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Approach   /əprˈoʊtʃ/   Listen
Approach

noun
1.
Ideas or actions intended to deal with a problem or situation.  Synonyms: attack, plan of attack.  "An attack on inflation" , "His plan of attack was misguided"
2.
The act of drawing spatially closer to something.  Synonyms: approaching, coming.
3.
A way of entering or leaving.  Synonym: access.
4.
The final path followed by an aircraft as it is landing.  Synonyms: approach path, glide path, glide slope.
5.
The event of one object coming closer to another.  Synonym: approaching.
6.
A tentative suggestion designed to elicit the reactions of others.  Synonyms: advance, feeler, overture.
7.
The temporal property of becoming nearer in time.  Synonyms: approaching, coming.
8.
A close approximation.
9.
A relatively short golf shot intended to put the ball onto the putting green.  Synonym: approach shot.
verb
(past & past part. approached; pres. part. approaching)
1.
Move towards.  Synonyms: come near, come on, draw close, draw near, go up, near.  "They are drawing near" , "The enemy army came nearer and nearer"
2.
Come near or verge on, resemble, come nearer in quality, or character.  Synonym: border on.  "His playing approaches that of Horowitz"
3.
Begin to deal with.  Synonyms: go about, set about.  "Go about a difficult problem" , "Approach a new project"
4.
Come near in time.  Synonym: come near.  "Approaching old age"
5.
Make advances to someone, usually with a proposal or suggestion.



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"Approach" Quotes from Famous Books



... traps was back with his Athenian horses and their groom, but with his present equipment he could at least lie smoking on his blankets and watch the dragoman prepare food. But he reflected that for that day he had only attained the simple discovery that the approach to Nikopolis was surrounded ...
— Active Service • Stephen Crane
... that?—had so marvellous a change really been wrought in her?—the little asparagus cutter of Queechy transformed into the mistress of all this domain, and of the stately mansion of which they caught glimpses now and then, as they drew near it by another approach into which Mr. Carleton had diverged. And his wife!—that was the hardest to realize ...
— Queechy • Susan Warner
... seemed to be allowed considerable liberty, they soon found that it was only apparent. Once Tom walked some distance from that portion of the deck where he and the others had been told to remain. A sailor with a gun at once ordered him back. Nor could they approach the rails without being directed, harshly enough at times, ...
— Tom Swift and his Submarine Boat - or, Under the Ocean for Sunken Treasure • Victor Appleton
... the windows of the old men's rooms, each pair of windows separated by a small buttress. A broad gravel walk runs between the building and the river, which is always trim and cared for; and at the end of the walk, under the parapet of the approach to the bridge, is a large and well-worn seat, on which, in mild weather, three or four of Hiram's bedesmen are sure to be seen seated. Beyond this row of buttresses, and further from the bridge, and also further from the water ...
— The Warden • Anthony Trollope
... come as a great shock to Mr. Gladstone. Manning had breathed no word of its approach to his old and intimate friend, and when the news reached him, it seemed almost an act of personal injury. 'I felt,' Mr. Gladstone said, 'as if Manning had murdered my mother by mistake.' For twelve ...
— Eminent Victorians • Lytton Strachey


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