Rise vs Approach - What's the difference?
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(label) To move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground.
# To move upwards.
# To grow upward; to attain a certain height.
# To slope upward.
# (of a celestial body) To appear to move upwards from behind the horizon of a planet as a result of the planet's rotation.
#* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) , ,
# To become erect; to assume an upright position.
# To leave one's bed; to get up.
#* Old proverb
# (figurative) To be resurrected.
# (figurative) To terminate an official sitting; to adjourn.
#* (1800-1859)
(label) To increase in value or standing.
# To attain a higher status.
#* (rfdate) (Augustus Hare) (1834-1903)
#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
# Of a quantity, price, etc., to increase.
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, title= # To become more and more dignified or forcible; to increase in interest or power; said of style, thought, or discourse.
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# To ascend on a musical scale; to take a higher pitch.
To begin; to develop.
# To develop.
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# To swell or puff up in the process of fermentation; to become light.
# (of a river) To have its source (in a particular place).
#* 1802 December 1, “Interesting description of the Montanna Real”, in The Monthly magazine, or, British register , Number 94 (Number 5 of Volume 14),
# To become perceptible to the senses, other than sight.
# To become agitated, opposed, or hostile; to go to war; to take up arms; to rebel.
#* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
#* (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
# To come to mind; to be suggested; to occur.
#* Spectator
(obsolete) To retire; to give up a siege.
* (Richard Knolles) (1545-1610)
To come; to offer itself.
* (Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
(printing, dated) To be lifted, or capable of being lifted, from the imposing stone without dropping any of the type; said of a form.
The process of or an action or instance of moving upwards or becoming greater.
The process of or an action or instance of coming to prominence.
(chiefly, UK) An increase (in a quantity, price, etc).
The amount of material extending from waist to crotch in a pair of trousers or shorts.
(UK, Ireland, Australia) An increase in someone's pay rate; a raise.
(Sussex) A small hill; used chiefly in place names .
An area of terrain that tends upward away from the viewer, such that it conceals the region behind it; a slope.
* 1884 , (Mark Twain), (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn) , ,
An angry reaction.
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,
*:: limit , or, .
*::: 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.
As verbs the difference between rise and approach
is that rise is (label) to move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground while approach is to come or go near, in place or time; to draw nigh; to advance nearer.As nouns the difference between rise and approach
is that rise is the process of or an action or instance of moving upwards or becoming greater while approach is the act of drawing near; a coming or advancing near.rise
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) risen, from (etyl) . See also (l). (cognates) Cognate with (etyl) rize, (etyl) .Verb
- And still the hours passed, and at last I knew by the glimmer of light in the tomb above that the sun had risen again, and a maddening thirst had hold of me. And then I thought of all the barrels piled up in the vault and of the liquor that they held; and stuck not because 'twas spirit, for I would scarce have paused to sate that thirst even with molten lead.
- He that would thrive must rise by five.
- It was near ninebefore the House rose .
- among the rising theologians of Germany
- Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
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- Professor Peter Crome, chair of the audit's steering group, said the report "provides further concrete evidence that the care of patients with dementia in hospital is in need of a radical shake-up". While a few hospitals had risen to the challenge of improving patients' experiences, many have not, he said. The report recommends that all staff receive basic dementia awareness training, and staffing levels should be maintained to help such patients.
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- The majestic Marannon, or Amazon River, rises out of the Lake Launcocha, situated in the province of Tarma, in 10° 14? south latitude, and ten leagues to the north of Pasco.
- At our heels all hell should rise / With blackest insurrection.
- No more shall nation against nation rise .
- A thought rose in me, which often perplexes men of contemplative natures.
- He, rising with small honour from Gunza,was gone.
- There chanced to the prince's hand to rise / An ancient book.
Synonyms
* (move upwards) climb, go up * (be resurrected) be resurrected, come back from the dead * climb, increase, go upAntonyms
* (move upwards) descend, drop, fall, sink * (of a celestial body) set * be reduced, decrease, drop, fall, go downCoordinate terms
* raiseEtymology 2
From the above verb.Noun
(en noun)- The rise of the tide.
- There was a rise of nearly two degrees since yesterday.
- Exercise is usually accompanied by a temporary rise in blood pressure.
- The rise of the working class.
- The rise of the printing press.
- The rise of the feminists.
- The rise of his pants was so low that his tailbone was exposed.
- The governor just gave me a rise of 2-pounds-6.
- I went along up the bank with one eye out for pap and t?other one out for what the rise might fetch along.
- I knew that would get a rise out of him.
Synonyms
* (increase in pay) raiseAntonyms
* fallDerived terms
* earthrise * get a rise out of * moonrise * on the rise * pay rise * sunrise * take the riseStatistics
*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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.