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/prˈɑgrˌɛs/ /prəgrˈɛs/ /proʊgrˈɛs/ Listen

noun

Progress n.

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.

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)

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."

To make improvement; to advance. "If man progresses, art must progress too."

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"Progress" Quotes from Famous Books

... the ship would sail. Sir William enjoined it upon Franklin to keep their plans in the utmost secrecy. Consequently, Franklin continued to work for Keimer, not giving him the slightest intimation that measures were in progress for the establishment in Philadelphia, of a printing house which would entirely overshadow his own. This secrecy which was practiced also prevented any one from informing Franklin of the Governor's real character, as ...

— Benjamin Franklin, A Picture of the Struggles of Our Infant Nation One Hundred Years Ago - American Pioneers and Patriots Series • John S. C. Abbott

... horticulture, and almost the love of flowers, is a product of the nineteenth century. But the love of flowers is no new taste in Englishmen, and the science of horticulture is in no way a modern science. We have made large progress in botanical science during the present century, and our easy communications with the whole habitable globe have brought to us thousands of new and beautiful plants in endless varieties; and we have many helps in gardening that were ...

— The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare • Henry Nicholson Ellacombe

... of the story could have occurred only to a writer whose mind was very sensitive to the current of modern thought and progress, while its execution, the setting it forth in proper literary clothing, could be successfully attempted only by one whose active literary ability should be fully equalled by his power of assimilative knowledge both literary and scientific, and no less by his courage, ...

— Paul Patoff • F. Marion Crawford

... mother into the red drawing-room, and it hurt her—though she had now, of necessity, witnessed it many times—it hurt, it still very shrewdly distressed her, to see him walk. As she heard the soft thud and shuffle of his onward progress, followed by the little clatter of the crutches as he laid them upon the floor beside his chair, the brightness died out of Honoria's face. She registered sharp annoyance against herself, for she had not anticipated that this would continue to affect her so much. She supposed she ...

— The History of Sir Richard Calmady - A Romance • Lucas Malet

... commentators have corrupted and obscured him. The opinions prevalent in one age, as truths above the reach of controversy, are confuted and rejected in another, and rise again to reception in remoter times. Thus the human mind is kept in motion without progress. Thus sometimes truth and errour, and sometimes contrarieties of errour, take each other's place by reciprocal invasion. The tide of seeming knowledge, which is poured over one generation, retires and leaves another naked and barren; the sudden meteors of intelligence, ...

— The Works of Samuel Johnson in Nine Volumes - Volume V: Miscellaneous Pieces • Samuel Johnson

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