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approach
has definitions from the fields of sport,golf,transportation
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[ verb ] move towards
Examples "We were approaching our destination" "They are drawing near" "The enemy army came nearer and nearer" Used in print (The Detroit News...)Kimmell ordered the driver to back_up , watched the children safely across and was approaching the car when it suddenly `` took_off at high speed '' , he said , narrowly missing him . (The Washington Post...)As he approached the open bandstand , erected facing the South entrance to the Executive_Mansion , the band struck_up the `` Star_Spangled_Banner '' and followed it with `` Hail to the Chief '' . (Alfred Wright, "A Duel Golfers Will Never Forget"...)But the seven-iron shot he used to approach the green strayed into a bunker and lodged in a slight depression . (The Christian Science Monitor...)It was doing very_well , too , having reached the center , and was pursuing its way with commendable singleness of purpose when Mr._Podger saw hazard approaching in the shape of a flashy little sports_car . (The Providence Journal...)In her first song she waved away one encroaching photographer who dared approach the throne unbidden and thereafter the boys with the cameras had_to unsheathe their 300 mm. lenses and shoot at extreme range . |
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[ noun ] ideas or actions intended to deal with a problem or situation
Synonyms Examples "his approach to every problem is to draw up a list of pros and cons" "an attack on inflation" "his plan of attack was misguided" Used in print (The Christian Science Monitor,...)As_a_matter_of_fact , this latter approach has already been tried , and with pleasing results . Some clue to the character of London 's approach in these discs may be gained immediately from the fact that ten of the 12 titles include the word `` percussion '' or `` percussive '' . (High Fidelity, 11:10...)Recently I was struck anew by the divergent approaches , when in the course of one afternoon and evening I listened to no fewer than ten different performances . But the most impressive testimony to Schnabel 's distinction as a teacher is reflected by the individuality which marks each student 's approach as distinctly his own . (Edward Austin Walton, "On Education for the Interior...)Beyond any question of curriculum and approach to subject must be the quality of the teachers themselves . Related terms |
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[ verb ] come near or verge on, resemble, come nearer in quality, or character
Synonyms Examples "This borders on discrimination!" "His playing approaches that of Horowitz" Used in print (Harry H. Hull, "The Normal Forces and Their Ther...)Mason and Taylor both show that the major_axis of the ellipsoids is at 45 ` at low rates of shear and that it approaches the direction of shear with increased rates of shear . Related terms |
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[ noun ] the act of drawing spatially closer to something
Synonyms Examples "the hunter's approach scattered the geese" Used in print (Jim Berry Pearson, The Maxwell Land Grant....)Occasionally they heard gun-shot signals and a number of horsemen were sighted on the hills , disappearing at the posse 's approach . (Robert L. Duncan, The Voice of Strangers....)At two thirty he sent Fujimoto to the top of the wall at the northeast corner of the mission to keep_an_eye_on the ridge road and give a signal when he first glimpsed the approach of Kayabashi 's party . |
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[ verb ] metaphorically, as in time
Synonyms Examples "Winter is approaching" "approaching old age" Used in print (Ann Hebson, The Lattimer Legend....)He had the hardest pains of growing before him now , as he approached twelve . (Leo Lemon, "Catch Up With" and "Something to...)Marcellus , the hero , is beset from all sides by the problems of approaching manhood . |
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[ verb ] make advances to someone, usually with a proposal or suggestion
Examples "I was approached by the President to serve as his adviser in foreign matters" Used in print (Robert L. Duncan, The Voice of Strangers....)He had already been studying the Bible ; he knew the fundamentals , and after studying with Fletcher for a time he approached Rector , announced that he wanted to be baptized and that was that . (Evan Esar, Humorous English; a guide to comic ,...)A politician was approached by a man seeking the office of a minor public official who had just died . |
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[ verb ] begin to deal with
Examples "approach a task" "go about a difficult problem" "approach a new project" Used in print (Tristram P. Coffin, "Folklore in the American Twentieth...)Anthropologists , housewives , historians and such by profession , they approach their discipline as amateurs , collectors , commercial propagandists , analysts or some combination of the four . (Clayton C. Barbeau, The Ikon....)Now he knew that the moment illuminated by the vision on the train would have_to be approached . |
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[ noun ] a way of entering or leaving
Synonyms Examples "he took a wrong turn on the access to the bridge" Used in print (Robert A. Futterman, The Future of Our Cities....)The first superhighways - New_York 's Henry_Hudson and Chicago 's Lake_Shore , San_Francisco 's Bay_Bridge and its approaches , a good slice of the Pennsylvania_Turnpike - were built as part of the federal works_program which was going_to cure the depression . |
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[ noun ] (transportation) the final path followed by an aircraft as it is landing
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[ noun ] the event of one object coming closer to another
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[ noun ] a close approximation
Examples "the nearest approach to genius" Related terms |
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[ noun ] a tentative suggestion designed to elicit the reactions of others
Examples "she rejected his advances" Related terms |
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[ noun ] the temporal property of becoming nearer in time
Synonyms Examples "the approach of winter" |
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[ noun ] (sport,golf) a relatively short golf shot intended to put the ball onto the putting green
Synonyms Examples "he lost the hole when his approach rolled over the green" Related terms |
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