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  • English Word Reach Definition To extend in dimension, time, amount, action, influence, etc., so as to touch, attain to, or be equal to, something.
  • English Word Reach Definition To sail on the wind, as from one point of tacking to another, or with the wind nearly abeam.
  • English Word Reach Definition 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.
  • English Word Reach Definition The power of stretching out or extending action, influence, or the like; power of attainment or management; extent of force or capacity.
  • English Word Reach Definition Extent; stretch; expanse; hence, application; influence; result; scope.
  • English Word Reach Definition 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.
  • English Word Reach Definition An artifice to obtain an advantage.
  • English Word Reach Definition The pole or rod which connects the hind axle with the forward bolster of a wagon.
  • English Word Reachable Definition Being within reach.
  • English Word Reached Definition of Reach
  • English Word Reacher Definition One who reaches.
  • English Word Reacher Definition An exaggeration.
  • English Word Reaching Definition of Reach
  • English Word Reachless Definition Being beyond reach; lofty.
  • English Word React Definition To act or perform a second time; to do over again; as, to react a play; the same scenes were reacted at Rome.
  • English Word React Definition 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.
  • English Word React Definition To act upon each other; to exercise a reciprocal or a reverse effect, as two or more chemical agents; to act in opposition.
  • English Word Reaction Definition Any action in resisting other action or force; counter tendency; movement in a contrary direction; reverse action.
  • English Word Reaction Definition 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.
  • English Word Reaction Definition 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.
  • English Word Reaction Definition The force which a body subjected to the action of a force from another body exerts upon the latter body in the opposite direction.
  • English Word Reaction Definition Backward tendency or movement after revolution, reform, or great progress in any direction.
  • English Word Reactionaries Definition of Reactionary
  • English Word Reactionary Definition Being, causing, or favoring reaction; as, reactionary movements.
  • English Word Reactionary Definition One who favors reaction, or seeks to undo political progress or revolution.
  • English Word Reactionist Definition A reactionary.
  • English Word Reactive Definition Having power to react; tending to reaction; of the nature of reaction.
  • English Word Read Definition Rennet. See 3d Reed.
  • English Word Read Definition of Read
  • English Word Read Definition To advise; to counsel.