Reach vs. Hit — What's the Difference?

Stretch out an arm in a specified direction in order to touch or grasp something

To come into contact with forcefully; strike

Arrive at; get as far as

To cause to come into contact

Sail with the wind blowing from the side of the ship

To deal a blow to

An act of reaching out with one's arm

To cause an implement or missile to come forcefully into contact with

The extent or range of something's application, effect, or influence

To press or push (a key or button, for example)

A continuous extent of water, especially a stretch of river between two bends, or the part of a canal between locks

To reach with a propelled ball or puck

A distance traversed in reaching

To score in this way

To stretch out or put forth (a body part); extend

To perform (a shot or maneuver) successfully

To touch or grasp by stretching out or extending

To propel with a stroke or blow

To arrive at; attain

To execute (a base hit) successfully

To succeed in getting in contact with or communicating with

To bat against (a pitcher or kind of pitch) successfully

To succeed in having an effect on

To affect, especially adversely

To extend as far as

To be affected by (a negative development)

To project as far as

To win (a prize, for example), especially in a lottery.

To travel as far as

To arise suddenly in the mind of; occur to

To aggregate or amount to

(Informal) To go to or arrive at

(Informal) To grasp and hand over to another

(Informal) To attain or reach

To extend or move a hand, arm, or other body part, especially when trying to touch or grasp something

To produce or represent accurately

To have extension in space or time

(Games) To deal cards to.

To have an influence or effect

(Sports) To bite on or take (bait or a lure). Used of a fish.

To make an effort to address the needs of a group or community. Often used with out

To strike or deal a blow.

(Nautical) To sail with the wind abeam.

To come into contact with something; collide.

The act or an instance of stretching or thrusting out

To attack

The extent or distance something can reach

To happen or occur

Range of understanding; comprehension

To achieve or find something desired or sought

Range or scope of influence or effect

(Baseball) To bat or bat well

An expanse of land or water, such as a stretch of water visible between bends in a river or channel.

(Sports) To score by shooting, especially in basketball

A rank or level in a social group or organization

To ignite a mixture of air and fuel in the cylinders. Used of an internal-combustion engine.

A pole connecting the rear axle of a vehicle with the front.

A collision or impact.

(Nautical) The tack of a sailing vessel with the wind abeam.

A successfully executed shot, blow, thrust, or throw.

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

(Sports) A deliberate collision with an opponent, such as a body check in ice hockey.

(transitive) 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.

A successful or popular venture

(intransitive) To stretch out the hand.

A match of data in a search string against data that one is searching.

(transitive) 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.

A connection made to a website over the internet or another network

To strike or touch.

An apt or effective remark.

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

Abbr. H(Baseball) A base hit.

(transitive) To extend to; to stretch out as far as; to touch by virtue of extent.

A dose of a narcotic drug.

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

A puff of a cigarette or a pipe.

To make contact with.

(Slang) A murder planned and carried out usually by a member of an underworld syndicate.

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

To strike.

To arrive at a particular destination.

(transitive) To administer a blow to, directly or with a weapon or missile.

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

(transitive) To come into contact with forcefully and suddenly.

(obsolete) To understand; to comprehend.

(intransitive) To strike against something.

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

(transitive) To activate a button or key by pressing and releasing it.

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

To kill a person, usually on the instructions of a third party.

(nautical) To sail on the wind, as from one point of tacking to another, or with the wind nearly abeam.

To attack, especially amphibiously.

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

To affect someone, as if dealing a blow to that person.

The act of stretching or extending; extension.

To manage to touch (a target) in the right place.

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

To switch on.

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

To briefly visit.

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

To encounter an obstacle or other difficulty.

(informal) An exaggeration; an extension beyond evidence or normal; a stretch.

(heading) To attain, to achieve.

(boxing) The distance a boxer's arm can extend to land a blow.

To reach or achieve.

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

(intransitive) To meet or reach what was aimed at or desired; to succeed, often by luck.

(nautical) The distance traversed between tacks.

To guess; to light upon or discover.

(nautical) 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.

(transitive) To affect negatively.

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

(metaphorically) To attack.

An extended portion or area of land or water.

To make a play.

(obsolete) An article to obtain an advantage.

In blackjack, to deal a card to.

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

To come up to bat.

(obsolete or dialect) retch.

(backgammon) To take up, or replace by a piece belonging to the opposing player; said of a single unprotected piece on a point.

To retch.

To use; to connect to.

To extend; to stretch; to thrust out; to put forth, as a limb, a member, something held, or the like.

To have sex with.

Hence, to deliver by stretching out a member, especially the hand; to give with the hand; to pass to another; to hand over; as, to reach one a book.

To inhale an amount of smoke from a narcotic substance, particularly marijuana.

To attain or obtain by stretching forth the hand; to extend some part of the body, or something held by one, so as to touch, strike, grasp, or the like; as, to reach an object with the hand, or with a spear.

(of an exercise) to affect, to work a body part.

To strike, hit, or touch with a missile; as, to reach an object with an arrow, a bullet, or a shell.

To work out

Hence, to extend an action, effort, or influence to; to penetrate to; to pierce, or cut, as far as.

A blow; a punch; a striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything.

To extend to; to stretch out as far as; to touch by virtue of extent; as, his land reaches the river.

Something very successful, such as a song, film, or video game, that receives widespread recognition and acclaim.

To arrive at; to come to; to get as far as.

An attack on a location, person or people.

To arrive at by effort of any kind; to attain to; to gain; to be advanced to.

A collision of a projectile with the target.

To understand; to comprehend.

In the game of Battleship, a correct guess at where one's opponent ship is.

To overreach; to deceive.

A match found by searching a computer system or search engine

To stretch out the hand.

(Internet) A measured visit to a web site, a request for a single file from a web server.

To strain after something; to make efforts.

An approximately correct answer in a test set.

To extend in dimension, time, amount, action, influence, etc., so as to touch, attain to, or be equal to, something.

(baseball) The complete play, when the batter reaches base without the benefit of a walk, error, or fielder’s choice.

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

(colloquial) A dose of an illegal or addictive drug.

An effort to vomit.

A premeditated murder done for criminal or political purposes.

The act of stretching or extending; extension; power of reaching or touching with the person, or a limb, or something held or thrown; as, the fruit is beyond my reach; to be within reach of cannon shot.

(dated) A peculiarly apt expression or turn of thought; a phrase which hits the mark.

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

(backgammon) A move that throws one of the opponent's men back to the entering point.

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

(backgammon) A game won after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts for less than a gammon.

An extended portion of land or water; a stretch; a straight portion of a stream or river, as from one turn to another; a level stretch, as between locks in a canal; an arm of the sea extending up into the land.

Very successful.

An artifice to obtain an advantage.

(dialectal) It.

The pole or rod which connects the hind axle with the forward bolster of a wagon.

It.

The limits within which something can be effective;

To reach with a stroke or blow; to strike or touch, usually with force; especially, to reach or touch (an object aimed at).

An area in which something acts or operates or has power or control:

To reach or attain exactly; to meet according to the occasion; to perform successfully; to attain to; to accord with; to be conformable to; to suit.

The act of physically reaching or thrusting out

To guess; to light upon or discover.

The limit of capability;

To take up, or replace by a piece belonging to the opposing player; - said of a single unprotected piece on a point.

Reach a destination, either real or abstract;

To meet or come in contact; to strike; to clash; - followed by against or on.

Reach a point in time, or a certain state or level;

To meet or reach what was aimed at or desired; to succeed, - often with implied chance, or luck.

Move forward or upward in order to touch; also in a metaphorical sense;

A striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything.

Be in or establish communication with;

A stroke of success in an enterprise, as by a fortunate chance; as, he made a hit;

To gain with effort;

A peculiarly apt expression or turn of thought; a phrase which hits the mark; as, a happy hit.

To extend as far as;

A game won at backgammon after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts less than a gammon.

Reach a goal, e.g.,

A striking of the ball; as, a safe hit; a foul hit; - sometimes used specifically for a base hit.

Place into the hands or custody of;

An act of murder performed for hire, esp. by a professional assassin.

To exert much effort or energy;

(baseball) a successful stroke in an athletic contest (especially in baseball);

The act of contacting one thing with another;

A conspicuous success;

(physics) an brief event in which two or more bodies come together;

A dose of a narcotic drug

A murder carried out by an underworld syndicate;

A connection made via the internet to another website;

Cause to move by striking;

Hit against; come into sudden contact with;

Affect or afflict suddenly, usually adversely;

Deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument;

Reach a destination, either real or abstract;

Reach a point in time, or a certain state or level;

Hit with a missile from a weapon

Cause to experience suddenly;

Make a strategic, offensive, assault against an enemy, opponent, or a target;

Hit the intended target or goal

Produce by manipulating keys or strings of musical instruments, also metaphorically;

Encounter by chance;

Gain points in a game;

Consume to excess;

Kill intentionally and with premeditation;

Drive something violently into a location;

Pay unsolicited and usually unwanted sexual attention to;