verb

• To move forward in space or time.
  "I advanced towards him step by step, stopping sometimes for fear of waking him."
• To move forward in space or time.
  "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."
• To move forward in space or time.
  "I can promise you that you will feel even less humorous as the evening advances."
• To raise, be raised.
  "The fringed Curtaines of thine eyes aduance."

noun

• (often in the plural) An opening approach or overture, now especially of an unwelcome or sexual nature.
  "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"