Advance

1. 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.
2. v. t. To bring forward; to move towards the van or front; to make to go on.
3. v. t. To raise; to elevate.
4. v. t. To raise to a higher rank; to promote.
5. 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 one’s interests.
6. v. t. To bring to view or notice; to offer or propose; to show; as, to advance an argument.
7. v. t. To make earlier, as an event or date; to hasten.
8. 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.
9. v. t. To raise to a higher point; to enhance; to raise in rate; as, to advance the price of goods.
10. v. t. To extol; to laud.
11. 1a. 1 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.
12. 1v. t. 1 To bring forward; to move towards the van or front; to make to go on.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.