Word Finder - advance

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A forward move; improvement or progression.

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an advance in health or knowledge

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An amount of money or credit, especially given as a loan, or paid before it is due; an advancement.

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An addition to the price; rise in price or value.

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an advance on the prime cost of goods

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(in the plural) An opening approach or overture, especially of an unwelcome or sexual nature.

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To promote or advantage.

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To move forward in space or time.

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To raise, be raised.

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Completed before necessary or a milestone event.

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He made an advance payment on the prior shipment to show good faith.

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Preceding

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The advance man came a month before the candidate.

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Forward

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The scouts found a site for an advance base.

Consider it an advance until you get the package.

I gave you advance warning.

In many respects he was far in advance of his age.

They were under orders to advance next day.

There's no advance notice except the general area.

He must stay the victorious advance of the Turks.

The advance made in agricultural industry also is of very great importance.

General Sorbier must be ready at the first order to advance with all the howitzers of the Guard's artillery against either one or other of the entrenchments.

Mr. Mayer did say he was going to talk to them about some sort of advance to hold me over.

In common with the okapi, giraffes have skin-covered horns on the head, but in these animals, which form the genus Giraffa, these appendages are present in both sexes; and there is often an unpaired one in advance of the pair on the forehead.

The first advance came about 74, when what is now Baden was invaded and in part annexed and a road carried from the Roman base on the upper Rhine, Strassburg, to the Danube just above Ulm.

In all other questions of this kind he shows himself far in advance of the economic fallacies of the day.

Overtaking the battalions that continued to advance, he stopped the third division and convinced himself that there really were no sharpshooters in front of our columns.

The second advance was made by Domitian about A.D.

After the advance has begun in this manner, orders will be given in accordance with the enemy's movements.

When about to enter Austrian territory proper his advance was, however, checked by the armistice of Villafranca.

After the death of Harold in 1066, Archbishop Aldred and the citizens of London desired to make him king, but on the advance of William, Edgar and his supporters made their submission.

An important advance on this was proposed in 1797 by Lomond,' who used only one line of wire and an alphabet of motions.

During the cannonade Prince Poniatowski is to advance through the wood on the village and turn the enemy's position.

You've paid in advance.

Houses were let usually for the year, but also for longer terms, rent being paid in advance, half-yearly.

The heavier cores, with the consequent advance in speed of working attainable, have necessitated the introduction of automatic sending, the instruments adopted being in general a modification of the Wheatstone transmitter adapted to the form of cable signals, while the regularity of transmission thus secured has caused its introduction even on circuits where the speed cannot exceed that of the ordinary operator's hand signalling.

In intellectual matters he was not in advance of his day.

While the infantry pressed forward to carry the Marquion line bridges were swiftly thrown over the dry canal bed, and batteries went over at a gallop to take up their positions for supporting the farther advance.

In order to retrieve your ropes after a rappel you have to prepare in advance by setting up a one-rope or two-rope retrievable rappel.

At last, when he was reduced to actual destitution, it was arranged that the East India Company should grant him an annuity of 4000 for a term of years, with 90,000 paid down in advance.

In 1888 there was an advance, and again in 1889.

But the very horrors of Don Frederick's advance roused a spirit of indomitable resistance in Holland.

Advance in his religious ideas led him to seek the freer atmosphere of Strassburg in the autumn of 1529.

By the time the third stage, which placed the seat of soul-life in the brain, was reached through the further advance of anatomical knowledge, the religious rites of Greece and Rome were too deeply incrusted to admit of further radical changes, and faith in the gods had already declined too far to bring new elements into the religion.

But the principles on which the theory was founded compelled a further advance.

He was usually paid in advance.

This advance did not merely remove the primary batteries from the subscribers' stations; it removed also the magneto-generator, and at the same time it modified considerably the conditions governing the exchange operating.

The subscriber pays a fixed annual rent which covers a certain number of free out - ward calls, say boo; additional calls he purchases in advance in blocks of several hundred at so much per hundred, the price being reduced as the number increases.

Until recently many eminent scientists held the theory that the Malayan peoples were merely an offspring of the Mongol stock, and that their advance into the lands they now in habit had takenlace from the cradle of the Monplace origin.

The enlargement of the horizon of knowledge by the advance of science, the recognition of the only relative validity of human opinions and beliefs as determined by and adapted to each stage of human development, which is due to the growing historical sense, the alteration of view regarding the nature of inspiration, and the purpose of the Holy Scriptures, the revolt against all ecclesiastical authority, and the acceptance of reason and conscience as alone authoritative, the growth of the spirit of Christian charity, the clamorous demand of the social problem for immediate attention, all combine in making the Christian churches less anxious about the danger, and less zealous in the discovery and condemnation of heresy.

The Iroquois are in advance of the Algonkins; their creator-hero has no touch of the animal in him.

The French army could not advance, while the French and English fleets were defeated by the Dutch admiral, De Ruyter.

The French infantry ran to their arms, piled along the front of their positions, and moved forward to attack, covering their advance by a hail of bullets.

The first few days of the British advance passed with little resistance from the enemy, who fell back rapidly under cover of the fire of light machine-guns and isolated field guns.

It was hoped that the assembly of the attacking troops in the restricted zone opposite the crossing point, the rapid bridging of the dry canal, and the pushing forward of guns to cover the farther advance, and of reinforcements, ammunition and supplies to support it, could all be carried out with the necessary speed and security, although the difficulties to be faced were very great and the possible causes of contretemps numerous.

Up to this line four successive objectives were assigned; from there onwards the second phase of the advance was to carry the assailants to the line of the Scheldt canal and the Sensee.

Four thousand prisoners and roo guns had been taken in this day's advance of some 7,000 yd.

The Hindenburg line had been breached on a front of nine miles, and an average advance of seven miles effected in the face of the most formidable obstacles, both natural and artificial.

Technological advance, however, is not limited in that way.

It looks as if the insurance company may be willing to advance some of the life insurance money—at least enough to tide us over for a while.

Nor would it seem as if it could be the intention of the author to do much more than point out the lines on which the further treatment of the subject should advance.

This advance necessitated a third movement, the construction of a frontier connecting the annexations of A.D.

The short period of this evolution is at least one factor in the primitive grade of even the most specialized members of the group. In the advance of their molar teeth from a tritubercular to a grinding type, the author traces a curious parallelism between marsupials and placentals.

In 1882 there was a very important advance in wages; carpenters received 11s.