arrive

ar|rive [ ə`raıv ] verb intransitive ***

1. ) to reach a place, after having been somewhere else:

What time does your plane arrive?

I finally arrived home at five in the morning.

arrive at/in: Four police officers suddenly arrived at their house.

a ) to reach a place after having been sent or ordered from somewhere else:

A letter arrived for you this morning.

Our furniture arrived safely by truck yesterday.

b ) if information arrives, it is published or heard somewhere:

Reports are just arriving about the earthquake in Mexico.

c ) to come to a place in order to live there permanently:

Her parents arrived in America in 1926.

d ) to join an organization or start a new job:

She was just 21 when she arrived at the Washington Post as a trainee reporter.

2. ) to happen, take place, or begin to exist:

When radar arrived, the course of the war changed.

3. ) if a baby arrives, it is born:

Sally was four when her baby brother arrived.

4. ) INFORMAL to achieve a goal, especially after a lot of effort:

Running their own business, they felt they had finally arrived.

ar`rive at phrasal verb transitive

arrive at something to reach a result, decision, or solution to a problem:

How did they arrive at that figure?

The two studies arrive at very different conclusions.