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English Dictionary: advantage	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
advantage n the quality of having a superior or more favorable position; "the experience gave him the advantage over me" Synonym(s): advantage, vantage Antonym(s): disadvantage (tennis) first point scored after deuce benefit resulting from some event or action; "it turned out to my advantage"; "reaping the rewards of generosity" Synonym(s): advantage, reward Antonym(s): penalty v give an advantage to; "This system advantages the rich" Antonym(s): disadvantage, disfavor, disfavour
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Advantage \Advan"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. [bd]You have the advantage of me; I don't remember ever to have had the honor.[b8] --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 [bd]vantage ground[b8] 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 \Advan"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. [bd]Helvicus's tables may be turned to on all occasions.[b8] --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.