Quicken vs Advance - What's the difference?

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Quicken is a related term of advance.

As verbs the difference between quicken and advance

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

As nouns the difference between quicken and advance

is that quicken is while advance is a forward move; improvement or progression.

As an adjective advance is

completed before need or a milestone event.

quicken

English

Etymology 1

From . Compare Swedish kvickna, Danish kvikne.

Verb

(en verb)

*1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. (Bible) , (w) XVII:

*:Whosoever will goo about to save his lyfe, shall loose it: And whosoever shall loose his life, shall

*1610 , , act 3

*:The mistress which I serve quickens what's dead, / And makes my labours pleasures

*(Robert South) (1634–1716)

*:Like a fruitful garden without an hedge, that quickens the appetite to enjoy so tempting a prize.

(lb) To take on a state of activity or vigour comparable to life; to be roused, excited.

*1910 , ‘(Saki)’, "The Lost Sanjak", Reginald in Russia :

*:The Chaplain's interest in the story visibly quickened .

(lb) Of a pregnant woman: to first feel the movements of the foetus, or reach the stage of pregnancy at which this takes place; of a foetus: to begin to move.

*2013 , (Hilary Mantel), ‘Royal Bodies’, (London Review of Books) , 35.IV:

*:Royal pregnancies were not announced in those days; the news generally crept out, and public anticipation was aroused only when the child quickened .

(lb) To make quicker; to hasten, speed up.

*2000 , (George RR Martin), A Storm of Swords , Bantam 2011, p.47:

*:That day Arya quickened their pace, keeping the horses to a trot as long as she dared, and sometimes spurring to a gallop when she spied a flat stretch of field before them.

(lb) To become faster.

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*:Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines.

(lb) To shorten the radius of (a curve); to make (a curve) sharper.

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Etymology 2

Apparently from quick, with uncertain final element.

Noun

(en noun)

*1924 , (Ford Madox Ford), Some Do Not…'', Penguin 2012 (''Parade's End ), p, 104:

*:Miss Wannop moved off down the path: it was only suited for Indian file, and had on the left hand a ten-foot, untrimmed quicken hedge, the hawthorn blossoms just beginning to blacken […].

Synonyms

* quickbeam English ergative verbs

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