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Proceeding   /prəsˈidɪŋ/  /proʊsˈidɪŋ/   Listen
Proceeding

noun
1.
(law) the institution of a sequence of steps by which legal judgments are invoked.  Synonyms: legal proceeding, proceedings.



Proceed

verb
(past & past part. proceeded; pres. part. proceeding)
1.
Continue talking.  Synonyms: carry on, continue, go on.  "But there is no choice" , "Carry on--pretend we are not in the room"
2.
Move ahead; travel onward in time or space.  Synonyms: continue, go forward.  "She continued in the direction of the hills" , "We are moving ahead in time now"
3.
Follow a procedure or take a course.  Synonyms: go, move.  "She went through a lot of trouble" , "Go about the world in a certain manner" , "Messages must go through diplomatic channels"
4.
Follow a certain course.  Synonym: go.  "How did your interview go?"
5.
Continue a certain state, condition, or activity.  Synonyms: continue, go along, go on, keep.  "We continued to work into the night" , "Keep smiling" , "We went on working until well past midnight"



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"Proceeding" Quotes from Famous Books



... brown house; a chimney coming out of the middle of a roof; not a tree nearer than the orchard, and not a flower at the door. At one end projects a kitchen; from the kitchen projects a wood-shed and wagon-cover, occupied at night by hens; beyond the wood-shed, a hog-pen, fragrant and musical. Proceeding no farther in this direction, we look directly across the road, to where the barn stands, like the hull of a great black ship-of-the-line, with its port-holes opened threateningly upon the fort opposite, out ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, Issue 10, August, 1858 • Various

... Hazeldean—considers with more repugnance and aversion than that same cold-blooded ceremonial. It is not within the range of an Englishman's ordinary habits of thinking. He prefers going to law,—a much more destructive proceeding of the two. Nevertheless, if an Englishman must fight, why, he will fight. He says "It is very foolish;" he is sure "it is most unchristianlike;" he agrees with all that Philosophy, Preacher, and Press have laid down on the subject; ...
— My Novel, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... two coelom-sacs begins very early in the lancelet, before they are yet severed from the primitive gut, so that at first each segment-cavity (us) still communicates by a narrow opening with the gut, like an intestinal gland. But this opening soon closes by complete severance, proceeding regularly backwards. The closed segments then extend more, so that their upper half grows upwards like a fold between the ectoderm (ak) and neural tube (n), and the lower half between the ectoderm and alimentary canal (ch; Figure 1.82 d, left half of the figure). Afterwards the two halves completely ...
— The Evolution of Man, V.1. • Ernst Haeckel

... far out on the Pacific ocean, directly in the steamship route, would be likely to attract attention sailing over the southwestern states and Central America. Daring aviators now venture in all directions and at all altitudes above the solid earth, but they are still cautious about proceeding far out over the merciless waters of the oceans which rim the continent of ...
— Boy Scouts in an Airship • G. Harvey Ralphson

... and with some difficulty persuading the reluctant animal to take up his position between the shafts. Philippa went to the rescue, and between them the deed was done, and in a few moments they were seated side by side in the little cart, proceeding ...
— East of the Shadows • Mrs. Hubert Barclay


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