approach meaning
[ ə'prəutʃ ] Pronunciation: "approach" in a sentence
Verb: approach u'prowch
- Move towards
"We were approaching our destination"
- near, come on, go up, draw near, draw close, come near - Come near or verge on, resemble, come nearer in quality, or character
"His playing approaches that of Horowitz"
- border on - Begin to deal with
"approach a task"; "approach a new project"
- set about, go about - Come near in time
"Winter is approaching"; "approaching old age"
- come near - Make advances to someone, usually with a proposal or suggestion
"I was approached by the President to serve as his adviser in foreign matters"
- Ideas or actions intended to deal with a problem or situation
"his approach to every problem is to draw up a list of pros and cons"
- attack, plan of attack - The act of drawing spatially closer to something
"the hunter's approach scattered the geese"
- approaching, coming - A way of entering or leaving
- access - The final path followed by an aircraft as it is landing
- approach path, glide path, glide slope - The event of one object coming closer to another
- approaching - A tentative suggestion designed to elicit the reactions of others
- overture, advance, feeler - The temporal property of becoming nearer in time
"the approach of winter"
- approaching, coming - A close approximation
"the nearest approach to genius" - A relatively short golf shot intended to put the ball onto the putting green
"he lost the hole when his approach rolled over the green"
- approach shot
Derived forms: approaching, approaches, approached
See also: approachable
Type of: accost, act, address, air lane, airway, approximate, come, come close, come up, come up to, conceptualisation [Brit], conceptualization, flight path, formulation, golf shot, golf stroke, motion, move, movement, nobble [Brit], proffer, proposition, similarity, skyway, suggestion, swing, timing, way
Part of: approach pattern, pattern, traffic pattern
[Mechanical engineering]
The difference between the temperature of the water leaving a cooling tower and the wet-bulb temperature of the surrounding air.
[Medicine]
n : the surgical procedure by which access is gained to a bodily part
[Oil and gas]
The number of degrees temperature difference between the hot fluid inlet and cold fluid outlet, or between the hot fluid outlet and cold fluid inlet, whichever is smaller.
Examples
More: Next- my own work follows this approach.
- katydids were lamenting fall 's approach.
- he still had not the courage to approach her.
- at her approach the children ran off.
- she resented his persistent approaches.