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Advance vs Ripen - What's the difference?

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Advance is a related term of ripen.


In lang=en terms the difference between advance and ripen

is that advance is to move forwards, to approach while ripen is to mature; to fit or prepare; to bring to perfection; as, to ripen the judgment.

As verbs the difference between advance and ripen

is that advance is to bring forward; to move towards the front; to make to go on while ripen is to grow ripe; to become mature, as in botany: grain, fruit, flowers, and the like;.

As a noun advance

is a forward move; improvement or progression.

As an adjective advance

is completed before need or a milestone event.

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

    ripen

    English

    (Ripening)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to grow ripe; to become mature, as in botany: grain, fruit, flowers, and the like;
  • Grapes ripen in the sun.
  • * 1918 , (John Muir), Steep Trails Chapter XII
  • *:...the desert soil of the Great Basin is as rich in the elements that in rainy regions rise and ripen into food as that of any other State in the Union.
  • To approach or come to perfection.
  • To cause to mature; to make ripe; as, the warm days ripened the corn.
  • To mature; to fit or prepare; to bring to perfection; as, to ripen the judgment.
  • When faith and love, which parted from thee never, Had ripined thy iust soul to dwell with God. --Milton.

    Derived terms

    * ripening