Helen Fenton

Advancement: Definition and part of speech

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Advancement

  1. v. t. Settlement on a wife, or jointure.
  2. v. t. The act of advancing, or the state of being advanced; progression; improvement; furtherance; promotion to a higher place or dignity; as, the advancement of learning.
  3. v. t. An advance of money or value; payment in advance. See Advance, 5.
  4. v. t. Property given, usually by a parent to a child, in advance of a future distribution.

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.

Advance: Definition and part of speech

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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.

Advanced: Definition and part of speech

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Advanced

  1. imp. & p. p. of Advance
  2. a. In the van or front.
  3. a. In the front or before others, as regards progress or ideas; as, advanced opinions, advanced thinkers.

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.

Ad valorem: Definition and part of speech

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Ad valorem

  1. A term used to denote a duty or charge laid upon goods, at a certain rate per cent upon their value, as stated in their invoice, — in opposition to a specific sum upon a given quantity or number; as, an ad valorem duty of twenty per cent.

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.

Adustion: Definition and part of speech

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Adustion

  1. n. Cauterization.
  2. n. The act of burning, or heating to dryness; the state of being thus heated or dried.

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.