Proceed
[prə'siːd] or [pro'sid]
Definition
(verb.) follow a certain course; 'The inauguration went well'; 'how did your interview go?'.
(verb.) move ahead; travel onward in time or space; 'We proceeded towards Washington'; 'She continued in the direction of the hills'; 'We are moving ahead in time now'.
Editor: Rhoda--From WordNet
Definition
(v. i.) To move, pass, or go forward or onward; to advance; to continue or renew motion begun; as, to proceed on a journey.
(v. i.) To pass from one point, topic, or stage, to another; as, to proceed with a story or argument.
(v. i.) To issue or come forth as from a source or origin; to come from; as, light proceeds from the sun.
(v. i.) To go on in an orderly or regulated manner; to begin and carry on a series of acts or measures; to act by method; to prosecute a design.
(v. i.) To be transacted; to take place; to occur.
(v. i.) To have application or effect; to operate.
(v. i.) To begin and carry on a legal process.
(n.) See Proceeds.
Typist: Paul
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. [1]. Progress, advance, go or pass on, move forward, make progress, get on, push on, go ahead, get ahead, make headway, get forward, get along, hold or keep one's course.[2]. Arise, spring, come, issue, emanate, originate, flow, follow, result, ensue, accrue, come out, go forth, be derived, be caused, take rise, be owing, be due.[3]. Act, conduct one's self, take steps, take measures, set to work, go about any thing.
Inputed by Josiah
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Move, pass, advance, progress, continue, issue, emanate, flow, arise
ANT:Recede, deviate, retreat, stand, stop, stay, desist, discontinue, retire
SYN:Receipts, produce, returns, avail, profits, income,[See INCOME]
Checker: Roderick
Definition
v.i. to go forward: to advance: to act according to a method: to go from point to point: to issue: to be produced: to prosecute: to take an academic degree: (Shak.) to be transacted done.—ns. Procē′dure the act of proceeding or moving forward: a step taken or an act performed: progress: process: conduct; Proceed′er one who goes forward or makes progress; Proceed′ing a going forward: progress: step: operation: transaction: (pl.) a record of the transactions of a society: (Shak.) advancement.—n.pl. Pro′ceeds the money arising from anything: rent: produce.—Special proceeding a judicial proceeding other than an action as for example a writ of mandamus; Summary proceedings certain statutory remedies taken without the formal bringing of an action by process and pleading.
Typed by Lillian
Examples
- It is only in the conviction that I may trust you never to betray me, that I can proceed. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Let us proceed. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- I now proceed to the second remarkable circumstance, which I proposed to take notice of. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- I signified my readiness to proceed, but our guides protested against such a measure. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- You had mentioned Geneva as the name of your native town; and towards this place I resolved to proceed. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- If we proceed along the old path, my belief, I said, is that we shall find the answer. Plato. The Republic.
- I DID proceed to Windsor, but not with the intention of remaining there. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- They have no fondness for their colts or foals, but the care they take in educating them proceeds entirely from the dictates of reason. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- But in the vernacular, the mind proceeds directly from the symbol to the thing signified. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Doing proceeds from needs and aims at change. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Because, proceeds my Lady, I have been thinking of the subject, which is tiresome to me. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The reference,' proceeds Mortimer, 'which I suppose to be made by my honourable and fair enslaver opposite, is to the following circumstance. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Well, he proceeds, throwing off his disappointment, next and last, those plans of mine. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The fact is, Mr. Smallweed, proceeds George, that I find myself in rather an unpleasant state of mind. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- At that point I slackened my pace and proceeded cautiously, but I saw no one, and heard no voices. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Here I borrowed a horse from my uncle, and the following day we proceeded on our journey. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- She thought the praise not warm enough, and proceeded to direct attention to the various decorative points of her attire. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The trees of the forest attracted my deep admiration as I proceeded toward the sea. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- He returned Mr. Pott's gaze of stone, and in compliance with that gentleman's request, proceeded to make the most he could of the 'serpent. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Tars Tarkas advanced toward me, holding out one of his arms, and we thus proceeded to the plaza without further mishap. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- Reassured by her mistress' confident tone, Eliza proceeded nimbly and adroitly with her toilet, laughing at her own fears, as she proceeded. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Before I had time to feel shocked, at this, I was horror-struck by an entirely unexpected proceeding on the part of Mr. Godfrey. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- My next proceeding was to gain as much additional evidence as I could procure from other people without exciting suspicion. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Mrs Lammle was proceeding with every reassuring wile, when the head of that young lady suddenly went back against the wall again and her eyes closed. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- As he was proceeding along the sands, he struck his foot against something, and fell all his length on the ground. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- The hopelessness and the imprudence of this proceeding failed to strike me before I had actually written the opening lines of the letter. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Each possesses a separate and independent province with its own peculiar aims and ways of proceeding. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- You have, no doubt, a personal motive for proceeding, into which it is not my business to inquire. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
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