WordNet is a semantic lexicon for the English language. It was created and is being maintained at the Cognitive Science Laboratory of Princeton University under the direction of psychology professor George A. Miller.
The purpose is twofold: to produce a combination of dictionary and thesaurus that is more intuitively usable, and to support automatic text analysis and artificial intelligence applications.
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half*, climate, weather, arctic, cyclone, storm, woman, meteorology>, prognostication
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access, advance, approach, approaching, approach path, approach shot, attack, border on, come near, come on, coming, draw close, draw near, feeler, glide path, glide slope, go about, go up, near, overture, plan of attack, set about,
1. NOUN. (approach)
the act of drawing spatially closer to something
"the hunter''s approach scattered the geese"
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2. NOUN. (approach)
a relatively short golf shot intended to put the ball onto the putting green
"he lost the hole when his approach rolled over the green"
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3. NOUN. (approach)
ideas or actions intended to deal with a problem or situation
"his approach to every problem is to draw up a list of pros and cons"
"an attack on inflation"
"his plan of attack was misguided"
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4. NOUN. (approach)
a way of entering or leaving
"he took a wrong turn on the access to the bridge"
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5. NOUN. (approach)
a close approximation
"the nearest approach to genius"
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6. NOUN. (approach)
the temporal property of becoming nearer in time
"the approach of winter"
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7. NOUN. (approach)
a tentative suggestion designed to elicit the reactions of others
"she rejected his advances"
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8. NOUN. (approach)
the event of one object coming closer to another
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9. NOUN. (approach)
the final path followed by an aircraft as it is landing
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10. VERB. (approach)
make advances to someone, usually with a proposal or suggestion
"I was approached by the President to serve as his adviser in foreign matters"
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