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American Heritage Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
ap·proach       (ə-prōch')  Pronunciation Key 
v.   ap·proached, ap·proach·ing, ap·proach·es

v.   intr.
  1. To come near or nearer, as in space or time: Spring approaches.
  2. Sports To make an approach, as in golf.

v.   tr.
  1. To come or go near or nearer to: approached the tunnel.
  2. To come close to, as in appearance, quality, or condition; approximate: The performance approaches perfection.
  3. To make a proposal or overtures to with a specific end in view: approached the administration for a raise.
  4. To begin to deal with or work on: approached the task with dread; approached the issue from a historical perspective.

n.  
  1. The act of approaching: the approach of night.
  2. A fairly close resemblance; an approximation.
  3. A way or means of reaching something; an access: an approach to the bridge.
  4. The method used in dealing with or accomplishing: a logical approach to the problem.
  5. An advance or overture made by one person to another.
  6. Sports
    1. The golf stroke following the drive from the tee with which a player tries to get the ball onto the putting green.
    2. The steps taken prior to executing a competitive maneuver, as by a diver before diving forward from a springboard or by a bowler before delivering the ball.
    3. The part of the area behind the foul line in a bowling alley used by a bowler in delivering the ball.


[Middle English approchen, from Old French aprochier, from Late Latin appropiāre : Latin ad-, ad- + Latin propius, nearer, comparative of prope, near; see per1 in Indo-European roots.]

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approaching

adjective
1. of the relatively near future; "the approaching election"; "this coming Thursday"; "the forthcoming holidays"; "the upcoming spring fashions" 

noun
1. the event of one object coming closer to another [syn: approach] 
2. the temporal property of becoming nearer in time; "the approach of winter" [syn: approach] 
3. the act of drawing spatially closer to something; "the hunter's approach scattered the geese" [syn: approach] 

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Approaching

Ap*proach"ing\, n. (Hort.) The act of ingrafting a sprig or shoot of one tree into another, without cutting it from the parent stock; -- called, also, inarching and grafting by approach.

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