Arrive
[ə'raɪv]
Definition
(verb.) reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress; 'She arrived home at 7 o'clock'; 'She didn't get to Chicago until after midnight'.
(verb.) succeed in a big way; get to the top; 'After he published his book, he had arrived'; 'I don't know whether I can make it in science!'; 'You will go far, my boy!'.
Editor: Woodrow--From WordNet
Definition
(v. i.) To come to the shore or bank. In present usage: To come in progress by water, or by traveling on land; to reach by water or by land; -- followed by at (formerly sometimes by to), also by in and from.
(v. i.) To reach a point by progressive motion; to gain or compass an object by effort, practice, study, inquiry, reasoning, or experiment.
(v. i.) To come; said of time; as, the time arrived.
(v. i.) To happen or occur.
(v. t.) To bring to shore.
(v. t.) To reach; to come to.
(n.) Arrival.
Typist: Nora
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. [1]. Come, get here, reach this place.[2]. Get there, reach that place.
Inputed by Elizabeth
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Reach, attain, come_to, enter, get,[See {[>]?}], land
ANT:Embark, depart, start
Typed by Deirdre
Definition
v.i. to reach any place: to attain to any object (with at).—ns. Arrīv′al the act of arriving: persons or things that arrive; Arrīv′ance (Shak.) company arriving.
Edited by Edith
Examples
- What good can I do her, suppose--suppose the enemy arrive? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Punctually at eleven o'clock, the carriages began to arrive. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I did not arrive here till Tuesday evening. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- After they had waited some time, straggling people who had heard of the accident began to come up; then the real help of implements began to arrive. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- In the morning he said that they were on the way from some imaginary place, and would arrive in the course of the day. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I must write to them at Oxford, to see that the preparations are made: they can be getting on with these till I arrive. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- My uncle disapproved it all so entirely when he did arrive, that in my opinion everything had gone quite far enough. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- By the time the officer arrived, Sam had made himself so extremely popular, that the congregated gentlemen determined to see him to prison in a body. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- None of the reinforcements from Buell's army arrived until the 24th of February. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Medora's hints-- Is it at your husband's request that she has arrived here suddenly? Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- I ask them what news in Londra, of foreigners arrived. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- He told me, in return, that he wondered I had arrived at my time of life, without knowing that a doctor's skin was waterproof. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- We cannot pretend to-day that we have arrived at solutions to most of the questions they asked. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Somewhat to her surprise, Sir Philip followed her advice to the letter, and actually, towards the close of September, arrived at the priory. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The next morning Early started on his march to the capital of the Nation, arriving before it on the 11th. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Arriving at Columbus on the 16th I reported by telegraph: Your dispatch from Cairo of the 3d directing me to report from Cairo was received at 11. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Another is the recommendation to the city and the nation that it should protect arriving immigrants, and if necessary escort them to their homes. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Two peculiarly blunt knocks or pokes at the door, as if the dead man arriving on his back were striking at it with the soles of his motionless feet. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Again, not a few animals, after arriving at maturity, go on changing in character during nearly their whole lives. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Barlow was thus arriving at his discouraging conclusion, Prof. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- It desc ribes itself as Instructions for arriving at the knowledge of all things, and of things obscure, and of all mysteries. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- When it arrives at the lower end, the material has been burned, and the clinker drops out into a receiving chamber below. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- But you needn't be afraid, Dick; it's easier to get out than get in, and when the yacht arrives we'll not have much difficulty in getting on board. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- The company has its own logging crews that cut the timber and pile it on flat cars, whence it is transported over a private railroad until it arrives at the company sawmills. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The author leaves Lagado: arrives at Maldonada. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- He arrives at New Holland, hoping to settle there. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- No matter; I must tell him to-night, as soon as he arrives from the country, that I have written to and walked with Lorne. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Our sermon books are shut up when Miss Crawley arrives, and Mr. Pitt, whom she abominates, finds it convenient to go to town. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
Editor: Verna