| Advance |
v. t. |
To bring forward; to move towards the van or front; to make to go on. |
| Advance |
v. t. |
To raise; to elevate. |
| Advance |
v. t. |
To raise to a higher rank; to promote. |
| Advance |
v. t. |
To accelerate the growth or progress; to further; to forward; to help on; to aid; to heighten; as, to advance the ripening of fruit; to advance one's interests. |
| Advance |
v. t. |
To bring to view or notice; to offer or propose; to show; as, to advance an argument. |
| Advance |
v. t. |
To make earlier, as an event or date; to hasten. |
| Advance |
v. t. |
To furnish, as money or other value, before it becomes due, or in aid of an enterprise; to supply beforehand; as, a merchant advances money on a contract or on goods consigned to him. |
| Advance |
v. t. |
To raise to a higher point; to enhance; to raise in rate; as, to advance the price of goods. |
| Advance |
v. t. |
To extol; to laud. |
| Advance |
v. i. |
To move or go forward; to proceed; as, he advanced to greet me. |
| Advance |
v. i. |
To increase or make progress in any respect; as, to advance in knowledge, in stature, in years, in price. |
| Advance |
v. i. |
To rise in rank, office, or consequence; to be preferred or promoted. |
| Advance |
v. |
The act of advancing or moving forward or upward; progress. |
| Advance |
v. |
Improvement or progression, physically, mentally, morally, or socially; as, an advance in health, knowledge, or religion; an advance in rank or office. |
| Advance |
v. |
An addition to the price; rise in price or value; as, an advance on the prime cost of goods. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Advance |
a. |
Before in place, or beforehand in time;
used for advanced; as, an advance guard, or that before the main guard or body of an army; advance payment, or that made before it is due; advance proofs, advance sheets, pages of a forthcoming volume, received in advance of the time of publication. |
| Advanced |
imp. & p. p. |
of Advance |
| Advanced |
a. |
In the van or front. |
| Advanced |
a. |
In the front or before others, as regards progress or ideas; as, advanced opinions, advanced thinkers. |
| Advanced |
a. |
Far on in life or time. |
| Advancement |
v. t. |
The act of advancing, or the state of being advanced; progression; improvement; furtherance; promotion to a higher place or dignity; as, the advancement of learning. |
| Advancement |
v. t. |
An advance of money or value; payment in advance. See Advance, 5. |
| Advancement |
v. t. |
Property given, usually by a parent to a child, in advance of a future distribution. |
| Advancement |
v. t. |
Settlement on a wife, or jointure. |
| Advancer |
n. |
One who advances; a promoter. |
| Advancer |
n. |
A second branch of a buck's antler. |
| Advancing |
p. pr. & vb. n. |
of Advance |
| Advancing edge |
|
The front edge (in direction of motion) of a supporting surface;
contr. with following edge, which is the rear edge. |
| Advancing surface |
|
The first of two or more surfaces arranged in tandem;
contr. with following surface, which is the rear surface. |
| Advancive |
a. |
Tending to advance. |
| Advantage |
n. |
Any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success, or to any desired end; benefit; as, the enemy had the advantage of a more elevated position. |
| Advantage |
n. |
Superiority; mastery;
with of or over. |
| Advantage |
n. |
Superiority of state, or that which gives it; benefit; gain; profit; as, the advantage of a good constitution. |
| Advantage |
n. |
Interest of money; increase; overplus (as the thirteenth in the baker's dozen). |
| Advantage |
v. t. |
To give an advantage to; to further; to promote; to benefit; to profit. |
| Advantageable |
a. |
Advantageous. |
| Advantaged |
imp. & p. p. |
of Advantage |
| Advantageous |
a. |
Being of advantage; conferring advantage; gainful; profitable; useful; beneficial; as, an advantageous position; trade is advantageous to a nation. |
| Advantageously |
adv. |
Profitably; with advantage. |
| Advantageousness |
n. |
Profitableness. |
| Advantaging |
p. pr. & vb. n. |
of Advantage |
| Advene |
v. i. |
To accede, or come (to); to be added to something or become a part of it, though not essential. |
| Advenient |
a. |
Coming from outward causes; superadded. |
| Advent |
n. |
The period including the four Sundays before Christmas. |
| Advent |
n. |
The first or the expected second coming of Christ. |
| Advent |
n. |
Coming; any important arrival; approach. |
| Adventist |
n. |
One of a religious body, embracing several branches, who look for the proximate personal coming of Christ;
called also Second Adventists. |
| Adventitious |
a. |
Added extrinsically; not essentially inherent; accidental or causal; additional; supervenient; foreign. |
| Adventitious |
a. |
Out of the proper or usual place; as, adventitious buds or roots. |
| Adventitious |
a. |
Accidentally or sparingly spontaneous in a country or district; not fully naturalized; adventive;
applied to foreign plants. |
| Adventitious |
a. |
Acquired, as diseases; accidental. |
| Adventive |
a. |
Accidental. |
| Adventive |
a. |
Adventitious. |
| Adventive |
n. |
A thing or person coming from without; an immigrant. |
| Adventual |
a. |
Relating to the season of advent. |
| Adventure |
n. |
That which happens without design; chance; hazard; hap; hence, chance of danger or loss. |
| Adventure |
n. |
Risk; danger; peril. |
| Adventure |
n. |
The encountering of risks; hazardous and striking enterprise; a bold undertaking, in which hazards are to be encountered, and the issue is staked upon unforeseen events; a daring feat. |
| Adventure |
n. |
A remarkable occurrence; a striking event; a stirring incident; as, the adventures of one's life. |
| Adventure |
n. |
A mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard; a venture; a shipment by a merchant on his own account. |
| Adventure |
n. |
To risk, or hazard; jeopard; to venture. |
| Adventure |
n. |
To venture upon; to run the risk of; to dare. |
| Adventure |
v. i. |
To try the chance; to take the risk. |
| Adventured |
imp. & p. p. |
of Adventure |
| Adventureful |
a. |
Given to adventure. |
| Adventurer |
n. |
One who adventures; as, the merchant adventurers; one who seeks his fortune in new and hazardous or perilous enterprises. |
| Adventurer |
n. |
A social pretender on the lookout for advancement. |
| Adventuresome |
a. |
Full of risk; adventurous; venturesome. |
| Adventuress |
n. |
A female adventurer; a woman who tries to gain position by equivocal means. |
| Adventuring |
p. pr. & vb. n. |
of Adventure |
| Adventurous |
n. |
Inclined to adventure; willing to incur hazard; prone to embark in hazardous enterprise; rashly daring;
applied to persons. |
| Adventurous |
n. |
Full of hazard; attended with risk; exposing to danger; requiring courage; rash;
applied to acts; as, an adventurous undertaking, deed, song. |
| Adventurously |
adv. |
In an adventurous manner; venturesomely; boldly; daringly. |
| Adventurousness |
n. |
The quality or state of being adventurous; daring; venturesomeness. |
| Adverb |
n. |
A word used to modify the sense of a verb, participle, adjective, or other adverb, and usually placed near it; as, he writes well; paper extremely white. |
| Adverbial |
a. |
Of or pertaining to an adverb; of the nature of an adverb; as, an adverbial phrase or form. |
| Adverbiality |
n. |
The quality of being adverbial. |
| Adverbialize |
v. t. |
To give the force or form of an adverb to. |
| Adverbially |
adv. |
In the manner of an adverb. |
| Adversaria |
n. pl. |
A miscellaneous collection of notes, remarks, or selections; a commonplace book; also, commentaries or notes. |
| Adversaries |
pl. |
of Adversary |
| Adversarious |
a. |
Hostile. |
| Adversary |
n. |
One who is turned against another or others with a design to oppose or resist them; a member of an opposing or hostile party; an opponent; an antagonist; an enemy; a foe. |
| Adversary |
a. |
Opposed; opposite; adverse; antagonistic. |
| Adversary |
a. |
Having an opposing party; not unopposed; as, an adversary suit. |
| Adversative |
a. |
Expressing contrariety, opposition, or antithesis; as, an adversative conjunction (but, however, yet, etc. ); an adversative force. |
| Adversative |
n. |
An adversative word. |
| Adverse |
a. |
Acting against, or in a contrary direction; opposed; contrary; opposite; conflicting; as, adverse winds; an adverse party; a spirit adverse to distinctions of caste. |
| Adverse |
a. |
Opposite. |
| Adverse |
a. |
In hostile opposition to; unfavorable; unpropitious; contrary to one's wishes; unfortunate; calamitous; afflictive; hurtful; as, adverse fates, adverse circumstances, things adverse. |
| Adverse |
v. t. |
To oppose; to resist. |
| Adversely |
adv. |
In an adverse manner; inimically; unfortunately; contrariwise. |
| Adverseness |
n. |
The quality or state of being adverse; opposition. |
| Adversifoliate |
a. |
Alt. of Adversifolious |
| Adversifolious |
a. |
Having opposite leaves, as plants which have the leaves so arranged on the stem. |
| Adversion |
n. |
A turning towards; attention. |
| Adversities |
pl. |
of Adversity |
| Adversity |
n. |
Opposition; contrariety. |
