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Approaching

//əˈpɹoʊt͡ʃɪŋ// adj, adv, noun, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    That approaches or approach. not-comparable

    "the approaching armies"

Adjective
  1. 1
    of the relatively near future wordnet
Adverb
  1. 1
    Nearly. not-comparable

    "The evacuation of approaching 200,000 people, along with reports of high radiation levels, of burning spent fuel, and apocalyptic footage of plumes of debris erupting from the stricken plant, will revive a question that seemed to have been retreating from global concerns: how safe is nuclear power?"

Noun
  1. 1
    The act of coming closer; an approach.

    "But we can also take a more analytical attitude to these displays, interpreting the movements as no more than approachings, touchings, and departings with no implication that one shape caused the other to move."

  2. 2
    the act of drawing spatially closer to something wordnet
  3. 3
    the temporal property of becoming nearer in time wordnet
  4. 4
    the event of one object coming closer to another wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of approach form-of, gerund, participle, present

    "The army was approaching from the north."

Etymology

Etymology 1

By surface analysis, approach + -ing.

Etymology 2

By surface analysis, approach + -ing.

Etymology 3

By surface analysis, approach + -ing.

Etymology 4

By surface analysis, approach + -ing.

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