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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

... with his dear principal, which took up two hours, my best beloved sent for me. "My dear," said he, seating me by him, and making the good old gentleman sit down, (for he will always rise at my approach) "Mr. Longman and I have settled, in two hours, some accounts, which would have taken up as many months with some persons: for never was there an exacter or more methodical accomptant. He gives me (greatly to my satisfaction, because I know it will delight you) an account of ...

— Pamela (Vol. II.) • Samuel Richardson

... was gone away, Lisbeth said: "I couldn't very well approach him. He's worried about money for the new vestry. Why didn't you tell me about the new vestry? It was ...

— My Neighbors - Stories of the Welsh People • Caradoc Evans

... M'Donagh's mansion was wooden—one of a row of such, situated near the dockyard in which he wrought. Andy was already on the look-out from the doorstep; and, conscious that he had been guilty of some approach to excess, behaved with such meek silence and constrained decorum, that his master guessed the cause, and graciously connived at his slinking to his berth as soon as he ...

— Cedar Creek - From the Shanty to the Settlement • Elizabeth Hely Walshe

... the Fourteen Points, their immediate effect was slight. The Austrians, and to a lesser extent the Germans, professed interest, but it was soon apparent that the Germans at least were not ready to approach the allied point of view. And the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, forced upon Russia on March 3, was in such stark contrast with the benevolent professions of German statesmen that the President realized that nothing could be gained by debate and compromise. On ...

— Woodrow Wilson's Administration and Achievements • Frank B. Lord and James William Bryan

... is retold—and it has been retold by members of the Expedition as well as by others—the re-telling will never approach the story as told by Scott himself: for the kernel one must turn to Volume I, of "Scott's Last Expedition": However, perhaps I can give something of interest; here is what little Bowers says in extracts from his diary, given ...

— South with Scott • Edward R. G. R. Evans

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