Reach

Definition

reach /ri:tʃ/ v ၁။ (က) ေရာက္သည္။ ဆိုက္သည္။ တိုင္သည္။ reach York by one o'clock ❍ reach the end of the book ❍ reach a speed of 500 mph ❍ The rescuers reached him just in time. (ခ) ေရာက္သည္။ ရသည္။ reach a conclusion/decision/verdict ❍ reach maturity ❍ You'll understand these things when you reach my age. ❍ The appeal fund has reached its target of £10000. See also FAR-REACHING ၂။ ~ for sth; ~ out (to sb/sth) လွမ္းယူ သည္။ လက္လွမ္းသည္။ လက္ကမ္းသည္။ He reached for a pencil. ❍ She reached across the table for the jam. ❍ ( fig ) We must reach out to those in need. ၃။ ~ sth (down) for sb ( infml ) ကမ္းေပးသည္။ Could you reach (me) that box (down) from the top of the wardrobe? ၄။ ~ (to) sth မီသည္။ လက္လွမ္းမီသည္။ ေရာက္သည္။ Can you get me that book from the top shelf? I can't reach. ❍ My feet can hardly reach the pedals. ❍ She wore a dress that reached (down) to her ankles. ၅။ ဆက္သြယ္သည္။ ေခၚသည္။ အသိေပးသည္။ You can reach her at home on 01355-694162. ❍ I can't reach him by phone/on the phone. ❍ We could reach more people by advertising. n ၁။ [sing] လက္လွမ္း။ a boxer with a long reach. ၂။ [C usu pl ] ျမစ္၏အပိုင္းအကန္႔။ the upper/lower reaches of the Thames. ❏ beyond/out of/within (one's/sb's) reach [ IDM ] ၁။ အလွမ္းေဝးသည္။ လက္လွမ္းမမီ (သို႔) လက္လွမ္းမီသည္။ have/keep a dictionary within (arm's) reach ❍ The top shelf is well out of/beyond my reach. ❍ Keep those medicines out of reach of the children/out of the children's reach. ၂။ [ဥ] အလွမ္းေဝးသည္။ လိုက္မမီ (သို႔) လက္ လွမ္းမီသည္။ concepts beyond the reach of present scientific knowledge ❍ Such highly-paid jobs are out of reach for someone with no qualifications. ❍ House prices are beyond the reach of many young couples. ❏ reachable adj အလွမ္းမီေသာ။ reachable by road/within an hour. ❏ reach for the stars [ IDM ] ရည္မွန္းခ်က္ျမင့္မားသည္။ ျမင့္ျမင့္ႀကံသည္။ မမီသည့္ပန္း တံုးခု၍လွမ္းသည္။ ❏ within (easy) reach (of sb/sth) [ IDM ] လက္လွမ္း တမီရိွသည္။ The hotel is within easy reach of the beach.

Examples

1. We hoped to reach the camp before dark.
2. When she reached the top of the stairs her heart was pounding.
3. News reached him that his wife and child were safe.
4. The money should reach your bank account within three working days.
5. You reach a point where medicine can’t help.
6. The children have reached the age when they want more privacy.
7. Temperatures here can reach 120 degrees Fahrenheit.
8. [reach to] : Her blond hair reaches to her waist.
9. [reach as far as] : They own land that reaches as far as the border.
10. [reach for] : He turned round and reached for the phone.
11. [reach into] : Travis reached into his pocket to get his car keys.
12. [reach across] : I reached across the table and took Alice’s hand.
13. She had to stand on a chair to reach the switch.
14. We keep the bottles up here so the children can’t reach them.
15. [reach (an) agreement] : An agreement was finally reached last night.
16. [reach a decision/conclusion/compromise] : Ministers must reach a decision before next month.
17. The advertisement reached an audience of over 19 million.
18. Our political message is still not reaching enough people.
19. I’ll leave you a number where I can be reached in an emergency.