A Quick and Simple Dictionary

REACH

1. (acronym) .  Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of Chemicals.
2. Verb.  To extend; to stretch; to thrust out; to put forth, as a limb, a member, something held, or the like.
3. Verb.  Hence, to deliver by stretching out a member, especially the hand; to give with the hand; to pass to another; to hand over; as, to reach one a book.
4. Verb.  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, or the like; as, to reach an object with the hand, or with a spear.
5. Verb.  To strike, hit, or tough with a missile; as, to reach an object with an arrow, a bullet, or a shell.
6. Verb.  Hence, to extend an action, effort, or influence to; to penetrate to; to pierce, or cut, as far as.
7. Verb.  To extend to; to stretch out as far as; to touch by virtue of extent; as, his hand reaches the river.
8. Verb.  To arrive at by effort of any kind; to attain to; to gain; to be advanced to.
9. Verb.  To understand; to comprehend.
10. Verb.  To stretch out the hand.
11. Verb.  To strain after something; to make efforts.
12. Verb.  (intransitive) To extend in dimension, time etc.; to stretch out continuously ((term, past) , (term, beyond) , (term, above) , (term, from) etc. something).
13. Noun.  The act of stretching or extending; extension; power of reaching or touching with the person, or a limb, or something held or thrown.
14. Noun.  The power of stretching out or extending action, influence, or the like; power of attainment or management; extent of force or capacity.
15. Noun.  Extent; stretch; expanse; hence, application; influence; result; scope.
16. Noun.  (informal) An exaggeration; an extension beyond evidence or normal; a stretch.
17. Noun.  (boxing) The distance a boxer's arm can extend to land a blow.
18. Noun.  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.
19. Noun.  (nautical) Any point of sail in which the wind comes from the side of a vessel.