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Advance vs Cutting - What's the difference?

advance | cutting |

As verbs the difference between advance and cutting

is that advance is to bring forward; to move towards the front; to make to go on while cutting is .

As nouns the difference between advance and cutting

is that advance is a forward move; improvement or progression while cutting is (countable|uncountable) the action of the verb to cut .

As adjectives the difference between advance and cutting

is that advance is completed before need or a milestone event while cutting is (not comparable) that is used for cutting.

advance

English

Alternative forms

* advaunce

Verb

(advanc)
  • To bring forward; to move towards the front; to make to go on.
  • (obsolete) To raise; to elevate.
    • They advanced their eyelids. — Shakespeare
  • To raise to a higher rank; to promote.
  • * Bible, Esther iii. 1
    • Ahasueres advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes.
  • * Prescott
    • This, however, was in time evaded by the monarchs, who advanced certain of their own retainers to a level with the ancient peers of the land
  • To accelerate the growth or progress of; to further; to forward; to help on; to aid; to heighten.
    • to advance the ripening of fruit
    to advance one's interests
  • To bring to view or notice; to offer or propose; to show.
    • to advance an argument
  • * Alexander Pope
    • Some ne'er advance a judgment of their own.
  • To make earlier, as an event or date; to hasten.
  • To furnish, as money or other value, before it becomes due, or in aid of an enterprise; to supply beforehand.
    • Merchants often advance money on a contract or on goods consigned to them.
  • To raise to a higher point; to enhance; to raise in rate.
    • to advance the price of goods
  • To move forwards, to approach.
    • He rose from his chair and advanced to greet me.
  • (obsolete) To extol; to laud.
  • * Spenser
    • greatly advancing his gay chivalry

    Synonyms

    * raise, elevate, exalt, aggrandize, improve, heighten, accelerate, allege, adduce, assign

    Derived terms

    * advancement * in advance * in advance of

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A forward move; improvement or progression.
    • an advance in health or knowledge
    an advance in rank or office
  • An amount of money or credit, especially given as a loan, or paid before it is due; an advancement.
  • * Jay
    • I shall, with pleasure, make the necessary advances .
  • * Kent
    • The account was made up with intent to show what advances had been made.
  • An addition to the price; rise in price or value.
    • an advance on the prime cost of goods
  • (in the plural) An opening approach or overture, especially of an unwelcome or sexual nature.
  • * Jonathan Swift
    • [He] made the like advances to the dissenters.
  • * 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), , chapter 4:
    • 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.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Completed before need or a milestone event.
    • He made an advance payment on the prior shipment to show good faith.
  • Preceding.
    • The advance man came a month before the candidate.
  • Forward.
    • The scouts found a site for an advance base.

    Derived terms

    * advance person

    cutting

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

  • (countable, uncountable) The action of the verb to cut .
    • How many different cuttings can this movie undergo?
  • (countable) A section removed from the larger whole.
  • (countable) A newspaper clipping.
  • (countable) A leaf, stem, branch, or root removed from a plant and cultivated to grow a new plant.
  • (countable) An abridged selection of written work, often intended for performance.
    • The actor had to make his ''cutting'' shorter to fit the audition time.
  • (uncountable) The editing of film or other recordings.
  • (uncountable) Self-harm; the act of cutting one's own skin.
  • (countable) A narrow passage, dug for a road, railway or canal to go through.
  • *1876 , , Journey by Train :
  • *:WE flash across the level.
  • *:We thunder thro' the bridges.
  • *:We bicker down the cuttings .
  • *:We sway along the ridges.

    • Synonyms

    * (narrow passage for a transportation route) cut

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (not comparable) That is used for cutting.
    • I need some sort of cutting utensil to get through this shrink wrap.
  • Of remarks, criticism, etc., potentially hurtful.
    • The director gave the auditioning actors cutting criticism.