How to pronounce “approach”

Meaning

• [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.
• (ambitransitive, figuratively) Used intransitively, followed by to: to draw near (to someone or something); to make advances; to approximate or become almost equal.
• (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).
• (transitive, also figuratively) To move toward (someone or something) in place, time, character, or value; to draw nearer to.
• (transitive) To bring (something) near something else; to cause (something) to draw near.
• (transitive, mathematical analysis) Used when defining limits, preceded by as: To become arbitrarily close to some value, be it a number, vector or infinity and have an effect on another value.
• (transitive) To attempt to make (a policy) or solve (a problem).
• (transitive) To bring up or propose to (someone) an idea, question, request, etc.
• (transitive, archaic, euphemistic) To have sexual intercourse with (someone).
• (transitive, military) To take approaches to (a place); to move towards (a place) by using covered roads, trenches, or other works.
• [Noun]
• (also figuratively) An act of drawing near in place or time; an advancing or coming near.
• An act of coming near in character or value; an approximation.
• (also figuratively) An avenue, passage, or way by which a building or place can be approached; an access.
• (figuratively) A manner of making (a policy) or solving (a problem, etc.).
• (archaic) An opportunity of drawing near; access.
• (aviation, also attributively) The way an aircraft comes in to land at an airport.
• (bowling) The area before the lane in which a bowler may stand or run up before bowling the ball.
• (golf, tennis) Ellipsis of approach shot.

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