arrive - reach

arrive - reach
You use arrive or reach to say that someone comes to a place at the end of a journey.

I'll tell Professor Hogan you've arrived.

He reached Bath in the late afternoon.

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◊ 'arrive'
You usually say that someone arrives at a place.

...by the time we arrived at Victoria Station.

...from the moment he had arrived at the Harlowes' bungalow.

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However, you say that someone arrives in a country or city.

He had arrived in France slightly ahead of schedule.

The American Ambassador to Mexico arrived in Quito today.

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You never say that someone `arrives to' a place.
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You also do not say that someone `arrives at home' or `arrives in home'. You say that they arrive home.

We arrived home and I carried my suitcases up the stairs behind her.

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You do not use a preposition after arrive in front of `here', `there', `somewhere', or `anywhere'.

I arrived here yesterday.

When we arrived there, we went to the garage.

Plans are deliberately indefinite, more to travel than to arrive anywhere.

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◊ 'reach'
Reach always takes a direct object. You do not say that someone `reaches at' a place or that they `have just reached'.

It was dark by the time I reached their house.

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◊ another meaning
Arrive at and reach can both be used to say that someone eventually makes a decision or finds the answer to something.

It took us several hours to arrive at a decision.

They were unable to reach a decision.

I had arrived at a conclusion on the basis of the only facts then available to me.

The commission could not reach a conclusion because of inadequate data.

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◊ 'come to'
Come to can be used in a similar way.

Kwezi thought for a while, then seemed to come to a decision.

I came to the conclusion that I didn't really fancy civil engineering.

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Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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  • reach — 1 /ri:tS/ verb 1 ARRIVE (T) to arrive at a particular place, especially when it has taken a long time or a lot of effort to get there: It was a relief to reach the safety of our home at last. | Your letter reached me yesterday. 2 WITH YOUR HAND… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • reach — [n] extent, range; stretch ability, ambit, capacity, command, compass, distance, extension, gamut, grasp, horizon, influence, jurisdiction, ken, latitude, magnitude, mastery, orbit, play, power, purview, radius, scope, spread, sweep, swing;… …   New thesaurus

  • Reach — Reach, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Reached} (r[=e]cht) ({Raught}, the old preterit, is obsolete); p. pr. & vb. n. {Reaching}.] [OE. rechen, AS. r[=ae]can, r[=ae]cean, to extend, stretch out; akin to D. reiken, G. reichen, and possibly to AS. r[=i]ce… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • reach — vt 1: to extend application to 2: to obtain an interest in or possession of unable to reach all the assets of the debtor 3 a: to arrive at and consider the justices did not reach that issue b: to amount to d …   Law dictionary

  • Arrive — Ar*rive , v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Arrived}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Arriving}.] [OE. ariven to arrive, land, OF. ariver, F. arriver, fr. LL. arripare, adripare, to come to shore; L. ad + ripa the shore or sloping bank of a river. Cf. {Riparian}.] 1. To… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • arrive — ► VERB 1) reach a destination. 2) be brought or delivered. 3) (of a particular moment) come about. 4) (arrive at) reach (a conclusion or decision). 5) informal become successful and well known. ORIGIN originally in the sense «reach the sho …   English terms dictionary

  • arrive — [ə rīv′] vi. arrived, arriving [ME ariven < OFr ariver < VL * arripare, come to shore, land < L ad , to + ripa, shore] 1. to reach one s destination; come to a place 2. to come [the time has arrived for action] 3. to attain success, fame …   English World dictionary

  • reach´er — reach «reech», verb, noun. –v.t. 1. to get to; arrive at; come to: »to reach the top of a hill, to reach the end of a book, to reach an agreement. Your letter reached me yesterday. SYNONYM(S): attain, gain. 2. to stretch out; …   Useful english dictionary

  • arrive — [v1] come to a destination access, alight, appear, attain, barge in, blow in, bob up*, breeze in*, bust in*, buzz*, check in*, clock in*, disembark, dismount, drop anchor, drop in, enter, fall by, fall in, get to, hit*, hit town*, land*, make it* …   New thesaurus

  • reach — vb Reach, gain, compass, achieve, attain can mean to arrive at a point by effort or work. Reach is the most general term, being capable of reference to whatever can be arrived at by exertion of any degree and applicable to such diverse matters as …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

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