Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Approaching"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
Wherefore approached ye so nigh unto the city? --2
Sam. xi. 20.
But exhorting one another; and so much the more, as
ye see the day approaching. --Heb. x. 25.
2. To draw near, in a figurative sense; to make advances; to
approximate; as, he approaches to the character of the
ablest statesman.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
approaching
adj 1: moving toward one [syn: {oncoming}]
2: 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}]
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