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noun

Approach n.

1.

The act of drawing near; a coming or advancing near. "The approach of summer." "A nearer approach to the human type."

2.

A access, or opportunity of drawing near. "The approach to kings and principal persons."

3.

pl. Movements to gain favor; advances.

4.

A way, passage, or avenue by which a place or buildings can be approached; an access.

5.

pl. (Fort.) The advanced works, trenches, or covered roads made by besiegers in their advances toward a fortress or military post.

6.

(Hort.) See Approaching.

7.

(Golf) A stroke whose object is to land the ball on the putting green. It is made with an iron club.

8.

(Aviation) That part of a flight during which an airplane descends toward the landing strip.

9.

(Bowling) The steps taken by a bowler just before delivering the ball toward the pins.

verb

Approach v. t.

1.

To bring near; to cause to draw near; to advance. (Archaic)

2.

To come near to in place, time, or character; to draw nearer to; as, to approach the city; to approach my cabin; he approached the age of manhood. "He was an admirable poet, and thought even to have approached Homer."

3.

(Mil.) To take approaches to.

Approach v. i. (past & past part. approached; pres. part. approaching)

1.

To come or go near, in place or time; to draw nigh; to advance nearer. "Wherefore approached ye so nigh unto the city?" "But exhorting one another; and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching."

2.

To draw near, in a figurative sense; to make advances; to approximate; as, he approaches to the character of the ablest statesman.

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Etymology of 'Approach'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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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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