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Approach   /əprˈoʊtʃ/   Listen
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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"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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