See Also: reach(3)(dictionary)
reach(2)(dictionary)
reach(medicine)
Reach(money)
reach(1)(dictionary)
reach 2, noun(dictionary)
reach 1, verb(dictionary)
Beam Reach - Sailing(gambling)
Reach for One' s Chips - Poker(gambling)
Close Reach - Sailing(gambling)

Ilium (oh) and reach(1) (iou)


Ilium (oh)



a Latin name for the ancient city of Troy

reach(1) (iou)



reach noun. LME.
[from REACH verb1.]
I. A thing that reaches or extends.
a. An enclosed stretch of water; a bay. Long obsolete exc. Canad. dial. LME.
b. A portion of a river, channel, or lake between two bends; a portion of a canal between two locks. M16.
c. A headland. Long obsolete exc. US dial. M16.
gen. A continuous stretch, course, or extent in space or time. E17.
J. Fowles Great reaches of clear sky. R. D. Laing The furthest reaches of the Empire.
A bearing-shaft; a coupling-pole. M19.
II. Power of, or capacity for, reaching.
The distance to which a limb can be extended, esp. when seeking to touch or grasp something; distance from which some point may be reached (only in within reach); Cricket the extent to which a batsman can play forward without moving the back foot; transf. the distance to which an inanimate thing can extend itself. Freq. in beyond reach, beyond the reach of, out of reach, within reach, etc. M16.
T. Hood Past the reach of foamy billows. J. Wain Within easy reach of the Drinks.
Power of comprehension; extent of knowledge or of the ability to acquire it; range of mind or thought. M16.
J. Cheever The retentiveness and reach of his memory.
Extent of application, effect, or influence; range, scope. M16.
W. D. Whitney Wide reach and abundant results.
Capacity to perform, achieve, or attain something. Chiefly with prepositions, as in sense 4. L16.
W. Irving Virtues..within every man's reach. Woman's Illustrated My..fee..is within the reach of all.
b. The compass of a person's voice. L16-L17.
The distance that a thing can carry or traverse; the range of a gun, the voice, the sight, etc. L16.
D. Nobbs He had rigged up an electric light..but beyond its reach there were pools of..darkness.
b. The number of people who watch a Television channel or listen to a Radio station during a particular period. M20.
III. An act of reaching.
An act of reaching with the arm, esp. to take hold of something or with something held in the hand. L16.
fig. An attempt to attain or achieve something; a scheme, a plan; scheming. L16-L18.
A single spell of movement, Travel, flight, etc.; Nautical a run on one tack; a course that is approximately at right angles to the wind. M17.
Comb.: reach rod a connecting rod for transmitting manual motion to another part of a mechanism; reach truck a fork-lift truck whose fork can be moved forward and backward as well as up and down.
reachy adjective (of an animal) having a long reach L19.