Commit and Reach

• (v.t.) To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to intrust; to consign; -- used with to, unto.
• (v.t.) To confound.
• (v.i.) To sin; especially, to be incontinent.
• (v.t.) To put in charge of a jailor; to imprison.
• (v.t.) To join for a contest; to match; -- followed by with.
• (v.t.) To pledge or bind; to compromise, expose or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step; -- often used reflexively; as, to commit one's self to a certain course.
• (v.t.) To do; to perpetrate, as a crime, sin or fault.

verb

• Perform an act, usually with a negative connotation.
  • usage: "perpetrate a crime"; "pull a bank robbery"
  • synonyms: perpetrate, pull
• Give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause.
  • usage: "She committed herself to the work of God"; "give one's talents to a good cause"; "consecrate your life to the church"
  • synonyms: give, dedicate, consecrate, devote
• Cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution.
  • usage: "After the second episode, she had to be committed"; "he was committed to prison"
  • synonyms: institutionalize, institutionalise, send, charge
• Confer a trust upon.
  • usage: "The messenger was entrusted with the general's secret"; "I commit my soul to God"
  • synonyms: entrust, intrust, trust, confide
• Make an investment.
  • usage: "Put money into bonds"
  • synonyms: invest, put, place
• Engage in or perform.
  • usage: "practice safe sex"; "commit a random act of kindness"
  • synonyms: practice

(DoD) The process of committing one or more air interceptors or surface-to-air missiles for interception against a target track.

noun

• The limits within which something can be effective.
  • usage: "range of motion"; "he was beyond the reach of their fire"
  • synonyms: range
• (n.) ()
  • synonyms: scope, range, orbit, compass, ambit
• The act of physically reaching or thrusting out.
  • synonyms: reaching, stretch
• The limit of capability.
  • usage: "within the compass of education"
  • synonyms: compass, range, grasp

verb

• Reach a destination, either real or abstract.
  • usage: "We hit Detroit by noon"; "The water reached the doorstep"; "We barely made it to the finish line"; "I have to hit the MAC machine before the weekend starts"
  • synonyms: make, attain, hit, arrive at, gain
• Reach a point in time, or a certain state or level.
  • usage: "The thermometer hit 100 degrees"; "This car can reach a speed of 140 miles per hour"
  • synonyms: hit, attain
• Move forward or upward in order to touch; also in a metaphorical sense.
  • usage: "Government reaches out to the people"
  • synonyms: reach out
• Be in or establish communication with.
  • usage: "Our advertisements reach millions"; "He never contacted his children after he emigrated to Australia"
  • synonyms: get through, get hold of, contact
• To gain with effort.
  • usage: "she achieved her goal despite setbacks"
  • synonyms: achieve, accomplish, attain
• To extend as far as.
  • usage: "The sunlight reached the wall"; "Can he reach" "The chair must not touch the wall"
  • synonyms: extend to, touch
• (v.) ()
  • synonyms: make, get to, progress to
• Place into the hands or custody of.
  • usage: "hand me the spoon, please"; "Turn the files over to me, please"; "He turned over the prisoner to his lawyers"
  • synonyms: pass, hand, pass on, turn over, give
• To exert much effort or energy.
  • usage: "straining our ears to hear"
  • synonyms: strive, strain

• (n.) Extent; stretch; expanse; hence, application; influence; result; scope.
• (v.t.) To extend; to stretch; to thrust out; to put forth, as a limb, a member, something held or the like.
• (v.t.) Hence, to extend an action, effort or influence to; to penetrate to; to pierce or cut, as far as.
• (n.) The pole or rod which connects the hind axle with the forward bolster of a wagon.
• (v.i.) To strain after something; to make efforts.
• (v.t.) To arrive at; to come to; to get as far as.
• (v.t.) To attain or obtain by stretching forth the hand; to extend some part of the body or something held by one, so as to touch, strike, grasp or the like; as, to reach an object with the hand or with a spear.
• (v.t.) To arrive at by effort of any kind; to attain to; to gain; to be advanced to.
• (v.i.) To retch.
• (n.) An effort to vomit.
• (v.i.) To stretch out the hand.
• (n.) The power of stretching out or extending action, influence or the like; power of attainment or management; extent of force or capacity.
• (n.) An extended portion of land or water; a stretch; a straight portion of a stream or river, as from one turn to another; a level stretch, as between locks in a canal; an arm of the sea extending up into the land.
• (v.t.) To understand; to comprehend.
• (v.t.) To overreach; to deceive.
• (n.) The act of stretching or extending; extension; power of reaching or touching with the person or a limb or something held or thrown; as, the fruit is beyond my reach; to be within reach of cannon shot.
• (v.i.) To extend in dimension, time, amount, action, influence, etc., so as to touch, attain to or be equal to, something.
• (v.t.) Hence, to deliver by stretching out a member, especially the hand; to give with the hand; to pass to another; to hand over; as, to reach one a book.
• (v.t.) To strike, hit or touch with a missile; as, to reach an object with an arrow, a bullet or a shell.
• (v.i.) To sail on the wind, as from one point of tacking to another or with the wind nearly abeam.
• (n.) An artifice to obtain an advantage.
• (v.t.) To extend to; to stretch out as far as; to touch by virtue of extent; as, his land reaches the river.

In advertising, is the total number of people within a target market that will be' REACH'ed through an advertising campaign.