What's the difference between advance and supercharge?

Advance


Definition:

  • (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 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 bring to view or notice; to offer or propose; to show; as, to advance an argument.
  • (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. t.) To extol; to laud.
  • (v. i.) To move or go forward; to proceed; as, he advanced to greet me.
  • (v. i.) To increase or make progress in any respect; as, to advance in knowledge, in stature, in years, in price.
  • (v. i.) To rise in rank, office, or consequence; to be preferred or promoted.
  • (v.) The act of advancing or moving forward or upward; progress.
  • (v.) Improvement or progression, physically, mentally, morally, or socially; as, an advance in health, knowledge, or religion; an advance in rank or office.
  • (v.) An addition to the price; rise in price or value; as, an advance on the prime cost of goods.
  • (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.
  • (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.
  • (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.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This selective review emphasizes advances in neurochemistry which provide a context for current and future research on neurological and psychiatric disorders encountered in clinical practice.
  • (2) Increased plasmin activity was associated with advancing stage of lactation and older cows after appropriate adjustments were made for the effects of milk yield and SCC.
  • (3) These results suggest that the pelvic floor is affected by progressive denervation but descent during straining tends to decrease with advancing age.
  • (4) An association of cyclophosphamide, fluorouracil and methotrexate already employed with success against solid tumours in other sites was used in the treatment of 62 patients with advanced tumours of the head and neck.
  • (5) When TSLP was pretreated with TF5 in vitro, the most restorative effects on the decreased MLR were found in hyperplastic stage and the effects were becoming less with the advance of tumor developments.
  • (6) Finally the advanced automation of the equipment allowed weekly the evaluation of catecholamines and the whole range of their known metabolites in 36 urine samples.
  • (7) Since the advance and return of sperm inside the tubes could facilitate the interaction of sperm with secretions participating in its maturation, the persistent infertility after vasectomy could be related to the contractile alteration that follows the excessive tubal distention.
  • (8) Over the past decade the use of monoclonal antibodies has greatly advanced our knowledge of the biological properties and heterogeneity that exist within human tumours, and in particular in lung cancer.
  • (9) The automatic half of both the motor which advances the trepan as well as the second motor which rotates the trepan is triggered by the sudden change in electrical resistance between the trepan and the patient's internal body fluid, at the final stage of penetration.
  • (10) Under a revised deal most people are now being vetted on time, but charges for the service have had to rise from £12 and free vetting for volunteers, to £28 for a standard disclosure and £33 for an advanced disclosure.
  • (11) Histological and electron-microscopic study of the lungs of 15 patients who had been treated with bleomycin for advanced squamous cell carcinoma demonstrated marked histological changes in nine.
  • (12) With better understanding of metabolic and compositional requirements, great advances have been made in the area of total parenteral nutrition.
  • (13) Meanwhile Ed Miliband, the Labour leader, waiting anxiously for news of the scale of the Labour advance in his first nationwide electoral test, will urge the electorate not to be duped by the promise of a coalition mark 2, predicting sham concessions by the Conservatives .
  • (14) 16 tube (usually a Baker tube) was inserted by gastrostomy and advanced distally into the colon.
  • (15) Of his number, 266 patients were in the advance stage of their disease while another 42 still had localized cancers.
  • (16) N-Acetyl-beta-D-glucosaminidase (GAD) activities did not change significantly duringlate fetal, neonatal or young adult stages but increased significantly with advancing age.
  • (17) Serial antepartum platelet alloantibody quantitation by an enzyme-linked immunoabsorbent assay revealed rising antibody titers during advancing gestation.
  • (18) Most of the progressive cases were alcoholic, and some showed progression to advanced pancreatitis within 4 years.
  • (19) Expansion of the cell sheet following attachment, and the fusion of epiblasts advancing toward each other, does not require the presence of mineralocorticoid.
  • (20) One hundred and sixteen patients with advanced and metastatic adenocarcinoma of the pancreas were randomized to treatment with combined Streptozotocin and 5-fluorouracil or combined Streptozotocin and cyclophosphamide.

Supercharge


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To charge (a bearing) upon another bearing; as, to supercharge a rose upon a fess.
  • (n.) A bearing charged upon another bearing.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Part of Facebook's success has been timing, says Dr Bernie Hogan, research fellow at the Oxford internet institute, because the world was ready for a shared list of connections that works like a supercharged, definitive phone book for the digital age.
  • (2) Meanwhile, each supercharged natural disaster produces new irony laden snapshots of a climate increasingly inhospitable to the very industries most responsible for its warming.
  • (3) We have to supercharge our efforts.” Klein added that Australia’s lack of renewable energy in its electricity grid is “scandalous” given its potential solar and wind resources.
  • (4) They fear that civil rights concerns over watchlisting are becoming a casualty of political expediency by gun control advocates in a debate supercharged by the massacre of 49 people at an LGBT nightclub in Orlando on 12 June.
  • (5) This 'machine' concept of human performance in combination with the mysticism surrounding vitamins, has led to the faddish belief that additional vitamins are necessary to improve physical performance by means of supercharging the metabolic processes in the body.
  • (6) Currently, Tesla has about 100 Supercharger stations scattered across North America and Europe that give Model S drivers a free power source when traveling long distances, and it plans to open more in China and Japan this year.
  • (7) Between June 2012 and June 2013, its figures show James's supercharged besteseller sold faster than any other author in history – more than 70m books in the first eight months on sale in the US.
  • (8) As of July last year, Hong Kong had the highest density of Tesla superchargers in the world, but drivers in Hong Kong say that is still insufficient.
  • (9) Musk said Tesla discussed a potential Supercharger partnership with BMW this week.
  • (10) He said Mahmood had a “supercharged” entitlement to privacy and compared him to a spy or a Michelin restaurant reviewer whose identity had to be kept secret.
  • (11) Hurricane Sandy especially really shocked the American public into action and supercharged the climate movement here.
  • (12) But really, we're talking crisps here, not supercharged alcopops.
  • (13) There was a 2005‑ish England starring Andrew Flintoff, Marcus Trescothick and the Yorkshireman Joe Root who would put on a supercharged show in the fielding round, utterly outdoing Paul Collingwood.
  • (14) For the current market leaders, it is about providing tech-savvy twenty- and thirtysomethings with a way to generate automatically digital photo albums of unprecedented detail and supercharging their social media-sharing capabilities.
  • (15) From behind the keys of his supercharged typewriter, Ambler produced an astonishing four more novels in the next three years: Epitaph for a Spy, Cause for Alarm, The Mask of Dimitrios and Journey into Fear.
  • (16) For comparison, the 2016 Chevrolet Corvette Z06, one of the fastest sports cars on the road, boasts a 650-horsepower supercharged gasoline V8 engine that produces 650 pound feet of torque and will carry the 3,500-pound car from zero to 60mph in 3 seconds.
  • (17) We are hoping to 'supercharge' rice by giving it a more efficient way to photosynthesise – or convert sunlight to grain – by using "C4" photosynthesis found in other plants such as corn, which could result in up to 50% higher production, all while using less water and nutrients," said an Irri spokeswoman in Manila.
  • (18) The use of The Runaways' searing 70s rock stomp Cherry Bomb superbly conveys the supercharged swagger that seems to power the movie.
  • (19) It could be a road-block for an invading army, but the assailant in question has come in the form of an office block across the street – one that wields a supercharged solar "death ray".
  • (20) Ecotricity has invested in a network of charging points, and Tesla has its own network of Superchargers .

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