approach
noun
1. 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
Similar word(s): attack
Definition categories: act, conceptualisation, conceptualization, formulation
2. the act of drawing spatially closer to something
- the hunter's approach scattered the geese
Similar word(s): approaching, coming
Definition categories: act, motion, move, movement
3. a way of entering or leaving
Similar word(s): access
Definition categories: man–made, way
4. the final path followed by an aircraft as it is landing
Definition categories: location, airway, skyway
5. the event of one object coming closer to another
Similar word(s): approaching
Definition categories: event, motion, movement
6. a tentative suggestion designed to elicit the reactions of others
Similar word(s): advance, feeler, overture
Definition categories: communication, proffer, proposition, suggestion
7. the temporal property of becoming nearer in time
- the approach of winter
Similar word(s): approaching, coming
Definition categories: attribute, timing
8. a close approximation
- the nearest approach to genius
Definition categories: attribute, similarity
9. 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
verb
1. move towards
- We were approaching our destination
Similar word(s): near
Definition categories: motion, come
2. come near or verge on, resemble, come nearer in quality, or character
- His playing approaches that of Horowitz
Definition categories: stative, approximate
3. begin to deal with
- approach a task
- approach a new project
Definition categories: social, act, move
4. come near in time
- Winter is approaching
- approaching old age
Definition categories: motion, come
5. make advances to someone, usually with a proposal or suggestion
- I was approached by the President to serve as his adviser in foreign matters
Definition categories: communication, accost, address
Sentences with approach as a verb:
- as he approaches to the character of the ablest statesman.
- He was an admirable poet, and thought even to have approached Homer. -- Sir William Temple."Would counsel please approach the bench?" asked the judge.
- to approach the city
- He approached the age of manhood.
- Don't approach that house.