Word Meanings - HIGH-REACHING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Reaching high or upward; hence, ambitious; aspiring. Shak.

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• ASPIRATOR
  An apparatus for passing air or gases through or over certain liquids or solids, or for exhausting a closed vessel, by means of suction.
• ASPIRIN
  A white crystalline compound of acetyl and salicylic acid used as a drug for the salicylic acid liberated from it in the intestines.
• AMBITIOUSNESS
  The quality of being ambitious; ambition; pretentiousness.
• ASPIRATION
  1. The act of aspirating; the pronunciation of a letter with a full or strong emission of breath; an aspirated sound. If aspiration be defined to be an impetus of breathing. Wilkins. 2. The act of breathing; a breath; an inspiration. 3. The act
• REACH
  An effort to vomit.
• REACHABLE
  Being within reach.
• ASPIRE
  Etym: 1. To desire with eagerness; to seek to attain something high or great; to pant; to long; -- followed by to or after, and rarely by at; as, to aspire to a crown; to aspire after immorality. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; Aspiring to
• HENCE
  ending; cf. -wards), also hen, henne, hennen, heonnen, heonene, AS. heonan, heonon, heona, hine; akin to OHG. hinnan, G. hinnen, OHG. 1. From this place; away. "Or that we hence wend." Chaucer. Arise, let us go hence. John xiv. 31. I will send
• ASPIRATE
  To pronounce with a breathing, an aspirate, or an h sound; as, we aspirate the words horse and house; to aspirate a vowel or a liquid consonant. (more info) or upon, to add the breathing h; ad + spirare to breathe, blow. Cf.
• REACHER
  1. One who reaches. 2. An exaggeration. Fuller.
• ASPIRANT
  Aspiring.
• AMBITIOUS
  1. Possessing, or controlled by, ambition; greatly or inordinately desirous of power, honor, office, superiority, or distinction. Yet Brutus says he was ambitious, And Brutus is an honorable man. Shak. 2. Strongly desirous; -- followed by of or
• ASPIRER
  One who aspires.
• REACHLESS
  Being beyond reach; lofty. Unto a reachless pitch of praises hight. Bp. Hall.
• HENCEFORWARD
  From this time forward; henceforth.
• ASPIRING
  That aspires; as, an Aspiring mind. -- As*pir"ing*ly, adv. -- As*pir"ing*ness, n.
• ASPIREMENT
  Aspiration.
• HENCEFORTH
  From this time forward; henceforward. I never from thy side henceforth to stray. Milton.
• ASPIRATE; ASPIRATED
  Pronounced with the h sound or with audible breath. But yet they are not aspirate, i. e., with such an aspiration as h. Holder.
• ASPIRATORY
  Of or pertaining to breathing; suited to the inhaling of air
• OUTPREACH
  To surpass in preaching. And for a villain's quick conversion A pillory can outpreach a parson. Trumbull.
• FOREREACH
  To advance or gain upon; -- said of a vessel that gains upon another when sailing closehauled.
• HEREHENCE
  From hence.
• WHENCEFORTH
  From, or forth from, what or which place; whence. Spenser.
• HIGH-REACHING
  Reaching high or upward; hence, ambitious; aspiring. Shak.
• THENCEFROM
  From that place.
• GUNREACH
  The reach or distance to which a gun will shoot; gunshot.
• OUTREACH
  To reach beyond.
• THENCE
  see -wards) thennes, thannes , AS. thanon, thanan, thonan; akin to OHG. dannana, dannan, danan, and G. 1. From that place. "Bid him thence go." Chaucer. When ye depart thence, shake off the dust under your feet for a testimony against them. Mark
• ARCHENCEPHALA
  The division that includes man alone. R. Owen.
• TREACHEROUS
  Like a traitor; involving treachery; violating allegiance or faith pledged; traitorous to the state or sovereign; perfidious in private life; betraying a trust; faithless. Loyal father of a treacherous son. Shak. The treacherous smile, a mask for
• THENCEFORTH
  From that time; thereafter. If the salt have lost his savor, wherewith shall it be salted it is thenceforth good for nothing. Matt. v. 13. Note: This word is sometimes preceded by from, -- a redundancy sanctioned by custom. Chaucer. John. xix. 12.
• PREACH
  cry in public, to proclaim; prae before + dicare to make known, dicere to say; or perhaps from LL. praedictare. See 1. To proclaim or publish tidings; specifically, to proclaim the gospel; to discourse publicly on a religious subject, or from