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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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"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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