All 8 Uses of
approach
in
Lone Survivor
- As we prepared for our final approach to the great, sprawling U.S. base at Bagram, the Taliban were once again out there, killing aid workers and kidnapping foreign construction workers.
Chpt 2.approach = getting near
- We were on our final approach to the enormous U.S. base at Bagram.
Chpt 2. *approach = route (way to get somewhere)
- If a couple of those Taliban came around that corner to my left, the only way to approach me, and they had any form of light, I'd be like a jackrabbit caught in someone's headlights.
Chpt 8. *approach = get near
- Meantime, I was so thirsty I thought I might die before that hour approached.
Chpt 9.approached = got near
- It was approaching noon, and the sun was directly in the south, high, really high, almost straight above us.†
Chpt 7.
- I took the right-hand side, Mikey center left, guarding both the head-on approach and the flank.†
Chpt 7.
- As they approached me, I took out my last grenade and carefully pulled the pin, which placed that little bastard right in firing mode.†
Chpt 9.
- There were no arrivals and no takeoffs permitted while the aircraft was making its approach and landing.†
Chpt 12.
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.