Definition of approach

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Approach (v. i.) The advanced works, trenches, or covered roads made by besiegers in their advances toward a fortress or military post..

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Caisson :: Caisson (n.) A chest filled with explosive materials, to be laid in the way of an enemy and exploded on his approach..
Approachment :: Approachment (n.) Approach.
Alarmed :: Alarmed (a.) Aroused to vigilance; excited by fear of approaching danger; agitated; disturbed; as, an alarmed neighborhood; an alarmed modesty..
Approachable :: Approachable (a.) Capable of being approached; accessible; as, approachable virtue..
Accostable :: Accostable (a.) Approachable; affable.
Accessibility :: Accessibility (n.) The quality of being accessible, or of admitting approach; receptibility..
Coy :: Coy (a.) Shrinking from approach or familiarity; reserved; bashful; shy; modest; -- usually applied to women, sometimes with an implication of coquetry..
Ward :: Ward (n.) To fend off; to repel; to turn aside, as anything mischievous that approaches; -- usually followed by off..
Ablactation :: Ablactation (n.) The process of grafting now called inarching, or grafting by approach..
Shy :: Shy (superl.) Reserved; coy; disinclined to familiar approach.
Retardation :: Retardation (n.) The keeping back of an approaching consonant chord by prolonging one or more tones of a previous chord into the intermediate chord which follows; -- differing from suspension by resolving upwards instead of downwards.
Approach :: Approach (v. i.) Movements to gain favor; advances.
Approximation :: Approximation (n.) A continual approach or coming nearer to a result; as, to solve an equation by approximation..
Approach :: Approach (v. i.) The advanced works, trenches, or covered roads made by besiegers in their advances toward a fortress or military post..
Accost :: Accost (v. t.) To approach; to make up to.
Accession :: Accession (n.) The invasion, approach, or commencement of a disease; a fit or paroxysm..
Flatten :: Flatten (a.) To reduce to an even surface or one approaching evenness; to make flat; to level; to make plane.
Fear :: Fear (n.) To affright; to terrify; to drive away or prevent approach of by fear.
Subtriple :: Subtrihedral (a.) Approaching the form of a three-sided pyramid; as, the subtrihedral crown of a tooth..
Open :: Open (a.) Free of access; not shut up; not closed; affording unobstructed ingress or egress; not impeding or preventing passage; not locked up or covered over; -- applied to passageways; as, an open door, window, road, etc.; also, to inclosed structures or objects; as, open houses, boxes, baskets, bottles, etc.; also, to means of communication or approach by water or land; as, an open harbor or roadstead..
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