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advance | van |

As a verb advance

is to bring forward; to move towards the front; to make to go on.

As a noun advance

is a forward move; improvement or progression.

As an adjective advance

is completed before need or a milestone event.

As an abbreviation van is

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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

    van

    English

    Etymology 1

    Short for caravan.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A (covered) vehicle used for carrying goods or people, usually roughly cuboid in shape, longer and higher than a car but smaller than a truck.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5 , passage=We expressed our readiness, and in ten minutes were in the station wagon, rolling rapidly down the long drive, for it was then after nine. We passed on the way the van of the guests from Asquith.}}
  • (British) A railway carriage.
  • (UK, dated) A light wagon, either covered or open, used by tradesmen and others for the transportation of goods.
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  • * 1667 , (John Milton), Paradise Lost , book 5, lines 588–590:
    • Ten thousand thousand Ensignes high advanc'd, / Standards, and Gonfalons twixt Van and Reare / Streame in the Aire, and for distinction serve
  • * 1698 , Ned Ward, The London Spy
    • Then a bumper to the Queen led the van of our good wishes, another to the Church Established, a third was left to the whim of the toaster
  • * 1965 , translated by Chakravarthi V. Narasimhan, '', book 4 ''Vir??a Parva , section 33, page 84:
    • Bh??ma then outlined the following strategy: “… Let Kar?a, clad in armour, stand in the van . And I shall command the entire army in the rear.”
  • .
    • Derived terms
    * detector van * divvy van * driving van trailer * goods van * panel van * * white van man

    See also

    * lorry * transit (UK) * truck

    Verb

    (vann)
  • To transport in a van or similar vehicle (especially of horses).
  • * 1966 , United States Congress, Senate, Committee on Commerce:
    • I have to have a license to own them, a license to train them, my jockey has to have a license to ride them, the van company must have a license to van them, and the black shoe man must have a license to shoe them.
  • * 1999 , Bonnie Bryant, Changing Leads , p. 53:
    • [They] had their own horses, but they hadn't bothered to van them over to Pine Hollow for this outing.

    Etymology 2

    (etyl)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (mining) A shovel used in cleansing ore.

    • Verb

    (vann)
  • (mining) To wash or cleanse, as a small portion of ore, on a shovel.
    • (Raymond)

    Etymology 3

    (etyl) (lena) : compare (etyl) van and English (l), (l).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A fan or other contrivance, such as a sieve, for winnowing grain.
  • A wing with which the air is beaten.
  • * Milton
    • So Satan fell; and strait a fiery globe / Of Angels on full sail of wing flew nigh, / Who on their plumy vans receiv'd him soft
  • * Dryden
    • He wheeled in air, and stretched his vans' in vain; / His ' vans no longer could his flight sustain.

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