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ARRIVE AT
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Reach a destination, either real or abstract
Example:
I have to hit the MAC machine before the weekend starts
Synonyms:
arrive at; attain; gain; hit; make; reach
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
"Arrive at" entails doing...:
go; locomote; move; travel (change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically)
Verb group:
make (reach in time)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "arrive at"):
catch up (reach the point where one should be after a delay)
scale; surmount (reach the highest point of)
access; get at (reach or gain access to)
bottom out (reach the low point)
peak; top out (to reach the highest point; attain maximum intensity, activity)
breast; summit (reach the summit (of a mountain))
top (reach or ascend the top of)
make (reach in time)
find (succeed in reaching; arrive at)
culminate (reach the highest altitude or the meridian, of a celestial body)
come through; get through (succeed in reaching a real or abstract destination after overcoming problems)
ground; run aground (hit or reach the ground)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sentence example:
They arrive at the water
Context examples:
I revolved rapidly in my mind a multitude of thoughts and endeavoured to arrive at some conclusion.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Happening to arrive at the door as it was opened to the afternoon milkman, I was reminded of Mr. and Mrs. Micawber more forcibly yet.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
And with the exception of a solitary man, no one saw them arrive at the little flag station known as College Park.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
I remembered that strangers who arrive at a place where they have no friends, and who want employment, sometimes apply to the clergyman for introduction and aid.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
“Yes,” I said, “I can follow each of your arguments. I confess, however, that I am unable to understand how you arrive at the double visit to the optician.”
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
During the mission’s approach phase, between mid-August and early December, the spacecraft traveled 1.4 million miles (2.2 million km) on its journey from Earth to arrive at a location 12 miles (19 km) from Bennu on Dec. 3.
(NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Discovers Water on Asteroid, NASA)
A smart shower at eleven had evidently quenched the enthusiasm of the young ladies who were to arrive at twelve, for nobody came, and at two the exhausted family sat down in a blaze of sunshine to consume the perishable portions of the feast, that nothing might be lost.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
And then, if I could convey to you the glow of his soul when he does see them again; when, coming back after a twelvemonth's absence, perhaps, and obliged to put into another port, he calculates how soon it be possible to get them there, pretending to deceive himself, and saying, 'They cannot be here till such a day,' but all the while hoping for them twelve hours sooner, and seeing them arrive at last, as if Heaven had given them wings, by many hours sooner still!
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
She rose early, and wrote her letter to Harriet; an employment which left her so very serious, so nearly sad, that Mr. Knightley, in walking up to Hartfield to breakfast, did not arrive at all too soon; and half an hour stolen afterwards to go over the same ground again with him, literally and figuratively, was quite necessary to reinstate her in a proper share of the happiness of the evening before.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
He observed, that among the diversions of our nobility and gentry, I had mentioned gaming: he desired to know at what age this entertainment was usually taken up, and when it was laid down; how much of their time it employed; whether it ever went so high as to affect their fortunes; whether mean, vicious people, by their dexterity in that art, might not arrive at great riches, and sometimes keep our very nobles in dependence, as well as habituate them to vile companions, wholly take them from the improvement of their minds, and force them, by the losses they received, to learn and practise that infamous dexterity upon others?
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
