approaching

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The fees in some cases are approaching the ticket price.

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Quick take

the event of one object coming closer to another

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of approaching gathered in one view.

noun

the event of one object coming closer to another

noun

the temporal property of becoming nearer in time; "the approach of winter"

noun

the act of drawing spatially closer to something; "the hunter's approach scattered the geese"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for approaching.

noun

the event of one object coming closer to another

noun

the temporal property of becoming nearer in time; "the approach of winter"

noun

the act of drawing spatially closer to something; "the hunter's approach scattered the geese"

adjective

of the relatively near future; "the approaching election"; "this coming Thursday"; "the forthcoming holidays"; "the upcoming spring fashions"

Example sentences

The fees in some cases are approaching the ticket price.

Now I'm approaching 30 and I feel like I'm finally on my way to working for myself.

We may be approaching a time when we can break free of hierarchy, but I do not think we are there yet.

All kernels that ever dared approaching Geoff Hinton woke up convolved.

To get more users, have you tried approaching bloggers in different niches with different article ideas?

I have no idea what his list would actually make you, but it wouldn't be anything I'd consider to be approaching "security expert".

There are newer systems that have better architectures, but they don't have anything approaching the same level of library support for hardware.

Life is full of little "just push through" moments: approaching a stranger, hanging out your washing, sitting down at your desk without opening reddit, being bothered to cook, not deleting your nearly-written comment.

We are part of Google's unstoppable march towards tracking and logging all human activity as we approach the technological singularity, which Google is quickly approaching, if the NSA do not beat them to it.

Decisions that people make in the "rescuing someone from the tracks in front of a fast approaching train" scenario cannot, in my humble opinion, be productively analyzed in the context of our ordinary lives.

Joyent's decision to publicly shame one of Node's largest contributors with a passive-aggressive blog post instead of approaching him privately speaks volumes about their maturity.

Having seen mostly robotic cars in real life, and human-driven cars getting in accidents on TV and in movies, might the child of the future react with terror when the robotic chauffeur intones, human driver detected, approaching from rear?