Advance vs Swell - What's the difference?

In intransitive terms the difference between advance and swell

is that advance is to move forwards, to approach while swell is to be raised to arrogance.

As verbs the difference between advance and swell

is that advance is to bring forward; to move towards the front; to make to go on while swell is to become bigger, especially due to being engorged.

As nouns the difference between advance and swell

is that advance is a forward move; improvement or progression while swell is the act of swelling.

As adjectives the difference between advance and swell

is that advance is completed before need or a milestone event while swell is excellent.

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

swell

English

Verb

To become bigger, especially due to being engorged.

* Shakespeare

Monarchs to behold the swelling scene!

To cause to become bigger.

Rains and dissolving snow swell the rivers in spring.

* Atterbury

It is low ebb with his accuser when such peccadilloes are put to swell the charge.

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* 2013 June 18, (Simon Romero), " Protests Widen as Brazilians Chide Leaders," New York Times (retrieved 21 June 2013):

After a harsh police crackdown last week fueled anger and swelled protests, President Dilma Rousseff, a former guerrilla who was imprisoned under the dictatorship and has now become the target of pointed criticism herself, tried to appease dissenters by embracing their cause on Tuesday.

To grow gradually in force or loudness.

The organ music swelled .

To raise to arrogance; to puff up; to inflate.

to be swelled with pride or haughtiness

To be raised to arrogance.

* Shakespeare

Here he comes, swelling like a turkey cock.

* Sir Walter Scott

You swell at the tartan, as the bull is said to do at scarlet.

To be elated; to rise arrogantly.

* Dryden

Your equal mind yet swells not into state.

To be turgid, bombastic, or extravagant.

swelling''' words; a '''swelling style

To protuberate; to bulge out.

A cask swells in the middle.

Noun

(en noun)

The act of swelling.

Increase of power in style, or of rhetorical force.

* Landor:

the swell and subsidence of his periods

A long series of ocean waves, generally produced by wind, and lasting after the wind has ceased.

* 1883 , , Treasure Island , ch. 24:

There was a great, smooth swell upon the sea.

(music) A gradual crescendo followed by diminuendo.

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, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.}}

(music) A device for controlling the volume of a pipe organ.

(music) A division in a pipe organ, usually the largest enclosed division.

A hillock or similar raised area of terrain.

* 1909 , , The Last of the Chiefs , ch. 2:

Off on the crest of a swell a moving figure was seen now and then. "Antelope," said the hunters.

(informal) A person who is dressed in a fancy or elegant manner.

* , "The Kickleburys on the Rhine" in The Christmas Books of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh :

It costs him no more to wear all his ornaments about his distinguished person than to leave them at home. If you can be a swell at a cheap rate, why not?

* 1887 , , The Cash Boy , ch. 9:

He was dressed in a flashy style, not unlike what is popularly denominated a swell .

(informal) A person of high social standing; an important person.

* 1864 , , The Small House at Allington , ch. 2:

"I am not in Mr Crosbie's confidence. He is in the General Committee Office, I know; and, I believe, has pretty nearly the management of the whole of it." . . .

"I'll tell you what he is, Bell; Mr Crosbie is a swell'." And Lilian Dale was right; Mr Crosbie was a ' swell .

* 1906 , , The Trespasser , ch. 8:

You buy a lot of Indian or halfbreed loafers with beaver-skins and rum, go to the Mount of the Burning Arrows, and these fellows dance round you and call you one of the lost race, the Mighty Men of the Kimash Hills. And they'll do that while the rum lasts. Meanwhile you get to think yourself a devil of a swell —you and the gods!

Synonyms

* (person dressed in a fancy or elegant manner) dandy, dude, toff * (person of high social standing) toff

Derived terms

* ground swell, groundswell * upswell * wind swell

Adjective

(en-adj)

Excellent.

* 2012 , (Ariel Levy), "The Space In Between", The New Yorker , 10 Sep 2012:

Orgasms are swell , but they are not the remedy to every injustice.

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