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Definitions: Advance |
AdvanceAdjective1. Being ahead of time or need; "gave advance warning"; "was beforehand with her report". 2. Situated ahead or going before; "an advance party"; "at that time the most advanced outpost was still east of the Rockies". Noun1. A movement forward; "he listened for the progress of the troops". 2. A change for the better; progress in development. 3. A tentative suggestion designed to elicit the reactions of others; "she rejected his advances". 4. The act of moving forward toward a goal. 5. An amount paid before it is earned. 6. Increase in price or value: "the news caused a general advance on the stock market". Verb1. Move forward, also in the metaphorical sense: "Time marches on". 2. Bring forward for consideration or acceptance; "advance an argument". 3. Increase or raise; "boost the voltage in an electrical circuit". 4. Contribute to the progress or growth of; "I am promoting the use of computers in the classroom". 5. Cause to move forward; "Can you move the car seat forward?". 6. Obtain advantages, such as points, etc.; "The home team was gaining ground"; "After defeating the Knicks, the Blazers pulled ahead of the Lakers in the battle for the number-one playoff berth in the Western Conference". 7. Develop in a positive way; "He progressed well in school"; "My plants are coming along"; "Plans are shaping up". 8. Develop further; "We are advancing technology every day". 9. Give a promotion to; "raise in rank"; assign to a higher position. 10. : pay in advance; "Can you advance me some money?". 11. : move forward; of clocks and watches. 12. : rise in rate or price; "The stock market gained 24 points today". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "advance" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Business | Contract under which money or fungible goods are transferred to the borrower and an equivalent sum or quantity of goods of the same nature and quality must be returned to the lender. Source: European Union. (references) |
Finance | A loan made by a Federal Home Loan Bank to a member financial institution. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | Distance travelled by centre of gravity of a ship in a direction parallel to original course after the instant the rudder is put over. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mechanical Engineering | To impart a feed movement to a tool or workpiece. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. The work of excavating as mining goes forward in an entry and in driving rooms; to extract all or part of an area; first mining as distinguished from retreat b. Rate at which a drill bit penetrates a rock formation c. Feet drilled in any specific unit of time d. The linear distance (in feet or meters) driven during a certain time intunneling, drifting, or in raising or sinking a shaft. (references) |
Shipping | To move cargo up line to a vessel leaving sooner than the one booked. (See "Roll."). (references) |
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| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
ADVANCE | English | Network and customer administration systems for IBCN | Computing, Post & Telecom |
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Synonyms: AdvanceSynonyms: advance(a) (adj), advanced(a) (adj), beforehand(p) (adj), in advance(p) (adj), advancement (n), approach (n), betterment (n), cash advance (n), feeler (n), forward motion (n), improvement (n), onward motion (n), overture (n), progression (n), rise (n), boost (v), bring forward (v), come along (v), come on (v), elevate (v), encourage (v), further (v), gain (v), gain ground (v), get ahead (v), get along (v), get on (v), go on (v), kick upstairs (v), make headway (v), march on (v), move on (v), pass on (v), progress (v), promote (v), pull ahead (v), raise (v), set ahead (v), shape up (v), supercharge (v), throw out (v), upgrade (v), win (v). (additional references) |
| Antonyms: back (v), demote (v), fall back (v), recede (v), regress (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Affirmation | Put forth, put forward; advance, allege, propose, propound, enunciate, broach, set forth, hold out, maintain, contend, pronounce, pretend. |
Aid | Noun: aid, aidance; assistance, help, opitulation, succor; support, lift, advance, furtherance, promotion; coadjuvancy; (cooperation). |
Course | Verb: elapse, lapse, flow, run, proceed, advance, pass; roll on, wear on, press on; flit, fly, slip, slide, glide; run its course. |
Improvement | Promote, cultivate, advance, forward, enhance; bring forward, bring on; foster; invigorate; (strengthen). |
Noun: improvement; amelioration, melioration; betterment; mend, amendment, emendation; mending; Verb: advancement; advance; (progress); ascent; promotion, preferment; elevation; increase; cultivation, civilization; culture, march of intellect; menticulture; race-culture, eugenics. | |
Increase | Verb: increase, augment, add to, enlarge; dilate; (expand); grow, wax, get ahead. gain strength; advance; run up, shoot up; rise; ascend; sprout. |
Lending | Verb: lend, advance, accommodate with; lend on security; loan; pawn; (security). |
Noun: lending; Verb: loan, advance, accommodation, feneration; mortgage, second mortgage, home loan; (security); investment; note, bond, commercial paper. | |
Success | Noun: success, successfulness; speed; advance; (progress). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | Excuse me! I would like to take this opportunity to apologize in advance! (The Iron Giant; writing credit: Brad Bird) And as the court is aware, the defense is entitled to advance notice of any witness who will testify, particularly those who will give scientific evidence, so that we may properly prepare for cross-examination, as well as give the defense an opportunity to have the witness's reports reviewed by a defense expert, who might then be in a position to contradict the veracity of his conclusions. (My Cousin Vinny; writing credit: Dale Launer.) Ten thousand, all in advance. (Episode IV: A New Hope; writing credit: George Lucas.) The article got me a book deal with a little cash up front, but between the rent and the convertible the advance was gone. (Kalifornia; writing credit: Tim Metcalfe. Starring Brad Pitt as Early Grayce, Juliette Lewis as Adele Corners, David Duchovny as Brian Kessler, and Michelle Forbes as Carrie Laughlin.) Advance and attack! (Doctor Who; writing credit: Basil Caplan; Martin Defalco) | |
Lyrics | But I thank you in advance ("Thank U In Advance"; performing artist: Boyz II Men) Advance on the spot, we can dance till we drop ("Feelin' So Good"; performing artist: Jennifer Lopez) | |
Clever | Worry is interest paid in advance for a debt you many never owe. (references; author: unknown) How to act insane: Five days in advance, tell your friends you can't attend their party because you're not in the mood. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Advance and Be Mechanized (1967) Time in Advance (1965) Advance to the Rear (1964) Warned in Advance (1925) Paid in Advance (1919) | |
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![]() | Setting up planting sites at Barren Island for patchy and continuous planting areas. The sites were marked and designated in advance.Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. | ![]() | Volunteers plant smooth cordgrass, Spartina alterniflora, in rows. The areas to be planted are marked in advance and the plants are spaced at 3 feet intervals.Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
![]() | U.S. Marines advance after Marine close-air fighters plaster targets ahead during fighting in Korea. Billowing smoke and flames from the small, tight target areas bear out the accuracy of the flying Leathernecks' marksmanship. (Marine Corps photo). | ![]() | U.S. Army Evacuation Hospital No.14, Les Islettes, France : American Red Cross advance dressing station.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
![]() | [An advance medical supply depot office, Gungalin].Credit: National Library of Medicine. | ![]() | Photographed at Nassau, Bahamas, in 1863. After capture in 1864, she became USS Advance, and was later renamed Frolic. See Photo # NH 95662-KN for another version of this photograph.Credit: NAVY. |
![]() | Halftone reproduction of and artwork by Bacon, published in "Deeds of Valor", Volume II, page 81, by the Perrien-Keydel Company, Detroit, 1907. It depicts a scene described by Sergeant Richard Binder, USMC, of the advance of the Navy sharpshooters' unit under Lieutenant Williams, during the Sailors' and Marines' assault on Fort Fisher, North Carolina, 15 January 1865. Binder and other surviving members of this party were awarded the Medal of Honor.Credit: NAVY. | ![]() | Pausing in her work, as a hint for him to advance.Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Old bronze, muzzle-loading siege gun used by Filipinos against Americans in their advance toward Caloocan.Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Has this been "settled in advance" too?.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Alexander Pope | Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance. |
Francois De La Rochefoucauld | If I advance, follow me! If I retreat, kill me! If I die, avenge me! |
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | Who is sure of their own motives can in confidence advance or retreat. |
Lyman Beecher | No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion, without controversy. |
Madame Swetchine | As we advance in life the circle of our pains enlarge, while that of our pleasures contracts. |
Richard M. Nixon | A riot is a spontaneous outburst. A war is subject to advance planning. |
Thomas H. Huxley | Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. |
William Ellery Channing | Error is discipline through which we advance. |
| Mistake, error, is the discipline through which we advance. | |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | But what reason can hence advance this care of the parents due to their off-spring into an absolute arbitrary dominion of the father, whose power reaches no farther, than by such a discipline, as he finds most effectual, to give such strength and health to their bodies, such vigour and rectitude to their minds, as may best fit his children to be most useful to themselves and others; and, if it be necessary to his condition, to make them work, when they are able, for their own subsistence. (Second Treatise of Government) |
US Constitution | 1791 | Hamilton, of New York,) expressing their unanimous conviction that it might essentially tend to advance the interests of the Union if the States by which they were respectively delegated would concur, and use their endeavors to procure the concurrence of the other States, in the appointment of commissioners to meet at Philadelphia on the Second Monday of May following, to take into consideration the situation of the United States; to devise such further provisions as should appear to them necessary to render the Constitution of the Federal Government adequate to the exigencies of the Union; and to report such an act for that purpose to the United States in Congress assembled as, when agreed to by them and afterwards confirmed by the Legislatures of every State, would effectually provide for the same. (reference) |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | Each step in the development of the bourgeoisie was accompanied by a corresponding political advance of that class. (reference) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | Germany declares in advance that she will adhere to the decisions so taken. (reference) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | What are oftenest heard are sentences pronounced in advance. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Strange figures advance from a cave. |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | Then, in the name of God and all these rights, Advance your standards, draw your willing swords. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | The Governor at my request gave the sign for Caesar and Brutus to advance towards us. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | I do not wish to flatter my townsmen, nor to be flattered by them, for that will not advance either of us. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Each State has its own laws governing advance directives. (references) | |
Do some cooking in advance and freeze in meal-sized portions. (references) | ||
Often it is helpful to prepare a list of questions in advance. (references) | ||
Business | Rental payments are due in advance. (references) | |
Demand for advance payment may kill a sale. (references) | ||
Many importers try to avoid using letters of credit and paying cash in advance. (references) | ||
Children | Vanuatu | Few children advance beyond elementary school. (references) |
Jordan | Private organizations and members of the royal family actively promote programs to protect and advance the interests of persons with disabilities. (references) | |
Russia | The Rights of the Child Program has called for the establishment of an ombudsman for the rights of children with the power to enter and inspect children's facilities at any time of day or night without advance notification and the Ministry of Labor and Social Development continued to work with UNICEF on a pilot program to establish regional children's rights ombudsmen. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Macedonia | Advance notification of large meetings is optional. (references) |
Estonia | Permits for all public gatherings must be obtained 3 weeks in advance. (references) | |
Cyprus | Requests to cross into the north must be submitted 48 hours in advance. (references) | |
Economic History | Argentina | Four weeks advance notice is required. (references) |
Haiti | Four to six weeks advance scheduling is required. (references) | |
Guinea | For sales to the government, advance payment is recommended. (references) | |
Human Rights | Burkina Faso | Permission generally is granted routinely, and advance permission is not required. (references) |
Turkmenistan | The visit was scheduled in advance and Government officials accompanied OSCE representatives. (references) | |
Burma | Government employees generally are required to obtain advance permission before meeting with foreigners. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Belize | The Maya have formed cultural councils and other groups to advance their interests, sometimes with the collaboration of NGO's concerned with environmental and indigenous issues. (references) |
Indonesia | In 2000 Presidium Council leaders traveled throughout the province to publicize the results of the congress, regularly met with government officials in Jakarta, and journeyed to other countries to advance the Papuan cause. (references) | |
Political Economy | Ireland | Under the Irish Constitution, the President needs advance cabinet approval of speeches and travel. (references) |
Political Rights | Guyana | A party's presidential candidate must be announced in advance of the election. (references) |
Comoros | Three candidates will advance from the primary to participate in the general election involving all three islands. (references) | |
Cuba | While the Constitution provides for direct election of provincial, municipal, and ANPP members, the candidates must be approved in advance by mass organizations controlled by the Government. (references) | |
Trade | India | The GOI does not allow advance payment for goods to be imported. (references) |
India | The actual user, non-transferable advance license is one such license. (references) | |
Ecuador | Performance and advance payment guarantees are required under this law. (references) | |
Travel | Slovak Rep | Foreigners should confirm a price in advance. (references) |
Nigeria | Accommodation reservations must be made well in advance. (references) | |
South Africa | Appointments should be made in advance of a business call. (references) | |
Women | Nicaragua | Even with similar qualifications, men advance more quickly than women. (references) |
Morocco | A total of 76 NGO's work to advance women's rights and to promote women's issues. (references) | |
Gambia | They have the option to divorce, but not a legal right to approve or be notified in advance of subsequent marriages. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Central African Republic | The union also must provide 8 days' advance written notification of a planned strike. (references) |
Congo | Employers have the right to fire workers if they do not give advance notice of a strike. (references) | |
India | They help needy families with money (as an advance in salary), taking the victims as surety. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | PIE, n. An advance agent of the reaper whose name is Indigestion. Cold pie was highly esteemed by the remains. Rev. Dr. Mucker (in a funeral sermon over a British nobleman) Cold pie is a detestable American comestible. That's why I'm done -- or undone -- So far from that dear London. (from the headstone of a British nobleman in Kalamazoo) |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
James Hewitt | I was a tank squadron leader with the British army. And we led the British advance into Iraq and then back into Kuwait. |
Rush Limbaugh | The environment is a great way to advance a political agenda that favors central planning and an intrusive government. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George Washington | 1789-1797 | From the advices which have been forwarded, the advance which he has made must have damped the ardor of the savages and weakened their obstinacy in waging war against the United States. |
Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | Relying, then, on the patronage of your good will, I advance with obedience to the work, ready to retire from it whenever you become sensible how much better choice it is in your power to make. |
Calvin Coolidge | 1923-1929 | Even the failures can not but be accounted useful and an immeasurable advance over threatened or actual warfare. |
Herbert C. Hoover | 1929-1933 | But all this majestic advance should not obscure the constant dangers from which self-government must be safeguarded. |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | Steadfast in our faith in the Almighty, we will advance toward a world where man's freedom is secure. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | Now when we act to advance the consumer's cause I think we help every American. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | As long as I'm President, at home and around the world America's examples and America's influence will be marshaled to advance the cause of human rights. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Together, we can continue to advance our agenda for peace. |
George Bush | 1989-1993 | For we are given power not to advance our own purposes, nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | By expanding trade, we can advance the cause of freedom and democracy around the world. |
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| "Advance" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 81.88% of the time. "Advance" is used about 4,361 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 81.88% | 3,571 | 2,722 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 13.93% | 607 | 10,589 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 3.85% | 168 | 24,050 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 0.34% | 15 | 90,616 |
| Total | 100.00% | 4,361 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Australia | Advance Property Fund | Malaysia | Advance Synergy Berhad |
| Thailand | Advance Agro Public Company Limited | United Kingdom | Advance Developing Markets Trust plc |
| USA | Advance Financial Bancorp | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
1. Advance, IN (town, FIPS 640) 2. Advance, MO (city, FIPS 262) 3. Advance, NC |
Expressions using "advance": advance booking ♦ advance booking charter ♦ advance booking office ♦ advance by stages ♦ advance census report ♦ advance copy ♦ advance corporation tax ♦ advance death benefit ♦ Advance Directives ♦ advance felling ♦ advance force ♦ advance freight ♦ advance guard ♦ advance maintenance payment ♦ advance Mills ♦ advance money ♦ advance note ♦ advance notice ♦ advance of civilization ♦ advance of learning ♦ advance of the eccenric ♦ advance on ♦ advance one's opinion ♦ advance operational planning ♦ advance party ♦ advance payment ♦ advance payments ♦ advance per round ♦ advance publicity ♦ advance purchase ♦ advance purchase excursion fare ♦ advance redemption ♦ advance registration ♦ advance section ♦ advance smb. money ♦ advance the date ♦ advance to contact ♦ advance warning ♦ annuity in advance ♦ arrange in advance ♦ ascertain in advance ♦ automatic advance ♦ be bookable in advance ♦ be in advance ♦ be in advance of ♦ be in advance of smb. ♦ book in advance ♦ Cadkey advance development language ♦ cash advance ♦ cash in advance ♦ determine in advance ♦ film advance ♦ fire advance ♦ fix in advance ♦ freight advance ♦ hand advance ♦ ignition advance ♦ in advance ♦ in advance of ♦ in advance of smb. ♦ in advance of the others ♦ inform in advance ♦ judge smth. in advance ♦ net cash in advance ♦ not to advance ♦ order in advance ♦ patterned advance ♦ pay in advance ♦ payment in advance ♦ plan in advance ♦ promise in advance ♦ remittance in advance ♦ say in advance ♦ sheets advance ♦ spark advance ♦ sparking advance ♦ speed of advance ♦ stop the advance of the enemy ♦ technical advance ♦ thanks in advance ♦ timing advance ♦ zone of advance. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "advance": advance-diameter ratio of propeller, advance-parties, advance-planning, advance-warning. | |
Ending with "advance": book-in-advance, cash-in-advance, counter-advance, frame-advance, funded-in-advance, non-advance, quarter-advance, re-advance. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
game boy advance | 3,977 |
cash advance | 3,354 |
advance auto part | 3,049 |
advance auto | 1,872 |
advance war | 1,402 |
cheat for game boy advance | 1,307 |
payday advance | 1,036 |
advance | 703 |
staten island advance | 658 |
advance boy visual | 426 |
payday cash advance | 355 |
paycheck advance | 333 |
advance car kit | 293 |
advance fantasy final tactic | 288 |
advance america | 281 |
advance pcs | 249 |
sonic advance | 245 |
rom de game boy advance | 237 |
advance visualboy | 215 |
advance rom war | 203 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "advance"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaan | naderkom (approach, come close, come closer, come on). (various references) | |
Albanian | avancim (progress, progression), avancoj, afrohem (approach, approximate, border on, close in, close on, come close, come closer, come on, draw near, gain on, impend, make up, near, nigh, verge), përparim (advancement, furtherance, headway, progress, prosperity), favorizoj (Favor, favour, protect), gradoj (calibrate, divide, elevate, graduate, make headway, move forward, progress, promote, raise), hua (loan), i jap avancë, lëvizje përpara (headway), ndihmoj (administer, aid, assist, avail, back, befriend, bestead, chip in, contribute, facilitate, further, give a hand, help, help out, lend a hand, make for, meet halfway, pander, promote, relieve, subserve, succor, succour, support, take effect, tide over), përkrah (back, bolster, buttress, champion, encourage, espouse, Favor, favour, hug, patronize, promote, prop up, protect, root for, side with, stand up for, stick up for, support, take smb.'s part, upbear, uphold), sukses (eclat, good luck, hit, speed, success, winner), përparoj (carry forward, come along, come on, do, do well, flourish, forge, get along, get on, go ahead, go on, make one's way through, progress), paradhënie (down payment, earnest), parapaguaj (prepay), pararojë (advance guard, avant garde, pilot, Van, vanguard), parashkoj (develop), progres (advancement, headway, progress), rritem (become adult, climb, develop, grow up, move, redouble, run, shoot, thicken), rritje (accretion, augmentation, boost, breeding, climb, cultivation, development, evolution, expansion, extension, gain, germination, growth, increase, increment, intensification, nurture, progress, raise, upgrowth), shtoj (add, add to, add up, append, attach, augment, compound, count in, eke out, enclose, enhance, heighten, inclose, increase, intensify, intercalate, lend, multiply, propagate, put on, pyramid, raise, redouble, refill, subjoin, superinduce, supplement), ngritje (ascension, boosting, building, cultivation, elevation, erection, flow, hoist, increase, jump, lifting up, progress, projection, prominence, prominency, putting up, raise, rise, rising, setting up, take off, uprise, upswing, uptake). (various references) | |
Arabic | تحسن (ameliorate, amelioration, become soundly established, betterment, change for the better, get better, get well, improve, improvement, mend, pick me up, progress, rally, recover, refinement, reform, speed up, take a turn for the better), أمامي (anterior, fore, forward, front, frontal, leading), إرتفاع (altitude, augment, elevation, heaviness, heaving, height, high, highness, inflation, loftiness, raise, rise, rising, upheaval), إرتفع (arise, ascend, aspire, climb, come in, flow, hike, lift, lift off, mount, snowball, soar, spring, tower, uplift), خطوة للأمام, عجل (accelerate, anticipate, bicker, bullock, calf, dash, expedite, hasten, hurry, hustle, precipitate, run, speed, speed up, tire, veal), دفع سلفا, تسليف (credit, tick), مهد للجنس (proposition, try), تقدم (advanced, advancement, advantage, antecedence, ascent, break through, career, careerist, come on, crowd, descend, development, evolution, forge ahead, forward, gain ground, gain one's destination, get along, get forward, get on, get up, go ahead, go up, going, head, headway, improvement, keep step, lead, make up on, march, move along, move in, onward, precede, priority, proceed, procession, progress, progression, promotion, propulsion, pull ahead, rise, seniority, shape, shoot ahead, speed, stem, step, superiority, take steps, upturn, way, work up to), قدم (age, antiquity, arrive, be age-old, become old, become timeworn, bring forward, bring out, chip, come, come back, display, extend, foot, get to, give in, move forward, obsolescence, offer, peg, precede, present, produce, proffer, reach, return, set forth, show, submit, tender, turn in), قرض (fret, gnaw, loan, loaning, nibble, niggle), مدفوع مقدما, مقدما (beforehand, in advance, in anticipation), مقدما سلفا, سلفة (on account). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | прогресирам (move, progress), издигам се (arise, arose, ascend, aspire, flow, go up, jump, loft, move up, peak, push up, rise, rise in the world, shoot up, tower, uprise), издигане (aggrandizement, ascension, ascent, elevation, erection, heave, hoist, levitation, lift, lifting, rise, rising, uptake), изявявам (affirm, express, state), повишавам (aggrandize, elevate, enhance, erect, heighten, increase, jump, key up, prefer, promote, put up, rack, raise, up), повишение (advancement, preferment, rise, rising, uprise), придвижване (locomotion, movement, travel), правя (act, contract, deliver, do, drive, enounce, gargle, lay, leave, make, pay, pull, put forward, put out, run off, strike, transact), предплата (advancement), предплащам (prepay), преден (advanced, anterior, fore, forward, front, frontal, head, leading, preceding, previous), предварителен (forward, introductory, precursory, preliminary, premonitory, preparative, preparatory, tentative), издигам (build, edify, elevate, erect, exalt, heave, heft, heighten, hike, levitate, lift, make, put up, pyramid, raise, rear, rose, run up, set up, swing up, throw up, upbear, uplift, upraise), прогрес (advancement, progress), ускорявам (accelerate, activate, expedite, force, forward, hasten, hurry, hurry up, hustle, precipitate, quicken, smarten up, speed up, trigger, urge, zip), благоприятствувам (advantage, favour, serve), аванс (backfire, sub), авансирам (put up), заем (loan), заемам (borrow, fill, hold, lend, loan, occupy, take over, take up), застъпвам (overlap), местя напред, напредвам (develop, forge ahead, gain, get on, go, go ahead, move, move on, move onwards, proceed, progress, push, push forward, push on, push up, roll, walk), напредък (advancement, ascent, betterment, gain, headway, improvement, lift, progress), настъпление (offence), настъпвам (ensue, occur, set in, settle in, step on, tread, tread on), възход (ascent, rise, upbeat), предявявам (assert, lay, pose, prefer, present, put in, raise). (various references) | |
Chinese | 陟 (ascend), 進軍 (match), 進 (enter, to come in), 烝 (many, steam), 前进 (Advancing, Marched, marching). (various references) | |
Czech | záloha (cash advance, deposit, downpayment), propagovat (boost, propagate), posunout vpřed, posun (shift), postupovat vpřed (forge ahead, go ahead), postup (approach, consecution, course, course of action, practice, procedure, process, progress, progression, run, working), popojet, pokrok (advancement, progress, progression), dìlat pokroky (make headway), dát zálohu, dát dopředu. (various references) | |
Danish | advance, tilbyde (offer, offer up, propose, sacrifice, suggest), låne (borrow, lend, loan), lån (borrowing, loan, loan credit, loans), give tilspænding (feed), fremskridt (advancement, progress), forskud (deposit), foreslå (offer, propose, suggest), byde (offer, offer up, propose, sacrifice, suggest). (various references) | |
Dutch | naderen (approach, come close, come closer, come on), genaken (approach, come on), gaan naar (approach, come on), aanpakken (approach, come on, deal with, tackle). (various references) | |
Esperanto | atentigi pri (put forward), alproksimiĝi (come close, come closer, come on), almarŝi (march on), aliri (approach, come on), proksimiĝi (approach, come close, come closer, come on), pliproksimiĝi (come on). (various references) | |
Faeroese | studla (admonish, scold, suggest), skjóta upp (offer, propose, suggest), nærkast (approach, come close, come closer, come on), hava framgongd (progress), gera framstig (progress), framstig (advancement, progress), framgongd (advancement, progress), fáa til (suggest), elva (abet, encourage, impel, instigate, spur on, stimulate, suggest, urge), bjóða (bid, invite, make an offer of, offer, propose, suggest). (various references) | |
Farsi | پیشنهادکردن (Bid, Motion, Move, Offer, Proffer, Propose, Purpose, Submit, Suggest), پیشرفت (Accession, Beat, Development, Growth, Headway, Improvement, Lift, Progress, Progression, Promotion, Rise), پیشروی (Headway, March, Onrush, Progress), پیش بردن (Encourage, Expedite, Further, Hustle), مساعده دادن , مساعده , قبلاتهیه شده , قبلاتجهیزشده , تسریع کردن (Accelerate, Precipitate, Speed), ترفیع رتبه دادن , ترقی دادن (Boost, Promote), طرح کردن (Cast, Chart, Draft, Frame, Manoeuvre), جلوبردن (Boost, Further), اقامه کردن (Allege, Pose), ازپیش فرستاده شده . (various references) | |
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