advance

/ədˈvɑːns/

US pronunciation

American sound/ədˈvɑːns/

ədˈvɑːns

Syllables: 2 syllables
Stress: 2nd syllable stress
Vowel: Open ah vowel
Ending: Final e often stays silent

əd - ˈvɑːns -> advance

Myanmar meaning

(n) ချီစစ်။ ချီတက်ခြင်း။ တိုးဝင်လာမှု။ ပြန့်ပွားလာမှု။ တိုးပွားမှု။ တိုးတက် လာမှု။ တိုးတက်မှု။ ကြိုတင်ပေးငွေ။ စရန်။ တိုးပေးမှု။ တိုးတက်မှု။

Full entry

advance / ǝd'vɑ:ns; US - 'væns / n

၁။ [C usu sing ] (က) ချီစစ်။ ချီတက်ခြင်း။ တိုးဝင်လာမှု။ Attempts to halt the rebel army's advance have failed. (ခ) ပြန့်ပွားလာမှု။ တိုးပွားမှု။ (fig ) halt the advance of a disease.
၂။ (က) [U] တိုးတက် လာမှု။ The continued advance of civilization. (ခ) [C] ~ (in sth) တိုးတက်မှု။ recent advances in medical science.
၃။ ကြိုတင်ပေးငွေ။ စရန်။ The publishers gave her an advance of $ 5000. ❍ She asked for an advance on her salary.
၄။ [C] ~ (on sth ) တိုးပေးမှု။ တိုးတက်မှု။ 'Any advance on (ie Who will offer more than) £ 200?' called the auctioneer. ❍ Share prices showed significant advances today.
၅။ advances [pl] (ရင်းနှီးရန်၊ လိင်ဆက်ဆံရန်) ချဉ်းကပ်မှု။ He made amorous advances to her but she rejected them.
adj
၁။ ကြိုတင်[ပြုလုပ်သော]။ give sb advance warning/notice of sth ❍ make an advance booking (ie reserve a hotel room, a seat in a theatre, etc before the time when it is needed).
၂။ ရှေ့ပြေး [ဖြစ်သော]။ the advance party (ie a group of people, eg soldiers, sent ahead of the main group).
v
၁။ (က) ~ (on / towards sb/sth) ရှေ့တိုးသည်။ တက် သည်။ ချီတက်သည်။ The mob advanced on/ towards us shouting angrily. ❍ The order came to advance. ❍ The climbers have advanced two miles from base camp. (ခ) ရှေ့သို့တင်သည်။ ထိုးသည်။ တက်သည်။ The general advanced his troops at night. ❍ He advanced his queen (ie in a game of chess) to threaten his opponent's king. Compare RETREAT ၁(က)
၂။ (က) တိုးတက်သည်။ တက် လှမ်းသည်။ Has civilization advanced during this century? ❍ advance in one's career. (ခ) လမ်းဖွင့်ပေးသည်။ advance one's career ❍ Such conduct is unlikely to advance your interests.
၃။ ~ sth (to sb) ကြိုတင် ပေး သည်။ ထုတ်ချေးသည်။ He asked his employer to advance him a month's salary. ❍ The building societies have been advancing too much money to their customers.
၄။ (fml ) တင်ပြသည်။ Scientists have advanced a new theory to explain this phenomenon.
၅။ ရှေ့တိုးသည်။ ရှေ့သို့ရွှေ့သည်။ The date of the meeting has been advanced from 10 to 3 June. Compare POSTPONE
၆။ (တန်ဖိုး) တက်သည်။ Property values continue to advance rapidly. ❍ The share price advanced 6p (to 394p).
❏ advanced adj
၁။ ဆန်းသစ်သော (ခေတ်ရှေ့ပြေး ဖြစ်သော)။ လွန်သော။ ရှေ့ရောက်နှင့်နေသော။ ခရီး ရောက်သော။ advanced weapons ❍ an advanced state of decay ❍ Her daughter is very advanced for her age. ❍ Negotiations have reached a very advanced stage.
၂။ အဆင့်မြင့်သော။ advanced studies ❍ an advanced student of English. See also ELEMENTARY ၁ , INTERMEDIATE ၂ (ခ)
၃။ ခေတ်ရှေ့ပြေးနေသော။ have advanced ideas.
၄။ ကြီးရင့်သော။ အိုမင်းသော။ She died at an advanced age.
❏ advanced level n တန်းမြင့်အဆင့်။ A LEVEL
❏ in advance (of sth) [IDM ]
၁။ ကြိုတင်၍။ The rent must be paid in advance. ❍ Send your luggage on in advance. ❍ It's impossible to know in advance what will happen.
၂။ ခေတ်ရှေ့ ပြေးနေသော။ ရှေ့ရောက်နေသော။ Galileo's ideas were well in advance of the age in which he lived. ❍ That child is far in advance of the rest of the class.

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Synonyms

go forward, move forward, move ahead, press forward, move on, proceed, press on, progress, go ahead, evolve, accelerate, accommodation, achieve, adduce, advancement, allege, allowance, amelioration, ballyhoo, beat the drum for, beforehand, benefit, betterment, bite, boost, break, break the bank, breakthrough, bring forward, build up, buildup, cite, come forward, conquer, continue ahead, continue on, credit, deposit, develop, development, dispatch, down payment, drive, earlier, early, early payment, elevate, encourage, encroachment, enhance, enhancement, enlarge, enrichment, expand, expansion, fee, first, floater, foremost, forge ahead, forward, forward movement, foster, front money, furnish, further, furtherance, gain, gain ground, get ahead, get fat, get green light, get ink for, get rich, get there, get with it, go forth, go great guns, go places, go to town, go-ahead, grade, grow, growth, hasten, headway, hike, hit pay dirt, hit the jackpot, hype, impetus, improve, improvement, in front, in the forefront, in the lead, increase, innovation, introduce, launch, lay forward, leading, lend, loan, magnify, make a killing, make a pitch for, make headway, make out, make the scene, march, money up front, motion, move onward, move up, multiply, number, offer, often quickly, or position, pan out, pay, plug, prefer, prepayment, present, previously, prior, proffer, progression, promote, promotion, propel, prosper, provide, puff, push, push ahead, push on, put forward, put on the map, quicken, raise, retainer, rise, score, send forward, serve, set forth, skyrocket, speed, splash, spot, spread, stake, step, step forward, storm, strike gold, strike it rich

Antonyms

after, back down, behind, block, borrow, cease, conceal, decline, decrease, diminish, diminishment, discourage, dissuade, fail, failure, halt, hesitate, hesitation, hide, hinder, hindrance, hold, hurt, impediment, keep, last, later, lessen, lose, loss, lower, prevent, recede, recession, reduce, refrain, regress, repress, retard, retreat, retrogress, retrogression, spurn, stagnation, stop, stoppage, take, take back, turn, withdraw, withdrawal, withhold, yield