Word Finder - attain

definition

To gain (an object or desired result).

example

To attain such a high level of proficiency requires hours of practice each day.

synonyms

• accomplish
• achieve
• get

definition

To reach or come to, by progression or motion; to arrive at (a place, time, state, etc.).

definition

To come or arrive, by motion, growth, bodily exertion, or efforts toward a place, object, state, etc.

synonyms

• get
• reach

definition

To get at the knowledge of.

synonyms

• ascertain

definition

To reach in excellence or degree.

synonyms

• equal

definition

To reach a person after being behind them.

synonyms

• catch up with
• overtake

Both trees occasionally attain a height of 90 ft.

No one can attain to truth by himself.

I knew craved forgiveness from the others, but lacked the capability to attain it.

The great crocodile of Queensland has been known to attain a length of 30 ft.; there is a smaller one about 6 ft.

Although some attain their full development in the body of a single host - in this respect differing from all other Entozoa - the majority do not become sexually mature until after their transference from an "intermediate" to a "definitive" host.

But since this mystery is of such a nature that nobody can know or use it unless he be prepared by long and diligent self-purification, not everyone can hope to attain it quickly.

Among European forms, some tadpoles of Pelobates attain a length of seven inches, the body being of the size of a hen's egg.

Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.

Anyone who even identified him would immediately attain national prominence just by doing so.

These great reptiles may attain a length of To ft.; they feed on small animals which they crush to death in their folds.

And to attain this end, we have the light called conscience that God has implanted in our souls.

The surrounding hills rise abruptly from the water to the height of forty to eighty feet, though on the southeast and east they attain to about one hundred and one hundred and fifty feet respectively, within a quarter and a third of a mile.

Reviewing his impressions of the recent battle, picturing pleasantly to himself the impression his news of a victory would create, or recalling the send-off given him by the commander-in-chief and his fellow officers, Prince Andrew was galloping along in a post chaise enjoying the feelings of a man who has at length begun to attain a long-desired happiness.

The Blue Mountains attain a height of between 3000 and 4000 ft.

At the expense of sounding immodest, I must say I am one of those who can attain this state.

In reason, as in revelation, man can only attain to the lower kind of knowledge; there is a higher kind which we may not hope to reach.

Nowhere, perhaps, does the flora of West Africa attain a more wonderful development than in the republic of Liberia and in the adjoining regions of Sierra Leone and the Ivory Coast.

Ambitious members of the Rurik dynasty, instead of seeking to acquire territory by conquest in the field, now sought to attain their ends by intrigue and bribery at the Mongol court.

Ending in a military disaster and a diplomatic humiliation, it had failed to attain even the narrow object for which it had been created.

The acquisition of Aleppo could only make that supreme object more readily attainable; and so Saladin had spent his time in acquiring Aleppo, but only in order that he might ultimately "attain the goal of his desires, and set the mosque of Asha free, to which Allah once led in the night his servant Mahomet."

The serfdom which had sprung up in Russia in the 16th century, and became consecrated by law in 1609, taking, however, nearly one hundred and fifty years to attain its full growth, was abolished in 1861.

While from this point of view the Crusades appear as a failure, it must not be forgotten that elsewhere than in the East Crusades did attain some success.

Several of them attain a height of 7000 ft.

Of the larger kangaroos, which attain a weight of 200 lb and more, eight species are named, only one of which is found in Western Australia.

Many of the species attain a large size, and all are of very rapid growth.

But the positive characteristics of the region as a whole are not its peculiar forms alone; there are at least four families which, being feebly represented elsewhere, here attain the maximum of development.

The two countries were thus once more united and better able to resist aggression, but some of the great nobles were discontented and Basil hoped with their assistance to attain his ends.

He would help fervent souls attain perfection.

Beginning from the group called the Alpi della Luna near the sources of the Tiber, which attain 4435 ft., they are continued by the Monte Nerone (5010 ft.), Monte Catria (5590), and Monte Maggio to the Monte Pennino near Nocera (5169 ft.), and thence to the Monte della Sibilla, at the source of the Nar or Nera, which attains 7663 ft.

The shores, especially on the Tyrthenian Sea, present almost a continued grove of olive, orange, lemon and citron trees, which attain a size unknown in the north of Italy.

This tree is of extremely rapid growth, and has been known to attain a height of 70 ft.

Several varieties of poplar are found in the upper canyons, and trees of the willow-leaved species in the Humboldt Mountains often attain a height of 60 ft.

St Bernard's mysticism is of a practical cast, dealing mainly with the means by which man may attain to the knowledge and enjoyment of God.

He had not those rights of sovereign which the Norman kings of England inherited from their AngloSaxon predecessors, or the Capetian kings of France from the Carolings; nor was he able therefore to come into direct touch with each of his subjects, which William I., in virtue of his sovereign rights, was able to attain by the Salisbury oath of 1086.

The Drakensberg forming the buttress of the plateau seaward, attain their highest elevation on the BasutoNatal border.

The literary and artistic value of many of the Robin Hood ballads cannot be pronounced considerable, but eight of them attain the high-water mark of their class.

Ardent spirits craved the martyr's crown, and to confess Christ in persecution was to attain a glory inferior only to that won by those who actually died.

If the aim of the Russians consisted in cutting off and capturing Napoleon and his marshals--and that aim was not merely frustrated but all attempts to attain it were most shamefully baffled--then this last period of the campaign is quite rightly considered by the French to be a series of victories, and quite wrongly considered victorious by Russian historians.

The happiness before him appeared so inconceivable that if only he could attain it, it would be the end of all things.

Graduates will attain 200-hour yoga instructor certification.

The first to attain practical success was Edison, and his method with some modifications is still the one in most general use.

During his absence were manifested the beginnings of the troubles in the order that were to attain to such magnitude after his death.

Italy, in constant danger from France, needed good relations with Austria and Germany, but could only attain the goodwill of the former by firm treatment of the revolutionary Irredentist agitation, and of the latter by clear demonstration of Italian will and ability to cope with all anti-monarchical forces.

Can we not attain to some farther-reaching philosophy?

The annual losses due to epidemic plant diseases attain proportions not easily estimated.

The Siluridae attain their chief development in tropical regions.

The trees usually grow very close together, the slender trunks rising to a great height bare of branches; but they do not attain the size of the Norway spruce, being seldom taller than 60 or 70 ft., with a diameter of 12 or 2 ft.

The ancient philosophers sought through their philosophy to attain to a nobler and holier life, and this also was the aim of Christianity.

The third body region or trunk may attain a great length, one or two feet, or even more, and is also muscular, but the truncal muscles are of subordinate importance in locomotion, serving principally to promote the peristaltic contractions of the body by which the food is carried through the gut.

Farther east, on the southern shore of Lake Baikal, Khamar-daban rises to 6900 ft., and the bald dome-shaped summits of the Barguzin and southern Muya Mountains attain elevations of 6000 to 7000 ft.