Approach vs Appropriate - What's the difference?
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To come or go near, in place or time; to draw nigh; to advance nearer.
* 1769 , Oxford Standard text, , xi, 20,
* 1769 , Oxford Standard text, , x, 25,
(figuratively) To draw near, in a figurative sense; to make advances; to approximate.
* 1839 , , A Tour in Sweden in 1838 ,
* 1898 , , The Works , Volume 11, 2006, Elibron Classics Replica Edition,
To come near to in place, time, character or value; to draw nearer to.
* 1831 , , Volume 1, The American Redstart,
* 1867 , , Chapter 53: And Last,
* 1898 , , Book 1, Chapter 1: The Eve of the War,
* 1911 [1904], , Chapter III,
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*::: Usage note: In discussing convergence in mathematical analysis, modern rigorous formulations avoid using the terms approach'' and ''converge . These terms may, however, serve as a form of handwave when rigour is not required.
To make an attempt at (solving a problem or making a policy).
* 1922 , , Chapter II,
To speak to, as to make a request or ask a question.
* 1988 Dinesh Vaghela, Publisher's Note'', in , Dinesh Publications, [http://www.well.com/user/jct/],
(military) To take approaches to.
To bring near; to cause to draw near.
The act of drawing near; a coming or advancing near.
* 1811 , , Sermons , Volume 1,
* 1859 , , On the Classification and Geographical Distribution of the Mammalia ,
An access, or opportunity of drawing near.
* 1625 (date from Markby), , Of Ambition'', reprinted in 1856, Thomas Markby (editor), ''The Essays; or, Counsels Civil and Moral with A table of the Colours of Good and Evil ,
Movements to gain favor; advances.
A way, passage, or avenue by which a place or buildings can be approached; an access.
* 1900 , ,
A manner in which a problem is solved or policy is made.
* 1787 , , Annotations to Article 1, Section 1,
* 1980 , , Final Decision, IV: Comments,
* 1980 , , Opinion of the Court,
* 1991', Carol Lee Johnston, Jeanne Lazaris, ''Plane Trigonometry, A New '''Approach .
(used only in the plural, fortification) The advanced works, trenches, or covered roads made by besiegers in their advances toward a fortress or military post.
(golf, tennis) An approach shot.
The way an aircraft lands at an airport.
* 2007 , , Glider Flying Handbook ,
(bowling) The area before the lane, in which a player may stand or run up before bowling the ball.
(obsolete) Set apart for a particular use or person; reserved.
Hence, belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper.
* (Beilby Porteus)
* (Edward Stillingfleet)
* (John Locke)
Suitable to the social situation or to social respect or social discreetness; socially correct; socially discreet; well-mannered; proper.
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(archaic) To make suitable; to suit.
To take to oneself in exclusion of others; to claim or use as by an exclusive right.
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To set apart for, or assign to, a particular person or use, in exclusion of all others; with to'' or ''for .
* 2012 , The Washington Post, David Nakamura and Tom Hamburger,
(transitive, British, ecclesiastical, legal) To annex, as a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property.
In lang=en terms the difference between approach and appropriate
is that approach is to come near to in place, time, character or value; to draw nearer to while appropriate is to set apart for, or assign to, a particular person or use, in exclusion of all others; with to'' or ''for .As verbs the difference between approach and appropriate
is that approach is to come or go near, in place or time; to draw nigh; to advance nearer while appropriate is (archaic) to make suitable; to suit.As a noun approach
is the act of drawing near; a coming or advancing near.As an adjective appropriate is
(obsolete) set apart for a particular use or person; reserved.approach
English
Verb
(es)- And if so be that the king's wrath arise, and he say unto thee, Wherefore approached ye so nigh unto the city when ye did fight? knew ye not that they would shoot from the wall?
- Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching .
- as he approaches to the character of the ablest statesman.
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- Without these incentives to industry the Norwegian would be like the Laplander, without industry and civilisation ; and the nearer he approaches' to the ''beau idéal'' of those political economists — to the state of being without a taste for these foreign and expensive luxuries — the nearer he ' approaches to the condition of the Laplander in the comforts and enjoyments of life.
page 205,
- In this respect, the only books which approach to its excellence are Gulliver's Travels and Robinson Crusoe.
- He was an admirable poet, and thought even to have approached Homer. -- .
- "Would counsel please approach the bench?" asked the judge.
- to approach the city
- He approached the age of manhood.
- Don't approach that house.
- When one approaches the nest of this species, the male exhibits the greatest anxiety respecting its safety, passes and repasses, fluttering and snapping its bill within a few feet, as if determined to repel the intruder.
- Removing with him and the old housekeeper to within a mile of the parsonage-house, where his dear friends resided, he gratified the only remaining wish of Oliver's warm and earnest heart, and thus linked together a little society, whose condition approached as nearly to one of perfect happiness as can ever be known in this changing world.
- Its physical condition is still largely a mystery, but we know now that even in its equatorial region the midday temperature barely approaches that of our coldest winter.
- If a variable takes on successively a series of values that approach' nearer and nearer to a constant value in such a manner that [To be read ''the numerical value of the difference between'' ''and'' ] becomes and remains less than any assigned arbitrarily small positive quantity, then is said to '''''approach the limit'' , or to ''converge to the limit . Symbolically this is written
- And it was with decision that he approached the problem of his wrecked shop.
- "Why bother publishing my conversations. It has not helped you, and it is not going to help anybody else", said U.G. when I approached him with the idea of publishing excerpts from his conversations with the constant stream of people who go to visit him.
- (Boyle)
Noun
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- The approach of summer, says our Lord, is not more surely indicated by the first appearances of spring, than the final destruction of the wicked by the beginnings of vengeance on this impenitent people.
page 85,
- The canine, judging from the figures published by M. Lartet1 seems to be less developed than in the male chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans[,] [i]n which character the fossil, if it belonged to a male, makes a nearer approach to the human type ; but it is one which many of the inferior monkeys also exhibit, and is by no means to be trusted as significant of true affinity, supposing even the sex of the fossil to be known as being male.
page 84,
- Honor hath three things in it: the vantage ground to do good; the approach to kings and principal persons; and the raising of a man's own fortunes.
- It was, therefore, natural to expect that the main attack would come from the north along the railroad, and from the east, where the approach from the Transvaal boundary, which is there marked by the Buffalo River, is over a country much more practicable than the western mountain range.
- The functional approach' emphasizes the core functions of each branch and asks whether the challenged action threatens the essential attributes of the legislative, executive, or judicial function or functions. Under this ' approach , there is considerable flexibility in the moving branch, usually Congress acting to make structural or institutional change, if there is little significant risk of impairment of a core function or in the case of such a risk if there is a compelling reason for the action.
- Our proposed definitional approach to the data processing-communications dilemma evoked considerable discussion.
- Its [the EPA's] initial approach to controlling the amount of lead in the ambient air was to limit lead emissions from automobiles by restricting the amount of lead in gasoline.
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- Most small airplanes maintain a speed well in excess of 1.3 times VSO on an instrument approach'. An airplane with a stall speed of 50 knots (VSO) has a normal ' approach speed of 65 knots.
References
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English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The headmaster wondered what an appropriate measure would be to make the pupil behave better.
- in its strict and appropriate meaning
- appropriate acts of divine worship
- It is not at all times easy to find words appropriate to express our ideas.
- I don't think it was appropriate for the cashier to tell me out loud in front of all those people at the check-out that my hair-piece looked like it was falling out of place.
- While it is not considered appropriate for a professor to date his student, there is no such concern once the semester has ended.
citation, page= , passage=With such focus from within the footballing community this week on Remembrance Sunday, there was something appropriate about Colchester being the venue for last night’s game. Troops from the garrison town formed a guard of honour for both sets of players, who emerged for the national anthem with poppies proudly stitched into their tracksuit jackets. }}
Synonyms
* (suited for) apt, felicitous, fitting, suitableAntonyms
* (all senses) inappropriateDerived terms
* appropriatenessVerb
(appropriat)- (William Paley)
Put armed police in every school, NRA urges
- “I call on Congress today to act immediately to appropriate whatever is necessary to put armed police officers in every single school in this nation,” LaPierre said.
- (Blackstone)