread recognition and success, mainly through radio airplay.
  • n. An attack on a location, person or people.
  • n. (computing, Internet) The result of a search of a computer system or of a search engine.
  • n. (Internet) A measured visit to a web site, a request for a single file from a web server.
  • n. An approximately correct answer in a test set.
  • n. (baseball) The complete play, when the batter reaches base without the benefit of a walk, error, or fielder’s…
  • n. (colloquial) A dose of an illegal or addictive drug.
  • n. A premeditated murder done for criminal or political purposes.
  • n. (dated) A peculiarly apt expression or turn of thought; a phrase which hits the mark.
  • n. A game won at backgammon after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts for less than a gammon.
  • adj. Designating of a popular song.
  • pron. (dialectal) It.

intercommunicate

  • v. To communicate, one with another.
  • v. To be interconnected.

labor

  • n. American standard spelling of labour.
  • v. American standard spelling of labour.

labour

  • n. Effort expended on a particular task; toil, work.
  • n. That which requires hard work for its accomplishment; that which demands effort.
  • n. (uncountable) Workers in general; the working class, the workforce; sometimes specifically the labour…
  • n. (uncountable) A political party or force aiming or claiming to represent the interests of labour.
  • n. The act of a mother giving birth.
  • n. The time period during which a mother gives birth.
  • n. (nautical) The pitching or tossing of a vessel which results in the straining of timbers and rigging.
  • n. An old measure of land area in Mexico and Texas, approximately 177 acres.
  • v. (intransitive) To toil, to work.
  • v. (transitive) To belabour, to emphasise or expand upon (a point in a debate, etc).
  • v. To be oppressed with difficulties or disease; to do one's work under conditions which make it especially…
  • v. To suffer the pangs of childbirth.
  • v. (nautical) To pitch or roll heavily, as a ship in a turbulent sea.

limit

  • n. A restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go.
  • n. (mathematics) A value to which a sequence converges. Equivalently, the common value of the upper limit…
  • n. (mathematics) Any of several abstractions of this concept of limit.
  • n. (category theory) The cone of a diagram through which any other cone of that same diagram can factor uniquely.
  • n. (poker) Short for fixed limit.
  • n. The final, utmost, or furthest point; the border or edge.
  • n. (obsolete) The space or thing defined by limits.
  • n. (obsolete) That which terminates a period of time; hence, the period itself; the full time or extent.
  • n. (obsolete) A restriction; a check or curb; a hindrance.
  • n. (logic, metaphysics) A determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic.
  • n. (cycling) The first group of riders to depart in a handicap race.
  • adj. (poker) Being a fixed limit game.
  • v. (transitive) To restrict; not to allow to go beyond a certain bound.
  • v. (mathematics, intransitive) To have a limit in a particular set.
  • v. (obsolete) To beg, or to exercise functions, within a certain limited region.

make

  • v. (transitive, heading) To create.
  • v. (intransitive, now mostly colloquial) To behave, to act.
  • v. (intransitive) To tend; to contribute; to have effect; with for or against.
  • v. To constitute.
  • v. (intransitive, construed with of, typically interrogative) To interpret.
  • v. (transitive, usually stressed) To bring into success.
  • v. (transitive, second object is an adjective or participle) To cause to be.
  • v. To cause to appear to be; to represent as.
  • v. (transitive, second object is a verb) To cause (to do something); to compel (to do something).
  • v. (transitive, second object is a verb, can be stressed for emphasis or clarity) To force to do.
  • v. (transitive, of a fact) To indicate or suggest to be.
  • v. (transitive, of a bed) To cover neatly with bedclothes.
  • v. (transitive, US slang) To recognise, identify.
  • v. (transitive, colloquial) To arrive at a destination, usually at or by a certain time.
  • v. (intransitive, colloquial) To proceed (in a direction).
  • v. (transitive) To cover (a given distance) by travelling.
  • v. (transitive) To move at (a speed).
  • v. To appoint; to name.
  • v. (transitive, slang) To induct into the Mafia or a similar organization (as a made man).
  • v. (intransitive, colloquial, euphemistic) To defecate or urinate.
  • v. (transitive) To earn, to gain (money, points, membership or status).
  • v. (transitive) To pay, to cover (an expense); chiefly used after expressions of inability.
  • v. (obsolete, intransitive) To compose verses; to write poetry; to versify.
  • v. To enact; to establish.
  • v. To develop into; to prove to be.
  • v. To form or formulate in the mind.
  • v. (obsolete) To act in a certain manner; to have to do; to manage; to interfere; to be active; often in…
  • v. (obsolete) To increase; to augment; to accrue.
  • v. (obsolete) To be engaged or concerned in.
  • v. (now archaic) To cause to be (in a specified place), used after a subjective what.
  • v. (transitive, euphemistic) To take the virginity of.
  • n. (often of a car) Brand or kind; often paired with model.
  • n. How a thing is made; construction.
  • n. Origin of a manufactured article; manufacture.
  • n. (uncountable) Quantity produced, especially of materials.
  • n. (dated) The act or process of making something, especially in industrial manufacturing.
  • n. A person's character or disposition.
  • n. (bridge) The declaration of the trump for a hand.
  • n. (physics) The closing of an electrical circuit.
  • n. (computing) A software utility for automatically building large applications, or an implementation of…
  • n. (slang) Recognition or identification, especially from police records or evidence.
  • n. (slang, usually in phrase "easy make") Past or future target of seduction (usually female).
  • n. (slang, military) A promotion.
  • n. A home-made project.
  • n. (basketball) A made basket.
  • n. (dialectal) Mate; a spouse or companion.
  • n. (Scotland, Ireland, Northern England, now rare) A halfpenny.

motility

  • n. (uncountable) The state of being motile.
  • n. (countable) The degree to which something is motile.

motion

  • n. (uncountable) A state of progression from one place to another.
  • n. (countable) A change of position with respect to time.
  • n. (physics) A change from one place to another.
  • n. (countable) A parliamentary action to propose something.
  • n. (obsolete) An entertainment or show, especially a puppet show.
  • n. (philosophy) from κίνησις; any change. Traditionally of four types: generation and corruption, alteration,…
  • n. Movement of the mind, desires, or passions; mental act, or impulse to any action; internal activity.
  • n. (law) An application made to a court or judge orally in open court. Its object is to obtain an order or…
  • n. (euphemistic) A movement of the bowels; the product of such movement.
  • n. (music) Change of pitch in successive sounds, whether in the same part or in groups of parts. (Conjunct…
  • n. (obsolete) A puppet, or puppet show.
  • v. To gesture indicating a desired movement.
  • v. (proscribed) To introduce a motion in parliamentary procedure.
  • v. To make a proposal; to offer plans.

move

  • v. (intransitive) To change place or posture; to stir; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to…
  • v. (intransitive) To act; to take action; to stir; to begin to act.
  • v. (intransitive) To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and…
  • v. (intransitive, chess, and other games) To change the place of a piece in accordance with the rules of…
  • v. (transitive, ergative) To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry,…
  • v. (transitive, chess) To transfer (a piece or man) from one space or position to another, according to the…
  • v. (transitive) To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion,…
  • v. (transitive) To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion,…
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration…
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To mention; to raise (a question); to suggest (a course of action); to lodge (a…
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To incite, urge (someone to do something); to solicit (someone for or of an issue);…
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To apply to, as for aid.
  • v. (law, transitive, intransitive) To request an action from the court.
  • n. The act of moving; a movement.
  • n. An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.
  • n. A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand…
  • n. The event of changing one's residence.
  • n. A change in strategy.
  • n. A transfer, a change from one employer to another.
  • n. (board games) The act of moving a token on a gameboard from one position to another according to the rules…

movement

  • n. Physical motion between points in space.
  • n. (engineering) A system or mechanism for transmitting motion of a definite character, or for transforming…
  • n. The impression of motion in an artwork, painting, novel etc.
  • n. A trend in various fields or social categories, a group of people with a common ideology who try together…
  • n. (music) A large division of a larger composition.
  • n. (aviation) An instance of an aircraft taking off or landing.
  • n. (baseball) The deviation of a pitch from ballistic flight.
  • n. An act of emptying the bowels.
  • n. (obsolete) Motion of the mind or feelings; emotion.

orbit

  • n. A circular or elliptical path of one object around another object.
  • n. A sphere of influence; an area of control.
  • n. The course of one's usual progression, or the extent of one's typical range.
  • n. (anatomy) The bony cavity containing the eyeball; the eye socket.
  • n. (physics) A mathematical function that describes the wave-like behavior of an electron in an atom; area…
  • n. (mathematics) A collection of points related by the evolution function of a dynamical system.
  • n. (geometry, group theory) The subset of elements of a set X to which a given element can be moved by members…
  • v. To circle or revolve around another object.
  • v. To move around the general vicinity of something.
  • v. To place an object into an orbit around a planet.

pass

  • v. (heading) Physical movement.
  • v. (heading) To change in state or status, to advance.
  • v. (heading) To move through time.
  • v. (heading) To be accepted.
  • v. (intransitive) In any game, to decline to play in one's turn.
  • v. (heading) To do or be better.
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To take heed.
  • n. An opening, road, or track, available for passing; especially, one through or over some dangerous or otherwise…
  • n. A channel connecting a river or body of water to the sea, for example at the mouth (delta) of a river.
  • n. A single movement, especially of a hand, at, over, or along anything.
  • n. A single passage of a tool over something, or of something over a tool.
  • n. An attempt.
  • n. (fencing) A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.
  • n. (figuratively) A thrust; a sally of wit.
  • n. A sexual advance.
  • n. (sports) The act of moving the ball or puck from one player to another.
  • n. (rail transport) A passing of two trains in the same direction on a single track, when one is put into…
  • n. Permission or license to pass, or to go and come.
  • n. A document granting permission to pass or to go and come; a passport; a ticket permitting free transit…
  • n. (baseball) An intentional walk.
  • n. The state of things; condition; predicament; impasse.
  • n. (obsolete) Estimation; character.
  • n. (obsolete, Chaucer) A part, a division. Compare passus.
  • n. (cooking) The area in a restaurant kitchen where the finished dishes are passed from the chefs to the…
  • n. An act of declining to play one's turn in a game, often by saying the word "pass".
  • n. (computing) A run through a document as part of a translation, compilation or reformatting process.
  • n. (computing, slang) A password (especially one for a restricted-access website).

potentiality

  • n. The quality of being, or having potential.
  • n. An inherent capacity for growth or development.
  • n. An aptitude amenable to development; capability.
  • n. (philosophy) Indeterminism.
  • n. (physics) Quantum indeterminacy.

push

  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To apply a force to (an object) such that it moves away from the person or…
  • v. (transitive) To continually attempt to persuade (a person) into a particular course of action.
  • v. (transitive) To press or urge forward; to drive.
  • v. (transitive) To continually promote (a point of view, a product for sale, etc.).
  • v. (informal, transitive) To approach; to come close to.
  • v. (intransitive) To tense the muscles in the abdomen in order to expel its contents.
  • v. (intransitive) To continue to attempt to persuade a person into a particular course of action.
  • v. To make a higher bid at an auction.
  • v. (poker) To make an all-in bet.
  • v. (chess, transitive) To move (a pawn) directly forward.
  • v. (computing) To add (a data item) to the top of a stack.
  • v. (computing) To publish (an update, etc.) by transmitting it to other computers.
  • v. (obsolete) To thrust the points of the horns against; to gore.
  • v. To burst out of its pot, as a bud or shoot.
  • v. (snooker) To strike the cue ball in such a way that it stays in contact with the cue and object ball at…
  • n. A short, directed application of force; an act of pushing.
  • n. An act of tensing the muscles of the abdomen in order to expel its contents.
  • n. A great effort (to do something).
  • n. An attempt to persuade someone into a particular course of action.
  • n. (military) A marching or drill maneuver/manoeuvre performed by moving a formation (especially a company…
  • n. A wager that results in no loss or gain for the bettor as a result of a tie or even score.
  • n. (computing) The addition of a data item to the top of a stack.
  • n. (Internet, uncountable) The situation where a server sends data to a client without waiting for a request,…
  • n. (dated) A crowd or throng or people.
  • n. (snooker) A foul shot in which the cue ball is in contact with the cue and the object ball at the same…
  • n. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) A pustule; a pimple.

range

  • n. A line or series of mountains, buildings, etc.
  • n. A fireplace; a fire or other cooking apparatus; now specifically, a large cooking stove with many hotplates.
  • n. Selection, array.
  • n. An area for practicing shooting at targets.
  • n. An area for military training or equipment testing.
  • n. The distance from a person or sensor to an object, target, emanation, or event.
  • n. Maximum distance of capability (of a weapon, radio, detector, fuel supply, etc.).
  • n. An area of open, often unfenced, grazing land.
  • n. Extent or space taken in by anything excursive; compass or extent of excursion; reach; scope.
  • n. (mathematics) The set of values (points) which a function can obtain.
  • n. (statistics) The length of the smallest interval which contains all the data in a sample; the difference…
  • n. (sports, baseball) The defensive area that a player can cover.
  • n. (music) The scale of all the tones a voice or an instrument can produce.
  • n. (ecology) The geographical area or zone where a species is normally naturally found.
  • n. (programming) A sequential list of iterators that are specified by a beginning and ending iterator.
  • n. An aggregate of individuals in one rank or degree; an order; a class.
  • n. (obsolete) The step of a ladder; a rung.
  • n. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) A bolting sieve to sift meal.
  • n. A wandering or roving; a going to and fro; an excursion; a ramble; an expedition.
  • n. (US, historical) In the public land system, a row or line of townships lying between two succession meridian…
  • n. The scope of something, the extent which something covers or includes.
  • n. The variety of roles that an actor can play in a satisfactory way.
  • v. (intransitive) To travel over (an area, etc); to roam, wander.
  • v. (transitive) To rove over or through.
  • v. (obsolete, intransitive) To exercise the power of something over something else; to cause to submit to,…
  • v. (transitive) To bring (something) into a specified position or relationship (especially, of opposition)…
  • v. (intransitive, mathematics, computing, followed by over) Of a variable, to be able to take any of the…
  • v. (transitive) To classify.
  • v. (intransitive) To form a line or a row.
  • v. (intransitive) To be placed in order; to be ranked; to admit of arrangement or classification; to rank.
  • v. (transitive) To set in a row, or in rows; to place in a regular line or lines, or in ranks; to dispose…
  • v. (transitive) To place among others in a line, row, or order, as in the ranks of an army; usually, reflexively…
  • v. (biology) To be native to, or live in, a certain district or region.
  • v. To separate into parts; to sift.
  • v. To sail or pass in a direction parallel to or near.
  • v. (baseball) Of a player, to travel a significant distance for a defensive play.

reach

  • v. (intransitive) To extend, stretch, or thrust out (for example a limb or object held in the hand).
  • v. (transitive) To give to someone by stretching out a limb, especially the hand; to give with the hand;…
  • v. (intransitive) To stretch out the hand.
  • v. (transitive) To attain or obtain by stretching forth the hand; to extend some part of the body, or something…
  • v. (intransitive) To strike or touch with a missile.
  • v. (transitive) Hence, to extend an action, effort, or influence to; to penetrate to; to pierce, or cut.
  • v. (transitive) To extend to; to stretch out as far as; to touch by virtue of extent.
  • v. (transitive) To arrive at (a place) by effort of any kind.
  • v. (transitive) To continue living until, or up to, a certain age.
  • v. (obsolete) To understand; to comprehend.
  • v. (obsolete) To overreach; to deceive.
  • v. To strain after something; to make efforts.
  • v. (intransitive) To extend in dimension, time etc.; to stretch out continuously (past, beyond, above, from…
  • v. (nautical) To sail on the wind, as from one point of tacking to another, or with the wind nearly abeam.
  • v. To experience a vomiting reflex; to gag; to retch.
  • n. The act of stretching or extending; extension.
  • n. The ability to reach or touch with the person, a limb, or something held or thrown.
  • n. The power of stretching out or extending action, influence, or the like; power of attainment or management;…
  • n. Extent; stretch; expanse; hence, application; influence; result; scope.
  • n. (informal) An exaggeration; an extension beyond evidence or normal; a stretch.
  • n. (boxing) The distance a boxer's arm can extend to land a blow.
  • n. An extended portion of land or water; a stretch; a straight portion of a stream or river, as from one…
  • n. (nautical) Any point of sail in which the wind comes from the side of a vessel, excluding close-hauled.
  • n. (obsolete) An article to obtain an advantage.
  • n. The pole or rod connecting the rear axle with the forward bolster of a wagon.
  • n. An effort to vomit; a retching.

reaching

  • v. present participle of reach.
  • n. The action of one who reaches; an attempt to grasp something by stretching.
  • n. (nautical) Sailing on a reach, i.e. having the wind on either side and coming from an angle that is larger…

scope

  • n. The breadth, depth or reach of a subject; a domain.
  • n. A device used in aiming a projectile, through which the person aiming looks at the intended target.
  • n. (computing) The region of program source in which an identifier is meaningful.
  • n. (logic) The shortest sub-wff of which a given instance of a logical connective is a part.
  • n. (linguistics) The region of an utterance to which some modifying element applies.
  • n. (slang) Shortened form of periscope, telescope, microscope or oscilloscope.
  • v. To perform a cursory investigation, as to scope out.
  • v. (slang) To perform arthroscopic surgery.
  • v. (slang) To examine under a microscope.

strain

  • n. (obsolete) Treasure.
  • n. (obsolete) The blood-vessel in the yolk of an egg.
  • n. (archaic) Race; lineage, pedigree.
  • n. Hereditary character, quality, or disposition.
  • n. A tendency or disposition.
  • n. (literary) Any sustained note or movement; a song; a distinct portion of an ode or other poem; also, the…
  • n. (biology) A particular breed or race of animal, microbe etc.
  • n. (music) A portion of music divided off by a double bar; a complete musical period or sentence; a movement,…
  • n. (rare) A kind or sort (of person etc.).
  • v. (obsolete) To beget, generate (of light), engender, copulate (both of animals and humans), lie with, be…
  • v. (obsolete) To hold tightly, to clasp.
  • v. To apply a force or forces to by stretching out.
  • v. To damage by drawing, stretching, or the exertion of force.
  • v. To act upon, in any way, so as to cause change of form or volume, as when bending a beam.
  • v. To exert or struggle (to do something), especially to stretch (one's senses, faculties etc.) beyond what…
  • v. To stretch beyond its proper limit; to do violence to, in terms of intent or meaning.
  • v. (transitive) To separate solid from liquid by passing through a strainer or colander.
  • v. (intransitive) To percolate; to be filtered.
  • v. To make uneasy or unnatural; to produce with apparent effort; to force; to constrain.
  • v. To urge with importunity; to press.
  • n. The act of straining, or the state of being strained.
  • n. A violent effort; an excessive and hurtful exertion or tension, as of the muscles.
  • n. An injury resulting from violent effort; a sprain.
  • n. (uncountable, engineering) A dimensionless measure of object deformation either referring to engineering…
  • n. (obsolete) The track of a deer.

stretch

  • v. (transitive) To lengthen by pulling.
  • v. (intransitive) To lengthen when pulled.
  • v. (transitive) To pull tight.
  • v. (figuratively, transitive) To get more use than expected from a limited resource.
  • v. (figuratively, transitive) To make inaccurate by exaggeration.
  • v. (intransitive) To extend physically, especially from limit point to limit point.
  • v. (intransitive, transitive) To extend one’s limbs or another part of the body in order to improve the elasticity…
  • v. (intransitive) To extend to a limit point.
  • v. (transitive) To increase.
  • v. (obsolete, colloquial) To stretch the truth; to exaggerate.
  • v. (nautical) To sail by the wind under press of canvas.
  • n. An act of stretching.
  • n. The ability to lengthen when pulled.
  • n. A course of thought which diverts from straightforward logic, or requires extraordinary belief.
  • n. A segment of a journey or route.
  • n. A segment or length of material.
  • n. (baseball) A quick pitching delivery used when runners are on base where the pitcher slides his leg instead…
  • n. (baseball) A long reach in the direction of the ball with a foot remaining on the base by a first baseman…
  • n. A length of time.
  • n. (informal) Term of address for a tall person.
  • n. (Ireland, idiomatic) extended daylight hours, especially said of the evening in springtime when compared…

strive

  • v. To try to achieve a result; to make strenuous effort; to try earnestly and persistently.
  • v. To struggle in opposition; to be in contention or dispute; to contend; to contest.
  • v. To vie; to compete as a rival.
  • n. (obsolete) An effort; a striving.
  • n. (obsolete) strife; contention.

succeed

  • v. To follow in order; to come next after; hence, to take the place of.
  • v. To obtain the object desired; to accomplish what is attempted or intended; to have a prosperous issue…
  • v. (obsolete, rare) To fall heir to; to inherit.
  • v. To come after; to be subsequent or consequent to; to follow; to pursue.
  • v. To support; to prosper; to promote.
  • v. To come in the place of another person, thing, or event; to come next in the usual, natural, or prescribed…
  • v. To descend, as an estate or an heirloom, in the same family; to devolve.
  • v. To go under cover.

touch

  • v. Primarily physical senses.
  • v. Primarily non-physical senses.
  • v. To try; to prove, as with a touchstone.
  • v. To mark or delineate with touches; to add a slight stroke to with the pencil or brush.
  • v. (obsolete) To infect; to affect slightly.
  • v. To strike; to manipulate; to play on.
  • v. To perform, as a tune; to play.
  • v. To influence by impulse; to impel forcibly.
  • n. An act of touching, especially with the hand or finger.
  • n. The faculty or sense of perception by physical contact.
  • n. The style or technique with which one plays a musical instrument.
  • n. A distinguishing feature or characteristic.
  • n. A little bit; a small amount.
  • n. The part of a sports field beyond the touchlines or goal-lines.
  • n. A relationship of close communication or understanding.
  • n. The ability to perform a task well; aptitude.
  • n. (obsolete) Act or power of exciting emotion.
  • n. (obsolete) An emotion or affection.
  • n. (obsolete) Personal reference or application.
  • n. A single stroke on a drawing or a picture.
  • n. (obsolete) A brief essay.
  • n. (obsolete) A touchstone; hence, stone of the sort used for touchstone.
  • n. (obsolete) Examination or trial by some decisive standard; test; proof; tried quality.
  • n. (music) The particular or characteristic mode of action, or the resistance of the keys of an instrument…
  • n. (shipbuilding) The broadest part of a plank worked top and but, or of one worked anchor-stock fashion…
  • n. The children's game of tag.
  • n. (bell-ringing) A set of changes less than the total possible on seven bells, i.e. less than 5,040.
  • n. (slang) An act of borrowing or stealing something.
  • n. (Britain, plumbing, dated) tallow.

transfer

  • v. (transitive) To move or pass from one place, person or thing to another.
  • v. (transitive) To convey the impression of (something) from one surface to another.
  • v. (intransitive) To be or become transferred.
  • v. (transitive, law) To arrange for something to belong to or be officially controlled by somebody else.
  • n. (uncountable) The act of conveying or removing something from one place, person or thing to another.
  • n. (countable) An instance of conveying or removing from one place, person or thing to another; a transferal.
  • n. (countable) A design conveyed by contact from one surface to another; a heat transfer.
  • n. A soldier removed from one troop, or body of troops, and placed in another.
  • n. (medicine) A pathological process by which a unilateral morbid condition on being abolished on one side…
  • n. (genetics) The conveying of genetic material from one cell to another.

tug

  • v. (transitive) to pull or drag with great effort.
  • v. (transitive) to pull hard repeatedly.
  • v. (transitive) to tow by tugboat.
  • n. a sudden powerful pull.
  • n. (nautical) a tugboat.
  • n. (obsolete) A kind of vehicle used for conveying timber and heavy articles.
  • n. A trace, or drawing strap, of a harness.
  • n. (mining) An iron hook of a hoisting tub, to which a tackle is affixed.
  • n. (slang) An act of masturbation.

win

  • n. (Scotland) Pleasure; joy; delight.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To conquer, defeat.
  • v. (intransitive) To reach some destination despite difficulties (generally with a preposition or locative…
  • v. (transitive) To triumph or achieve victory in (a game, a war, etc.).
  • v. (transitive) To gain (a prize) by succeeding in competition or contest.
  • v. (transitive) To obtain (someone) by wooing.
  • v. (intransitive) To achieve victory.
  • v. (transitive) To obtain (something desired).
  • v. (transitive) To cause a victory for someone.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To come to by toil or effort; to reach; to overtake.
  • v. (transitive, mining) To extract (ore, coal, etc.).
  • n. gain; profit; income.
  • n. wealth; owndom; goods.
  • n. an individual victory (opposite of a loss).
  • n. (slang) a feat, an (extraordinary) achievement (opposite of a fail).

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