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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