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1. Move towards
   "We were approaching our destination"
   - near, come on, go up, draw near, draw close, come near
    
2. Come near or verge on, resemble, come nearer in quality, or character
   "His playing approaches that of Horowitz"
   - border on
    
3. Begin to deal with
   "approach a task"; "approach a new project"
   - set about, go about
    
4. Come near in time
   "Winter is approaching"; "approaching old age"
   - come near
    
5. Make advances to someone, usually with a proposal or suggestion
   "I was approached by the President to serve as his adviser in foreign matters"

1. Ideas or actions intended to deal with a problem or situation
   "his approach to every problem is to draw up a list of pros and cons"
   - attack, plan of attack
    
2. The act of drawing spatially closer to something
   "the hunter's approach scattered the geese"
   - approaching, coming
    
3. A way of entering or leaving
   - access
    
4. The final path followed by an aircraft as it is landing
   - approach path, glide path, glide slope
    
5. The event of one object coming closer to another
   - approaching
    
6. A tentative suggestion designed to elicit the reactions of others
   - overture, advance, feeler
    
7. The temporal property of becoming nearer in time
   "the approach of winter"
   - approaching, coming
    
8. A close approximation
   "the nearest approach to genius"
    
9. A relatively short golf shot intended to put the ball onto the putting green
   "he lost the hole when his approach rolled over the green"
   - approach shot

Derived forms: approached, approaches, approaching

See also: approachable

Type of: accost, act, address, air lane, airway, approximate, come, come close, come up, come up to, conceptualisation [Brit], conceptualization, flight path, formulation, golf shot, golf stroke, motion, move, movement, nobble [Brit], proffer, proposition, similarity, skyway, suggestion, swing, timing, way

Part of: approach pattern, pattern, traffic pattern