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approach | land |

As nouns the difference between approach and land

is that approach is the act of drawing near; a coming or advancing near while land is loin (the flesh above the hip bone).

As a verb approach

is to come or go near, in place or time; to draw nigh; to advance nearer.

approach

English

Verb

(es)
  • To come or go near, in place or time; to draw nigh; to advance nearer.
  • * 1769 , Oxford Standard text, , xi, 20,
  • 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?
  • * 1769 , Oxford Standard text, , x, 25,
  • 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 .
  • (figuratively) To draw near, in a figurative sense; to make advances; to approximate.
  • as he approaches to the character of the ablest statesman.
  • * 1839 , , A Tour in Sweden in 1838 , page 371,
  • 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.
  • * 1898 , , The Works , Volume 11, 2006, Elibron Classics Replica Edition, page 205,
  • In this respect, the only books which approach to its excellence are Gulliver's Travels and Robinson Crusoe.
  • To come near to in place, time, character or value; to draw nearer to.
  • 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.
  • * 1831 , , Volume 1, The American Redstart,
  • 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.
  • * 1867 , , Chapter 53: And Last,
  • 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.
  • * 1898 , , Book 1, Chapter 1: The Eve of the War,
  • 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.
  • * 1911 [1904], , Chapter III,
  • If a variable v takes on successively a series of values that approach' nearer and nearer to a constant value l in such a manner that , v - l, [To be read ''the numerical value of the difference between'' v ''and'' l] becomes and remains less than any assigned arbitrarily small positive quantity, then v is said to '''''approach the limit'' l, or to ''converge to the limit l. Symbolically this is written
  • *:: limit v = l, or, v \dot= l.
  • *::: 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,
  • And it was with decision that he approached the problem of his wrecked shop.
  • 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/],
  • "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.
  • (military) To take approaches to.
  • To bring near; to cause to draw near.
  • (Boyle)

    Noun

    (es)
  • The act of drawing near; a coming or advancing near.
  • * 1811 , , Sermons , Volume 1, page 10,
  • 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.
  • * 1859 , , On the Classification and Geographical Distribution of the Mammalia , 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.
  • 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 , 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.
  • Movements to gain favor; advances.
  • A way, passage, or avenue by which a place or buildings can be approached; an access.
  • * 1900 , ,
  • 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.
  • A manner in which a problem is solved or policy is made.
  • * 1787 , , Annotations to Article 1, Section 1,
  • 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.
  • * 1980 , , Final Decision, IV: Comments,
  • Our proposed definitional approach to the data processing-communications dilemma evoked considerable discussion.
  • * 1980 , , Opinion of the Court,
  • 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.
  • * 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 , page 2-9,
  • 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.
  • (bowling) The area before the lane, in which a player may stand or run up before bowling the ball.
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    land

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) (m), .

    Noun

  • The part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water.
  • Most insects live on land .
  • Real estate or landed property; a partitioned and measurable area which is owned and on which buildings can be erected.
  • There are 50 acres of land in this estate.
  • A country or region.
  • They come from a faraway land .
  • A person's country of origin and/or homeplace; homeland.
  • The soil, in respect to its nature or quality for farming.
  • wet land'''; good or bad '''land for growing potatoes
  • realm, domain.
  • I'm going to Disneyland .
    Maybe that's how it works in TV-land , but not in the real world.
  • (agriculture) The ground left unploughed between furrows; any of several portions into which a field is divided for ploughing.
  • (Irish English, colloquial) A fright.
  • He got an awful land when the police arrived.
  • (electronics) A conducting area on a board or chip which can be used for connecting wires.
  • In a compact disc or similar recording medium, an area of the medium which does not have pits.
  • (travel) The non-airline portion of an itinerary. Hotel, tours, cruises, etc.
  • Our city offices sell a lot more land than our suburban offices.
  • (obsolete) The ground or floor.
  • * Spenser
  • Herself upon the land she did prostrate.
  • (nautical) The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; called also landing.
  • (Knight)
  • In any surface prepared with indentations, perforations, or grooves, that part of the surface which is not so treated, such as the level part of a millstone between the furrows.
  • # (ballistics) The space between the rifling grooves in a gun.
  • * {{quote-book
  • , date = 2008-08-01 , chapter = Ballistics , first = Lisa , last = Steele , title = Science for Lawyers , editor = Eric York Drogin , publisher = American Bar Association , page = 16 , pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=H4zTATcB70wC&pg=PA16&dq=lands , passage = The FBI maintains a database, the General Rifling Characteristics (GRC) file, which is organized by caliber, number of lands' and grooves, direction of twist, and width of ' lands and grooves, to help an examiner figure out the origin of a recovered bullet. }}
  • * {{quote-video
  • , date = 2012-11-15 , episode = One Way to Get Off , title = , season = 1 , number = 7 , people = Jonny Lee Miller , role = Sherlock Holmes , passage = The human eye is a precision instrument. It can detect grooves and lands on a slug more efficiently than any computer. }}
    Derived terms
    * bookland * brushland * bushland * cloud cuckoo-land * Crown land * Disneyland * downland * dry land * fantasy land * farmland * fat of the land * flatland * flogging the land * glebe-land * grassland * highland * homeland * Lalaland * land ahoy * land bridge * land degradation * land down under * land bridge * land line, landline * land mark * land mass, landmass * land mine, landmine * land of opportunity * land of the free * land yacht * landfall * landfill * landform * landholder * landlady * landless * landlocked * landlord * landlubber * landman * landmark * land poor * landscape * landslide * land use (see also ) * landward/landwards * law of the land * lay of the land * mainland * moorland * no man's land * on land * outland * overland * pastureland * pineland * playland * plowland * revenue land * spit of land * TV land * upland * wildland * woodland

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To descend to a surface, especially from the air.
  • The plane is about to land .
  • (dated) To alight, to descend from a vehicle.
  • * 1859 , “Rules adopted by the Sixth Avenue Railway, N. Y.”, quoted in Alexander Easton, A Practical Treatise on Street or Horse-Power Railways , page 108:
  • 10. You will be civil and attentive to passengers, giving proper assistance to ladies and children getting in or out, and never start the car before passengers are fairly received or landed .
  • To come into rest.
  • To arrive at land, especially a shore, or a dock, from a body of water.
  • To bring to land.
  • It can be tricky to land a helicopter .
    Use the net to land the fish.
  • * Shakespeare
  • I'll undertake to land them on our coast.
  • To acquire; to secure.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2012 , date=May 5 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=As Di Matteo celebrated and captain John Terry raised the trophy for the fourth time, the Italian increased his claims to become the permanent successor to Andre Villas-Boas by landing a trophy.}}
  • To deliver.
  • Derived terms
    (Terms derived from the verb "land") * crash-land * land on one's bridge * relland

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of or relating to land.
  • Residing or growing on land.
  • Etymology 2

    Noun

    (-)
  • lant; urine
  • (Webster 1913)