A Topical Dictionary: Search for Approaching

Dictionary Results For "Approaching" [?]/[OPML]

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Adjective

That approaches or approach.
:the approaching armies

Translations

Finnish: lähestyvä

Nahuatl: ullaçic

Verb

approaching

:The army was approaching from the north.

hu:approaching ta:approaching te:approaching vi:approaching zh:approaching

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Approach \Ap*proach"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Approached; p. pr.
& vb. n. Approaching.] [OE. approchen, aprochen, OF.
approcher, LL. appropriare, fr. L. ad + propiare to draw
near, prope near.]
1. To come or go near, in place or time; to draw nigh; to
advance nearer.
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Wherefore approached ye so nigh unto the city? --2
Sam. xi. 20.
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But exhorting one another; and so much the more, as
ye see the day approaching. --Heb. x. 25.
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2. To draw near, in a figurative sense; to make advances; to
approximate; as, he approaches to the character of the
ablest statesman.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Approaching \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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WordNet approaching
adj : of the relatively near future; "the approaching election";
"this coming Thursday"; "the forthcoming holidays";
"the upcoming spring fashions" [syn: coming(a), forthcoming,
upcoming]
n 1: the event of one object coming closer to another [syn: approach]
2: the temporal property of becoming nearer in time; "the
approach of winter" [syn: approach, coming]
3: the act of drawing spatially closer to something; "the
hunter's approach scattered the geese" [syn: approach, coming]

Moby Dictionary
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