Find vs Reach - What's the difference?
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To encounter or discover by accident; to happen upon.
* Shakespeare
* Cowley
To encounter or discover something being searched for; to locate.
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, passage=I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town.}}
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, title= To point out.
To decide that, to discover that, to form the opinion that.
* Shakespeare
* Cowley
* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
, chapter=1 To determine or judge.
To arrive at, as a conclusion; to determine as true; to establish.
* Shakespeare
To discover by study or experiment direct to an object or end.
To gain, as the object of desire or effort.
To attain to; to arrive at; to acquire.
(archaic) To provide for; to supply; to furnish.
* London Times
* Charles Dickens
Anything that is found (usually valuable), as objects on an archeological site or a person with talent.
The act of finding.
To extend; to stretch; to thrust out; to put forth, as a limb, a member, something held, or the like.
Hence, to deliver by stretching out a member, especially the hand; to give with the hand; to pass to another; to hand over.
To attain or obtain by stretching forth the hand; to extend some part of the body, or something held by one, so as to touch, strike, grasp, etc.
To strike or touch with a missile.
Hence, to extend an action, effort, or influence to; to penetrate to; to pierce, or cut, as far as.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4
, passage=Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair.}}
To extend to; to stretch out as far as; to touch by virtue of extent.
* Milton
To arrive at by effort of any kind; to attain to; to gain; to be advanced to.
* Cheyne
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(obsolete) To understand; to comprehend.
* Beaumont and Fletcher
(obsolete) To overreach; to deceive.
To stretch out the hand.
To strain after something; to make efforts.
To extend in dimension, time etc.; to stretch out continuously ((past), (beyond), (above), (from) etc. something).
* 1994 , Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom , Abacus 2010, p. 4:
(nautical) To sail on the wind, as from one point of tacking to another, or with the wind nearly abeam.
The act of stretching or extending; extension; power of reaching or touching with the person, or a limb, or something held or thrown.
* 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter VI
The power of stretching out or extending action, influence, or the like; power of attainment or management; extent of force or capacity.
* Hayward
* Alexander Pope
Extent; stretch; expanse; hence, application; influence; result; scope.
* Milton
* Shakespeare
(informal) An exaggeration; an extension beyond evidence or normal; a stretch.
(boxing) The distance a boxer's arm can extend to land a blow.
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.
* Tennyson
* Holland
(nautical) Any point of sail in which the wind comes from the side of a vessel, excluding close-hauled.
(obsolete) An article to obtain an advantage.
* Francis Bacon
The pole or rod connecting the rear axle with the forward bolster of a wagon.
An effort to vomit; a retching.
In intransitive terms the difference between find and reach
is that find is to determine or judge while reach is to extend in dimension, time etc.; to stretch out continuously ({{term|past}}, {{term|beyond}}, {{term|above}}, {{term|from}} etc. something).As verbs the difference between find and reach
is that find is to encounter or discover by accident; to happen upon while reach is to extend; to stretch; to thrust out; to put forth, as a limb, a member, something held, or the like.As nouns the difference between find and reach
is that find is anything that is found (usually valuable), as objects on an archeological site or a person with talent while reach is the act of stretching or extending; extension; power of reaching or touching with the person, or a limb, or something held or thrown.As an acronym REACH is
Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of Chemicalsfind
English
Verb
- Searching the window for a flint, I found / This paper, thus sealed up.
- In woods and forests thou art found .
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=It was a joy to snatch some brief respite, and find himself in the rectory drawing–room. Listening here was as pleasant as talking; just to watch was pleasant.}}
Arsenal 3-0 Ipswich (agg. 3-1), passage=Van Persie scored a hat-trick against Wigan on Saturday and should have found' the net again after Bendtner ' found him at the far post but the Dutchman's header rebounded to safety off the crossbar.}}
Welcome to the plastisphere, passage=Plastics are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field. Dr Mincer and Dr Amaral-Zettler found evidence of them on their marine plastic, too.}}
- I find you passing gentle.
- The torrid zone is now found habitable.
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- to find''' a verdict; to '''find a true bill (of indictment) against an accused person
- to find his title with some shows of truth
- Water is found to be a compound substance.
- to find''' leisure; to '''find means
- Looks like he found himself a new vehicle!
- After a long flight, I now find myself in San Francisco.
- to find food for workmen
- He finds his nephew in money.
- Wages £14 and all found .
- Nothing a day and find yourself.
Synonyms
* See alsoAntonyms
* loseDerived terms
See also'' finding''' ''and'' ' found * find fault * find one's feet * find outNoun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (anything found) discovery, catchStatistics
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English
Verb
(es)- Thy desire leads to no excess / That reaches blame.
- The best account of the appearances of nature which human penetration can reach , comes short of its reality.
- Do what, sir? I reach you not.
- (South)
- The Thembu tribe reaches back for twenty generations to King Zwide.
Usage notes
* In the past, raught'', ''rought'' and ''retcht could be found as past tense forms; these are now obsolete, except perhaps in some dialects.Derived terms
* far-reaching * forereach * outreach * overreach * reachable * reach an early grave * reach for the stars * rereach *Noun
(es)- The fruit is beyond my reach .
- to be within reach of cannon shot
- and we have learned not to fire at any of the dinosaurs unless we can keep out of their reach for at least two minutes after hitting them in the brain or spine, or five minutes after puncturing their hearts—it takes them so long to die.
- Drawn by others who had deeper reaches than themselves to matters which they least intended.
- Be sure yourself and your own reach to know.
- And on the left hand, hell, / With long reach , interposed.
- I am to pray you not to strain my speech / To grosser issues, nor to larger reach / Than to suspicion.
- To call George eloquent is certainly a reach .
- The river's wooded reach .
- The coast is very full of creeks and reaches .
- The Duke of Parma had particular reaches and ends of his own underhand to cross the design.