Approach

Verb

 * 1)  To come or go near, in place or time; to draw nigh; to advance nearer.
 * 2)  To draw near, in a figurative sense; to make advances; to approximate.
 * 3)  To come near to in place, time, character, or value; to draw nearer to.
 * 4)  To take approaches to.

Noun

 * 1) The act of drawing near; a coming or advancing near.
 * 2) An access, or opportunity of drawing near.
 * 3)  Movements to gain favor; advances.
 * 4) A way, passage, or avenue by which a place or buildings can be approached; an access. &mdash; Thomas Babington Macaulay.
 * 5) A manner in which a problem is solved or policy is made.
 * 6)  The advanced works, trenches, or covered roads made by besiegers in their advances toward a fortress or military post.
 * 7)  A stroke whose object is to land the ball on the putting green. It is made with an iron club.
 * 8) The way a plane lands at an airport.
 * 9)  The area before the lane, in which a player may stand or run up before bowling the ball.

Adjectives for Approach
hackneyed; single; sociological; novel; organic; traditional; inevitable; oblique; tentative; obvious; impressive; immediate; logical; flanked; insidious; common-sense; majestic; tactful; critical; methodological; natural; simple; wary; galloping; fair; hushed; original;  insinuating;   wistful; cautious; illuminating; subtle;  indirect; shamefaced; stealthy;  boisterous;  chic; affable; experimental; tolerable; warm; mutual; soft; ample; casual; rapid; cunning; active; timid; gradual; intimate; sympathetic; distant; tumultuous; extraordinary; speedy; hostile; irresolute; ironical.

Verbs for Approach
bar—; betoken—; construct—; cover—; discover—; discuss—; disguise—; divert—; examine—; foresee—; herald—; hinder—; linger over—; obstruct—; reconstruct—; repel—; restore—; sense—; shun—; watch —; —bodes; —leads.

Adverbs for Approach
penitently; hilariously; noiselessly; devoutly; remotely; diffidently; cautiously; perilously; sinuously; stealthily; unwarily; dexterously; delicately; humbly; reluctantly;leisurely; suppliantly; obsequiously; blushingly; circumspectly; obliquely; irresolutely;casually; confidentially.

Synonyms for Approach
near, arrive, approximate, equal, attempt, accost.

Antonyms for Approach
leave, depart.

Thesaurus
access; accomplish; accomplishment; accordance; accost; achieve; achievement; act on; address; adit; advance; advances; advent; advise; agreement; air lock; algorithm; alikeness; alliance; analogy; answer; anticipate; ape; aping; apostrophize; appeal to; appear; appear like; appearance; apply to; approaches; appropinquate; approximate; approximation; arise; arrangement; arrival; arrive; arrive at; arrive in; asking price; assay; assimilation; asymptote; attack; attain; attain to; attainment; attempt; attitude; await; be around; be destined; be fated; be imminent; be in store; be like; be near; be received; be redolent of; be to be; be to come; bear down on; bear down upon; bear resemblance; bear up; bear upon; beg; begin to; beseech; bespeak; bid; blind landing; blow in; blueprint; blueprinting; bob up; bottleneck; break the ice; brew; bribe; bring to mind; buttonhole; buy; buy off; calculation; call; call to; call to mind; call up; center; centralize; chance; charting; check in; clock in; close; close in; close up; close with; closeness; collision course; come; come along; come close; come closer; come forth; come forward; come in; come into being; come into existence; come near; come on; come to; come to hand; come together; come up; coming; coming in; communicate with; community; comparability; compare with; comparison; concenter; concentralization; concentralize; concentrate; concentration; conception; concourse; concurrence; confer; confines; confluence; conflux; conformity; confront; congress; consult; contact; contrivance; converge; convergence; converging; copy; copying; correspond; correspond to; correspondence; corridor; corrupt; counsel; counterfeit; course; court; crack; crop up; crossing; cultivate; design; device; disposition; draw; draw near; draw nigh; draw on; effort; encounter; endeavor; engage; enterprise; entrance; entranceway; entreat; entry; entryway; environs; envisagement; equal; essay; establish connection; evoke; exert influence; expect; experiment; face; fall in with; fashion; favor; feeler; fetch; fetch up at; figuring; find; fix; fling; focalization; focus; follow; foreground; foresee; foresight; foretell; forethought; form; forthcome; forthcoming; funnel; futurity; gain; gain upon; gambit; game; gangplank; gangway; gather; get at; get cozy with; get in; get there; get to; get warm; go; graphing; grease; grease the palm; greet; ground plan; guidelines; guise; hail; hall; halloo; hang over; hit; hit town; hope; hover; hub; idea; identity; imitate; imitation; immediacy; immediate foreground; immediate future; imminence; impend; impendence; impendency; implore; importune; in; ingress; inlet; intake; intention; interrogate; intersect; invitation; invoke; landing; layout; lead on; lick; lie ahead; lie over; lift a finger; likeness; likening; line; line of action; lines; lineup; lobby; lobby through; long-range plan; look for; look forward to; look like; loom; lower; magnetize; maintain connection; make; make a pass; make advances; make an attempt; make an effort; make an overture; make contact with; make it; make overtures; make up to; manner; manner of working; mapping; master plan; match; materialize; means; means of access; meet; meeting; memorialize; menace; metaphor; method; methodology; mimic; mimicking; mirror; mode; mode of operation; mode of procedure; modus operandi; move; movement; mutual approach; narrow the gap; narrowing gap; near; near future; nearly reproduce; nearness; negotiate; neighborhood; nigh; nighness; nip; not tell apart; offer; offering; opening; operations research; order; organization; overhang; overture; overtures; parallel; parallelism; parity; parley; partake of; passage; passageway; path; pay addresses to; pay court to; pay off; pinch; plan; planning; planning function; play up to; plead; plot; pop up; practice; prearrangement; precinct; predict; preliminary approach; present itself; presentation; procedure; proceeding; process; proffer; program; program of action; project; prophesy; propinquity; proposals; propose to; proposition; propositions; proximate; proximity; pull in; pull strings; punch in; purchase; purlieus; question; radius; raise; rationalization; reach; reaching; relate to; remind one of; reply to; resemblance; resemble; respond to; ring in; rival; roll in; routine; run after; run together; salute; sameness; savor of; schedule; schema; schematism; schematization; scheme; scheme of arrangement; seem like; semblance; setup; shine up to; shot; show up; sidle up to; sign in; similarity; simile; similitude; simulate; simulation; smack of; solicit; sound like; sound out; speak; speak fair; speak to; spokes; spring up; stab; stack up; stack up with; step; step up; strategic plan; strategy; stroke; strong bid; style; submission; suborn; suggest; supplicate; system; systematization; tack; tactical plan; tactics; take after; take aside; take care of; talk to; tamper with; tangent; taper; technique; tentative; tentative approach; the big picture; the drill; the how; the picture; the way of; threaten; throw a pass; tickle the palm; time in; tone; touch; touchdown; trench; trial; trial and error; try; turn up; undertake; undertaking; unite; venture; venture on; venture upon; verge; vestibule; vicinage; vicinity; way; way in; whack; wire-pull; wise; work on; working plan

Etymology
From approchen:, aprochen:,  aprochier:,  appropiare:, from  ad: + propiare:, from prope:.

Verb

 * Akkadian:
 * Armenian: ,
 * Bulgarian: приближавам се
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 來臨, 来临
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * German: sich nähern (reflexive)
 * Italian: avvicinarsi (reflexive)
 * Japanese:
 * Kurdish:


 * Polish: zbliżać się, podchodzić, przybliżać się
 * Romanian: apropia
 * Russian:,    ;  , приблизиться
 * Slovene: bližati se
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tongan: fotu
 * Turkish:
 * Vietnamese:, lại gần,
 * Welsh: nesáu (at)


 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian: доближавам се
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * German: sich nähern (reflexive)


 * Japanese:
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish: nadciągać, nadchodzić
 * Russian:, приблизиться
 * Spanish: aproximarse
 * Tongan: fotu


 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian: приближавам се, подхождам
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * German: sich nähern (reflexive)
 * Japanese: 近づく (chikazuku)


 * Kurdish:
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish: zbliżać się, nadciągać, nadchodzić
 * Russian:,    ;  , приблизиться


 * Bulgarian: обръщам се, контактувам с
 * Dutch:


 * German: sich nähern (reflexive)

Noun

 * Bulgarian: приближаване
 * Dutch:, aantocht,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Norwegian: (space or figuratively),  (time, archaic)


 * Polish: nadejście, podejście , zbliżenie
 * Portuguese: aproximação
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:, , ,


 * Bulgarian: достъп,
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:


 * Polish: dostęp
 * Russian:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch: ,


 * Russian:


 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Dutch: ,
 * Norwegian:


 * Polish: dojazd, podjazd
 * Russian:, ,


 * Bulgarian:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: lähestymistapa
 * French:
 * Korean: 접근


 * Norwegian:
 * Polish: podejście
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: modh


 * Dutch:


 * Finnish: lähestymislyönti


 * German:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Danish: ,
 * Dutch: aanvliegen


 * Finnish:
 * Norwegian: