- (v.t.) To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to intrust; to consign; -- used with to, unto.
- (v.t.) To confound.
- (v.i.) To sin; especially, to be incontinent.
- (v.t.) To put in charge of a jailor; to imprison.
- (v.t.) To join for a contest; to match; -- followed by with.
- (v.t.) To pledge or bind; to compromise, expose or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step; -- often used reflexively; as, to commit one's self to a certain course.
- (v.t.) To do; to perpetrate, as a crime, sin or fault.
Commit and Advance
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
verb
- Perform an act, usually with a negative connotation.
- usage: "perpetrate a crime"; "pull a bank robbery"
- synonyms: perpetrate, pull
- Give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause.
- usage: "She committed herself to the work of God"; "give one's talents to a good cause"; "consecrate your life to the church"
- synonyms: give, dedicate, consecrate, devote
- Cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution.
- usage: "After the second episode, she had to be committed"; "he was committed to prison"
- synonyms: institutionalize, institutionalise, send, charge
- Confer a trust upon.
- usage: "The messenger was entrusted with the general's secret"; "I commit my soul to God"
- Make an investment.
- usage: "Put money into bonds"
- Engage in or perform.
- usage: "practice safe sex"; "commit a random act of kindness"
- synonyms: practice
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
(DoD) The process of committing one or more air interceptors or surface-to-air missiles for interception against a target track.
Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. 31 January 2011.
noun
- A movement forward.
- usage: "he listened for the progress of the troops"
- synonyms: progress, progression
- A change for the better; progress in development.
- synonyms: improvement, betterment
- A tentative suggestion designed to elicit the reactions of others.
- usage: "she rejected his advances"
- The act of moving forward (as toward a goal.
- synonyms: progress, progression, procession, advancement, forward motion, onward motion
- An amount paid before it is earned.
- synonyms: cash advance
- Increase in price or value.
- usage: "the news caused a general advance on the stock market"
- synonyms: rise
verb
- Move forward, also in the metaphorical sense.
- usage: "Time marches on"
- Bring forward for consideration or acceptance.
- usage: "advance an argument"
- synonyms: throw out
- Increase or raise.
- usage: "boost the voltage in an electrical circuit"
- synonyms: boost, supercharge
- Contribute to the progress or growth of.
- usage: "I am promoting the use of computers in the classroom"
- Cause to move forward.
- usage: "Can you move the car seat forward"
- synonyms: bring forward
- Obtain advantages, such as points, etc..
- usage: "The home team was gaining ground"; "After defeating the Knicks, the Blazers pulled ahead of the Lakers in the battle for the number-one playoff berth in the Western Conference"
- synonyms: gain, win, pull ahead, make headway, get ahead, gain ground
- Develop in a positive way.
- usage: "He progressed well in school"; "My plants are coming along"; "Plans are shaping up"
- Develop further.
- usage: "We are advancing technology every day"
- Give a promotion to or assign to a higher position.
- usage: "John was kicked upstairs when a replacement was hired"; "Women tend not to advance in the major law firms"; "I got promoted after many years of hard work"
- synonyms: promote, upgrade, kick upstairs, raise, elevate
- Pay in advance.
- usage: "Can you advance me some money"
- Move forward.
- usage: "we have to advance clocks and watches when we travel eastward"
- synonyms: set ahead
- Rise in rate or price.
- usage: "The stock market gained 24 points today"
- synonyms: gain
adjective
- Being ahead of time or need.
- usage: "gave advance warning"; "was beforehand with her report"
- synonyms: beforehand
- Situated ahead or going before.
- usage: "an advance party"; "at that time the most advanced outpost was still east of the Rockies"
- synonyms: advanced, in advance
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
- (v.t.) To bring forward; to move towards the van or front; to make to go on.
- (v.t.) To raise; to elevate.
- (v.t.) To raise to a higher rank; to promote.
- (v.t.) To make earlier, as an event or date; to hasten.
- (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.
- (v.t.) To raise to a higher point; to enhance; to raise in rate; as, to advance the price of goods.
- (v.i.) To increase or make progress in any respect; as, to advance in knowledge, in stature, in years, in price.
- (v.) The act of advancing or moving forward or upward; progress.
- (v.) An addition to the price; rise in price or value; as, an advance on the prime cost of goods.
- (v.) A furnishing of something before an equivalent is received (as money or goods), towards a capital or stock or on loan; payment beforehand; the money or goods thus furnished; money or value supplied beforehand.
- (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.
- (v.t.) To extol; to laud.
- (v.i.) To move or go forward; to proceed; as, he advanced to greet me.
- (v.i.) To rise in rank, office or consequence; to be preferred or promoted.
- (v.) Improvement or progression, physically, mentally, morally or socially; as, an advance in health, knowledge or religion; an advance in rank or office.
- (v.) The first step towards the attainment of a result; approach made to gain favor, to form an acquaintance, to adjust a difference, etc.; an overture; a tender; an offer; -- usually in the plural.
- (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.
- (v.t.) To bring to view or notice; to offer or propose; to show; as, to advance an argument.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
Verb: to deliver a portion of money borrowed under a mortgage or loan before the loan instrument requires the money to be delivered. Noun: the money so delivered.