different between advance vs name

English

Alternative forms

• advaunce (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English avauncen, avancen, borrowed from Anglo-Norman avauncer, avancer, avancier (French avancer), from Vulgar Latin *abanti?re, from Late Latin abante, from Latin ab + ante (“before”). ?d? added in analogy to Latin ad- (cf. Middle French advancer). Compare avaunt.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, Southern England) IPA^(key): /?d?v??ns/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?d?væns/
• (General Australian, General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /?d?va?ns/
• Rhymes: -??ns, -æns

Verb

advance (third-person singular simple present advances, present participle advancing, simple past and past participle advanced)

1. To promote or advantage.
   1. To help the progress of (something); to further. [from 12th c.]
      • 2018, Kareem Shaheen, The Guardian, 26 January:

        Some see it as in effect the end of the Syrian uprising that began with peaceful protests against Assad’s police state in 2011, with opposition fighters working to advance Turkey’s interests at the expense of the revolution’s goals.

   2. To raise (someone) in rank or office; to prefer, to promote. [from 14th c.]
      • 1611, The Bible, Authorized (King James) Version, Esther III.1:

        After these things did king Ahasuerus promote Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes that were with him.

      • 1838, William H. Prescott, History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic

        This, however, was in time evaded by the monarchs, who advanced certain of their own retainers to a level with the ancient peers of the land […]

2. To move forward in space or time.
   1. To move or push (something) forwards, especially forcefully. [from 14th c.]
      • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost:

        Whence and what art thou, execrable shape, / That dar'st, though grim and terrible, advance / Thy miscreated front athwart my way / To yonder gates?

   2. To make (something) happen at an earlier time or date; to bring forward, to hasten. [form 15th c.]
   3. (intransitive) To move forwards; to approach. [from 16th c.]
      • 1829, Marchioness of Lemington, Rosina, or the Virtuous Country Maid, Ninth ed.:

        I advanced towards him step by step, stopping sometimes for fear of waking him.

   4. To provide (money or other value) before it is due, or in expectation of some work; to lend. [from 16th c.]
      • 1869, Anthony Trollope, Phineas Finn:

        “I had intended to ask you to advance me a hundred pounds,” said Phineas.

      • 1871, James William Gilbart, The Principles and Practice of Banking:

        On the urgent representations of several parties of the first importance in the City of London, the bank advanced 120,000l. to the Governor and Company of the Copper Miners […].

   5. To put forward (an idea, argument etc.); to propose. [from 16th c.]
      • 1711, Alexander Pope, An Essay on Crticism:

        Some ne'er advance a Judgement of their own, / But catch the spreading notion of the Town […].

   6. (intransitive) To make progress; to do well, to succeed. [from 16th c.]
      • 2014, Andrew Sparrow, The Guardian, 24 April:

        Earlier the caller said men were more likely to be in senior positions. Clegg says that's partly because the current maternity leave arrangements make it difficult for women to advance in the workplace.

   7. (intransitive) To move forward in time; to progress towards completion. [from 16th c.]
      • 1927, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-book of Sherlock Holmes:

        I can promise you that you will feel even less humorous as the evening advances.

3. To raise, be raised.
   1. (transitive, now archaic) To raise; to lift or elevate. [from 14th c.]
      • c. 1611, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, I.2:

        The fringed Curtaines of thine eyes aduance.

   2. To raise or increase (a price, rate). [from 14th c.]
      • 1924, The Times, 16 July:

        In February last […] bakers advanced the price of bread sold over the counter in London from 8d. to 8½d. per quartern loaf.

   3. To increase (a number or amount). [from 16th c.]
   4. (intransitive) To make a higher bid at an auction. [from 18th c.]

Synonyms

• raise, elevate, exalt, aggrandize, improve, heighten, accelerate, allege, adduce, assign

Antonyms

• regress
• retract (in phonetics)

Derived terms

• advancement
• in advance
• in advance of

Translations

Noun

advance (plural advances)

1. A forward move; improvement or progression.

2. An amount of money or credit, especially given as a loan, or paid before it is due; an advancement.
   • 1917, James Joyce, Dubliners (Counterparts)

     Could he ask the cashier privately for an advance? No, the cashier was no good, no damn good: he wouldn't give an advance.

   • 1780, John Jay, letter dated November 21

     I shall, with pleasure, make the necessary advances.

3. An addition to the price; rise in price or value.

4. (in the plural) An opening approach or overture, now especially of an unwelcome or sexual nature.
   • 1708, Jonathan Swift, The Sentiments of a Church of England Man with Respect to Religion and Government

     For, if it were of any use to recall matters of fact, what is more notorious, than that prince's applying himself first to the church of England? and upon their refusal to fall in with his measures, making the like advances to the dissenters of all kinds, who readily and almost universally complied with him

   • 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot, chapter 4:

     As the sun fell, so did our spirits. I had tried to make advances to the girl again; but she would have none of me, and so I was not only thirsty but otherwise sad and downhearted.

   • 1923, Walter de la Mare, Seaton's Aunt

     I felt vaguely he was a sneak, and remained quite unmollified by advances on his side, which, in a boy's barbarous fashion, unless it suited me to be magnanimous, I haughtily ignored.

Antonyms

• (forward move): regress, regression

Translations

Adjective

advance (comparative more advance, superlative most advance)

1. Completed before necessary or a milestone event.

2. preceding

3. forward

Derived terms

• advance person

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English name, nome, from Old English nama, noma, from Proto-West Germanic *nam?, from Proto-Germanic *namô, from Proto-Indo-European *h?nómn?. Cognates include Saterland Frisian Noome, West Frisian namme, Dutch naam, German Name, Danish navn, Swedish namn, Latin n?men (Spanish nombre). Possible cognates outside of Indo-European include Finnish nimi.

Pronunciation

• enPR: n?m, IPA^(key): /ne?m/
• Rhymes: -e?m

Noun

name (plural names)

1. Any nounal word or phrase which indicates a particular person, place, class, or thing.

   Synonyms: proper name; see also Thesaurus:name

   • Whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.

   • 1904, L. Frank Baum, The Marvelous Land of Oz:

     So good a man as this must surely have a name.

2. Reputation.
   • 1952, Old Testament, Revised Standard Version, Thomas Nelson & Sons, 2 Samuel 8:13:

     And David won a name for himself.[1]

3. An abusive or insulting epithet.

4. A person (or legal person).

   • They list with women each degenerate name.

   • p. 2002, second edition of, 2002, Graham Richards, Putting Psychology in its Place, ?ISBN, page 287 [2]

     Later British psychologists interested in this topic include such major names as Cyril Burt, William McDougall, […] .

   • 2008 edition of, 1998, S. B. Budhiraja and M. B. Athreya, Cases in Strategic Management, ?ISBN page 79 [3]:

     Would it be able to fight the competition from ITC Agro Tech and Liptons who were ready and able to commit large resources? With such big names as competitors, would this business be viable for Marico?

   • 2009 third edition of, 1998, Martin Mowforth and Ian Munt, Tourism and Sustainability, ?ISBN, page 29 [4]:

     International non-governmental organisations (INGOs), including such household names as Amnesty International, Greenpeace and […] .

5. Those of a certain name; a race; a family.
6. (computing) A unique identifier, generally a string of characters.
7. (Britain, finance) An investor in Lloyds of London bearing unlimited liability.
8. Authority.

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

• anonymous
• cognomen
• namely
• nom de guerre
• nom de plume
• nominal
• pseudonym

Descendants

• ? Sranan Tongo: nen
• ? Japanese: ???

Translations

References

• name on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

From Middle English namen, from Old English namian (“to name, mention”) and ?enamian (“to name, call, appoint”), from Proto-West Germanic *nam?n (“to name”). Compare also Old English nemnan, nemnian (“to name, give a name to a person or thing”).

Verb

name (third-person singular simple present names, present participle naming, simple past and past participle named)

1. (ditransitive) To give a name to.

2. (transitive) To mention, specify.

3. (transitive) To identify as relevant or important

4. (transitive) To publicly implicate.

5. (transitive) To designate for a role.

6. (transitive, Westminster system politics) To initiate a process to temporarily remove a member of parliament who is breaking the rules of conduct.

Synonyms

• (give a name to): bename, designate, dub; see also Thesaurus:denominate

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• christen
• epithet
• moniker
• sobriquet

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Spanish ñame, substituting n for the unfamiliar Spanish letter ñ. Doublet of yam.

Noun

name (plural names)

1. Any of several types of true yam (Dioscorea) used in Caribbean Spanish cooking.

Synonyms

• cush-cush

Translations

Anagrams

• -mane, -nema, Amen, Eman, Enma, MEAN, MENA, Mena, NEMA, NMEA, amen, mane, mean, mnae, neam

Afrikaans

Noun

name

1. plural of naam

Central Malay

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit ????? (n?man). Cognate with English name.

Noun

name

1. name

References

• "Besemah" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.

Cimbrian

Noun

name ?

1. (Tredici Comuni) name

References

• “name” in Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

name

1. (archaic) singular past subjunctive of nemen

Noun

name

1. (archaic) Dative singular form of naam

Anagrams

• amen, mane

Eastern Arrernte

Noun

name

1. grass

References

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

Japanese

Romanization

name

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Lithuanian

Noun

name m

1. locative singular of namas
2. vocative singular of namas

Middle Dutch

Etymology 1

From Old Dutch namo, from Proto-Germanic *namô.

Noun

n?me m or f

1. name
2. fame, reputation

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

• n?men

Descendants

• Dutch: naam
• Limburgish: naam, naom

Etymology 2

From Old Dutch *n?ma, from Proto-Germanic *n?m?.

Noun

nâme f

1. taking
2. receiving

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Related terms

• n?men

Descendants

• Dutch: name (mostly in compounds)

Further reading

• “name”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “name (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN, page I
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “name (II)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN, page II

Middle English

Alternative forms

• nome

Etymology

From Old English nama, from Proto-West Germanic *nam?, from Proto-Germanic *namô, from Proto-Indo-European *h?nómn?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?na?m(?)/

Noun

name (plural names or namen)

1. name

Related terms

• surname

Descendants

• English: name
• Scots: name, naim, nem, nome
• Yola: naame

References

• “n?me, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian ????? (nâme).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n???m?/

Noun

name f

1. letter (a document)

Pali

Alternative forms

Verb

name

1. singular optative active of namati (“to bend”)

Volapük

Noun

name

1. dative singular of nam

Zazaki

Etymology

Compare Middle Persian ????????????? (n?m /n?m/).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n??me/

Noun

name (nam) ?

1. name
2. reputation