Advance
Definition of Advance
Ad`vance´ | v. t. | 1. | To bring forward; to move towards the van or front; to make to go on. | | 2. | To raise; to elevate. | | 3. | To raise to a higher rank; to promote. | | 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. - Pope. | | 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. | | 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. | | 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. | | 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. | | a. | 1. | 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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