Advance
[əd'vɑːns] or [əd'væns]
Definition
(noun.) increase in price or value; 'the news caused a general advance on the stock market'.
(noun.) an amount paid before it is earned.
(verb.) rise in rate or price; 'The stock market gained 24 points today'.
(verb.) develop further; 'We are advancing technology every day'.
(verb.) bring forward for consideration or acceptance; 'advance an argument'.
(verb.) move forward, also in the metaphorical sense; 'Time marches on'.
(verb.) cause to move forward; 'Can you move the car seat forward?'.
(verb.) move forward; 'we have to advance clocks and watches when we travel eastward'.
(verb.) pay in advance; 'Can you advance me some money?'.
(adj.) situated ahead or going before; 'an advance party'; 'at that time the most advanced outpost was still east of the Rockies' .
(adj.) being ahead of time or need; 'gave advance warning'; 'was beforehand with her report' .
Checker: Raymond--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To bring forward; to move towards the van or front; to make to go on.
(v. t.) To raise; to elevate.
(v. t.) To raise to a higher rank; to promote.
(v. t.) To accelerate the growth or progress; to further; to forward; to help on; to aid; to heighten; as, to advance the ripening of fruit; to advance one's interests.
(v. t.) To bring to view or notice; to offer or propose; to show; as, to advance an argument.
(v. t.) To make earlier, as an event or date; to hasten.
(v. t.) To furnish, as money or other value, before it becomes due, or in aid of an enterprise; to supply beforehand; as, a merchant advances money on a contract or on goods consigned to him.
(v. t.) To raise to a higher point; to enhance; to raise in rate; as, to advance the price of goods.
(v. t.) To extol; to laud.
(v. i.) To move or go forward; to proceed; as, he advanced to greet me.
(v. i.) To increase or make progress in any respect; as, to advance in knowledge, in stature, in years, in price.
(v. i.) To rise in rank, office, or consequence; to be preferred or promoted.
(v.) The act of advancing or moving forward or upward; progress.
(v.) Improvement or progression, physically, mentally, morally, or socially; as, an advance in health, knowledge, or religion; an advance in rank or office.
(v.) An addition to the price; rise in price or value; as, an advance on the prime cost of goods.
(v.) The first step towards the attainment of a result; approach made to gain favor, to form an acquaintance, to adjust a difference, etc.; an overture; a tender; an offer; -- usually in the plural.
(v.) A furnishing of something before an equivalent is received (as money or goods), towards a capital or stock, or on loan; payment beforehand; the money or goods thus furnished; money or value supplied beforehand.
(a.) Before in place, or beforehand in time; -- used for advanced; as, an advance guard, or that before the main guard or body of an army; advance payment, or that made before it is due; advance proofs, advance sheets, pages of a forthcoming volume, received in advance of the time of publication.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Promote, aggrandize, exalt, elevate, dignify, raise to preferment, raise to higher rank.[2]. Forward, further, promote, improve, strengthen, make better, encourage the progress of.[3]. Allege, adduce, propose, offer, assign, propound, bring forward, lay down.[4]. Pay beforehand, supply beforehand, furnish on credit.[5]. Increase (as price), enhance, augment, make greater, make higher.
v. n. [1]. Proceed, progress, make progress, make way, get forward, go forward, get on, go on, get along, come on, gain ground.[2]. Improve, grow, thrive, make improvement.
n. [1]. Progress, progression, march, way, moving forward.[2]. Improvement, growth, advancement.[3]. Payment beforehand, anticipated payment.[4]. Tender, offer, proposal, proposition.[5]. Increase (of price), enhancement.
Checked by Judith
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Propel, elevate, promote, further, lend, propagate, progress, increase,prosper, rise
ANT:Retard, hinder, withhold, withdraw, recall, depress, degrade, suppress, oppose,retreat, decrease
Edited by Lelia
Definition
v.t. to put forward: to promote to a higher office: to encourage the progress of: to propose: to supply beforehand: to pay before the money is legally due to pay on security.—v.i. to move or go forward: to make progress: to rise in rank or in value.—n. progress: improvement: a rise in price or value: a giving beforehand also the sum so given: a loan.—n. Advance′ment promotion: improvement: payment of money in advance.—In advance beforehand.
Edited by Benson
Examples
- At the same time he motioned his followers to advance. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- They appear even now preparing to advance--God of Zion, protect us! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- This was a great advance, as a more accurate division of time was had by improving the isochronous properties of the vibrating escapement. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Tycho Brahe had a great reverence for Copernicus, but he did not accept his planetary system; and he fe lt that advance in astronomy depended on painstaking observation. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Two hundred years, nearly, elapsed before the next important advance in horology. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The sole region of Christian advance was Spain. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I find that it is out of the question that my wife's father should make such an advance. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I advanced; then paused by the crib side: my hand was on the curtain, but I preferred speaking before I withdrew it. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- This advanced Warren's position on the Weldon Railroad very considerably. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- As he advanced in years, however, he became subject to fits of the gout, to which, in 1782, a nephritic cholic was superadded. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Tars Tarkas advanced toward me, holding out one of his arms, and we thus proceeded to the plaza without further mishap. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- As we advanced the light increased until presently we emerged into well-lighted passageways. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- It resulted in securing more advanced positions for all our troops where they were fully covered from the fire of the enemy. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- We again advanced, and occupied at the close of the battle substantially the ground held by the enemy at the beginning. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- His services, with rare exceptions, grow less valuable as he advances in age and nervous strain breaks him down. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Cautious, very cautious, thought Emma; he advances inch by inch, and will hazard nothing till he believes himself secure. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Scornfully she snatches the dagger out of Aegisthus's hand and advances to the bed. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- If they had only shown signs of meeting my advances halfway how well it might have been done! Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- It was the orthodox theology that the new scientific advances had compromised, but the angry theologians declared that it was religion. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- All advances into the city were thus attended with much danger. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- In the year 1896 three important advances were made in man's mastery of his environment. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- I vaulted to the ground below and ran swiftly toward the advancing party. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- I occupied a position on shore from which I could see the advancing navy. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- At the front they were advancing on the Carso, they had taken Kuk across from Plava and were taking the Bainsizza plateau. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- The spring was advancing, and the weather had turned suddenly warm. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Lots of anecdote,' said the green-coated stranger of the day before, advancing to Mr. Winkle and speaking in a low and confidential tone. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- From tropic to the bleakest north, the cocks crow before the advancing margin of dawn. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- While they talked, they were advancing towards the carriage; it was ready; and, before she could speak again, he had handed her in. Jane Austen. Emma.
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