Index of English words, starting with "ad"

(1) - Adust (a.) Having much heat in the constitution and little serum in the blood. [Obs.] Hence: Atrabilious; sallow; gloomy.
(2) - Adust (a.) Looking as if or scorched; sunburnt.
(3) - Adust (a.) Inflamed or scorched; fiery.

(1) - Advance (v. i.) To move or go forward; to proceed; as, he advanced to greet me.
(2) - Advance (v. t.) To raise; to elevate.
(3) - Advance (v. t.) To raise to a higher rank; to promote.
(4) - Advance (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.
(5) - Advance (v. t.) To bring to view or notice; to offer or propose; to show; as, to advance an argument.
(6) - Advance (v. t.) To make earlier, as an event or date; to hasten.
(7) - Advance (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.
(8) - Advance (v. t.) To bring forward; to move towards the van or front; to make to go on.
(9) - Advance (v. t.) To extol; to laud.
(10) - Advance (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.
(11) - Advance (v. i.) To increase or make progress in any respect; as, to advance in knowledge, in stature, in years, in price.
(12) - Advance (v. i.) To rise in rank, office, or consequence; to be preferred or promoted.
(13) - Advance (v.) The act of advancing or moving forward or upward; progress.
(14) - Advance (v.) Improvement or progression, physically, mentally, morally, or socially; as, an advance in health, knowledge, or religion; an advance in rank or office.
(15) - Advance (v.) An addition to the price; rise in price or value; as, an advance on the prime cost of goods.
(16) - Advance (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.
(17) - Advance (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.
(18) - Advance (v. t.) To raise to a higher point; to enhance; to raise in rate; as, to advance the price of goods.

(1) - Advanced (a.) Far on in life or time.
(2) - Advanced (a.) In the front or before others, as regards progress or ideas; as, advanced opinions, advanced thinkers.
(3) - Advanced (a.) In the van or front.
(4) - Advanced (imp. & p. p.) of Advance

(1) - Advancement (v. t.) Settlement on a wife, or jointure.
(2) - Advancement (v. t.) Property given, usually by a parent to a child, in advance of a future distribution.
(3) - Advancement (v. t.) An advance of money or value; payment in advance. See Advance, 5.
(4) - Advancement (v. t.) The act of advancing, or the state of being advanced; progression; improvement; furtherance; promotion to a higher place or dignity; as, the advancement of learning.

(1) - Advantage (v. t.) To give an advantage to; to further; to promote; to benefit; to profit.
(2) - Advantage (n.) Interest of money; increase; overplus (as the thirteenth in the baker's dozen).
(3) - Advantage (n.) Superiority of state, or that which gives it; benefit; gain; profit; as, the advantage of a good constitution.
(4) - Advantage (n.) Superiority; mastery; -- with of or over.
(5) - Advantage (n.) Any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success, or to any desired end; benefit; as, the enemy had the advantage of a more elevated position.