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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.
v. tr.
n.
[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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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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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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