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Advance can be a verb, a noun or an adjective.
advance used as a verb:
- To bring forward; to move towards the van or front; to make to go on.
"They . . . advanced their eyelids. —Shakespeare" - To raise to a higher rank; to promote.
- To accelerate the growth or progress; to further; to forward; to help on; to aid; to heighten.
"to advance the ripening of fruit" - To bring to view or notice; to offer or propose; to show.
"to advance an argument" - To make earlier, as an event or date; to hasten.
- To furnish, as money or other value, before it becomes due, or in aid of an enterprise; to supply beforehand.
"Merchants often advance money on a contract or on goods consigned to them." - To raise to a higher point; to enhance; to raise in rate.
"to advance the price of goods" - To move forwards, to approach.
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
advance used as a noun:
- A forward move.
- An amount of money or credit, especially given as a loan, or paid before it is due.
- An opening approach or overture, especially of an unwelcome or sexual nature.
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
advance used as an adjective:
- Completed before need or a milestone event.
"He made an advance payment on the prior shipment to show good faith." - Preceding.
"The advance man came a month before the candidate." - Forward.
"The scouts found a site for an advance base."
Adjectives are are describing words. An adjective is a word that modifies a noun or pronoun (examples: small, scary, silly). Adjectives make the meaning of a noun more precise. Learn more →
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What type of word is advance?
- Verb usage: They . . . advanced their eyelids. —Shakespeare
- Verb usage: to advance the ripening of fruit
- Verb usage: to advance one's interests
- Verb usage: to advance an argument
- Verb usage: Merchants often advance money on a contract or on goods consigned to them.
- Verb usage: to advance the price of goods
- Adjective usage: He made an advance payment on the prior shipment to show good faith.
- Adjective usage: The advance man came a month before the candidate.
- Adjective usage: The scouts found a site for an advance base.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of advance are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of advance, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).