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progress

noun
/ˈpɹəʊ.ɡɹɛs/UK/ˈpɹɑ.ɡɹɛs/US/ˈpɹoʊ.ɡɹɛs/CA/ˈpɹəʉ.ɡɹes//pɹəˈɡɹɛs/CA/pɹəˈɡɹes/

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.

  1. derived from prōgressus
  2. derived from progres
  3. inherited from progresse

Definitions

  1. Movement or advancement through a series of events, or points in time

    Movement or advancement through a series of events, or points in time; development through time.

    • Testing for the new antidote is currently in progress.

  2. Specifically, advancement to a higher or more developed state

    Specifically, advancement to a higher or more developed state; development, growth.

    • 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.

  3. An official journey made by a monarch or other high personage

    An official journey made by a monarch or other high personage; a state journey, a circuit.

    • With the king about to go on progress, the trials and executions were deliberately timed.
  4. ›+ 8 more definitions

    1. A journey forward

      A journey forward; travel.

      • Now Tim began to be struck with these loitering progresses along the garden boundaries in the gloaming, and wondered what they boded.

    2. Movement onwards, forwards, or towards a specific objective or direction

      Movement onwards, forwards, or towards a specific objective or direction; advance.

      • The thick branches overhanging the path made progress difficult.

    3. To move, go, or proceed forward

      To move, go, or proceed forward; to advance.

      • 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.

    4. To develop.

      • Societies progress unevenly.

    5. To expedite.

      • Or […] they came to progress matters in which Dudley had taken a hand, and left defrauded or bound over to the king.

    6. A placename

    7. A programming language

    8. Any of a series of Soviet, later Russian spacecraft.

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Derived

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

Vish — recursive loop

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

9 hops · closes at progress

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