All 12 Uses
approach
in
1984, by Orwell
(Edited)
- A momentary hush passed over the group of people round the chairs as they saw the black overalls of an Inner Party member approaching.
p. 10.9approaching = getting nearer
- He believed in the principles of Ingsoc, he venerated Big Brother, he rejoiced over victories, he hated heretics, not merely with sincerity but with a sort of restless zeal, an up-to-dateness of information, which the ordinary Party member did not approach.
p. 55.2 *approach = get near
- Winston caught scraps of conversation as he approached.
p. 83.1approached = got near
- A week had gone by since she had first approached him.
p. 112.9 *approached = begun communication on a delicate topic
- He still had not the courage to approach her.
p. 119.5approach = get near
- If she judged that the coast was clear she would blow her nose when he approached; otherwise he was to walk past her without recognition.
p. 127.6approached = got near
- As they drifted down the crowded pavements, not quite abreast and never looking at one another, they carried on a curious, intermittent conversation which flicked on and off like the beams of a lighthouse, suddenly nipped into silence by the approach of a Party uniform or the proximity of a telescreen, then taken up again minutes later in the middle of a sentence, then abruptly cut short as they parted at the agreed spot, then continued almost without introduction on the following day.
p. 128.5approach = coming near
- But in matters of vital importance — meaning, in effect, war and police espionage — the empirical approach is still encouraged, or at least tolerated.
p. 193.6 *approach = technique (way of doing something)
- There was another spasm in his entrails, the heavy boots were approaching.
p. 232.4approaching = getting nearer
- The boots were approaching again.
p. 238.8
- He approached it, then stopped short.
p. 271.1approached = got near
- One of them approached with the gin bottle.
p. 297.7
Definitions:
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(1)
(approach as in: approached the city) to get closer to (near in space, time, quantity, or quality)
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(2)
(approach as in: use the best approach) a way of doing something; or a route that leads to a particular place
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(3)
(approach as in: approached her with the proposal) to begin communication with someone about something -- often a proposal or a delicate topic
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(4)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) More rarely (and typically only in classic literature), the phrase nearest approach to as used in "her nearest approach to an apology" or "her nearest approach to a smile" typically means that "something is as close to something else as it ever gets." "As near an approach to" can have a similar meaning.