approacher
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approacher (plural approachers)
- Someone or something that approaches.
- 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,[1]
- […] 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.
- c. 1605–1608, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:
- Thou gavest thine ears like tapsters that bid welcome
To knaves and all approachers:
- 1718, Aaron Hill, The Northern-Star[2], London: E. Berington and J. Morphew, page 13:
- 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:
- 1971, Ian Wallace, The Purloined Prince[3], New York: McCall, act 3, page 125:
- her vigilant ear picked up approachers in the corridor
- (astronomy) An asteroid on a near-Earth trajectory.
- Synonym: earth approacher
- 1997 December 19, Erik Asphaug, “PLANETARY SCIENCE: Enhanced: New Views of Asteroids”, in Science[4], volume 278, number 5346, , pages 2070–2071:
- 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 ).
- 2005 June 3, Ted McClelland, “Something Big Is Out There”, in Chicago Reader[5]:
- We have some close approachers," he says, "but not one that would have an impact trajectory."
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someone or something that approaches
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asteroid