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
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ultimate English
Adjective
( wikipedia ultimate)
( -)
Final; last in a series.
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, page= 15
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(of a syllable) Last in a word or other utterance.
Being the greatest possible; maximum; most extreme.
- the ultimate pleasure
- the ultimate disappointment
*
- Hepaticology, outside the temperate parts of the Northern Hemisphere, still lies deep in the shadow cast by that ultimate "closet taxonomist," Franz Stephani—a ghost whose shadow falls over us all.
Being the most distant or extreme; farthest.
That will happen at some time; eventual.
Last in a train of progression or consequences; tended toward by all that precedes; arrived at, as the last result; final.
* Coleridge
- those ultimate truths and those universal laws of thought which we cannot rationally contradict
Incapable of further analysis; incapable of further division or separation; constituent; elemental.
- an ultimate constituent of matter
Antonyms
* proximate
Derived terms
* antepenultimate
* penultimate
* ultimateness
Related terms
* ulterior
* ultimatum
* ultra
* ultra-
Noun
( en noun)
The most basic or fundamental of a set of things
The final or most distant point; the conclusion
The greatest extremity; the maximum
(uncountable) The sport of ultimate frisbee.
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