Meanings (ES + gloss)
avance • progreso
A forward move; improvement or progression.
an advance in health or knowledge
an advance in rank or office
adelanto • avance
An amount of money or credit, especially given as a loan, or paid before it is due; an advancement.
Could he ask the cashier privately for an advance? No, the cashier was no good, no damn good: he wouldn't give an advance.
I shall, with pleasure, make the necessary advances.
coqueteo • flirteo • insinuación
An opening approach or overture, now especially of an unwelcome or sexual nature.
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.
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…
Meanings (ES + gloss)
progresar
To promote or advantage.
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…
anticipar • avanzar
To move forward in space or time.
[S]in and sorrow it were, considering the hardships of this noble and gallant knight, no whit mentioning or weighing those we ourselves have endured, if we were now either to advan…