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Advance   /ədvˈæns/   Listen
noun
Advance  n.  
1.
The act of advancing or moving forward or upward; progress.
2.
Improvement or progression, physically, mentally, morally, or socially; as, an advance in health, knowledge, or religion; an advance in rank or office.
3.
An addition to the price; rise in price or value; as, an advance on the prime cost of goods.
4.
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. "(He) made the like advances to the dissenters."
5.
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. "I shall, with pleasure, make the necessary advances." "The account was made up with intent to show what advances had been made."
In advance
(a)
In front; before.
(b)
Beforehand; before an equivalent is received.
(c)
In the state of having advanced money on account; as, A is in advance to B a thousand dollars or pounds.


verb
Advance  v. t.  (past & past part. advanced; pres. part. advancing)  
1.
To bring forward; to move towards the van or front; to make to go on.
2.
To raise; to elevate. (Archaic) "They... advanced their eyelids."
3.
To raise to a higher rank; to promote. "Ahasueres... advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes."
4.
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.
5.
To bring to view or notice; to offer or propose; to show; as, to advance an argument. "Some ne'er advance a judgment of their own."
6.
To make earlier, as an event or date; to hasten.
7.
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.
8.
To raise to a higher point; to enhance; to raise in rate; as, to advance the price of goods.
9.
To extol; to laud. (Obs.) "Greatly advancing his gay chivalry."
Synonyms: To raise; elevate; exalt; aggrandize; improve; heighten; accelerate; allege; adduce; assign.


Advance  v. i.  
1.
To move or go forward; to proceed; as, he advanced to greet me.
2.
To increase or make progress in any respect; as, to advance in knowledge, in stature, in years, in price.
3.
To rise in rank, office, or consequence; to be preferred or promoted. "Advanced to a level with ancient peers."


adjective
Advance  adj.  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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"Advance" Quotes from Famous Books



... at first, gently, but from the very start it made me realise the unpleasant loneliness of our situation, our remote isolation in this wilderness of sea and rock, and how the islands in this tideless Baltic ocean lay about us like the advance guard of a vast besieging army. Its entry, as I say, was gentle, hardly noticeable, in fact, to most of us: singularly undramatic it certainly was. But, then, in actual life this is often the way the dreadful climaxes move upon us, leaving the heart undisturbed ...
— Three More John Silence Stories • Algernon Blackwood
... fifty men who had left us the night we went into camp on Sand Creek had reached Sheridan three days in advance of us, and already relief was on its way to those whom we had left beyond the snow-beleaguered canyons of the Cimarron. The whole of our regiment was soon brought in and this part of the journey and its hardships became but a memory. Official war reports account ...
— The Price of the Prairie - A Story of Kansas • Margaret Hill McCarter
... scarcity: but in all the fertile provinces adjacent to the Settite and the upper portion of the Atbara, the periodical rains can be absolutely depended upon, from June to the middle of September; thus, they are peculiarly adapted for cotton, as a dry season is insured for gathering the crop. As we advance to the north, and reach Abou Harraz, we leave the rainy zone. When we had left Gallabat, the grass had sprung several inches, owing to the recent showers; but as we had proceeded rapidly towards the north, we had entered upon vast dusty plains devoid of a green blade; the rainy season between ...
— The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia • Samuel W. Baker
... grappled with the pain each step caused him. He shrank from contemplating the distance yet to be covered; it seemed vast to him in his weakness, and he felt himself a feeble, crippled thing. Soft snow and arctic cold opposed his advance with malignant force; but his worn-out body still obeyed the spur of his will, and he roused himself to fight for the life that had some value to another. He must march, dividing up the distance into short stages that had less effect upon the imagination; limping forward from the ...
— The Intriguers • Harold Bindloss
... settlers outlined in advance the nation's work. They tamed the rugged and shaggy wilderness, they bid defiance to outside foes, and they successfully solved the ...
— The Winning of the West, Volume One - From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1769-1776 • Theodore Roosevelt


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