1. Move towards
   "They cheered up immensely as they approached home";
   - near, come on, draw near, draw close, come near
    
2. Come near or verge on, resemble, come nearer in quality, or character
   "His playing approaches that of Horowitz";
   - border on
    
3. Come near in time
   "Winter is approaching"; "approaching old age";
   - come near
    
4. Begin or proceed with an activity or task
   "approach a task";
   - set about, go about
    
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"

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";
   - attack, plan of attack
    
2. A way of entering or leaving
   "he took a wrong turn on the approach to the bridge";
   - access
    
3. The event of one object coming closer to another
   "The approach of the storm brought dark clouds";
   - approaching
    
4. A tentative suggestion designed to elicit the reactions of others
   "she rejected his approaches";
   - overture, advance, feeler
    
5. A close approximation
   "the nearest approach to genius"
    
6. The temporal property of becoming nearer in time
   "the approach of winter";
   - approaching, coming
    
7. The final path followed by an aircraft as it is landing
   "The pilot carefully maintained the correct glide slope during the approach";
   - approach path, glide path, glide slope
    
8. (golf) 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

1. Close in time; about to occur
   "the hunter's approach scattered the geese";
   - at hand, close at hand, imminent, impendent, impending, approaching, coming

Derived forms: approaching, approaches, approached

See also: bound, close

Type of: accost, act, air lane, airway, approximate, buttonhole [informal], come, come close, come up, conceptualisation [Brit], conceptualization, flight path, formulation, golf shot, golf stroke, motion, move, movement, nobble [Brit, informal], proffer, proposition, similarity, skyway, suggestion, swing, timing, way

Part of: approach pattern, pattern, traffic pattern

Encyclopedia: Approach