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資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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.

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.

資料來源 : WordNet®

approaching
     adj : of the relatively near future; "the approaching election";
           "this coming Thursday"; "the forthcoming holidays";
           "the upcoming spring fashions" [syn: {coming(a)}, {forthcoming},
            {upcoming}]
     n 1: the event of one object coming closer to another [syn: {approach}]
     2: the temporal property of becoming nearer in time; "the
        approach of winter" [syn: {approach}, {coming}]
     3: the act of drawing spatially closer to something; "the
        hunter's approach scattered the geese" [syn: {approach}, {coming}]