All 11 Uses of
approach
in
A Streetcar Named Desire
- Princess: The tactile approach.†
Scene 1.1
- ...[She approaches the bed.†
Scene 1.1
- [He uncovers the tape recorder; approaches her with the earpiece†
Scene 1.1
- He approaches her, as soon as the coloured man returns inside, like an aged courtier comes deferentially up to a Crown Princess or Infanta.†
Scene 2.1
- [Chance enters on the gallery, sees someone approaching on other side — quickly pulls back and stands in shadows on the gallery†
Scene 3.1
- Chance now turns from where he's been waiting at the other end of the corridor and slowly, cautiously, approaches the entrance to the room, Wind sweeps the Palm Garden; it seems to dissolve the walls; the rest of the play is acted against the night sky.†
Scene 3.1
- [Outside a train approaches†
Scene 3.4
- In this dark march toward whatever it is we're approaching, Don't — don't hang back with the brutes!†
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- She approaches a little.†
Scene 3.5
- By coming suddenly into a room that I thought was empty — which wasn't empty, but had two people in it...[A locomotive is heard approaching outside.†
Scene 3.6
- The sound of it turns into the roar of an approaching locomotive.†
Scene 3.10
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) 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.