Overture vs Advanced - What's the Difference?
Definition as Noun
- orchestral music played at the beginning of an opera or oratorio
- a tentative suggestion designed to elicit the reactions of others
- something that serves as a preceding event or introduces what follows
Definition as Adjective
- farther along in physical or mental development
- comparatively late in a course of development
- at a higher level in training or knowledge or skill
- (of societies) highly developed especially in technology or industry
- situated ahead or going before
- ahead of the times
- far along in time
- ahead in development; complex or intricate
Examples
- "the child's skeletal age was classified as `advanced'"; "children in the advanced classes in elementary school read far above grade average"
- "the illness had reached an advanced stage"; "an advanced state of exhaustion"
- "an advanced degree"; "an advanced text in physics"; "special seminars for small groups of advanced students at the University"
- "advanced societies"; "an advanced country technologically"
- "an advance party"; "at that time the most advanced outpost was still east of the Rockies"
- "the advanced teaching methods"; "had advanced views on the subject"; "a forward-looking corporation"; "is British industry innovative enough?"
- "a man of advanced age"; "advanced in years"; "a ripe old age"; "the ripe age of 90"
- "advanced technology"; "a sophisticated electronic control system"
- "she rejected his advances"
- "training is a necessary preliminary to employment"; "drinks were the overture to dinner"