Definition of advance

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Advance (v.) The first step towards the attainment of a result; approach made to gain favor, to form an acquaintance, to adjust a difference, etc.; an overture; a tender; an offer; -- usually in the plural..

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Enhance :: Enhance (v. t.) To advance; to augment; to increase; to heighten; to make more costly or attractive; as, to enhance the price of commodities; to enhance beauty or kindness; hence, also, to render more heinous; to aggravate; as, to enhance crime..
Avaunce :: Avaunce (v. t. & i.) To advance; to profit.
Ministerial :: Ministerial (a.) Tending to advance or promote; contributive.
Huttonian :: Huttonian (a.) Relating to what is now called the Plutonic theory of the earth, first advanced by Dr. James Hutton..
Improve :: Improve (v. t.) To advance or increase by use; to augment or add to; -- said with reference to what is bad.
Provide :: Provide (v. t.) To look out for in advance; to procure beforehand; to get, collect, or make ready for future use; to prepare..
Pass :: Pass (v. i.) To advance through all the steps or stages necessary to validity or effectiveness; to be carried through a body that has power to sanction or reject; to receive legislative sanction; to be enacted; as, the resolution passed; the bill passed both houses of Congress..
Prepayment :: Prepayment (n.) Payment in advance.
Unimproved :: Unimproved (a.) Not improved; not made better or wiser; not advanced in knowledge, manners, or excellence..
Barbacan :: Barbacan (n.) A tower or advanced work defending the entrance to a castle or city, as at a gate or bridge. It was often large and strong, having a ditch and drawbridge of its own..
Advancive :: Advancive (a.) Tending to advance.
Forepart :: Forepart (n.) The part most advanced, or first in time or in place; the beginning..
Pace :: Pace (n.) The length of a step in walking or marching, reckoned from the heel of one foot to the heel of the other; -- used as a unit in measuring distances; as, he advanced fifty paces..
First :: First (a.) Foremost; in front of, or in advance of, all others..
Promote :: Promote (v. t.) To contribute to the growth, enlargement, or prosperity of (any process or thing that is in course); to forward; to further; to encourage; to advance; to excite; as, to promote learning; to promote disorder; to promote a business venture..
Advance :: Advance (v.) A furnishing of something before an equivalent is received (as money or goods), towards a capital or stock, or on loan; payment beforehand; the money or goods thus furnished; money or value supplied beforehand..
Passport :: Passport (n.) Figuratively: Anything which secures advancement and general acceptance.
Abreast :: Abreast (adv.) Up to a certain level or line; equally advanced; as, to keep abreast of [or with] the present state of science..
Advance :: Advance (v. i.) To rise in rank, office, or consequence; to be preferred or promoted..
Retreat :: Retreat (n.) The retiring of an army or body of men from the face of an enemy, or from any ground occupied to a greater distance from the enemy, or from an advanced position..
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