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[ verb ] to gain with effort
Synonyms Examples : "she achieved her goal despite setbacks." Used in print (Bern Dibner, "Oerstad and the Discovery of Electro...)Oersted 's boyhood represented a minimal chance of either attaining greatness or serving his people so well and over so long a span of life . (Jesse W. Grimes and Wesley Allinsmith, "Compuls...)When helped by a high degree of structure in lesson presentation , then , and only then , does such a child attain unusual success . (A.L. Kroeber, "Semantic Contribution of Lexicostatistic...)It is the hope of attaining a list of items of universal occurrence . |
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[ verb ] reach a point in time, or a certain state or level
Examples "The thermometer hit 100 degrees" "This car can reach a speed of 140 miles per hour" Used in print (Clifford H. Pope, The Giant Snakes....)It is hard to understand how he concluded that most snakes do not grow appreciably after attaining maturity ; he was working with species of Java , so perhaps some tropical snakes are unusual in this respect . Data on the former are scanty , but there can be little doubt that the latter is sometimes born at a length greater than that of any of the others , thereby lending support to the belief that the anaconda does , indeed , attain the greatest length . It is often stated that the largest snakes require five years to attain maturity , but this apparently is an overestimation . Related terms |
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[ verb ] find unexpectedly
Examples : "the archeologists chanced upon an old tomb" "she struck a goldmine" "The hikers finally struck the main path to the lake" Related terms |
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[ verb ] find unexpectedly
Examples "the archeologists chanced upon an old tomb" "she struck a goldmine" "The hikers finally struck the main path to the lake" |
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[ verb ] reach a destination, either real or abstract
Examples "We hit Detroit by noon" "The water reached the doorstep" "We barely made the plane" "I have to hit the MAC machine before the weekend starts" |
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