Advance vs Experience - What's the difference?
advance | experience |
To bring forward; to move towards the front; to make to go on.
(obsolete) To raise; to elevate.
To raise to a higher rank; to promote.
* Bible, Esther iii. 1
* Prescott
To accelerate the growth or progress of; to further; to forward; to help on; to aid; to heighten.
To bring to view or notice; to offer or propose; to show.
* Alexander Pope
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.
To raise to a higher point; to enhance; to raise in rate.
To move forwards, to approach.
(obsolete) To extol; to laud.
* Spenser
A forward move; improvement or progression.
An amount of money or credit, especially given as a loan, or paid before it is due; an advancement.
* Jay
* Kent
An addition to the price; rise in price or value.
(in the plural) An opening approach or overture, especially of an unwelcome or sexual nature.
* Jonathan Swift
* 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), , chapter 4:
Completed before need or a milestone event.
Preceding.
Forward.
Event(s) of which one is cognizant.
(label) An activity which one has performed.
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, chapter=4 (label) A collection of events and/or activities from which an individual or group may gather knowledge, opinions, and skills.
(label) The knowledge thus gathered.
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, title= To observe certain events; undergo a certain feeling or process; or perform certain actions that may alter one or contribute to one's knowledge, opinions, or skills.
As nouns the difference between advance and experience
is that advance is a forward move; improvement or progression while experience is experiment, trial, test.As a verb advance
is to bring forward; to move towards the front; to make to go on.As an adjective advance
is completed before need or a milestone event.advance
English
Alternative forms
* advaunceVerb
(advanc)- They advanced their eyelids. — Shakespeare
- Ahasueres advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes.
- 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 advance the ripening of fruit
- to advance one's interests
- to advance an argument
- Some ne'er advance a judgment of their own.
- Merchants often advance money on a contract or on goods consigned to them.
- to advance the price of goods
- He rose from his chair and advanced to greet me.
- greatly advancing his gay chivalry
Synonyms
* raise, elevate, exalt, aggrandize, improve, heighten, accelerate, allege, adduce, assignDerived terms
* advancement * in advance * in advance ofNoun
(en noun)- an advance in health or knowledge
- an advance in rank or office
- I shall, with pleasure, make the necessary advances .
- The account was made up with intent to show what advances had been made.
- an advance on the prime cost of goods
- [He] made the like advances to the dissenters.
- 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)- He made an advance payment on the prior shipment to show good faith.
- The advance man came a month before the candidate.
- The scouts found a site for an advance base.
Derived terms
* advance personexperience
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(wikipedia experience)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=“I have tried, as I hinted, to enlist the co-operation of other capitalists, but experience has taught me that any appeal is futile that does not impinge directly upon cupidity. …”}}
Ed Pilkington
‘Killer robots’ should be banned in advance, UN told, passage=In his submission to the UN, [Christof] Heyns points to the experience of drones. Unmanned aerial vehicles were intended initially only for surveillance, and their use for offensive purposes was prohibited, yet once strategists realised their perceived advantages as a means of carrying out targeted killings, all objections were swept out of the way.}}