1. in advance : 预先;
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Placing an order-(下定单)
1. (常指为攻击而)前进,推进
To advance means to move forward, often in order to attack someone.
2. (尤指知识)发展,进步
To advance means to make progress, especially in your knowledge of something.
3. 贷给;预付;预支
If you advance someone a sum of money, you lend it to them, or pay it to them earlier than arranged.
4. 贷款;预付款
An advance is money which is lent or paid to someone before they would normally receive it.
5. 提前(未来事件的日期);使(未来事件)提前发生
To advance an event, or the time or date of an event, means to bring it forward to an earlier time or date.
6. 促进,推动(事业、利益或主张);使加速
If you advance a cause, interest, or claim, you support it and help to make it successful.
7. 提出(理论、论点)
When a theory or argument is advanced, it is put forward for discussion.
8. (常指军事行动中的)前进,行进,推进
An advance is a forward movement of people or vehicles, usually as part of a military operation.
9. 挑逗;勾引
If you make advances to someone, you try to start a sexual relationship with them.
10. 进步;进展
An advance in a particular subject or activity is progress in understanding it or in doing it well.
11. 改进;改善
If something is an advance on what was previously available or done, it is better in some way.
12. 预先的;事先的
Advance booking, notice, or warning is done or given before an event happens.
13. 先行的;先遣的
An advance party or group is a small group of people who go on ahead of the main group.
14. 在…的前面;在…之前
If one thing happens or is done in advance of another, it happens or is done before the other thing.
15. 提前;事先
If you do something in advance, you do it before a particular date or event.
1. the act of moving forward (as toward a goal)
Synonym: progressprogressionprocessionadvancementforward motiononward motion
2. increase in price or value
e.g. the news caused a general advance on the stock market
Synonym: rise
3. a tentative suggestion designed to elicit the reactions of others
e.g. she rejected his advances
Synonym: overtureapproachfeeler
4. a change for the better
progress in development
Synonym: improvementbetterment
5. a movement forward
e.g. he listened for the progress of the troops
Synonym: progressprogression
6. an amount paid before it is earned
Synonym: cash advance