Realm vs Reach - What's the difference?
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An abstract sphere of influence, real or imagined.
* 1907 , Tada Kanai, translated by Arthur Lloyd, Seven Buddhist Sermons , ""
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The domain of a certain abstraction.
* 1922 , Judson Eber Conant,The Church The Schools and Evolution , "",
(formal, or, legal) A territory or state, as ruled by a specific power, and particularly those territories ruled by a king.
* 1874 , ,
* 1913 , Leslie Alexander Toke, Catholic Encyclopedia , "",
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.
As nouns the difference between realm and reach
is that realm is an abstract sphere of influence, real or imagined 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 a verb reach is
to extend; to stretch; to thrust out; to put forth, as a limb, a member, something held, or the like.As an acronym REACH is
Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of Chemicalsrealm
English
Noun
(en noun)- Why should we despise anything in the realm of Buddha?
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- At home in Moscow, Mikhail Sergeyevitch Gorbachev, who had launched a campaign to rejuvenate the Soviet realm
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- One thing more which the scientific man does is to accord primacy to that realm of truth which is primary in importance.
- And, of this island realm , he and his companion were the undisputed sovereigns.
- Then seeing his life was threatened he fled the realm and crossed over to Flanders,
Synonyms
* (A territory or state) country, land, kingdom * (A sphere of activity or influence) field, provinceDerived terms
* abstract realm * Commonwealth realm * custom of the realm * Eastern Realm * experience realm * floristic realm * Ice Realm * in the realm of shades * Northern Realm * realm of banking * realm of fantasy * realm of the dead * realm of possibility * Snow Realm * Southern Realm * Western RealmAnagrams
*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.