approaches

Meaning of approaches

noun
  1. The act of drawing near; a coming or advancing near.
  2. An access, or opportunity of drawing near.
  3. (in plural) Movements to gain favor; advances.
  4. A way, passage, or avenue by which a place or buildings can be approached; an access.
  5. A manner in which a problem is solved or policy is made.
    1991, Carol Lee Johnston, Jeanne Lazaris, Plane Trigonometry, A New Approach.
  6. (used only in the plural, fortification) The advanced works, trenches, or covered roads made by besiegers in their advances toward a fortress or military post.
  7. An approach shot.
  8. The way an aircraft comes in to land at an airport.
  9. The area before the lane, in which a player may stand or run up before bowling the ball.
verb
  1. To come or go near, in place or time; to draw nigh; to advance nearer.
  2. To draw near, in a figurative sense; to make advances; to approximate.
    as he approaches to the character of the ablest statesman.
  3. To come near to in place, time, character or value; to draw nearer to.
    "Would counsel please approach the bench?" asked the judge.
  4. To make an attempt at (solving a problem or making a policy).
  5. To speak to, as to make a request or ask a question.
  6. To take approaches to.
  7. To bring near; to cause to draw near.

Information about approaches

  • Languages ​​in which approaches is used:

    (Press the button to hear it)

Hyphenation of approaches

ap-proaches

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 10 chars.
  • approaches is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

Words that rhyme with approaches

Ches, Apaches, Naches, Urspraches, aches, aircoaches, apaches, appeaches, areaches, baches, backaches, beaches, bellyaches, berdaches, bleaches, braches, breaches, broaches, caches, calaches, caroaches, coaches, cockroaches, daycoaches, detaches, earaches, empeaches, empleaches, encroaches, forereaches, foreteaches, ganaches, gouaches, headaches, headreaches, heartaches, huaraches, huisaches, impeaches, impleaches, kolaches, laches, leaches, loaches, maches, mailcoaches, misteaches, moustaches, mustaches, naches

Are you looking more rhymes for approaches? Try our rhymes search engine.