APPROACHES Synonyms

• to have the ability to produce a particular effect or achieve an end

• considerable capital (wealth or income)

• an artifact (that is instrumental in accomplishing some end) for accomplishing some end

• a partly sheltered anchorage

• a flight of stairs or a flight of steps

• the course along which a person has walked or is walking in

• the branch of military science dealing with detailed maneuvers to achieve objectives set by strategy

• a plan for attaining a particular goal

• structure consisting of a sloping way down to the water from the place where ships are built or repaired

• a movement forward

• a change for the better; progress in development

• a tentative suggestion designed to elicit the reactions of others

• the act of moving forward (as toward a goal)

• an amount paid before it is earned

• increase in price or value

• being ahead of time or need

• situated ahead or going before

• move forward, also in the metaphorical sense

• bring forward for consideration or acceptance

• increase or raise

• contribute to the progress or growth of

• cause to move forward

• obtain advantages, such as points, etc.

• develop in a positive way

• develop further

• give a promotion to or assign to a higher position

• pay in advance

• move forward

• rise in rate or price

• education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings

• a connected series of events or actions or developments

• general line of orientation

• a mode of action

• a line or route along which something travels or moves

• a body of students who are taught together

• part of a meal served at one time

• (construction) a layer of masonry

• facility consisting of a circumscribed area of land or water laid out for a sport

• as might be expected

• move swiftly through or over

• move along, of liquids

• hunt with hounds

• any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal

• how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify

• a statute in draft before it becomes law

• the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule

• a basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated

• (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse

• musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats

• measuring instrument having a sequence of marks at regular intervals; used as a reference in making measurements

• a container of some standard capacity that is used to obtain fixed amounts of a substance

• determine the measurements of something or somebody, take measurements of

• express as a number or measure or quantity

• have certain dimensions

• evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of

• a way of doing something, especially a systematic way; implies an orderly logical arrangement (usually in steps)

• an acting technique introduced by Stanislavsky in which the actor recalls emotions or reactions from his or her own life and uses them to identify with the character being portrayed

• how something is done or how it happens

• a particular functioning condition or arrangement

• a classification of propositions on the basis of whether they claim necessity or possibility or impossibility

• verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker

• any of various fixed orders of the various diatonic notes within an octave

• the most frequent value of a random variable

• the right to buy or sell property at an agreed price; the right is purchased and if it is not exercised by a stated date the money is forfeited

• one of a number of things from which only one can be chosen

• the act of choosing or selecting

• a course of conduct

• a way especially designed for a particular use

• an established line of travel or access

• a line or route along which something travels or moves

• a series of steps to be carried out or goals to be accomplished

• an arrangement scheme

• scale drawing of a structure

• have the will and intention to carry out some action

• make plans for something

• make or work out a plan for; devise

• make a design of; plan out in systematic, often graphic form

• a particular course of action intended to achieve a result

• a process or series of acts especially of a practical or mechanical nature involved in a particular form of work

• a set sequence of steps, part of larger computer program

• a mode of conducting legal and parliamentary proceedings

• an elaborate and systematic plan of action

• the branch of military science dealing with military command and the planning and conduct of a war

• how something is done or how it happens

• a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period

• a particular kind (as to appearance)

• the popular taste at a given time

• (botany) the narrow elongated part of the pistil between the ovary and the stigma

• editorial directions to be followed in spelling and punctuation and capitalization and typographical display

• distinctive and stylish elegance

• a pointed tool for writing or drawing or engraving

• a slender bristlelike or tubular process

• designate by an identifying term

• make consistent with a certain fashion or style

• make consistent with certain rules of style

• instrumentality that combines interrelated interacting artifacts designed to work as a coherent entity

• a group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole

• (physical chemistry) a sample of matter in which substances in different phases are in equilibrium

• a complex of methods or rules governing behavior

• an organized structure for arranging or classifying

• a group of physiologically or anatomically related organs or parts

• a procedure or process for obtaining an objective

• the living body considered as made up of interdependent components forming a unified whole

• an ordered manner; orderliness by virtue of being methodical and well organized

• a practical method or art applied to some particular task

• skillfulness in the command of fundamentals deriving from practice and familiarity

• the event of one object coming closer to another

• the temporal property of becoming nearer in time

• the act of drawing spatially closer to something

• of the relatively near future