advance

Verb

Verb

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A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

present (v1)

advance

past (v2)

advanced

past participle (v3)

advanced

present participle

advancing

3rd person singular

advances

Adjective

Adjective

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A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.

Comparative

more advance

Superlative

most advance

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Plural

advances

Verb

Verb

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A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

1. 1.To promote or advantage.

   • After these things did king Ahasuerus promote Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes that were with him.

2. 2.To move forward in space or time.

   • “I had intended to ask you to advance me a hundred pounds,” said Phineas.
   • I advanced towards him step by step, stopping sometimes for fear of waking him.
   • I can promise you that you will feel even less humorous as the evening advances.

3. 3.To raise, be raised.

   • In February last […] bakers advanced the price of bread sold over the counter in London from 8d. to 8½d. per quartern loaf.

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

1. 1.A forward move; improvement or progression.

2. 2.An amount of money or credit, especially given as a loan, or paid before it is due; an advancement.

   • I shall, with pleasure, make the necessary advances.
   • Could he ask the cashier privately for an advance? No, the cashier was no good, no damn good: he wouldn't give an advance.

3. 3.An addition to the price; rise in price or value.

4. 4.An opening approach or overture, now especially of an unwelcome or sexual nature.

   • And so saying he scampered off to the hill, to the amusement of honest Plat; and it is likely lost no time in making his advances to the young widow.
   • As the sun fell, so did our spirits. I had tried to make advances to the girl again; but she would have none of me, and so I was not only thirsty but otherwise sad and downhearted.
   • I felt vaguely he was a sneak, and remained quite unmollified by advances on his side, which, in a boy's barbarous fashion, unless it suited me to be magnanimous, I haughtily ignored.

Adjective

Adjective

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A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.

1. 1.Completed before necessary or a milestone event.

   • He made an advance payment on the prior shipment to show good faith.

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