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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



... not approach the skill of some of the first team members, particularly Neil Durant, the captain, who regularly romped through the scrub as if they were wooden Indians, but he did seem to have a natural ability to dodge and to worm his way ...
— The Mark of the Knife • Clayton H. Ernst
... we know, the first theologian to approach this subject. We may note in passing that, though he was bishop of Laodicea in Syria, Alexandria was his native place. His father was an Alexandrian, and he himself had been a friend of Athanasius. The fact of his connection with Alexandria deserves ...
— Monophysitism Past and Present - A Study in Christology • A. A. Luce
... he was furious, when he saw the schoolmaster, who had never seen the girl until within a week, touching with his lips those rosy cheeks which he had never dared to approach. But that was all; it was a sudden impulse; and the master turned away from the young girl, laughing, and telling her not to fret herself about him,—he would take ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 5, No. 28, February, 1860 • Various
... With the approach of spring in 1916, new activities began on the Eastern front, and the Russians threatened a vigorous attack on the German lines in the north "after the thaw." By the middle of the summer the Russians expected, according to semi-official ...
— America's War for Humanity • Thomas Herbert Russell
... saw him. Swift as was the steed's approach, Hiram had seen the change come into the expression of the ...
— Hiram The Young Farmer • Burbank L. Todd


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