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Progress   /prˈɑgrˌɛs/  /prəgrˈɛs/  /proʊgrˈɛs/   Listen
noun
Progress  n.  
1.
A moving or going forward; a proceeding onward; an advance; specifically:
(a)
In actual space, as the progress of a ship, carriage, etc.
(b)
In the growth of an animal or plant; increase.
(c)
In business of any kind; as, the progress of a negotiation; the progress of art.
(d)
In knowledge; in proficiency; as, the progress of a child at school.
(e)
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.
2.
A journey of state; a circuit; especially, one made by a sovereign through parts of his own dominions. "The king being returned from his progresse."


verb
Progress  v. t.  To make progress in; to pass through. (Obs.)


Progress  v. i.  (past & past part. progressed; pres. part. progressing)  
1.
To make progress; to move forward in space; to continue onward in course; to proceed; to advance; to go on; as, railroads are progressing. "As his recovery progressed." "Let me wipe off this honorable dew, That silverly doth progress on thy checks." "They progress in that style in proportion as their pieces are treated with contempt." "The war had progressed for some time."
2.
To make improvement; to advance. "If man progresses, art must progress too."





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"Progress" Quotes from Famous Books



... fleets had made a desperate and almost successful attempt to force the Dardanelles. (Vol. III, 423-437.) Their failure had been followed by a land expedition, which took root at the southern tip of the Gallipoli Peninsula, made slight progress inward and was halted only a short distance south and west of the commanding ...
— The Story of the Great War, Volume V (of 8) • Francis J. (Francis Joseph) Reynolds, Allen L. (Allen Leon)
... the least hesitation, and next day intimated to his sister, who bore the indignity with surprising resignation, and did not therefore desist from her scheme, unpromising as it seemed to be, until her attention was called off, and engaged in another care, which for some time interrupted the progress of ...
— The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, Volume I • Tobias Smollett
... which was about one thousand eight hundred leagues to the westward of the continent of America, and in all this track we had no indication of a continent. The men now began to be very sickly, the scurvy having made great progress among them, and as I found that all my endeavours to keep in a high southern latitude at this time were ineffectual, and that the badness of the weather, the variableness of the winds, and above all, the defects of the ship, rendered our progress slow, ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. 12 • Robert Kerr
... all we can do, until our medical men can make some progress. We evacuated an asteroid colony and began to ship into it any person showing any of the symptoms, using a cruiser piloted by remote control. That ...
— This World Must Die! • Horace Brown Fyfe
... fresh, and everything appeared favorable for the success of our expedition, especially as we realized that the progress of the Indians must necessarily be somewhat impeded by the large number of animals they were ...
— The Young Trail Hunters • Samuel Woodworth Cozzens


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