Approaching vs Advent - What's the difference?
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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)
Coming; coming to; approach; arrival.
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* 1853 , , "Bartleby, the Scrivener," in Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories'', New York: Penguin, 1968; reprinted 1995 as ''Bartleby , ISBN 0146000129, p. 3:
(religion, Christianity, always capitalized) See Advent.
Approaching is a related term of advent.
As an adjective approaching
is that approaches or approach.As an adverb approaching
is nearly.As a verb approaching
is .As a noun approaching
is the act of coming closer; an approach.As a proper noun advent is
(christianity) the first or the expected second coming of christ.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.
advent
English
Noun
(en noun)- Death's dreadful advent
- At the period just preceding the advent of Bartleby, I had two persons as copyists in my employment, and a promising lad as an office-boy.