<p><strong>Verb (used with object)</strong></p><ul><li>to get to or get as far as in moving, going, traveling, etc.</li><li>to come to or arrive at in some course of progress, action, etc.</li><li>to succeed in touching or seizing with an outstretched hand, a pole, etc.</li><li>to stretch or hold out; extend.</li><li>to stretch or extend so as to touch or meet.</li><li>to establish communication with.</li><li>to amount to, as in the sum or total.</li><li>to penetrate to.</li><li>to succeed in striking or hitting, as with a weapon or missile.</li><li>to succeed in making contact with, influencing, impressing, interesting, convincing, etc.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used without object)</strong></p><ul><li>to make a stretch, as with the hand or arm.</li><li>to become outstretched, as the hand or arm.</li><li>to make a movement or effort as if to touch or seize something.</li><li>to extend in operation or effect.</li><li>to stretch in space; extend in direction, length, distance, etc.</li><li>to extend or continue in time.</li><li>to get or come to a specified place, person, condition, etc.</li><li>to amount (often followed by to).</li><li>to penetrate.</li><li>to assert or agree without certainty or sufficient evidence; infer hastily.</li><li>Nautical: to sail on a reach.</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>an act or instance of reaching.</li><li>the extent or distance of reaching.</li><li>range of effective action, power, or capacity.</li><li>a continuous stretch or extent of something.</li><li>a level portion of a canal, between locks.</li><li>a point of sailing in which the wind is within a few points of the beam.</li><li>the pole connecting the rear axle of a wagon to the transverse bar or bolster over the front axle supporting the wagon bed.</li><li>a straight portion of a river between two bends.</li></ul>