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say it: uh-PROHCH
approach is a noun and verb meaning "ideas or actions intended to deal with a problem or situation". It carries 14 recorded senses.
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”
“an attack on inflation”
“his plan of attack was misguided”
the act of drawing spatially closer to something
“the hunter's approach scattered the geese”
the final path followed by an aircraft as it is landing
the event of one object coming closer to another
a tentative suggestion designed to elicit the reactions of others
“she rejected his advances”
the temporal property of becoming nearer in time
“the approach of winter”
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”
golf
come near or verge on, resemble, come nearer in quality, or character
“This borders on discrimination!”
“His playing approaches that of Horowitz”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for approach come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.