All 13 Uses
attain
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Journey to the Center of the Earth
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- [1] Which bad Latin may be translated thus: "Descend, bold traveller, into the crater of the jokul of Sneffels, which the shadow of Scartaris touches before the kalends of July, and you will attain the centre of the earth; which I have done, Arne Saknussemm.†
Chpt 5attain = gain or reach something with effort
- Why should it not, at a certain depth, attain an impassable limit, instead of rising to such a point as to fuse the most infusible metals?†
Chpt 6
- He has confided to me his plans, his hopes, and why and how he hopes to attain his object.†
Chpt 7
- At seven we had ascended the two thousand steps of this grand staircase, and we had attained a bulge in the mountain, a kind of bed on which rested the cone proper of the crater.†
Chpt 15attained = gained or reached something with effort
- Moreover, in the neighbourhood of an extinct volcano, through gneiss, it has been observed that the increase of a degree is only attained at every 125 feet.†
Chpt 18
- We had already attained a depth of six thousand feet beyond that hitherto reached by the foot of man, such as the mines of Kitz Bahl in Tyrol, and those of Wuttembourg in Bohemia.†
Chpt 18
- Without reckoning, too, that if a vertical depth of sixteen leagues can be attained only by a diagonal descent of eighty-four, it follows that we must go eight thousand miles in a south-easterly direction; so that we shall emerge from some point in the earth's circumference instead of getting to the centre!†
Chpt 25
- And to what a height of scientific glory we should then attain!
Chpt 26 *attain = reach or gain (with effort)
- Imagine the large development attained by these plants, which prefer a warm, moist climate.†
Chpt 30attained = gained or reached something with effort
- I knew that the LYCOPODON GIGANTEUM attains, according to Bulliard, a circumference of eight or nine feet; but here were pale mushrooms, thirty to forty feet high, and crowned with a cap of equal diameter.†
Chpt 30attains = gains or reaches something with effort
- They were lowly shrubs of earth, here attaining gigantic size; lycopodiums, a hundred feet high; the huge sigillaria, found in our coal mines; tree ferns, as tall as our fir-trees in northern latitudes; lepidodendra, with cylindrical forked stems, terminated by long leaves, and bristling with rough hairs like those of the cactus.†
Chpt 30attaining = gaining or reaching something with effort
- I came with an object, and I mean to attain it.†
Chpt 33attain = gain or reach something with effort
- But it seems manifest to me that some day we shall reach a region where the central heat attains its highest limits, and goes beyond a point that can be registered by our thermometers.†
Chpt 34attains = gains or reaches something with effort
Definitions:
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(1)
(attain) to gain or reach something with effort
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)