approaching : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: approaching	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for approaching
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
approaching adj of the relatively near future; "the approaching election"; "this coming Thursday"; "the forthcoming holidays"; "the upcoming spring fashions" Synonym(s): approaching, coming(a), forthcoming, upcoming n the event of one object coming closer to another [syn: approach, approaching] the temporal property of becoming nearer in time; "the approach of winter" Synonym(s): approach, approaching, coming the act of drawing spatially closer to something; "the hunter's approach scattered the geese" Synonym(s): approach, approaching, coming
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Approach \Ap*proach"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Approached}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Approaching}.] [OE. approchen, aprochen, OF. approcher, LL. appropriare, fr. L. ad + propiare to draw near, prope near.] 1. To come or go near, in place or time; to draw nigh; to advance nearer. Wherefore approached ye so nigh unto the city? --2 Sam. xi. 20. But exhorting one another; and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching. --Heb. x. 25. 2. To draw near, in a figurative sense; to make advances; to approximate; as, he approaches to the character of the ablest statesman.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Approaching \Ap*proach"ing\, n. (Hort.) The act of ingrafting a sprig or shoot of one tree into another, without cutting it from the parent stock; -- called, also, inarching and grafting by approach.