progress
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English progresse, from Old French progres (“a going forward”), from Latin prōgressus (“an advance”), from the participle stem of prōgredī (“to go forward, advance, develop”), from pro- (“forth, before”) + gradi (“to walk, go”). Displaced native Old English forþgang.
Base: gradior
Affixes: pro-
Inflected forms:
form: progresses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: progresses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: progressing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: progressed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: progressed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Movement or advancement through a series of events, or points in time; development through time.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Testing for the new antidote is currently in progress.
gloss: Specifically, advancement to a higher or more developed state; development, growth.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Science has made extraordinary progress in the last fifty years.
You wish for progress? The Ascians have it. They are deafened by it, crazed by the death of Nature till they are ready to accept Erebus and the rest as gods.
Becoming more aware of the progress that scientists have made on behavioral fronts can reduce the risk that other natural scientists will resort to mystical agential accounts when they exceed the limits of their own disciplinary training.
gloss: An official journey made by a monarch or other high personage; a state journey, a circuit.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: ... Queen Elizabeth in one of her progresses, stopping at Crawley to breakfast, was so delighted with some remarkably fine Hampshire beer which was then presented to her by the Crawley of the day (a handsome gentleman with a trim beard and a good leg), that she forthwith erected Crawley into a borough to send two members to Parliament ...
With the king about to go on progress, the trials and executions were deliberately timed.
gloss: A journey forward; travel.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
uncountable
usually
examples: Now Tim began to be struck with these loitering progresses along the garden boundaries in the gloaming, and wondered what they boded.
gloss: Movement onwards, forwards, or towards a specific objective or direction; advance.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The thick branches overhanging the path made progress difficult.
gloss: To move, go, or proceed forward; to advance.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Visitors progress through the museum at their own pace.
Scotland needed a victory by eight points to have a realistic chance of progressing to the knock-out stages, and for long periods of a ferocious contest looked as if they might pull it off.
gloss: To develop.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Societies progress unevenly.
gloss: To develop.
pos: verb
tags: broadly
intransitive
gloss: To expedite.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Or […] they came to progress matters in which Dudley had taken a hand, and left defrauded or bound over to the king.
Antonyms: regress
retrogress
Related words: congress
egress
grade
ingress
progression
progressive
progressivism
progressivist
regress
retrogress
Derived words: antiprogress
anti-progress
cross-progress
in progress
nonprogress
pilgrim's progress
practice makes progress
progress bar
progressist
progressless
progressophobe
progressor
progress report
royal progress
unprogress
work in progress
progressible
unprogressing
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