REACHING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does reaching mean? 

• REACHING (noun)
  The noun REACHING has 2 senses:

1. the act of physically reaching or thrusting out

2. accomplishment of an objective

  Familiarity information: REACHING used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REACHING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of physically reaching or thrusting out

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

reach; reaching; stretch

Hypernyms ("reaching" is a kind of...):

motility; motion; move; movement (a change of position that does not entail a change of location)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "reaching"):

outreach (the act of reaching out)

Derivation:

reach (move forward or upward in order to touch; also in a metaphorical sense)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Accomplishment of an objective

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

arrival; reaching

Hypernyms ("reaching" is a kind of...):

accomplishment; achievement (the action of accomplishing something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "reaching"):

attainment (arrival at a new stage)

advent; coming (arrival that has been awaited (especially of something momentous))

Derivation:

reach (reach a goal)

 Context examples 

He knew they were reaching out their woman's hands to him.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Bile has other ways of reaching your small intestine.

(Gallbladder Diseases, NIH)

Beyond this room there were three others, reaching the length of the house, to which you passed through three doors, opposite to each other, in the manner of a vista.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

In reaching the door he would have to pass seven bedrooms.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And Bidarshik stands up very quick, and his hand is reaching out for his gun.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

They were waiting for me in the drawing-room, which is a very large room, stretching along the entire front of the house, with three long windows reaching down to the floor.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Instead of reaching out to new VIPs and clients you’ve never met, this month your best career opportunities will emanate from people or companies you already know.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Device problems that occur from its reaching the end of its useful life.

(Device End of Life Problem Evaluation Result, Food and Drug Administration)

From this, they concluded that warm water was reaching the ice sheets in the same places every year as well.

(Scientists describe how 'upside-down rivers' of warm water break Antarctica's ice shelf, Wikinews)

This "snow" melts again before reaching the top of the ocean, possibly leaving slush in the middle of the moon sandwich.

(Ganymede may harbor 'club sandwich' of oceans and ice, NASA)