ACHIEVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does achieve mean? 

• ACHIEVE (verb)
  The verb ACHIEVE has 1 sense:

1. to gain with effort

  Familiarity information: ACHIEVE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ACHIEVE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they achieve    ... he / she / it achieves   
Past simple: achieved   
Past participle: achieved   
-ing form: achieving   

Sense 1

Meaning:

To gain with effort

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

accomplish; achieve; attain; reach

Context example:

she achieved her goal despite setbacks

Hypernyms (to "achieve" is one way to...):

bring home the bacon; come through; deliver the goods; succeed; win (attain success or reach a desired goal)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "achieve"):

score (get a certain number or letter indicating quality or performance)

get to; make; progress to; reach (reach a goal)

begin (achieve or accomplish in the least degree, usually used in the negative)

come to; strike (attain)

culminate (reach the highest or most decisive point)

compass (bring about; accomplish)

average (achieve or reach on average)

finagle; manage; wangle (achieve something by means of trickery or devious methods)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Derivation:

achievable (capable of existing or taking place or proving true; possible to do)

achievement (the action of accomplishing something)

achiever (a person with a record of successes)

 Context examples 

And that is precisely what this international team of scientists has achieved.

(Scientists successfully deliver “Trojan horse” catalysts into cancerous tumour cells to destroy them from within, Universities of Granada)

Trees such as the giant sequoia can only achieve their vast heights because of these secondary cell walls, which provide a rigid structure around the cells in their trunks.

(Revealing the nanostructure of wood could help raise height limits for wooden skyscrapers, University of Cambridge)

However, engineering tissue that can successfully mimic the intricacies of adult human heart cells is not easy and, until now, had not been achieved in the lab.

(Early stimulation improves performance of bioengineered human heart cells, National Institutes of Health)

This is because without long, deep periods of rest, certain chemicals are activated that keep the body from achieving extended periods in which heart rate and blood pressure are lowered.

(Deep Sleep May Play Role in Preventing Alzheimer’s Disease, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The most commonly used material for producing solar panels is crystalline silicon, but to achieve efficient energy conversion requires an expensive and time-consuming production process.

(‘Messy’ production of perovskite material increases solar cell efficiency, University of Cambridge)

Researchers were able to achieve a nanolaser platform that solves these issues by using photon upconversion.

(Tiny, biocompatible laser could function inside living tissues, National Science Foundation)

Among 107 patients who achieved complete remission, those who developed detectable ctDNA during surveillance were over 200 times more likely to have disease progression than those who had no detectable ctDNA.

(Tumor DNA in Blood Reveals Lymphoma Progression, NIH)

However, isolating CD8 T- cells and obtaining the genetic signature was not straightforward, making the test unlikely to be scaleable and achieve widespread use.

(New prognostic test could enable personalised treatment of inflammatory bowel disease, University of Cambridge)

This could be achieved by stacking and connecting multiple paper batteries.

(New Type of Battery Created from Paper, Fueled by Bacteria, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The research suggests bees don't need to understand complex mathematics to achieve these feats of quantitative comparison.

(Scientists Discover Bees Can Count Using Only Four Brain Cells, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)