Meaning of Approacher | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Someone or something that approaches.
2. An asteroid on a near-Earth trajectory.

Equivalents

Examples

“The monkeys’ calls warn other animals of approachers.”

“1589, Paul Ive (translator), Instructions for the Warres by Raimond Beccarie de Pavie, Seigneur de Fourquevaux, London: Thomas Man and Toby Cooke, Chapter 5, p. 38, […] houses or other thing standing néere vnto a towne, or fort, are meanes to surprise and approach vnto it, and the approacher not be discouered, or impeached by the defenders.”

“Thou gavest thine ears like tapsters that bid welcome To knaves and all approachers:”

“Stop, Headstrong Muse! And e’er we Higher go, Look down, with Caution, on the Depth below; Prospects, so vast, the Rash Approacher fright, And, dazling, wound the uncollected Sight:”

“her vigilant ear picked up approachers in the corridor”

“Extensive upgrades to the Arecibo antenna will be completed this spring, providing dozens of Toutatis-quality detections per year, spacecraft-quality images of the closest approachers, and hundred-pixel images of dozens of main-belt asteroids ( 9 ).”

“We have some close approachers," he says, "but not one that would have an impact trajectory."”

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