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Answer for the clue "Arrive at ", 7 letters:
achieve

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Word definitions for achieve in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 14c., from Old French achever (12c.) "to finish, accomplish, complete," from phrase à chef (venir) "at an end, finished," or Vulgar Latin *accapare , from Late Latin ad caput (venire) ; both the French and Late Latin phrases meaning literally "to ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES achieve a breakthrough ▪ With further funding, the research team hope to be able to achieve a breakthrough. achieve a consensus ▪ Will further talks achieve a consensus on the UN peace plan? achieve a grade BrE: ▪ Rick ...

Usage examples of achieve.

Achieving this end required that Einstein forge a second link in the chain uniting gravity and accelerated motion: the curvature of space and time, to which we now turn.

Then you choose objectives which, once achieved, will produce the end results you specified.

The objectives are to install IPS and to maximize BICO on an on-going basis, not just a per-meeting basis, achieved via democracy by informed ballot.

But if the governmental systems are providing justice and protecting equity, revolutions can be achieved through talk, not violence.

If an activity has achieved its goal, it should either be terminated or given new goals.

In the last chapter some conclusions will be attempted, in an effort to assess what has and has not been achieved in this realm.

To begin with, the four different classes were not hereditary but in time they became so, probably led by the Brahmans, whose task of memorising the Vedas was more easily achieved if fathers could begin teaching their sons early on.

But, like Parmenides and Protagoras, Socrates also turned away from scientific observation and concentrated more on what might be achieved by raw thought.

For example, Wang Huan-ce travelled to India several times and made a copy of the Buddha image at Bodhgaya, the location where he achieved supreme enlightenment, which was then brought back to the Imperial Palace and served as the prototype for the Kongai-see temple.

The other dominant idea of the early years was the notion of monasticism, the idea that full spirituality is best achieved by renouncing the world and all its temptations.

Coherence was achieved because the men who created the system all used the same, ever-growing body of textbooks, and they were all familiar with similar routines of lectures, debates and academic exercises and shared a belief that Christianity was capable of a systematic and authoritative presentation.

Gradually, the French became more and more intransigent and this climaxed in 1292 when the papal throne became vacant and the French and Italian factions in the College of Cardinals cancelled each other out to the extent that they wrangled for two years without reaching agreement: no candidate achieved the required two-thirds majority.

If it achieved nothing else, humanism brought about the emancipation of the artist, a development that is still very much with us.

One of the ways a correct burial was achieved was by means of a special board, on which a spoon was spun.

America was the notion that the moderns had achieved something that had not been achieved by antiquity.