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proceeding

verb
/pɹəˈsiːdɪŋ/

Etymology

By surface analysis, proceed + -ing.

Definitions

  1. present participle and gerund of proceed

  2. The act of one who proceeds, or who prosecutes a design or transaction.

  3. An event or happening

    An event or happening; something that happens.

    • I had a grandstand view of the proceedings.
    • He had often painted himself at a mirror, a tortuous and fascinating proceeding, as every artist knows, and had been forced to admire the way in which he was made.
  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. A published collection of papers presented at an academic conference, or representing the…

      A published collection of papers presented at an academic conference, or representing the acts of a learned society.

    2. Progress or movement from one thing to another.

    3. A measure or step taken in a course of business

      A measure or step taken in a course of business; a transaction.

      • an illegal proceeding
      • a cautious or a violent proceeding
      • The proceedings of the high commission.

    4. Any legal action, especially one that is not a lawsuit.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at proceeding. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at proceeding. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at proceeding

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA