All 17 Uses
approach
in
Outliers
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- They would make a visual approach, the captain said.
Chpt 7approach = getting near
- At 01:42 and 19 seconds, the first officer said, "Let's make a missed approach," meaning, Let's pull up and make a large circle and try the landing again.
Chpt 7
- The first officer added, "Not in sight, missed approach."
Chpt 7
- As the plane came in on its final approach, the pilots encountered severe wind shear.
Chpt 7 *approach = route (way to get somewhere)
- All planes, as they approach their destination, are by definition running out of fuel.
Chpt 7approach = get near
- The VOR is a beacon that sends out a signal that allows pilots to calculate their altitude as they approach an airport.
Chpt 7 *
- I had to find an approach, figure out if we could land there, figure out the performance parameters, and tell the company what we were doing.†
Chpt 7
- Trying to do an approach in bad weather, plus a heavy plane, plus an unfamiliar airport, that's not good.†
Chpt 7
- ATC: And Avianca zero-five-two heavy, ah, I'm gonna bring you about fifteen miles northeast and then turn you back onto the approach.†
Chpt 7
- "Normally that approach into Guam is not difficult," Brenner began.†
Chpt 7
- Well, they were cleared for what's called a V O R / D M E approach.†
Chpt 7
- And he says, 'We're doing a visual approach.'†
Chpt 7
- You have committed us to visual approach, with no backup plan, and the weather outside is terrible.†
Chpt 7
- At 1:42:19, the first officer says, "Let's make a missed approach.†
Chpt 7
- FIRST OFFICER: Not in sight, missed approach.†
Chpt 7
- She keeps trying and trying, one approach after another.†
Chpt 8
- I find that the problem with math education is the sink-orswim approach.†
Chpt 9
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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(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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(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.