You can picture 'promote' as putting your hand behind something and pushing it forward and up — giving it a boost so it climbs to a higher, more visible place. Whether it's a person, a product, a team, or an idea, you are the force that moves it up in the world.
From the word’s history
From Latin promovere = pro- 'forward' + movere 'to move' — literally 'to move forward, push onward'. Every modern sense is still that forward-and-up push.
源自拉丁文 promovere，pro-（向前）+ movere（移動），字面就是「往前推、向前帶」。今天所有的用法，骨子裡都還是這股「往前、往上推」的動作。
etymonline.com/word/promote (Latin promovere, pro- 'forward' + movere 'to move')
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原始詞典資料8 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
promoteverb/pɹəˈmoʊt/
- 1
To raise (someone) to a more important, responsible, or remunerative job or rank.
- He promoted his clerk to office manager.
- 2
To advocate or urge on behalf of (something or someone); to attempt to popularize or sell by means of advertising or publicity.
- They promoted the abolition of daylight saving time.
- They promoted the new film with giant billboards.
- 3
To encourage, urge or incite.
- so that finding myself on the point of going, and loath to leave the tender partner of my joys behind me, I employed all the forwarding motions and arts my experience suggested to me, to promote his keeping me company to our journey's end.
- It appears that Le Guin is promoting a sort of self-critique on her own ideology. Interestingly, although the story does give such an impression, the problematic characteristics of the Anarresti society are far more severe than economic scarcities or isolation.
- 4
regionalhobbieslifestylesportsTo elevate to a higher league.
- At the end of the season, three teams are promoted to the Premier League.
- 5
chemistrynatural-sciencesphysical-sciencesTo increase the activity of (a catalyst) by changing its surface structure.
- 6
board-gameschessgamesTo exchange (a pawn) for a queen or other piece when it reaches the eighth rank.
- Having crossed the chessboard, his pawn was promoted to a queen.
- 7
To move on to a subsequent stage of education.
- At the end of Primary 6 students can promote directly to the secondary section of SIS.
- 8
computingengineeringmathematicsTo treat (a value) as a more capable data type or as having higher priority.
- to promote an int to a long
- Some C# language features will promote values from the stack to the heap.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。