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Approaching vs Meeting - What's the difference?

approaching | meeting |

As verbs the difference between approaching and meeting

is that approaching is while meeting is .

As nouns the difference between approaching and meeting

is that approaching is the act of coming closer; an approach while meeting is (uncountable) the action of the verb to meet .

As an adjective approaching

is that approaches or approach.

As an adverb approaching

is nearly.

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

    meeting

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

  • (uncountable) The action of the verb to meet .
  • A gathering of people/parties for a purpose.
    • We need to have a meeting about that soon.
  • The people at such a gathering, as a collective.
    • What has the meeting decided.
  • An encounter between people, even accidental.
    • They came together in a chance meeting on the way home from work.
  • A place or instance of junction or intersection.
    • Earthquakes occur at the meeting of tectonic plates.
  • A religious service held by a charismatic preacher in small towns in the United States.
  • *1939 , (John Steinbeck), (The Grapes of Wrath) , p. 20:
  • *:You use ta give a good meetin' . I recollect one time you give a whole sermon walkin' around on your hands, yellin' your head off.

    • Derived terms

    * meetinghouse * meeting of the minds * meeting place * meeting room * race meeting * Sunday-go-to-meeting

    Synonyms

    * assembly * convocation * gathering

    Descendants

    * Crimean Tatar: (l) (borrowed) * French: (l) (borrowed) * Russian: (borrowed) * Serbo-Croatian: (l)/ (borrowed) * Tagalog: (l) (borrowed)

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