Word Finder - approaches

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The act of drawing near; a coming or advancing near.

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An access, or opportunity of drawing near.

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(in plural) Movements to gain favor; advances.

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A way, passage, or avenue by which a place or buildings can be approached; an access.

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A manner in which a problem is solved or policy is made.

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1991, Carol Lee Johnston, Jeanne Lazaris, Plane Trigonometry, A New Approach.

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(used only in the plural, fortification) The advanced works, trenches, or covered roads made by besiegers in their advances toward a fortress or military post.

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An approach shot.

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The way an aircraft comes in to land at an airport.

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The area before the lane, in which a player may stand or run up before bowling the ball.

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To come or go near, in place or time; to draw nigh; to advance nearer.

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To draw near, in a figurative sense; to make advances; to approximate.

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as he approaches to the character of the ablest statesman.

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To come near to in place, time, character or value; to draw nearer to.

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"Would counsel please approach the bench?" asked the judge.

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To make an attempt at (solving a problem or making a policy).

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To speak to, as to make a request or ask a question.

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To take approaches to.

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To bring near; to cause to draw near.

The total length, with approaches, is 5,630 ft.

But I soon found that I was cut off from all the usual approaches to the child's heart.

Everybody gets a little nervous as the wedding date approaches.

On the lath of December, when the Swedish approaches had come within 280 paces of the fortress of Fredriksten, which the Swedes were closely besieging, Charles looked over the parapet of the foremost trench, and was shot through the head by a bullet from the fortress.

Projected perpendicularly against a plane boundary, the motion is determined by an equal opposite vortex ring, the optical image; the vortex ring spreads out and moves more slowly as it approaches the wall; at the same time the molecular rotation, inversely as the cross-section of the vortex, is seen to increase.

Then it again rises gradually as it approaches the hilly tracts which enclose the great plain.

At two points the Russian boundary nearly approaches that of provinces which are directly under British suzerainty.

The plant grows freely in good garden soil, preferring a deep welldrained loam, and is all the better for a top-dressing of manure as it approaches the flowering stage.

It is to be regretted that Bacon did not complete this portion of his work, in which for the first time he approaches modern conceptions of change.

The afternoon minimum at Kew gradually deepens as midsummer approaches.

The decrease is most marked as saturation approaches.

The sudden withdrawal of the drug from a morphine habitué is followed by a train of alarming symptoms. As the time approaches for the usual dose there is marked restlessness, followed by excitement and later by chills, pallor, sinking, nausea, with perhaps vomiting and diarrhoea.

Its weight varies from 48 to about 55lb the cubic foot, but in very hard slowly-grown trunks sometimes approaches 60 lb.

The Bergamo sheep is the largest breed in the country; that of Cadore and Belluno approaches it in size.

The various approaches to the citadel on the northern side - the rock-cut flight of steps north-east of the Erechtheum, the stairs leading to the well Clepsydra, and the intermediate passage supposed to have furnished access to the Persians - are all to be attributed to the primitive epoch.

At his appearing all nature rejoices (Yasht, 13, 93); he enters into conflict with the demons and rids the earth of their presence (Yasht, 17,19); Satan approaches him as tempter to make him renounce his faith (Vendidad, 19, 6).

For general purposes nothing approaches the Black Hamburgh (including Frankenthal) in merit.

Its general type approaches more closely to the African than to that of southern Asia.

The approaches of the Anglican Church through the Church Missionary Society in the first part of the 19th century were politely repelled.

The sea is connected with the Arctic Ocean northward by Bering Strait, at the narrowest part of which East Cape (Deshnev) in Asia approaches within about 56 m.

The extreme depth of the strait approaches 50 fathoms, and it contains two small islands known as the Diomede Islands.

Here the maritime range approaches the ocean, leaving a narrower strip of coast, but the fertile valleys are closer and more numerous.

Its approaches are strongly Victoria.

After May it retires from the low-lying regions and gradually ascends to higher altitudes as midsummer approaches.

The fountain Pirene, "behind the temple," still exists, but so much earth has accumulated about it that one now approaches it by going down a ladder.

During the nine or ten years which had elapsed since the conclusion of this remarkable treaty the Dacian prince had immensely strengthened the approaches to his kingdom from the Roman side.

The general scheme of ocean currents depends on the prevailing winds taken in conjunction with the configuration of the coast and its submarine approaches.

It approaches the text of Phaedrus so closely that it was probably made directly from it.

For the better accommodation of the increasing commerce of the port of Boston, the commonwealth bought a considerable frontage upon the harbour lines and constructed a dock capable of receiving the largest vessels, and has supplemented the work of the United States government in deepening the approaches to the wharves.

It is allied to the European species of shad and pilchard, and, like the latter, approaches the coast in immense shoals, which are found throughout the year in some part of the littoral waters between Maine and Florida, the northern shoals retiring into deeper water or to more southern latitudes with the approach of cold weather.

The Aztecs settled there because of the security afforded by its islands and shallow waters - their city, Tenochtitlan, being so completely surrounded by water that a handful of warriors could easily defend its approaches against a greatly superior force.

This approaches most nearly to the wild stock, from which it is distinguished by the non-jointed axis and somewhat shorter awns.

In consequence its price in London nearly approaches that paid for manila.

V i brat i ons thus excited are termed forced vibrations, and their amplitude is greater the more nearly the period of the applied force approaches that of the system when vibrating freely.

The siege approaches were first directed against theTemple Waterworks group, which was stormed on the 19th and 10th of September.

Pan-Lung was connected with the Japanese lines by covered ways, approaches were begun towards several of the eastern forts, and on the 10th of September 180-Metre Hill was stormed, though the crest was untenable under the fire from 203-Metre Hill.

The total length of the bridge is 940 ft., and that of the approaches 1260 ft.

To fill the gap in the approaches when the bridge is rolled forward a frame carrying that part of the road is moved into place sideways.

This view has been proved to be erroneous, and we know now that this fish lives throughout the year in the vicinity of our shores, but at a greater depth, and at a greater distance from the coast, than at the time when it approaches land for the purpose of spawning.

So far as Nestorius himself is concerned, however, it is certain that he never formulated any such doctrine;2 nor does any recorded utterance of his, however casual, come so near the heresy called by his name as Cyril's deliberately framed third anathema (that regarding the "physical union" of the two hypostases or natures) approaches Eutychianism.

The wild camel approaches the north outliers of the Astin-tagh, but rarely, if ever, ventures to enter their fastnesses.

Having received all its important tributaries, the Dnieper is here a broad (400 to 580 yds.) and navigable stream; but as it approaches the town it divides into two arms and forms a low grassy island of considerable extent called Tukhanov.

After this failure Tresckow once more resorted to the regular method of siege approaches, and on the 2nd of February the second parallel was thrown up. La Justice was now bombarded by two new batteries near Perouse, the Perches were of course subjected to an "artillery attack," and henceforward the besiegers fired 1500 shells a day into the works of the French.

The right wing of the position was covered by the Antietam as it approaches the Potomac, the upper course of that stream formed no part of the battlefield.

This place guarded the approaches to Wilmington, North Carolina.

Though undoubtedly sparing his Swedes unduly, to the just displeasure of the allies, Charles John, as commander-in-chief of the northern army, successfully defended the approaches to Berlin against Oudinot in August and against Ney in September; but after Leipzig he went his own way, determined at all hazards to cripple Denmark and secure Norway.

The Murrumbidgee is here spanned by a steel viaduct, the approaches of which are formed by heavy embankments.

The presence of a heart in this genus helps to make it a link between the Podoplea and Gymnoplea, though in various other respects it approaches the next family.

Every early religion seeks to realize such an intercourse with the object of worship as shall be two-sided; when the worshipper approaches the deity he desires to have an answer assuring him of acceptance and divine aid.

Fortification was well understood, as may still be seen in the remains of walled and escarped strongholds on hills and in steep ravines, while lagoon-cities like Mexico had the water approaches defended by fleets of boats and the causeways protected by towers and ditches; even after the town was entered, the pyramid-temples with their surrounding walls were forts capable of stubborn resistance.