Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter R - Page 14
Reach (v. t.) To overreach; to deceive. [Obs.] -- South.
Reach (v. i.) To stretch out the hand.
Goddess humane, reach, then, and freely taste! -- Milton.
Reach (v. i.) To strain after something; to make efforts.
Reaching above our nature does no good. -- Dryden.
Reach (v. i.) To extend in dimension, time, amount, action, influence, etc., so as to touch, attain to, or be equal to, something.
And behold, a ladder set upon the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven. -- Gen. xxviii. 12.
The new world reaches quite across the torrid zone. -- Boyle.
Reach (v. i.) (Naut.) To sail on the wind, as from one point of tacking to another, or with the wind nearly abeam.
To reach after or To reach for or To reach at, to make efforts to attain to or obtain.
He would be in the posture of the mind reaching after a positive idea of infinity. -- Locke.
Reach (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.
Reach (n.) 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. -- Hayward.
Be sure yourself and your own reach to know. -- Pope.
Reach (n.) Extent; stretch; expanse; hence, application; influence; result; scope.
And on the left hand, hell, With long reach, interposed. -- Milton.
I am to pray you not to strain my speech To grosser issues, nor to larger reach Than to suspicion. -- Shak.
Reach (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. "The river's wooded reach." -- Tennyson.
The coast . . . is very full of creeks and reaches. -- Holland.
Reach (n.) An artifice to obtain an advantage.
The Duke of Parma had particular reaches and ends of his own underhand to cross the design. -- Bacon.
Reach (n.) The pole or rod which connects the hind axle with the forward bolster of a wagon.
Reach (n.) The limits within which something can be effective; "range of motion"; "he was beyond the reach of their fire" [syn: range, reach].
Reach (n.) An area in which something acts or operates or has power or control: "the range of a supersonic jet"; "a piano has a greater range than the human voice"; "the ambit of municipal legislation"; "within the compass of this article"; "within the scope of an investigation"; "outside the reach of the law"; "in the political orbit of a world power" [syn: scope, range, reach, orbit, compass, ambit].
Reach (n.) The act of physically reaching or thrusting out [syn: reach, reaching, stretch].
Reach (n.) The limit of capability; "within the compass of education" [syn: compass, range, reach, grasp].
Reach (v.) Reach a destination, either real or abstract; "We hit Detroit by noon"; "The water reached the doorstep"; "We barely made it to the finish line"; "I have to hit the MAC machine before the weekend starts" [syn: reach, make, attain, hit, arrive at, gain].
Reach (v.) Reach a point in time, or a certain state or level; "The thermometer hit 100 degrees"; "This car can reach a speed of 140 miles per hour" [syn: reach, hit, attain].
Reach (v.) Move forward or upward in order to touch; also in a metaphorical sense; "Government reaches out to the people" [syn: reach, reach out].
Reach (v.) Be in or establish communication with; "Our advertisements reach millions"; "He never contacted his children after he emigrated to Australia" [syn: reach, get through, get hold of, contact].
Reach (v.) To gain with effort; "she achieved her goal despite setbacks" [syn: achieve, accomplish, attain, reach].
Reach (v.) To extend as far as; "The sunlight reached the wall"; "Can he reach?" "The chair must not touch the wall" [syn: reach, extend to, touch].
Reach (v.) Reach a goal, e.g., "make the first team"; "We made it!"; "She may not make the grade" [syn: reach, make, get to, progress to].
Reach (v.) Place into the hands or custody of; "hand me the spoon, please"; "Turn the files over to me, please"; "He turned over the prisoner to his lawyers" [syn: pass, hand, reach, pass on, turn over, give].
Reach (v.) To exert much effort or energy; "straining our ears to hear" [syn: strive, reach, strain].
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REACH, (n.) The radius of action of the human hand. The area within which it is possible (and customary) to gratify directly the propensity to provide.
This is a truth, as old as the hills, That life and experience teach: The poor man suffers that keenest of ills, An impediment of his reach. G.J.
Reachable (a.) Being within reach.
Reachable (a.) Easily approached; "a site approachable from a branch of the Niger" [syn: approachable, reachable].
Reacher (n.) One who reaches.
Reacher (n.) An exaggeration. [Obs.] -- Fuller.
Reachless (a.) Being beyond reach; lofty.
Unto a reachless pitch of praises hight. -- Bp. Hall.
React
(v. t.)
To act or perform a second time; to do over again; as, to react a play; the
same scenes were reacted at
React (v. i.) To return an impulse or impression; to resist the action of another body by an opposite force; as, every body reacts on the body that impels it from its natural state.
React (v. i.) To act upon each other; to exercise a reciprocal or a reverse effect, as two or more chemical agents; to act in opposition.
React (v.) Show a response or a reaction to something [syn: react, respond].
React (v.) Act against or in opposition to; "She reacts negatively to everything I say" [syn: react, oppose].
React (v.) Undergo a chemical reaction; react with another substance under certain conditions; "The hydrogen and the oxygen react".
Reaction (n.) Any action in resisting other action or force; counter tendency; movement in a contrary direction; reverse action.
Reaction (n.) (Chem.) The mutual or reciprocal action of chemical agents upon each other, or the action upon such chemical agents of some form of energy, as heat, light, or electricity, resulting in a chemical change in one or more of these agents, with the production of new compounds or the manifestation of distinctive characters. See Blowpipe reaction, Flame reaction, under Blowpipe, and Flame.
Reaction (n.) (Med.) An action induced by vital resistance to some other action; depression or exhaustion of vital force consequent on overexertion or overstimulation; heightened activity and overaction succeeding depression or shock.
Reaction (n.) (Mech.) The force which a body subjected to the action of a force from another body exerts upon the latter body in the opposite direction.
Reaction is always equal and opposite to action, that is to say, the actions of two bodies upon each other are always equal and in opposite directions. -- Sir I. Newton (3d Law of Motion).
Reaction (n.) (Politics) Backward tendency or movement after revolution, reform, or great progress in any direction.
The new king had, at the very moment at which his fame and fortune reached the highest point, predicted the coming reaction. -- Macaulay.
Reaction (n.) (Psycophysics) A regular or characteristic response to a stimulation of the nerves.
Reaction (n.) An action by a person or people in response to an event.
The reaction may be primarily mental (" a reaction of surprise") but is usually manifested by some activity.
Reaction time (Physiol.), In nerve physiology, the interval between the application of a stimulus to an end organ of sense and the reaction or resulting movement; -- called also physiological time.
Reaction wheel (Mech.), A water wheel driven by the reaction of water, usually one in which the water, entering it centrally, escapes at its periphery in a direction opposed to that of its motion by orifices at right angles, or inclined, to its radii.
Reaction (n.) (Chemistry) A process in which one or more substances are changed into others; "there was a chemical reaction of the lime with the ground water" [syn: chemical reaction, reaction].
Reaction (n.) An idea evoked by some experience; "his reaction to the news was to start planning what to do".
Reaction (n.) A bodily process occurring due to the effect of some antecedent stimulus or agent; "a bad reaction to the medicine"; "his responses have slowed with age" [syn: reaction, response].
Reaction (n.) (Mechanics) The equal and opposite force that is produced when any force is applied to a body; "every action has an equal and opposite reaction"
Reaction (n.) A response that reveals a person's feelings or attitude; "he was pleased by the audience's reaction to his performance"; "John feared his mother's reaction when she saw the broken lamp".
Reaction (n.) Extreme conservatism in political or social matters; "the forces of reaction carried the election".
Reaction (n.) Doing something in opposition to another way of doing it that you don't like; "his style of painting was a reaction against cubism".
Reactionary (a.) Being, causing, or favoring reaction; as, reactionary movements.
Reactionaries (n. pl. ) of Reactionary.
Reactionary (n.) One who favors reaction, or seeks to undo political progress or revolution.
Reactionary (a.) Extremely conservative [syn: reactionary, reactionist, far-right].
Reactionary (n.) An extreme conservative; an opponent of progress or liberalism [syn: reactionary, ultraconservative, extreme right-winger].
Reactionist (n.) A reactionary. -- C. Kingsley.
Reactive (a.) Having power to react; tending to reaction; of the nature of reaction. -- Re*act"ive*ly, adv. -- Re*act"ive*ness, n.
Reactive (a.) Participating readily in reactions; "sodium is a reactive metal"; "free radicals are very reactive" [ant: unreactive].
Reactive (a.) Reacting to a stimulus; "the skin of old persons is less reactive than that of younger persons" [syn: reactive, responsive].
Read (n.) Rennet. See 3d Reed. [Prov. Eng.]
Read (imp. & p. p.) of Read.
Read (v. t.) To advise; to counsel. [Obs.] See Rede.
Therefore, I read thee, get thee to God's word, and thereby try all doctrine. -- Tyndale.
Read (v. t.) To interpret; to explain; as, to read a riddle.
Read (v. t.) To tell; to declare; to recite. [Obs.]
But read how art thou named, and of what kin. -- Spenser.
Read (v. t.) To go over, as characters or words, and utter aloud, or recite to one's self inaudibly; to take in the sense of, as of language, by interpreting the characters with which it is expressed; to peruse; as, to read a discourse; to read the letters of an alphabet; to read figures; to read the notes of music, or to read music; to read a book.
Read (v. t.) Hence, to know fully; to comprehend.
Read (v. t.) To discover or understand by characters, marks, features, etc.; to learn by observation.
Read (v. t.) To make a special study of, as by perusing textbooks; as, to read theology or law.
Read (v. i.) To give advice or counsel.
Read (v. i.) To tell; to declare.
Read (v. i.) To perform the act of reading; to peruse, or to go over and utter aloud, the words of a book or other like document.
Read (v. i.) To study by reading; as, he read for the bar.
Read (v. i.) To learn by reading.
Read (v. i.) To appear in writing or print; to be expressed by, or consist of, certain words or characters; as, the passage reads thus in the early manuscripts.
Read (v. i.) To produce a certain effect when read; as, that sentence reads queerly.
Read (v. t.) Saying; sentence; maxim; hence, word; advice; counsel. See Rede.
Read (v.)
Read () imp. & p. p. of Read, v. t. & i.
Read (a.) Instructed or knowing by reading; versed in books; learned.
Readability (n.) The state of being readable; readableness.
Readable (a.) Such as can be read; legible; fit or suitable to be read; worth reading; interesting.
Readdress (v. t.) To address a second time; -- often used reflexively.
Readept (v. t.) To regain; to recover.
Readeption (n.) A regaining; recovery of something lost.
Reader (n.) One who reads.
Reader (n.) One whose distinctive office is to read prayers in a church.
Reader (n.) One who reads lectures on scientific subjects.
Reader (n.) A proof reader.
Reader (n.) One who reads manuscripts offered for publication and advises regarding their merit.
Reader (n.) One who reads much; one who is studious.
Reader (n.) A book containing a selection of extracts for exercises in reading; an elementary book for practice in a language; a reading book.
Readership (n.) The office of reader.
Readily (adv.) In a ready manner; quickly; promptly.
Readily (adv.) Without delay or objection; without reluctance; willingly; cheerfully.
Readiness (n.) 準備就緒 [（+for）]；願意 [S1] [（+to）]；迅速，敏捷；容易 [S1] [（+of）] The state or quality of being ready; preparation; promptness; aptitude; willingness.
Reading (n.) The act of one who reads; perusal; also, printed or written matter to be read.
Reading (n.) Study of books; literary scholarship; as, a man of extensive reading.
Reading (n.) A lecture or prelection; public recital.
Reading (n.) The way in which anything reads; force of a word or passage presented by a documentary authority; lection; version.
Reading (n.) Manner of reciting, or acting a part, on the stage; way of rendering.
Reading (n.) An observation read from the scale of a graduated instrument; as, the reading of a barometer.
Reading (a.) Of or pertaining to the act of reading; used in reading.
Reading (a.) Addicted to reading; as, a reading community.
Readjourn (v. t.) To adjourn a second time; to adjourn again.
Readjournment (n.) The act of readjourning; a second or repeated adjournment.
Readjust (v. t.) To adjust or settle again; to put in a different order or relation; to rearrange.
Readjuster (n.) One who, or that which, readjusts; in some of the States of the United States, one who advocates a refunding, and sometimes a partial repudiation, of the State debt without the consent of the State's creditors.
Readjustment (n.) A second adjustment; a new or different adjustment.
Readmission (n.) The act of admitting again, or the state of being readmitted; as, the readmission of fresh air into an exhausted receiver; the readmission of a student into a seminary.
Readmit (v. t.) To admit again; to give entrance or access to again.
Readmittance (n.) Allowance to enter again; a second admission.
Readopt (v. t.) To adopt again.
Readorn (v. t.) To adorn again or anew.
Readvance (v. i.) To advance again.
Readvertency (n.) The act of adverting to again, or of reviewing.
Ready (n.) Ready money; cash; -- commonly with the; as, he was well supplied with the ready. [Slang]
Lord Strut was not flush in ready, either to go to law, or to clear old debts. -- Arbuthnot.
Ready (v. t.) To dispose in order. [Obs.] -- Heywood.
Ready (a.) Prepared for what one is about to do or experience; equipped or supplied with what is needed for some act or event; prepared for immediate movement or action; as, the troops are ready to march; ready for the journey. "When she redy was." -- Chaucer.
Ready (a.) Fitted or arranged for immediate use; causing no delay for lack of being prepared or furnished. "Dinner was ready." -- Fielding.
My oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready: come unto the marriage. -- Matt. xxii. 4.
Ready (a.) Prepared in mind or disposition; not reluctant; willing; free; inclined; disposed.
I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem, for the name of the Lord Jesus. -- Acts xxi. 13.
If need be, I am ready to forego And quit. -- Milton.
Ready (a.) Not slow or hesitating; quick in action or perception of any kind; dexterous; prompt; easy; expert; as, a ready apprehension; ready wit; a ready writer or workman. "Ready in devising expedients." -- Macaulay.
Gurth, whose temper was ready, though surly. -- Sir W. Scott.
Ready (a.) Offering itself at once; at hand; opportune; convenient; near; easy. "The readiest way." -- Milton.
A sapling pine he wrenched from out the ground, The readiest weapon that his fury found. -- Dryden.
Ready (a.) On the point; about; on the brink; near; -- with a following infinitive.
My heart is ready to crack. -- Shak.
Ready (a.) (Mil.) A word of command, or a position, in the manual of arms, at which the piece is cocked and held in position to execute promptly the next command, which is, aim.
All ready, Ready in every particular; wholly equipped or prepared. "[I] am all redy at your hest." -- Chaucer.
Ready money, Means of immediate payment; cash. "'T is all the ready money fate can give." -- Cowley.
Ready reckoner, A book of tables for facilitating computations, as of interest, prices, etc.
To make ready, To make preparation; to get in readiness.
Syn: Prompt; expeditious; speedy; unhesitating; dexterous; apt; skillful; handy; expert; facile; easy; opportune; fitted; prepared; disposed; willing; free; cheerful. See Prompt.
Ready (adv.) In a state of preparation for immediate action; so as to need no delay.
We ourselves will go ready armed. -- Num. xxxii. 17.
Ready (a.) Completely prepared or in condition for immediate action or use or progress; "get ready"; "she is ready to resign"; "the bridge is ready to collapse"; "I am ready to work"; "ready for action"; "ready for use"; "the soup will be ready in a minute"; "ready to learn to read" [ant: unready].
Ready (a.) (Of especially money) Immediately available; "he seems to have ample ready money"; "a ready source of cash".
Ready (a.) Mentally disposed; "he was ready to believe her".
Ready (a.) Made suitable and available for immediate use; "dinner is ready".
Ready (a.) Apprehending and responding with speed and sensitivity; "a quick mind"; "a ready wit" [syn: quick, ready].
Ready (n.) Poised for action; "their guns were at the ready".
Ready (v.) Prepare for eating by applying heat; "Cook me dinner, please"; "can you make me an omelette?"; "fix breakfast for the guests, please" [syn: cook, fix, ready, make, prepare].
Ready (v.) Make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc; "Get the children ready for school!"; "prepare for war"; "I was fixing to leave town after I paid the hotel bill" [syn: fix, prepare, set up, ready, gear up, set].
Ready-made (a.) Made already, or beforehand, in anticipation of need; not made to order; as, ready-made clothing; ready-made jokes.
Ready-witted (a.) Having ready wit.
Reaffirm (v. t.) To affirm again.
Reaffirmance (n.) Alt. of Reaffirmation.
Reaffirmation (n.) A second affirmation.