Addressing vs Approaching - What's the difference?
addressing | approaching |
A process of putting a person's name and address on an item of mail
(computing) Any of several methods of locating and accessing information within storage
(linguistics) A mode, manner, or form of direct one's speech to an audience.
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That approaches or approach.
Nearly.
* 2011 March 16, , Opinion:
The act of coming closer; an approach.
* 2011 , Lance J. Rips, Lines of Thought: Central Concepts in Cognitive Psychology (page 168)
As verbs the difference between addressing and approaching
is that addressing is present participle of lang=en while approaching is present participle of lang=en.As nouns the difference between addressing and approaching
is that addressing is a process of putting a person's name and address on an item of mail while approaching is the act of coming closer; an approach.As an adjective approaching is
that approaches or approach.As an adverb approaching is
nearly.addressing
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en-noun)approaching
English
Adjective
(-)- the approaching armies
Adverb
(-)There's more to fear from nature than nuclear power,
- The evacuation of approaching 200,000 people, along with reports of high radiation levels, of burning spent fuel, and apocalyptic footage of plumes of debris erupting from the stricken plant, will revive a question that seemed to have been retreating from global concerns: how safe is nuclear power?
Verb
(head)- The army was approaching from the north.
Noun
(en noun)- But we can also take a more analytical attitude to these displays, interpreting the movements as no more than approachings , touchings, and departings with no implication that one shape caused the other to move.