English Dictionary

approach

/əˈpɹəʊt͡ʃ/

verb

(intransitive) To come or go near, in place or time; to move toward; to advance nearer; to draw nigh. / (intransitive, golf, tennis) To play an approach shot.

She decided to approach the problem from a different angle.

意味（1）

(intransitive) To come or go near, in place or time; to move toward; to advance nearer; to draw nigh.

Approach thou beacon [the Sun] to this vnder gloabe,

That by thy comfortable beames I may

Peruſe this letter, nothing almoſt ſees my wracke

Approach thou beacon [the Sun] to this vnder gloabe, That by thy comfortable beames I may Peruſe this letter, nothing almoſt ſees my wracke But miſerie.

意味（2）

(intransitive, golf, tennis) To play an approach shot.

意味（3）

(transitive, intransitive, figuratively) Used intransitively, followed by to: to draw near (to someone or something); to make advances; to approximate or become almost equal.

He approaches to the character of the ablest statesman.

意味（4）

(transitive, rarely intransitive) Of an immovable object or a number of such objects: to be positioned as to (notionally) appear to be moving towards (a place).

As we drove along the driveway, the trees approaching the house seemed more eerie.

意味（5）

(transitive, also figuratively) To move toward (someone or something) in place, time, character, or value; to draw nearer to.

“Would counsel please approach the bench?” asked the judge.

意味（6）

(transitive) To bring (something) near something else; to cause (something) to draw near.

My story is not long, said the artist; but your honour had better sit while you listen to it. So saying, he approached to the fire a three-footed stool, and took another himself, […]

意味（7）

(transitive) To attempt to make (a policy) or solve (a problem).

Mr. Moonlight Quill, mysterious, exotic, and oriental in temperament was, nevertheless, a man of decision. And it was with decision that he approached the problem of his wrecked shop.

意味（8）

(transitive) To bring up or propose to (someone) an idea, question, request, etc.

Why bother publishing my conversations. It has not helped you, and it is not going to help anybody else, said U. G. when I approached him with the idea of publishing excerpts from his conversations with the constant stream of people who go to visit him.

意味（9）

(transitive, archaic, euphemistic) To have sexual intercourse with (someone).

None of you ſhall approche to any that is neere of kinne to him, to vncouer their nakedneſſe: I am the Lord.

意味（10）

(transitive, military) To take approaches to (a place); to move towards (a place) by using covered roads, trenches, or other works.