{ "dictype": "WikiDicScrap", "error": false, "code": 200, "json": { "type": "wiki", "pronunciations": { "phonetic": [ "ədˈvæns" ], "listenurl": [ { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/advance.ogg" }, { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/advance.mp3" }, { "lang": "Audio (Southern England)", "url": "" } ] }, "meansorg": { "etymologies": [ "From Middle English avauncen, avancen, borrowed from Anglo-Norman avauncier, from Vulgar Latin *abanteāre, from Late Latin ab ante, from Latin ab + ante (“before”). ⟨d⟩ added in analogy to Latin ad- (cf. Middle French advancer). Compare avaunt." ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Verb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "To promote or advantage.", "submean": [ "To help the progress of (something); to further. \n2018, Kareem Shaheen, The Guardian, 26 January:\nSome 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.", "To raise (someone) in rank or office; to prefer, to promote. \n1611, The Holy Bible,  (King James Version), London: Robert Barker, , →OCLC, Esther 3:1: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.\n1838, William H Prescott, History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella, the Catholic. , volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Boston, Mass.: American Stationers’ Company; John B. Russell, →OCLC:This, however, was in time evaded by the monarchs, who advanced certain of their own retainers to a level with the ancient peers of the land " ] }, { "mean": "To move forward in space or time.", "submean": [ "To move or push (something) forwards, especially forcefully. \n1667, John Milton, “(please specify the book number)”, in Paradise Lost. , London: , , →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: , London: Basil Montagu Pickering , 1873, →OCLC:Whence and what art thou, execrable shape, / That dar'st, though grim and terrible, advance / Thy miscreated front athwart my way / To yonder gates?", "To make (something) happen at an earlier time or date; to bring forward, to hasten. \n1820 March, , chapter III, in The Monastery. A Romance. , volume II, Edinburgh: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, ; and for Archibald Constable and Co., and John Ballantyne, , →OCLC, page 95: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.", "(intransitive) To move forwards; to approach. \n1829, Marchioness of Lemington, Rosina, or the Virtuous Country Maid, Ninth ed.:\nI advanced towards him step by step, stopping sometimes for fear of waking him.\n2003, C.J. Shane, editor, China (The History of Nations)‎, Greenhaven Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 67:This army recaptured Wu-chʻang, on the right bank of the Yangtze, in 1854, reached Chen-chiang four years later, advanced to Chiu-chiang and threatened Nanking.", "To provide (money or other value) before it is due, or in expectation of some work; to lend. \n1869, Anthony Trollope, Phineas Finn:\n“I had intended to ask you to advance me a hundred pounds,” said Phineas.\n1871, James William Gilbart, The Principles and Practice of Banking:\nOn the urgent representations of several parties of the first importance in the City of London, the bank advanced 120,000l. to the Governor and Company of the Copper Miners .", "To put forward (an idea, argument etc.); to propose. \n1709, , An Essay on Criticism, London: W. Lewis , published 1711, →OCLC:Some ne'er advance a Judgement of their own, / But catch the spreading notion of the Town .", "(intransitive) To make progress; to do well, to succeed. \n2014, Andrew Sparrow, The Guardian, 24 April:\nEarlier 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.", "(intransitive) To move forward in time; to progress towards completion. \n1927, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-book of Sherlock Holmes:\nI can promise you that you will feel even less humorous as the evening advances." ] }, { "mean": "To raise, be raised.", "submean": [ "(transitive, now archaic) To raise; to lift or elevate. \n1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :The fringed Curtaines of thine eyes aduance.", "To raise or increase (a price, rate). \n1924, The Times, 16 July:\nIn February last bakers advanced the price of bread sold over the counter in London from 8d. to 8½d. per quartern loaf.", "To increase (a number or amount). ", "(intransitive) To make a higher bid at an auction. " ] } ] }, { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "A forward move; improvement or progression.\nan advance in health or knowledge\nan advance in rank or office" }, { "mean": "An amount of money or credit, especially given as a loan, or paid before it is due; an advancement.\n1914 June, James Joyce, “Counterparts”, in Dubliners, London: Grant Richards, →OCLC:Could he ask the cashier privately for an advance? No, the cashier was no good, no damn good: he wouldn't give an advance.\n1780, John Jay, letter dated November 21\nI shall, with pleasure, make the necessary advances." }, { "mean": "An addition to the price; rise in price or value.\nan advance on the prime cost of goods" }, { "mean": "(in the plural) An opening approach or overture, now especially of an unwelcome or sexual nature.\n1708, Jonathan Swift, The Sentiments of a Church of England Man with Respect to Religion and Government\nFor, if it were of any use to recall matters of fact, what is more notorious, than that prince's applying himself first to the church of England? and upon their refusal to fall in with his measures, making the like advances to the dissenters of all kinds, who readily and almost universally complied with him\n1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter IV, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, volume 1, New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, →OCLC:As the sun fell, so did our spirits. I had tried to make advances to the girl again; but she would have none of me, and so I was not only thirsty but otherwise sad and downhearted.\n1923, Walter de la Mare, Seaton's Aunt\nI felt vaguely he was a sneak, and remained quite unmollified by advances on his side, which, in a boy's barbarous fashion, unless it suited me to be magnanimous, I haughtily ignored.\n1945, Tom Ronan, Strangers on the Ophir, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 59:nd Rosamund though quite a genteelly brought up young lady had responded to his advances by slapping his face." } ] }, { "name": "Adjective", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "Completed before necessary or a milestone event.\nHe made an advance payment on the prior shipment to show good faith." }, { "mean": "Preceding.\nThe advance man came a month before the candidate." }, { "mean": "Forward.\nThe scouts found a site for an advance base." } ] } ] }, "meanskor": { "etymologies": [ "" ], "typelist": [ { "name": "동사.", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "", "submean": [ "", "" ] }, { "mean": "", "submean": [ "", "", "", "", "", "", "" ] }, { "mean": "", "submean": [ "", "", "", "" ] } ] }, { "name": "명사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "형용사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] } ] } } }