range vs reach

range

verb
  • To sail or pass in a direction parallel to or near. 

  • To bring (something) into a specified position or relationship (especially, of opposition) with something else. 

  • To classify. 

  • Of a variable, to be able to take any of the values in a specified range. 

  • To be native to, or live in, a certain district or region. 

  • To form a line or a row. 

  • To place among others in a line, row, or order, as in the ranks of an army; usually, reflexively and figuratively, to espouse a cause, to join a party, etc. 

  • Of a player, to travel a significant distance for a defensive play. 

  • To rove over or through. 

  • To determine the range to a target. 

  • To travel over (an area, etc); to roam, wander. 

  • To set in a row, or in rows; to place in a regular line or lines, or in ranks; to dispose in the proper order. 

  • To be placed in order; to be ranked; to admit of arrangement or classification; to rank. 

noun
  • A fireplace; a fire or other cooking apparatus; now specifically, a large cooking stove with many hotplates. 

  • An area for practicing shooting at targets. 

  • The extent or space taken in by anything excursive; compass or extent of excursion; reach; scope. 

  • An area of open, often unfenced, grazing land. 

  • The scale of all the tones a voice or an instrument can produce. 

  • The distance from a person or sensor to an object, target, emanation, or event. 

  • The length of the smallest interval which contains all the data in a sample; the difference between the largest and smallest observations in the sample. 

  • The geographical area or zone where a species is normally naturally found. 

  • A sequential list of values specified by an iterator. 

  • The maximum distance or reach of capability (of a weapon, radio, detector, etc.). 

  • The set of values (points) which a function can obtain. 

  • An area for military training or equipment testing. 

  • A wandering or roving; a going to and fro; an excursion; a ramble; an expedition. 

  • A line or series of mountains, buildings, etc. 

  • In the public land system, a row or line of townships lying between two succession meridian lines six miles apart. 

  • The distance a vehicle (e.g., a car, bicycle, lorry, or aircraft) can travel without refueling. 

  • Selection, array. 

  • The defensive area that a player can cover. 

  • An aggregate of individuals in one rank or degree; an order; a class. 

  • The variety of roles that an actor can play in a satisfactory way. 

reach

verb
  • To sail on the wind, as from one point of tacking to another, or with the wind nearly abeam. 

  • To continue living until or up to (a certain age). 

  • To arrive at a particular destination. 

  • To stretch out the hand. 

  • To arrive at a particular destination, especially to join someone; to meet up. 

  • To strain after something; to make (sometimes futile or pretentious) efforts. 

  • To extend to; to stretch out as far as; to touch by virtue of extent. 

  • To make contact with. 

  • To connect with (someone) on an emotional level, making them receptive of (one); to get through to (someone). 

  • To arrive at (a place) by effort of any kind. 

  • To attain or obtain by stretching forth the hand; to extend some part of the body, or something held, so as to touch, strike, grasp, etc. 

  • To extend an action, effort, or influence to; to penetrate to; to pierce, or cut. 

  • To strike or touch. 

  • To give to someone by stretching out a limb, especially the hand; to give with the hand; to pass to another person; to hand over. 

  • To extend, stretch, or thrust out (for example a limb or object held in the hand). 

  • To extend in dimension, time etc.; to stretch out continuously (past, beyond, above, from etc. something). 

noun
  • The act of stretching or extending; extension. 

  • A stretch of a watercourse which can be sailed in one reach (in the previous sense). An extended portion of water; a stretch; a straightish portion of a stream, river, or arm of the sea extending up into the land, as from one turn to another. By extension, the adjacent land. 

  • An extended portion or area of land or water. 

  • Extent; stretch; expanse; hence, application; influence; result; scope. 

  • Any point of sail in which the wind comes from the side of a vessel, excluding close-hauled. 

  • The pole or rod connecting the rear axle with the forward bolster of a wagon. 

  • A level stretch of a watercourse, as between rapids in a river or locks in a canal. (examples?) 

  • The power of stretching out or extending action, influence, or the like; power of attainment or management; extent of force or capacity. 

  • The distance a boxer's arm can extend to land a blow. 

  • The distance traversed between tacks. 

  • The ability to reach or touch with the person, a limb, or something held or thrown. 

  • An exaggeration; an extension beyond evidence or normal; a stretch. 

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