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advance / ǝd'vɑ:ns; US - 'væns / n ၁။ [C usu sing ] (က) ခ်ီစစ္။ ခ်ီတက္ျခင္း။ တိုးဝင္လာမႈ။ Attempts to halt the rebel army's advance have failed. (ခ) ျပန္႔ပြားလာမႈ။ တိုးပြားမႈ။ ( fig ) halt the advance of a disease. ၂။ (က) [U] တိုးတက္ လာမႈ။ The continued advance of civilization. (ခ) [C] ~ ( in sth) တိုးတက္မႈ။ recent advances in medical science. ၃။ ႀကိဳတင္ေပးေငြ။ စရန္။ The publishers gave her an advance of $ 5000. ❍ She asked for an advance on her salary. ၄။ [C] ~ ( on sth ) တိုးေပးမႈ။ တိုးတက္မႈ။ 'Any advance on (ie Who will offer more than) £ 200?' called the auctioneer. ❍ Share prices showed significant advances today. ၅။ advances [pl] (ရင္းႏီွးရန္၊ လိင္ဆက္ဆံရန္) ခ်ဥ္းကပ္မႈ။ He made amorous advances to her but she rejected them. adj ၁။ ႀကိဳတင္[ျပဳလုပ္ေသာ]။ 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။ ေရွ႕ေျပး [ျဖစ္ေသာ]။ the advance party (ie a group of people, eg soldiers, sent ahead of the main group). v ၁။ (က) ~ (on / towards sb/sth) ေရွ႕တိုးသည္။ တက္ သည္။ ခ်ီတက္သည္။ The mob advanced on/ towards us shouting angrily. ❍ The order came to advance. ❍ The climbers have advanced two miles from base camp. (ခ) ေရွ႕သို႔တင္သည္။ ထိုးသည္။ တက္သည္။ 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) တိုးတက္သည္။ တက္ လွမ္းသည္။ Has civilization advanced during this century? ❍ advance in one's career. (ခ) လမ္းဖြင့္ေပးသည္။ advance one's career ❍ Such conduct is unlikely to advance your interests. ၃။ ~ sth (to sb) ႀကိဳတင္ ေပး သည္။ ထုတ္ေခ်းသည္။ 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 ) တင္ျပသည္။ Scientists have advanced a new theory to explain this phenomenon. ၅။ ေရွ႕တိုးသည္။ ေရွ႕သို႔ေရႊ႕သည္။ The date of the meeting has been advanced from 10 to 3 June. Compare POSTPONE ၆။ (တန္ဖိုး) တက္သည္။ Property values continue to advance rapidly. ❍ The share price advanced 6p (to 394p). ❏ advanced adj ၁။ ဆန္းသစ္ေသာ (ေခတ္ေရွ႕ေျပး ျဖစ္ေသာ)။ လြန္ေသာ။ ေရွ႕ေရာက္ႏွင့္ေနေသာ။ ခရီး ေရာက္ေသာ။ advanced weapons ❍ an advanced state of decay ❍ Her daughter is very advanced for her age. ❍ Negotiations have reached a very advanced stage. ၂။ အဆင့္ျမင့္ေသာ။ advanced studies ❍ an advanced student of English. See also ELEMENTARY ၁ , INTERMEDIATE ၂ (ခ) ၃။ ေခတ္ေရွ႕ေျပးေနေသာ။ have advanced ideas. ၄။ ႀကီးရင့္ေသာ။ အိုမင္းေသာ။ She died at an advanced age. ❏ advanced level n တန္းျမင့္အဆင့္။ A LEVEL ❏ in advance (of sth) [ IDM ] ၁။ ႀကိဳတင္၍။ The rent must be paid in advance. ❍ Send your luggage on in advance. ❍ It's impossible to know in advance what will happen. ၂။ ေခတ္ေရွ႕ ေျပးေနေသာ။ ေရွ႕ေရာက္ေနေသာ။ 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.

Examples

1. In spite of all its advances
2. medical science still knows little about the brain.
3. [advance in] : Major advances in computer technology
4. [the advance of something] : Ethical questions raised by the advance of genetic engineering
5. The author has signed a publishing deal for an advance of £500
6. 000.
7. I asked for an advance on next month’s salary.
8. The rebels continued their advance on the capital city.
9. [make advances] : Evans denied making sexual advances to her.