Advance

·v The act of advancing or moving forward or upward; progress.

II. Advance ·vt To raise to a higher rank; to Promote.

III. Advance ·vt To Extol; to Laud.

IV. Advance ·vt To Raise; to Elevate.

V. Advance ·vt To bring forward; to move towards the van or front; to make to go on.

VI. Advance ·vi To rise in rank, office, or consequence; to be preferred or promoted.

VII. Advance ·vt To make earlier, as an event or date; to Hasten.

VIII. Advance ·vi To move or go forward; to Proceed; as, he advanced to greet me.

IX. Advance ·v An addition to the price; rise in price or value; as, an advance on the prime cost of goods.

X. Advance ·vi To increase or make progress in any respect; as, to advance in knowledge, in stature, in years, in price.

XI. Advance ·vt To raise to a higher point; to Enhance; to raise in rate; as, to advance the price of goods.

XII. Advance ·vt To bring to view or notice; to offer or propose; to Show; as, to advance an Argument.

XIII. Advance ·v Improvement or progression, physically, mentally, morally, or socially; as, an advance in health, knowledge, or religion; an advance in rank or office.

XIV. Advance ·vt 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.

XV. Advance ·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.

XVI. Advance ·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.

XVII. Advance ·vt 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.

XVIII. 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.