Reach vs Rise - What's the difference?
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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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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.
(label) To move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground.
# To move upwards.
# To grow upward; to attain a certain height.
# To slope upward.
# (of a celestial body) To appear to move upwards from behind the horizon of a planet as a result of the planet's rotation.
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# To become erect; to assume an upright position.
# To leave one's bed; to get up.
#* Old proverb
# (figurative) To be resurrected.
# (figurative) To terminate an official sitting; to adjourn.
#* (1800-1859)
(label) To increase in value or standing.
# To attain a higher status.
#* (rfdate) (Augustus Hare) (1834-1903)
#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
# Of a quantity, price, etc., to increase.
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, title= # To become more and more dignified or forcible; to increase in interest or power; said of style, thought, or discourse.
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# To ascend on a musical scale; to take a higher pitch.
To begin; to develop.
# To develop.
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# To swell or puff up in the process of fermentation; to become light.
# (of a river) To have its source (in a particular place).
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# To become perceptible to the senses, other than sight.
# To become agitated, opposed, or hostile; to go to war; to take up arms; to rebel.
#* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
#* (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
# To come to mind; to be suggested; to occur.
#* Spectator
(obsolete) To retire; to give up a siege.
* (Richard Knolles) (1545-1610)
To come; to offer itself.
* (Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
(printing, dated) To be lifted, or capable of being lifted, from the imposing stone without dropping any of the type; said of a form.
The process of or an action or instance of moving upwards or becoming greater.
The process of or an action or instance of coming to prominence.
(chiefly, UK) An increase (in a quantity, price, etc).
The amount of material extending from waist to crotch in a pair of trousers or shorts.
(UK, Ireland, Australia) An increase in someone's pay rate; a raise.
(Sussex) A small hill; used chiefly in place names .
An area of terrain that tends upward away from the viewer, such that it conceals the region behind it; a slope.
* 1884 , (Mark Twain), (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn) , ,
An angry reaction.
As an acronym reach
is .As a verb rise is
(label) to move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground.As a noun rise is
the process of or an action or instance of moving upwards or becoming greater.reach
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.
Derived terms
* arm's reach * beam reach * boardinghouse reach * broad reach * dry reach * earreach * eyereach * gunreach * reach-around * reachlessStatistics
*Anagrams
* * 1000 English basic words ----rise
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) risen, from (etyl) . See also (l). (cognates) Cognate with (etyl) rize, (etyl) .Verb
- And still the hours passed, and at last I knew by the glimmer of light in the tomb above that the sun had risen again, and a maddening thirst had hold of me. And then I thought of all the barrels piled up in the vault and of the liquor that they held; and stuck not because 'twas spirit, for I would scarce have paused to sate that thirst even with molten lead.
- He that would thrive must rise by five.
- It was near ninebefore the House rose .
- among the rising theologians of Germany
- Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
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- Professor Peter Crome, chair of the audit's steering group, said the report "provides further concrete evidence that the care of patients with dementia in hospital is in need of a radical shake-up". While a few hospitals had risen to the challenge of improving patients' experiences, many have not, he said. The report recommends that all staff receive basic dementia awareness training, and staffing levels should be maintained to help such patients.
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- The majestic Marannon, or Amazon River, rises out of the Lake Launcocha, situated in the province of Tarma, in 10° 14? south latitude, and ten leagues to the north of Pasco.
- At our heels all hell should rise / With blackest insurrection.
- No more shall nation against nation rise .
- A thought rose in me, which often perplexes men of contemplative natures.
- He, rising with small honour from Gunza,was gone.
- There chanced to the prince's hand to rise / An ancient book.
Synonyms
* (move upwards) climb, go up * (be resurrected) be resurrected, come back from the dead * climb, increase, go upAntonyms
* (move upwards) descend, drop, fall, sink * (of a celestial body) set * be reduced, decrease, drop, fall, go downCoordinate terms
* raiseEtymology 2
From the above verb.Noun
(en noun)- The rise of the tide.
- There was a rise of nearly two degrees since yesterday.
- Exercise is usually accompanied by a temporary rise in blood pressure.
- The rise of the working class.
- The rise of the printing press.
- The rise of the feminists.
- The rise of his pants was so low that his tailbone was exposed.
- The governor just gave me a rise of 2-pounds-6.
- I went along up the bank with one eye out for pap and t?other one out for what the rise might fetch along.
- I knew that would get a rise out of him.