advance

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To help the progress of (something); to further.

   “Some see it as in effect the end of the Syrian uprising that began with peaceful protests against Assad’s police state in 2011, with opposition fighters working to advance Turkey’s interests at the expense of the revolution’s goals.”

2. fiil To raise (someone) in rank or office; to prefer, to promote.

   “After these things did king Ahasuerus promote Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes that were with him.”

3. fiil To move or push (something) forwards, especially forcefully.

   “Whence and what art thou, execrable shape, / That dar'st, though grim and terrible, advance / Thy miscreated front athwart my way / To yonder gates?”

4. fiil To make (something) happen at an earlier time or date; to bring forward, to hasten.

   “[S]in and sorrow it were, considering the hardships of this noble and gallant knight, no whit mentioning or weighing those we ourselves have endured, if we were now either to advance or retard the hour of refection beyond the time when the viands are fit to be set before us.”

5. fiil To move forwards; to approach.

   “I advanced towards him step by step, stopping sometimes for fear of waking him.”

6. fiil To provide (money or other value) before it is due, or in expectation of some work; to lend.

   ““I had intended to ask you to advance me a hundred pounds,” said Phineas.”

7. fiil To put forward (an idea, argument etc.); to propose.

   “Some ne'er advance a Judgement of their own, / But catch the spreading notion of the Town […].”

8. fiil To make progress; to do well, to succeed.

   “Earlier the caller said men were more likely to be in senior positions. Clegg says that's partly because the current maternity leave arrangements make it difficult for women to advance in the workplace.”

9. fiil To move forward in time; to progress towards completion.

   “I can promise you that you will feel even less humorous as the evening advances.”

10. fiil To raise; to lift or elevate.

    “The fringed Curtaines of thine eyes aduance.”

11. fiil To raise or increase (a price, rate).

    “In February last […] bakers advanced the price of bread sold over the counter in London from 8d. to 8½d. per quartern loaf.”

12. fiil To increase (a number or amount).
13. fiil To make a higher bid at an auction.
14. isim A forward move; improvement or progression.

    “an advance in health or knowledge”

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

    “Could he ask the cashier privately for an advance? No, the cashier was no good, no damn good: he wouldn't give an advance.”

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

    “an advance on the prime cost of goods”

17. isim An opening approach or overture, now especially of an unwelcome or sexual nature.

    “And so saying he scampered off to the hill, to the amusement of honest Plat; and it is likely lost no time in making his advances to the young widow.”

18. sıfat Completed before necessary or a milestone event.

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

19. sıfat Preceding.

    “The advance man came a month before the candidate.”

20. sıfat Forward.

    “The scouts found a site for an advance base.”