advance

advance is a Verb

Definition:

[1] To bring forward; to move towards the van or front; to make to go on.

[2] To raise; to elevate. [Archaic] They . . . advanced their eyelids. Shak.

[3] To raise to a higher rank; to promote. Ahasueres . . . advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes. Esther iii. 1.

[4] 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.

[5] To bring to view or notice; to offer or propose; to show; as, to advance an argument. Some ne`er advance a judgment of their own. Pope.

[6] To make earlier, as an event or date; to hasten.

[7] 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.

[8] To raise to a higher point; to enhance; to raise in rate; as, to advance the price of goods.

[9] To extol; to laud. [Obs.] Greatly advancing his gay chivalry. Spenser.