Difference between Arrival and Reaching

What is the difference between Arrival and Reaching?

Arrival as a noun is the act of arriving or something that has arrived while Reaching as a noun is sailing on a reach.

Arrival

Part of speech: noun

Definition: the act of arriving or something that has arrived the attainment of an objective, especially as a result of effort

Example sentence: As an exercise, I devoted an afternoon to writing my memories of childhood. I remembered our family's arrival at a single-wide trailer on an Ozark meadow and my mother's shock at learning that this would be our new home.

Reaching

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Sailing on a reach.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To extend, stretch, or thrust out (for example a limb or object held in the hand).

Example sentence: A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.

We hope you now know whether to use Arrival or Reaching in your sentence.

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