Meaning of APPROACHING
| Pronunciation: | | upr'owching
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- [n] the act of drawing spatially closer to something; "the hunter's approach scattered the geese"
- [n] the temporal property of becoming nearer in time; "the approach of winter"
- [n] the event of one object coming closer to another
- [adj] moving toward one
- [adj] of the relatively near future; "the approaching election"; "this coming Thursday"; "the forthcoming holidays"; "the upcoming spring fashions"
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| | Synonyms: | | approach, approach, approach, coming, coming, coming(a), forthcoming, future, moving, oncoming, upcoming |
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| | See Also: | | access, closing, closure, landing approach, motion, motion, move, movement, movement, run-up, timing | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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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| | Related Terms: | | about to be, advancing, already in sight, approximate, approximating, approximative, arm-in-arm, arriving, asymptotic, at hand, attracted to, brewing, burning, centripetal, centrolineal, cheek-by-jowl, close, close at hand, coming, concurrent, confluent, confocal, connivent, converging, desired, destinal, destined, determined, drawn to, emergent, entering, eventual, extrapolated, fatal, fated, fatidic, focal, forthcoming, future, futuristic, gathering, going to happen, hand-in-hand, hereafter, homeward, homeward-bound, hoped-for, hot, immediate, imminent, impendent, impending, in danger imminent, in prospect, in reserve, in store, in the cards, in the offing, in the wind, in view, inbound, incoming, instant, intimate, inward-bound, later, looming, lowering, lurking, meeting, menacing, mutually approaching, near, near at hand, near the mark, nearing, nearish, nigh, nighish, on the horizon, oncoming, overhanging, planned, plotted, predicted, preparing, probable, projected, prophesied, propinque, prospective, proximal, proximate, radial, radiating, side-by-side, tangent, tangential, that will be, threatening, to come, to-be, ultimate, uniting, upcoming, vicinal, waiting, warm |
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