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say it: reech
reach is a verb and noun meaning "reach a destination, either real or abstract". It is pronounced /ˈɹitʃ/ — reech. It carries 13 recorded senses.
reach a point in time, or a certain state or level
“The thermometer hit 100 degrees”
“This car can reach a speed of 140 miles per hour”
be in or establish communication with
“Our advertisements reach millions”
“He never contacted his children after he emigrated to Australia”
to extend as far as
“The sunlight reached the wall”
“Can he reach?”
“The chair must not touch the wall”
reach a goal
“make the first team”
“We made it!”
“She may not make the grade”
to exert much effort or energy
“straining our ears to hear”
the limits within which something can be effective
“range of motion”
“he was beyond the reach of their fire”
an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control: "the range of a supersonic jet"
“a piano has a greater range than the human voice”
“the ambit of municipal legislation”
“within the compass of this article”
“within the scope of an investigation”
“outside the reach of the law”
“in the political orbit of a world power”
the limit of capability
“within the compass of education”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for reach come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.