approaching
English
Pronunciation
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "GenAm" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /əˈpɹoʊtʃɪŋ/
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "RP" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /əˈpɹəʊtʃɪŋ/
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -əʊtʃɪŋ
Adjective
approaching (not comparable)
- That approaches or approach.
- the approaching armies
Translations
that approaches or approach
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Adverb
approaching (not comparable)
- Nearly.
- 2011 March 16, New Scientist, Opinion: There's more to fear from nature than nuclear power,
- The evacuation of approaching 200,000 people, along with reports of high radiation levels, of burning spent fuel, and apocalyptic footage of plumes of debris erupting from the stricken plant, will revive a question that seemed to have been retreating from global concerns: how safe is nuclear power?
- 2011 March 16, New Scientist, Opinion: There's more to fear from nature than nuclear power,
Verb
approaching
- present participle of approach
- The army was approaching from the north.
Noun
approaching (plural approachings)
- The act of coming closer; an approach.
- 2011, Lance J. Rips, Lines of Thought: Central Concepts in Cognitive Psychology, page 168:
- But we can also take a more analytical attitude to these displays, interpreting the movements as no more than approachings, touchings, and departings with no implication that one shape caused the other to move.
References
- “approaching”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “approaching”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
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