Approach vs. Process — What's the Difference?

To come near or nearer, as in space or time

A series of actions, changes, or functions bringing about a result

(Sports) To make an approach, as in golf.

A series of operations performed in the making or treatment of a product

To come or go near or nearer to

Progress; passage

To come close to, as in appearance, quality, or condition; approximate

The use of the law courts and other fora as a means of seeking redress

To make a proposal or overtures to with a specific end in view

The set of actions and events that constitute a legal proceeding or a significant portion thereof

To begin to deal with or work on

(Law) A means of compelling a person to appear in court, especially a summons ordering a defendant to appear in court.

The act of approaching

(Biology) An outgrowth of tissue; a projecting part

A fairly close resemblance; an approximation.

Any of various photomechanical or photoengraving methods.

A way or means of reaching something; an access

A running software program or other computing operation.

The method used in dealing with or accomplishing

A part of a running software program or other computing operation that does a single task.

An advance or overture made by one person to another.

See conk3.

The golf stroke following the drive from the tee with which a player tries to get the ball onto the putting green.

To put through the steps of a prescribed procedure

The steps taken prior to executing a competitive maneuver, as by a diver before diving forward from a springboard or by a bowler before delivering the ball.

To prepare, treat, or convert by subjecting to a special process

The part of the area behind the foul line in a bowling alley used by a bowler in delivering the ball.

(Computers) To perform operations on (data).

(intransitive) To come or go near, in place or time; to move toward; to advance nearer; to draw nigh.

To gain an understanding or acceptance of; come to terms with

To play an approach shot.

To straighten (hair) by a chemical process; conk.

Used intransitively, followed by to: to draw near (to someone or something); to make advances; to approximate or become almost equal.

To move along in a procession

Of an immovable object or a number of such objects: to be positioned as to (notionally) appear to be moving towards (a place).

Prepared or converted by a special process

To move toward (someone or something) in place, time, character, or value; to draw nearer to.

Made by or used in any of several photomechanical or photoengraving processes

(transitive) To bring (something) near something else; to cause (something) to draw near.

A series of events which produce a result (the product).

(transitive) To attempt to make (a policy) or solve (a problem).

(manufacturing) A set of procedures used to produce a product, most commonly in the food and chemical industries.

(transitive) To bring up or propose to (someone) an idea, question, request, etc.

A path of succession of states through which a system passes.

To have sexual intercourse with (someone).

(anatomy) Successive physiological responses to keep or restore health.

To take approaches to (a place); to move towards (a place) by using covered roads, trenches, or other works.

(legal) Documents issued by a court in the course of a lawsuit or action at law, such as a summons, mandate, or writ.

An act of drawing near in place or time; an advancing or coming near.

(biology) An outgrowth of tissue or cell.

An act of coming near in character or value; an approximation.

(anatomy) A structure that arises above a surface.

An avenue, passage, or way by which a building or place can be approached; an access.

(computing) An executable task or program.

(climbing) A path taken to reach the climbing area, for example, from a car park, road, etc.

The centre mark that players aim at in the game of squails.

(figuratively) A manner of making (a policy) or solving (a problem, etc.).

(transitive) To perform a particular process on a thing.

(archaic) An opportunity of drawing near; access.

(transitive) To retrieve, store, classify, manipulate, transmit etc. (data, signals, etc.), especially using computer techniques.

The way an aircraft comes in to land at an airport.

To think about a piece of information, or a concept, in order to assimilate it, and perhaps accept it in a modified state.

A specific procedure used for approaching and landing at an airport.

To develop photographic film.

(bowling) The area before the lane in which a bowler may stand or run up before bowling the ball.

To take legal proceedings against.

To come or go near, in place or time; to draw nigh; to advance nearer.

To walk in a procession

To draw near, in a figurative sense; to make advances; to approximate; as, he approaches to the character of the ablest statesman.

The act of proceeding; continued forward movement; procedure; progress; advance.

To bring near; to cause to draw near; to advance.

A series of actions, motions, or occurrences; progressive act or transaction; continuous operation; normal or actual course or procedure; regular proceeding; as, the process of vegetation or decomposition; a chemical process; processes of nature.

To come near to in place, time, or character; to draw nearer to; as, to approach the city; to approach my cabin; he approached the age of manhood.

A statement of events; a narrative.

To take approaches to.

Any marked prominence or projecting part, especially of a bone; anapophysis.

The act of drawing near; a coming or advancing near.

The whole course of proceedings in a cause real or personal, civil or criminal, from the beginning to the end of the suit; strictly, the means used for bringing the defendant into court to answer to the action; - a generic term for writs of the class called judicial.

A access, or opportunity of drawing near.

A particular course of action intended to achieve a result;

Movements to gain favor; advances.

A sustained phenomenon or one marked by gradual changes through a series of states;

A way, passage, or avenue by which a place or buildings can be approached; an access.

(psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents;

The advanced works, trenches, or covered roads made by besiegers in their advances toward a fortress or military post.

A writ issued by authority of law; usually compels the defendant's attendance in a civil suit; failure to appear results in a default judgment against the defendant

See Approaching.

A mental process that you are not directly aware of;

A stroke whose object is to land the ball on the putting green. It is made with an iron club.

A natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant;

That part of a flight during which an airplane descends toward the landing strip.

Deal with in a routine way;

The steps taken by a bowler just before delivering the ball toward the pins.

Subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition;

Ideas or actions intended to deal with a problem or situation;

Perform mathematical and logical operations on (data) according to programmed instructions in order to obtain the required information;

The act of drawing spatially closer to something;

Institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against;

A way of entering or leaving;

Shape, form, or improve a material;

The final path followed by an aircraft as it is landing

Deliver a warrant or summons to someone;

The event of one object coming closer to another

March in a procession;

A tentative suggestion designed to elicit the reactions of others;

The temporal property of becoming nearer in time;

A close approximation;

A relatively short golf shot intended to put the ball onto the putting green;

Move towards;

Come near or verge on, resemble, come nearer in quality, or character;

Begin to deal with;

Come near in time;

Make advances to someone, usually with a proposal or suggestion;