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REACH INTO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does reach into mean? 

REACH INTO (verb)
  The verb REACH INTO has 1 sense:

1. run into or up toplay

  Familiarity information: REACH INTO used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


REACH INTO (verb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Run into or up to

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Hypernyms (to "reach into" is one way to...):

extend to; reach; touch (to extend as far as)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something


 Context examples 


The tendrils reach into Saturn's E ring — the ring in which Enceladus orbits — extending tens of thousands of miles (or kilometers) away from the moon.

(Icy Tendrils Reaching into Saturn Ring Traced to Their Source, NASA)

Marian, starting to reach into the waste-basket, refrained.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Using imaging techniques, the researchers confirmed that the heat-sensing neurons reach into brain regions that control both nervous system responses and motivated behaviors.

(Brain cells that cool the body, NIH)

In a series of experiments, they showed that FluA-20 can reach into an otherwise inaccessible part of the three-part HA trimer molecule and cause it to fall apart, thus preventing the spread of virus from cell to cell.

(Human antibody reveals hidden vulnerability in influenza virus, National Institutes of Health)



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"Better late than never." (Czech proverb)



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