approach

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[edit] Etymology

From Middle English approchen, aprochen, Old French approcher, Late Latin appropriare, from Latin ad + propiare (“‘to draw near, prope near’”).

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[edit] Verb

Infinitive
to approach

Third person singular
approaches

Simple past
approached

Past participle
approached

Present participle
approaching

to approach (third-person singular simple present approaches, present participle approaching, simple past and past participle approached)

  1. (intransitive) To come or go near, in place or time; to draw nigh; to advance nearer.
    Wherefore approached ye so nigh unto the city? —2 Sam. xi. 20.
    But exhorting one another; and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching. —Heb. x. 25.
  2. (intransitive) To draw near, in a figurative sense; to make advances; to approximate.
    as he approaches to the character of the ablest statesman.
  3. (transitive) 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. -- Sir William Temple.
  4. (transitive, military) To take approaches to.

[edit] Translations

to come or go near, in place or time; to draw nigh; to advance nearer
To draw near, in a figurative sense
To come near to in place, time, or character
To take approaches to

[edit] Noun

Singular
approach

Plural
approaches

approach (plural approaches)

  1. The act of drawing near; a coming or advancing near.
    The approach of summer. — Samuel Horsley.
    A nearer approach to the human type. — Richard Owen.
  2. An access, or opportunity of drawing near.
    The approach to kings and principal persons. — Francis Bacon.
  3. (used only with the plural approaches) Movements to gain favor; advances.
  4. A way, passage, or avenue by which a place or buildings can be approached; an access. — Thomas Babington Macaulay.
  5. A manner in which a problem is solved or policy is made.
    an approach to gardening
  6. (used only in the plural, fortification) The advanced works, trenches, or covered roads made by besiegers in their advances toward a fortress or military post.
  7. (golf) A stroke whose object is to land the ball on the putting green. It is made with an iron club.
  8. The way a plane lands at an airport.
  9. (bowling) The area before the lane, in which a player may stand or run up before bowling the ball.

[edit] Translations

the act of drawing near
an access, or opportunity of drawing near
movements to gain favor; advances
a way, passage, or avenue by which a place or buildings can be approached; an access
a manner in which a problem is solved or policy is made
the advanced works, trenches, or covered roads made by besiegers in their advances toward a fortress or military post
in Horticulture
a stroke whose object is to land the ball on the putting green
the way a plane lands at an airport
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