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Arrival vs Approaching - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between arrival and approaching

is that arrival is the act of arriving or something that has arrived 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.

As a verb approaching is

present participle of lang=en.

arrival

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of arriving or something that has arrived.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5 , passage=We made an odd party before the arrival of the Ten, particularly when the Celebrity dropped in for lunch or dinner.}}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
    • , chapter=5, title= A Cuckoo in the Nest , passage=The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite.
  • The attainment of an objective, especially as a result of effort.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Out of the gloom , passage=[Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.}}

    Antonyms

    * departure

    Related terms

    * arrive * arrival lounge * new arrival

    approaching

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • That approaches or approach.
    • the approaching armies

    Adverb

    (-)
  • Nearly.
  • * 2011 March 16, , Opinion: 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)
  • The act of coming closer; an approach.
  • * 2011 , Lance J. Rips, Lines of Thought: Central Concepts in Cognitive Psychology (page 168)
    • 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.
    English degree adverbs