siirtää eteenpäin — meaning in English

English meaning

• advance verb To move forward, or to help something make progress.
• delay noun A period of waiting before something happens; a hold-up.
• push verb To apply force to something so it moves away from you.

Senses

siirtää eteenpäin is used for these senses in English:

• advance To make (something) happen at an earlier time or date; to bring forward, to hasten. [form 15th c.]
• delay To put off until a later time; to defer.
• push (chess, transitive) To move (a pawn) directly forward.
• put forward (idiomatic, transitive) To change the time in a time zone to a later time.

advance — full definition

1. verb To move forward, or to help something make progress.
2. verb To give money before it is normally due.
3. noun Forward movement or progress, or money paid before it is due.
4. adj Happening or done ahead of time.

delay — full definition

1. noun A period of waiting before something happens; a hold-up.
2. verb To put something off until later, or to make it happen later than planned.

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