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Progress   /prˈɑgrˌɛs/  /prəgrˈɛs/  /proʊgrˈɛs/   Listen
Progress

noun
1.
Gradual improvement or growth or development.  Synonym: advancement.  "Great progress in the arts"
2.
The act of moving forward (as toward a goal).  Synonyms: advance, advancement, forward motion, onward motion, procession, progression.  Antonym: retreat.
3.
A movement forward.  Synonyms: advance, progression.
verb
(past & past part. progressed; pres. part. progressing)
1.
Develop in a positive way.  Synonyms: advance, come along, come on, get along, get on, shape up.  "My plants are coming along" , "Plans are shaping up"  Antonym: regress.
2.
Move forward, also in the metaphorical sense.  Synonyms: advance, go on, march on, move on, pass on.  Antonym: recede.
3.
Form or accumulate steadily.  Synonyms: build, build up, work up.  "Pressure is building up at the Indian-Pakistani border"



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"Progress" Quotes from Famous Books



... I had managed to progress a little in the acquisition of a knowledge of her tongue, so that I knew many of the animals and reptiles by their Caspakian names, and trees and ferns and grasses. I knew the words for sea and river and cliff, for sky and ...
— The People that Time Forgot • Edgar Rice Burroughs

... Progress was slow, for the snow was deep in places. At the old tumbled-down cabin the trail turned and ran up the mountain side. Willis felt a strange pounding at his heart. The noise on the mountain had stopped, but every now and then he heard the sound of voices ...
— Buffalo Roost • F. H. Cheley

... by no means satisfied with the progress which his patient was making. He had called at the house with Mr Hume, and had expressed himself very decidedly as to the desirableness of a change for the young man, but he did not approve of Nethermuir, and he startled them ...
— Allison Bain - By a Way she knew not • Margaret Murray Robertson

... Manhattan, that are getting to be renowned for their rascality and orgies. They probably want nothing but the proclamation of a governor in vindication of their principles, annexed to a pardon of some of their unfortunate children, to render both classical. If we continue to make much further progress in political logic, and in the same direction as that in which we have already proceeded so far, neither will probably long be in want of this illustration. Votes can be given by the virtuous citizens of both these purlieus, as well as by the virtuous ...
— Jack Tier or The Florida Reef • James Fenimore Cooper

... clasp her. He was too much absorbed in that gaze to notice anything beyond it; but Mildred was suddenly aware of steps and a voice in the adjoining room. Tims and Mr. Fitzalan, in the course of a conscientious survey of all the pictures on the walls, had reached this point in their progress. The window-seat on which Goring and Mildred were sitting was visible through a doorway, and Tims had ...
— The Invader - A Novel • Margaret L. Woods


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