Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In horticulture, the act of ingrafting a sprig or shoot of one tree into another without cutting it from the parent stock. Also called inarching and grafting by approach.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- 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 andgrafting by approach .
WordNet 3.0
- n. the event of one object coming closer to another
- n. the temporal property of becoming nearer in time
- n. the act of drawing spatially closer to something
- adj. of the relatively near future
Examples
“{82} The female Sun, seeing the term approaching, and many of those punished, whom she had charged to acquaint the Governor, resolved to speak to the Under-Lieutenant; but to no better purpose, the”
History of Louisisana Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing
“Andy Robinson, Scotland's coach, looked on with an expression approaching anger as his tight five crumbled.”
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
“The term approaching nearest thereto that we can find, is _M'cheejacmih_, which signifies _Shade_, and may be construed something in the nature of the _Manes_ of the Romans.”
“German Team PokerStars Pro Ben Kang would find himself in the hunt for the title approaching hour number eight but lost a bundle of chips to winemo as the two starting betting at a”
“Ahmateahza or the Missouri, which they described as approaching very near to the Columbia.”
“With the end of the term approaching, we are quite disorganized, we do not have a dean, and the English department does not have a chairman.”
“The problem of authority never escapes anyone who is intellectually honest and I believe that many of the modern Evangelical leaders are more honest in approaching the problem than most have been since the Reformation.”
Fr. Robert Barron on Protestantism, authority, and Cardinal Newman
“Perhaps most striking is his humility in approaching the Theology of the Body and the great desire he has to reach broken humanity with this liberating message.”
“Here is a list of things that will help in approaching the job without a big fuss or a panic:”
“But, I think the essential step in approaching a mindful state of mind is prevention of mental clutter.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘approaching’.
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EN - academic vocabulary
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abandon, abandonment, abnormally, abstract, abstraction, abstractly, abstracts, academia, academic, academically, academics, academies and 3119 more...
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Grafting, &c.
I'm specifically looking for terms from "old arboriculture," but it's an open list.
graft, grafting, arboriculture, scion, approaching, inarching, inarch, imp, shoot, adultery, arborist, ingraft and 52 more...
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Quenelles of Random Palavery
More randomly-garnered terms from the world of words that don't quite yet fit into my other lists.
Goddidit, barcelona, filigrain, good-natured, ill-natured, half-bit, endosome, underplaying, parotid, denormalization, sleightgeist, wheezing and 2334 more...
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Vocab Last Semester Exam
evacuated, relief, ritual, belief, practice, reality, enforce, authority, react, exploiting, exploited, exploits and 25 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for approaching.
ruzuzu Oh, okay. I've been meaning to make a grafting list anyway. Mar 29, 2011
hernesheir Horticulture: inarching, a method of grafting. Mar 29, 2011