Advancing Synonyms & Definitions

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• AdvancingDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Advance

• AdvanceDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (v. t.) To bring forward; to move towards the van or front; to make to go on.
2. (v. t.) To raise; to elevate.
3. (v. t.) To raise to a higher rank; to promote.
4. (v. t.) To make earlier, as an event or date; to hasten.
5. (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.
6. (v. t.) To raise to a higher point; to enhance; to raise in rate; as, to advance the price of goods.
7. (v. i.) To increase or make progress in any respect; as, to advance in knowledge, in stature, in years, in price.
8. (v.) The act of advancing or moving forward or upward; progress.
9. (v.) An addition to the price; rise in price or value; as, an advance on the prime cost of goods.
10. (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.
11. (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 ones interests.
12. (v. t.) To extol; to laud.
13. (v. i.) To move or go forward; to proceed; as, he advanced to greet me.
14. (v. i.) To rise in rank, office, or consequence; to be preferred or promoted.
15. (v.) Improvement or progression, physically, mentally, morally, or socially; as, an advance in health, knowledge, or religion; an advance in rank or office.
16. (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.
17. (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.
18. (v. t.) To bring to view or notice; to offer or propose; to show; as, to advance an argument.

• Advancing surfaceDefinition & Meaning in English

1. () The first of two or more surfaces arranged in tandem; -- contr. with following surface, which is the rear surface.

• Advancing edgeDefinition & Meaning in English

1. () The front edge (in direction of motion) of a supporting surface; -- contr. with following edge, which is the rear edge.