approach

move towards

• “We were approaching our destination”
• “They are drawing near”
• “The enemy army came nearer and nearer”

come near or verge on, resemble, come nearer in quality, or character

• “This borders on discrimination!”
• “His playing approaches that of Horowitz”

begin to deal with

• “approach a task”
• “go about a difficult problem”
• “approach a new project”

come near in time

• “Winter is approaching”
• “approaching old age”

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”
• “an attack on inflation”
• “his plan of attack was misguided”

the act of drawing spatially closer to something

• “the hunter”

a way of entering or leaving

• “he took a wrong turn on the access to the bridge”

the final path followed by an aircraft as it is landing

the event of one object coming closer to another

a tentative suggestion designed to elicit the reactions of others

• “she rejected his advances”

the temporal property of becoming nearer in time

• “the approach of winter”

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”