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"ADVANCES" is a plural of: advance. |
Date "ADVANCES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Business | In general, that which is due and collectible. In the plural, the total amounts due on goods sold, services rendered or monies loaned. Source: European Union. (references) |
General | Report surveying the work that has been done in a research or development project or during a particular stage of it. Source: European Union. (references) |
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| ADL | English | Advances in Digital Libraries | Computer - (IEEE) |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Offer | Verb: offer, proffer, present, tender; bid; propose, move; make a motion, make advances; start; invite, hold out, place in one's way, put forward. |
Sequence | Verb: advance; proceed, progress; get on, get along, get over the ground; gain ground; forge ahead; jog on, rub on, wag on; go with the stream; keep one;s course, hold on one's course; go on, move on, come one, get on, pass on, push on, press on, go forward, move forward, come forward, get forward, pass forward, push forward, press forward, go forwards, move forwards, come forwards, get forwards, pass forwards, push forwards, press forwards, go ahead, move ahead, come ahead, get ahead, pass ahead, push ahead, press ahead; make one's way, work one's way, carve one's way, push one's way, force one's way, edge one's way, elbow one's way; make progress, make head, make way, make headway, make advances, make strides, make rapid strides; (velocity); go ahead, shoot ahead; distance; make up leeway. |
Sociality | Verb: be sociable; Adjective: know; be acquainted; Adjective: associate with, sort with, keep company with, walk hand in hand with; eat off the same trencher, club together, consort, bear one company, join; make acquaintance with; (friendship); make advances, fraternize, embrace. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: ADVANCES |
| English words defined with "ADVANCES": advancer, approach ♦ By degrees ♦ clannish, cliquish, clubby, court, Credit foncier, crown fire ♦ encouraging, Esaki ♦ grope ♦ Home Loan Bank ♦ Leo Esaki, line of march ♦ masher, molest, move in on ♦ proposer ♦ report, resulting trust, Right-handed screw, roll, roller, rolling wave, Romance ♦ sacrifice, skirt chaser, snobbish, snobby, solicit, steam, suggester ♦ treat ♦ Wave front, white backlash, whitelash, wolf, woman chaser, woo. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Well, I'm sure there have been marvelous advances in the industry, but surely you must have some sort of training program. (American Beauty; writing credit: Alan Ball) Four big shots made improper advances toward her, but she defended her honor with great success. (You Only Live Twice; writing credit: Roald Dahl) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Cash Advances for Prairie Grain (1961) Academic Advances (1999) | |
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 | The R.A. Bloch Building, donated to the National Cancer Institute by several American businessmen is now the home of PDQ, an information service for physicians. The International Cancer Information Center (ICIC), the technical information office, and the JNCI staff. The building was dedicated in October 1983. The physician's data query, PDQ, is a new computerized information system developed by the National Cancer Institute to disseminate up-to-date information on cancer treatment. Using state-of-the-art computers, PDQ makes recent advances in cancer treatment readily available to physicians nationwide. Credit: Lew Bass (photographer). |  | A Century of Science : Advances in Clinical Research and Research Support. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Advances in Reproductive Medicine : Fifth Annual Child Health Day Symposium / National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, [et. al.]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | World Health Advances : World Health Organization. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Research advances in osteoporosis. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Somewhere in Central Africa. Here, at length, is the witch doctor and his USA airplane, the P-40 or "steam-chicken" as the bushmen call it. Civilization advances into the inner sanctums of the medicine men, and penetrates the Dark Continent, which for hun. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Troops in Australia. Under cover of tall grass, Australian troops crouch behind an American light tank in fighting at Buna. This picture, taken during actual warfare, shows infantrymen following up the tank as it advances to clear out Japanese pillboxes o. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Join the Navy; America's new prestige in world affairs will mean a greater Navy. Be a part of it. America advances / Herbert Paus. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Socialism advances in victory everywhere. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | How ironic it is that while medical advances enable the elderly to live long and longer lives, the position of the aged worsens ... Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Gustave Flaubert | The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded. |
Mao Tse-tung | The enemy advances, we retreat; the enemy camps, we harass; the enemy tires, we attack; the enemy retreats, we pursue. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | Every reform is only a mask under cover of which a more terrible reform, which dares not yet name itself, advances. |
| Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts. | |
Theodore Parker | As society advances the standard of poverty rises. |
Walter Bagehot | Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | Why, in such a constitution as this, the dissolution of the government in these cases is to be imputed to the prince, is evident; because he, having the force, treasure and offices of the state to employ, and often persuading himself, or being flattered by others, that as supreme magistrate he is uncapable of controul; he alone is in a condition to make great advances toward such changes, under pretence of lawful authority, and has it in his hands to terrify or suppress opposers, as factious, seditious, and enemies to the government: whereas no other part of the legislative, or people, is capable by themselves to attempt any alteration of the legislative, without open and visible rebellion, apt enough to be taken notice of, which, when it prevails, produces effects very little different from foreign conquest. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | She undertakes to pay to the French Government, in accordance with the estimate to be presented by that Government and approved by the Reparation Commission, all the deposits, credits, advances, etc., effected by virtue of these instruments in favour of Germany. (reference) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | A thousand advances were made to him, but he refused them all. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Patients should ask their doctors about the latest advances. (references) | |
Advances being made by researchers provide hope for the future. (references) | ||
Clinical investigation utilizing the biological advances is timely. (references) | ||
Business | The recent history of China's healthcare delivery system is replete with great advances and nagging challenges. (references) | |
Also, U.S. manufacturers have made advances in blade design and improved the energy efficiency of turbine generators. (references) | ||
Several advances such as glazing technologies, energy-saving lighting and air-conditioning are currently used in Singapore. (references) | ||
Children | Brazil | The country has made significant advances in the last few years in expanding the availability of special instruction for children with disabilities. (references) |
Civil Liberties | Tajikistan | The group, numbering as many as 10,000 persons at one point, consisted of Northern Alliance combatants and their families fleeing Taliban advances in Afghanistan. (references) |
Economic History | Mali | The timing and resident military governors determined methods of their advances. (references) |
Human Rights | Mexico | On September 16, the CNDH said in a press release that there had been advances in the prevention and punishment of torture, since there was broad awareness of the issue and public debate on how to combat it, but the practice has not been eradicated. (references) |
Guatemala | The report noted significant advances such as the end of the pattern and practice of human rights violations perpetrated as government policy during the civil war, increased political participation, the incorporation of previously excluded sectors of civil society in the development and implementation of public policy, the initiation of the process of demilitarization, and the taking of steps to establish the truth about the fundamental violations that were a cause and a consequence of the conflict. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Brazil | Preliminary information indicates that there have been significant advances in indigenous health since the Ministry of Health's National Health Foundation (FUNASA) became involved in providing health care to indigenous populations. (references) |
Political Economy | JAPAN | In some cases, advances in technology, products, or processing make Japanese standards outdated and restrictive. (references) |
Burkina Faso | The increase in the incidence of HIV/AIDS has eroded gains in life expectancy; however, literacy and schooling continued to register modest advances. (references) | |
Trade | Kenya | Advances against collateral vary from about 40% of value of the property to as much as 85% on more liquid cash and securities. (references) |
Travel | Ghana | Advances of one to three years' rent are common. (references) |
Azerbaijan | A limited number of local banks will provide credit card advances for a fee (see contact details below). (references) | |
Lithuania | A few commercial banks cash traveler's checks or provide cash advances against credit cards but the service charges are high. (references) | |
Women | Romania | A department in the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection advances women's concerns and family policies. (references) |
Jordan | Sexual harassment, assault, and unwelcome advances of a sexual nature against women do not appear to be widespread problems. (references) | |
Ghana | The CHRAJ determined that the 22-year-old attendant was terminated for her refusal to submit to her supervisor's sexual advances over a 10-month period. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | DELUSION, n. The father of a most respectable family, comprising Enthusiasm, Affection, Self-denial, Faith, Hope, Charity and many other goodly sons and daughters. All hail, Delusion! Were it not for thee The world turned topsy-turvy we should see; For Vice, respectable with cleanly fancies, Would fly abandoned Virtue's gross advances. Mumfrey Mappel |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
James Madison | 1809-1817 | Still more precise advances were repeated, and have been received in a spirit forbidding every reliance not placed on the military resources of the nation. |
James Monroe | 1817-1825 | With the exception of the tribes referred to, our relations with all the others are on the same friendly footing, and it affords me great satisfaction to add that they are making steady advances in civilization and the improvement of their condition. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | This circumstance attests the rapidity with which agriculture, the first and most important occupation of man, advances and contributes to the wealth and power of our extended territory. |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | Advances in science, in communication, in transportation, have compressed the world into a community. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | Our Nation, too, is rightfully proud of our medical advances. |
Richard Nixon | 1969-1974 | The spiraling pace of change allows us to contemplate, within our own lifetime, advances that once would have taken centuries. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | I am extremely proud of the advances we have made in ensuring equality and protecting the basic freedoms of all Americans. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | But already we've pushed civilization forward with our advances in science and technology. |
George Bush | 1989-1993 | Now, with remarkable technological advances like the Patriot missile, we can defend the ballistic missile attacks aimed at innocent civilians. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | As we continue our advances in medical science, we cannot let our health care system lag behind. |
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| "ADVANCES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 91.52% of the time. "ADVANCES" is used about 1,108 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 (plural) | 91.52% | 1,014 | 7,291 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 8.48% | 94 | 33,845 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,108 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| Norway | Computer Advances Group ASA |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "ADVANCES": advances in technology ♦ advances to smb. ♦ make advances ♦ make advances in technology ♦ make advances to ♦ make advances to smb.. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "ADVANCES": re-advances. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "ADVANCES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | supozoj (assume, calculate, conjecture, expect, guess, hypothesize, imagine, make, make advances to, presume, presuppose, rate, reckon for, suppose), i dal përpara (discount, make advances to, meet halfway). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | تقرب منه لخلق صداقة (make advances to). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | правя опити за сближаване с (make advances to). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | technický pokrok (advances in technology), pokusy o sblížení (advances to smb.). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | debitorer (accounts receivable, debtors, receivables). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | voortgangsrapport (progress report, project report), vervroegd (advance use), debiteur (accounts receivable, debtors, receivables). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | projektiraportti (progress report, project report), edistymäraportti (progress report, project report). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | avances, rapport de recherche, mise au point, démarches, débiteur. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | zudringlichkeit (importunateness, intrusiveness, invasiveness, meddlesomeness, pushiness), Projektbericht (progress report, project report, research report, technical report), im Vorgriff (advance use), Fortschrittsbericht (progress report, project report), Debitoren (accounts receivable, debtors, receivables). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | έκθεση έργου (progress report, project report, research report, technical report), έκθεση προόδου (progress report, project report), βραχυπρόθεσμες απαιτήσεις και προκαταβολές (accounts receivable, debtors, receivables). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ל סות ל"תי"" עם (make advances to). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | lefoglal (attach, confiscate, distrain, engage, foreclose, impound, make advances to, sequester, taken, to arrest, to book a seat, to confiscate, to distress, to embargo, to engross, to impound, to keep sy busy, to levy, to prise, to reserve, to seize, to sequester, to sequestrate, to take, took), közelíteni próbál vkihez (to make advances to sy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | cumbu-cumbuan. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | avanzamenti, rapporto di progetto (progress report, project report), rapporto di lavori in corso (progress report, project report), debitori (accounts receivable, debtors, receivables). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 据え膳 (meal set before one, women's advances). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | すえぜ" (meal set before one, women's advances). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | advancesay avanços (advancements), devedores (accounts receivable, debtors, receivables). (various references) avans (advance, advancement, earnest, start). (various references) предоставлять;и)продвигаться;аванс. (various references) udvarati se (court, make advances to, mash, woo), nabacivati se (make advances to, throw oneself, thrust oneself upon). (various references) paso (advance, clearing, crossing, deed, despatch, dispatch, doorway, drawing, dried, duct, entrée, exaltation, foot walk, footfall, footprint, footstep, fullness, fulness, gait, gangway, gate, gulf, gut, hangar, ignorance, jars, jaunt, lead, line, move, movement, overtaking, pace, pass, passage, passageway, passing, path, pitch, progress, shooting, stair, step, Strait, straits, stride, tack, thoroughfare, track, transition, tread, walk, walkout), insinuaciones, informe de trabajos en curso (progress report, project report), informe de investigaciones en desarrollo (progress report, project report), deudores (accounts receivable, debtors, receivables). (various references) projektrapport (progress report, project report, research report, technical report). (various references) asılma (hanging, pull, suspension, tug), sırnaşma (obtrusion, subservience). (various references) робити аванси (make advances to), загравати (make advances to, play down). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"ADVANCES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: addance, Adeanes, Advanc, Alvanez, avance, Cadvance, hadvance. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "ADVANCES" (pronounced udva"nsuz) |
| 5 | -a" n s u z | chances, dances, enhances, expanses, finances, glances, prances, refinances, romances, stances. |
| 4 | -n s u z | absences, acceptances, acquaintances, allegiances, alliances, allowances, ambulances, announces, annoyances, appearances, appliances, assurances, audiences, balances, Biosciences, bounces, cadences, circumstances, clearances, coincidences, commences, condolences, conferences, confidences, consciences, consequences, continuances, contrivances, conveniences, convinces, countenances, defenses, denounces, differences, disallowances, disappearances, dispenses, distances, disturbances, divergences, eminences, entrances, evidences, expenses, experiences, fences, flounces, fragrances, grievances, hindrances, imbalances, incidences, inconveniences, indulgences, inferences, influences, instances, insurances, issuances, licences, licenses, nuances, observances, occurrences, offenses, ordinances, ounces, performances, preferences, presences, pretenses, princes, prominences, pronounces, protuberances, provinces, reassurances, references, remembrances, reminiscences, remittances, renounces, resemblances, residences, responses, sciences, sconces, senses, sentences, sequences, silences, substances, tolerances, utterances, variances. |
| 3 | -s u z | abuses, accomplices, aces, actresses, addresses, affixes, albatrosses, aliases, amaryllises, annexes, apparatuses, appendixes, apprentices, asses, assesses, atlases, auspices, axes, bases, basses, biases, blesses, blitzes, blouses, boardinghouses, bonuses, bookcases, bosses, bourses, boxes, braces, briefcases, buses, businesses, Busses, buttresses, bypasses, cabooses, campuses, canvases, canvasses, carcasses, Casas, cases, caucuses, cayuses, ceases, censuses, chases, choices, choruses, circuses, classes, clearinghouses, climaxes, clubhouses, coaxes, coffeehouses, collapses, complexes, compresses, concourses, confesses, congresses, converses, corpses, courses, courthouses, creases, cresses, crevices, crocuses, crosses, crosspieces, crucifixes, curses, databases, decreases, depresses, devices, disabuses, discourses, discusses, dismisses, displaces, distresses, divorces, dollhouses, doses, dresses, earpieces, eclipses, embarrasses, embraces, encompasses, endorses, enforces, erases, esses, excesses, excuses, exes, expresses, eyeglasses, eyewitnesses, faces, farmhouses, faxes, fetuses, firehouses, fireplaces, fixes, flexes, focuses, forces, fortresses, foxes, furnaces, fusses, gases, gasses, gearboxes, geniuses, glasses, glimpses, glosses, goddesses, graces, grasses, greenhouses, grimaces, grosses, grouses, guesses, guesthouses, harnesses, headdresses, hippopotamuses, hisses, hoaxes, horses, hospices, hostesses, houses, hyraxes, ices, illnesses, impresses, impulses, increases, indexes, induces, injustices, interfaces, intersperses, introduces, invoices, irises, juices, jukeboxes, justices, kisses, laces, lapses, latexes, leases, lighthouses, likenesses, looses, losses, lynxes, mailboxes, marketplaces, masses, masterpieces, mattresses, medusas, messes, minibuses, minuses, misses, missus, mistresses, mixes, molasses, mongooses, morasses, mosses, mouthpieces, necklaces, nieces, nixes, notices, novices, nurses, offices, omnibuses, orifices, outhouses, outpaces, overdoses, overpasses, paces, palaces, paradoxes, passes, penises, perplexes, perses, pieces, pizzas, places, pluses, polices, porpoises, possesses, poultices, powerhouses, practices, prejudices, premises, presses, prices, princesses, processes, produces, professes, progresses, promises, prospectuses, pulses, purchases, purposes, purses, pusses, racehorses, races, recesses, reduces, reflexes, refocuses, rehearses, reimburses, reinforces, reintroduces, relapses, relaxes, releases, reminisces, replaces, reproduces, repurchases, resources, retroviruses, reverses, sacrifices, sauces, seamstresses, services, sexes, shoelaces, showcases, sinuses, sixes, skyboxes, slaughterhouses, slices, solstices, sources, spaces, spices, splices, spouses, staircases, statehouses, steakhouses, stewardesses, stresses, successes, suffices, suitcases, sunglasses, suppresses, surfaces, surpasses, surpluses, surtaxes, taxes, terraces, tortoises, tosses, townhouses, traces, treatises, tresses, trusses, typefaces, universes, uses, vases, verses, versus, vices, viruses, voices, waitresses, walruses, waltzes, waxes, weaknesses, witnesses, workhorses, workplaces, xeroxes, yeses. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: canvased. | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-d-e-n-s-v" | |
-1 letter: advance. | |
-2 letters: ascend, canvas, dances, davens, vandas. | |
-3 letters: acned, acnes, ansae, avens, cades, caned, canes, cased, caved, caves, daces, dance, daven, deans, devas, nadas, naves, saned, saved, scena, scend, sedan, vanda, vaned, vanes, vends. | |
-4 letters: aced, aces, acne, anas, ands, anes, ansa, asea, aves, cade, cads, cane, cans, casa, case, cave, dace, dean, dens. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-d-e-n-s-v" | |
+1 letter: advancers, canvassed. | |
+2 letters: avoidances. | |
+3 letters: cadaverines. | |
+4 letters: advancements. | |
+5 letters: deactivations. | |
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