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4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Advantage \Ad*van"tage\ (?; 61, 48), n. [OE. avantage, avauntage F. avantage, fr avant before See {Advance}, and cf {Vantage}.] 1. 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. Give me advantage of some brief discourse. --Shak. The advantages of a close alliance. --Macaulay. 2. Superiority; mastery; -- with of or over Lest Satan should get an advantage of us --2 Cor. ii 11. 3. Superiority of state, or that which gives it benefit; gain; profit; as the advantage of a good constitution. 4. Interest of money; increase; overplus (as the thirteenth in the baker's dozen). [Obs.] And with advantage means to pay thy love. --Shak. {Advantage ground}, vantage ground. [R.] --Clarendon. {To have the advantage of} (any one), to have a personal knowledge of one who does not have a reciprocal knowledge. ``You have the advantage of me I don't remember ever to have had the honor.'' --Sheridan. {To take advantage of}, to profit by (often used in a bad sense) to overreach, to outwit. Syn: {Advantage}, {Advantageous}, {Benefit}, {Beneficial}. Usage: We speak of a thing as a benefit, or as beneficial, when it is simply productive of good; as the benefits of early discipline; the beneficial effects of adversity. We speak of a thing as an advantage, or as advantageous, when it affords us the means of getting forward, and places us on a ``vantage ground'' for further effort. Hence there is a difference between the benefits and the advantages of early education; between a beneficial and an advantageous investment of money. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Advantage \Ad*van"tage\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Advantaged}; p. pr & vb n. {Advantaging}.] [F. avantager fr avantage. See {Advance}.] To give an advantage to to further; to promote; to benefit; to profit. The truth is the archbishop's own stiffness and averseness to comply with the court designs, advantaged his adversaries against him --Fuller. What is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away? --Luke ix 25. {To advantage one's self of}, to avail one's self of [Obs.] From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Turn \Turn\, v. i. 1. To move round; to have a circular motion; to revolve entirely, repeatedly, or partially; to change position, so as to face differently; to whirl or wheel round; as a wheel turns on its axis; a spindle turns on a pivot; a man turns on his heel. The gate . . . on golden hinges turning. --Milton. 2. Hence to revolve as if upon a point of support; to hinge; to depend; as the decision turns on a single fact Conditions of peace certainly turn upon events of war. --Swift. 3. To result or terminate; to come about to eventuate; to issue. If we repent seriously, submit contentedly, and serve him faithfully, afflictions shall turn to our advantage. --Wake. 4. To be deflected; to take a different direction or tendency; to be directed otherwise; to be differently applied; to be transferred; as to turn from the road. Turn from thy fierce wrath. --Ex. xxxii 12. Turn ye turn ye from your evil ways. --Ezek. xxxiii 11. The understanding turns inward on itself and reflects on its own operations. --Locke. 5. To be changed, altered, or transformed; to become transmuted; also to become by a change or changes; to grow; as wood turns to stone; water turns to ice; one color turns to another; to turn Mohammedan. I hope you have no intent to turn husband. --Shak. Cygnets from gray turn white. --Bacon. 6. To undergo the process of turning on a lathe; as ivory turns well 7. Specifically: a To become acid; to sour; -- said of milk, ale, etc b To become giddy; -- said of the head or brain. I'll look no more Lest my brain turn. --Shak. c To be nauseated; -- said of the stomach. d To become inclined in the other direction; -- said of scales. e To change from ebb to flow, or from flow to ebb; -- said of the tide. f (Obstetrics) To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery. 8. (Print.) To invert a type of the same thickness, as temporary substitute for any sort which is exhausted. {To turn about}, to face to another quarter; to turn around {To turn again}, to come back after going; to return. --Shak. {To turn against}, to become unfriendly or hostile to {To turn} {aside or away}. a To turn from the direct course; to withdraw from a company; to deviate. b To depart; to remove. c To avert one's face. {To turn back}, to turn so as to go in an opposite direction; to retrace one's steps. {To turn in}. a To bend inward. b To enter for lodgings or entertainment. c To go to bed. [Colloq.] {To turn into}, to enter by making a turn; as to turn into a side street. {To turn off}, to be diverted; to deviate from a course; as the road turns off to the left {To turn on} or {upon}. a To turn against; to confront in hostility or anger. b To reply to or retort. c To depend on as the result turns on one condition. {To turn out}. a To move from its place as a bone. b To bend or point outward; as his toes turn out c To rise from bed. [Colloq.] d To come abroad; to appear; as not many turned out to the fire. e To prove in the result; to issue; to result; as the crops turned out poorly. {To turn over}, to turn from side to side to roll; to tumble. {To turn round}. a To change position so as to face in another direction. b To change one's opinion; to change from one view or party to another. {To turn to}, to apply one's self to have recourse to to refer to ``Helvicus's tables may be turned to on all occasions.'' --Locke. {To turn to account}, {profit}, {advantage}, or the like to be made profitable or advantageous; to become worth the while {To turn under}, to bend, or be folded, downward or under {To turn up}. a To bend, or be doubled, upward. b To appear; to come to light; to transpire; to occur; to happen. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: advantage n : the quality of having a superior or more favorable position; "he experience gave him the advantage over me" [syn: {vantage}] [ant: {disadvantage}] v : give an advantage to [ant: {disadvantage}]
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