reacher.html - See: BOARDING HOUSE REACH.

reacher.html - {v. phr.} To make a good start; really begin; succeed, * /Joe had a long paper to write for history class, but when the teacher asked for it, Joe hadn't got to first base yet./ * /Suppose Sam falls in love with Betty. Can he even get to first base with her?/ * /George wants to go to college and become a teacher, but I'll be surprised if he even reaches first base./ * /If you don't dress neatly, you won't get to first base when you look for a job./ Compare: FIRST BASE.

reacher.html - {v. phr.} To make a good start; really begin; succeed, * /Joe had a long paper to write for history class, but when the teacher asked for it, Joe hadn't got to first base yet./ * /Suppose Sam falls in love with Betty. Can he even get to first base with her?/ * /George wants to go to college and become a teacher, but I'll be surprised if he even reaches first base./ * /If you don't dress neatly, you won't get to first base when you look for a job./ Compare: FIRST BASE.

reacher.html - {v. phr.}, {slang} 1. To put your hands high above your head or be shot. - Usually used as a command. * /A holdup man walked into a gas station last night and told the attendant "Reach for the sky!"/ Syn.: HANDS UP. 2. To set one's aims high. * /"Why medical technician?" asked her father. "Reach for the sky! Become a physician!"/

reacher.html - v. & n.
--v.

1 intr. & tr. (often foll. by out) stretch out; extend.
2 intr. stretch out a limb, the hand, etc.; make a reaching motion or effort.
3 intr. (often foll. by for) make a motion or effort to touch or get hold of, or to attain (reached for his pipe).
4 tr. get as far as; arrive at (reached Lincoln at lunch-time; your letter reached me today).
5 tr. get to or attain (a specified point) on a scale (the temperature reached 90ш; the number of applications reached 100).
6 intr. (foll. by to) attain to; be adequate for (my income will not reach to it).
7 tr. succeed in achieving; attain (have reached agreement).
8 tr. make contact with the hand etc., or by telephone etc. (was out all day and could not be reached).
9 tr. succeed in influencing or having the required effect on (could not manage to reach their audience).
10 tr. hand, pass (reach me that book).
11 tr. take with an outstretched hand.
12 intr. Naut. sail with the wind abeam or abaft the beam.

--n.

1 the extent to which a hand etc. can be reached out, influence exerted, motion carried out, or mental powers used.
2 an act of reaching out.
3 a continuous extent, esp. a stretch of river between two bends, or the part of a canal between locks.
4 Naut. a distance traversed in reaching.

out of reach not able to be reached or attained. reach-me-down ready-made.

reachable adj. reacher n. [OE rócan f. WG]

reacher.html - See: BOARDING HOUSE REACH.