Progress
['prəʊgres] or ['prɑɡrɛs]
Definition
(noun.) the act of moving forward (as toward a goal).
(noun.) a movement forward; 'he listened for the progress of the troops'.
(verb.) develop in a positive way; 'He progressed well in school'; 'My plants are coming along'; 'Plans are shaping up'.
Typist: Wilhelmina--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A moving or going forward; a proceeding onward; an advance
(n.) In actual space, as the progress of a ship, carriage, etc.
(n.) In the growth of an animal or plant; increase.
(n.) In business of any kind; as, the progress of a negotiation; the progress of art.
(n.) In knowledge; in proficiency; as, the progress of a child at school.
(n.) Toward ideal completeness or perfection in respect of quality or condition; -- applied to individuals, communities, or the race; as, social, moral, religious, or political progress.
(n.) A journey of state; a circuit; especially, one made by a sovereign through parts of his own dominions.
(v. i.) To make progress; to move forward in space; to continue onward in course; to proceed; to advance; to go on; as, railroads are progressing.
(v. i.) To make improvement; to advance.
(v. t.) To make progress in; to pass through.
Checker: Wendy
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Advancement, advance, progression, proficiency.[2]. Growth, increase, improvement.
v. n. Advance, proceed, go on, get on, go ahead, get ahead, get forward, get along, make head, make headway, work one's way, make one's way, make progress.
Inputed by Jill
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See ADVANCE]
SYN:Advancement, advance, movement, proceeding, Way, journey, proficiency, speed,growth
ANT:Delay, stoppage, retreat, stay, retrogression, failure, relapse
Inputed by Jeff
Definition
n. a going forward or onward: advance: improvement of any kind: proficiency: course: passage from place to place: procession: a journey of state: a circuit.—v.i. Prōgress′ to go forward: to make progress: to grow better: to proceed: to advance: to improve.—v.t. (Shak.) to move or push forward.—n. Prōgres′sion motion onward: act or state of moving onward: progress: regular and gradual advance: increase or decrease of numbers or magnitudes according to a fixed law: (mus.) a regular succession of chords or the movements of the parts in harmony.—adj. Prōgres′sional.—ns. Prōgres′sionist Prog′ressist one who believes in the progress of society and its future perfection: one who believes in the development of animals and plants from one simple form.—adj. Prōgress′ive progressing or moving forward: advancing gradually: improving.—n. one in favour of reform.—adv. Prōgress′ively.—n. Prōgress′iveness.—Arithmetical progression (see Arithmetic); Geometrical progression a series of numbers or quantities in which each succeeding one is produced by multiplying or dividing the preceding one by a fixed number or quantity as 1 4 16 64 &c. or 18 6 2; Harmonic progression (see Harmonic); Musical progression the regular succession of chords or the movement of the parts of a musical composition in harmony where the key continues unchanged.
Checked by Dale
Examples
- So old an art, and so great and continuous a need for its products necessarily must have resulted in much development and progress. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- That is not the way things come about: we grow into a new point of view: only afterwards, in looking back, do we see the landmarks of our progress. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- It is our natural progress, I have heard. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- So that the progress of future inventions depends on the outcome of the great economic, industrial, and social battles which are now looming on the pathway of the future. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The battle-field was so densely covered with forest that but little could be seen, by any one person, as to the progress made. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The moving of passengers and freight seems to be directly related to the progress of civilization, and the factor whose influence has been most felt in this field is the steam locomotive. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- There is no apparent relation between effects so dissimilar; yet the steps of progress can be distinctly traced, from the attraction of a feather to the development of the electric telegraph. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- To that had life progressed 3000 or 4000 years ago from its starting-place in the slime of the tidal beaches. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- So mankind has progressed through savagery, chattel slavery, serfdom, to wage slavery or the capitalism of to-day. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- I now telegraphed to Washington: The fight to-day progressed favorably. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Mrs. Bry, to Mrs. Fisher's despair, had not progressed beyond the point of weighing her social alternatives in public. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- The preparations at Corpus Christi for an advance progressed as rapidly in the absence of some twenty or more lieutenants as if we had been there. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- He worked all that winter, meeting the many practical difficulties that arose as he progressed with his machine, and devising solutions for overcoming each. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- This Art Slow in Growth, but no Art Progressed Faster. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- This accident caused some delay, but the other tubes were in the meantime progressing, and the completed bridge was opened for public traffic on the 21st of October, 1850. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- In another half hour he was progressing rapidly, and, but for an exceptional word now and again, he found it very plain sailing. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- From the 23d of May the work of fortifying and pushing forward our position nearer to the enemy had been steadily progressing. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- That matter of Herbert's was still progressing, and everything with me was as I have brought it down to the close of the last preceding chapter. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- How are the rest of your affairs progressing, apart from the business? D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- My investigation seemed to be progressing. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- The world, it is evident, was not progressing during these two centuries of Roman prosperity. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Yet, clumsily or smoothly, the world, it seems, progresses and will progress. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The author apparently believes that organisation progresses by sudden leaps, but that the effects produced by the conditions of life are gradual. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
Editor: Nat