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[ noun ] gradual improvement or growth or development

Synonyms

advancement

Examples

: "advancement of knowledge" "great progress in the arts" "their research and development gave them an advantage"

Used in print

(John Harnsberger and Robert P. Wilkins,...)

This traffic , he declared prophetically , `` tho ' it might be of small account at_first , would increase with the progress of our Settlements '' .

(Brainard Cheney, "Christianity and the Tragic Vision-Ut...)

Ralph_Gabriel gave it the name of Protestant philosophy of Progress .

(William C. Smith, "Why Fear Ideas?"...)

If a child had a single drop of Negro blood , he would revert to the ancestral line which , except as slaves under a superior race , had not made one step of progress in 3000 years .

(Arlin Turner, "William Faulkner, Southern Novelist"...)

He and also Mr._Cowley and Mr._Warren have fallen to the temptation which besets many_of us to read into our authors - Nathaniel_Hawthorne , for_example , and Herman_Melville - protests against modernism , material progress , and science which are genuine protests of our own but may not have been theirs .

(1961 Research Highlights of the National Bureau of...)

In_addition to the basic programs in wavelength standards , spectroscopy , solid_state physics , interactions of the free electron and atomic constants which are necessary to provide the foundation for technological progress , the Bureau has strengthened its activities in laboratory astrophysics .

2
[ verb ] develop in a positive way

Examples

"He progressed well in school" "My plants are coming along" "Plans are shaping up"

Used in print

(The Providence Journal...)

Bob_Carroll may not bear quite as close a physical resemblance to LaGuardia as Tom_Bosley does , but I was amazed at the way he became more_and_more Fiorello as the evening progressed , until one had to catch_one's_self_up and remember that this was n't really LaGuardia come_back among us again .

(Handbook of Federal Aids to Communities. U.S. Dep...)

The Government will contract with an eligible applicant to pay up_to one-half of the cost of approved exploration work as it progresses .

(Ross E. McKinney and Howard Edde, "Aerated...)

As construction progresses , the volume of storm drainage will be sharply reduced .

(E. Lucas Myers, "The Vindication of Dr. Nestor,"...)

The dawn progressed and it seemed that the doctor would never be done_with his ministrations when quite abruptly something broke his revery .

The spectacle progressed towards a denouement which was obviously still remote ; the audience attended .

3
[ noun ] the act of moving forward toward a goal

Used in print

(Chicago Daily Tribune...)

Another is a wily countryman called Larkin , whose blandly boisterous progress has been chronicled , I believe , in earlier volumes of Mr._Bates ' comedie_humaine .

(Frank Oppenheimer, "Science and Fear-- A Discussion...)

In some areas , the progress is slower than in others .

(Bruce Palmer, "My Brother's Keeper", Many Are...)

His steps were short and stiff , and , with his head thrown_back , his progress was a supercilious strut .

4
[ noun ] a movement forward

Synonyms

advance progression

Examples

"he listened for the progress of the troops"

Used in print

(L. Don Leet and Florence J. Leet, editors, The World of...)

While accounts of the progress of the tsunami came_in from various points in the Pacific ( Midway reported it was covered with nine feet of water ) , the Hawaiian station made its calculations and notified the military_services and the police that the first big wave would arrive_at Honolulu at 23_:_30 Greenwich_time .

(Helen Hooven Santmyer, "There Were Fences"...)

If a child watched its progress he whispered , `` Hay , hay , load of hay - make a wish and turn_away '' , and then stared rigidly in the opposite direction until the sound of the horses ' feet returned no_more .

5
[ verb ] move forward, also in the metaphorical sense

Examples

: "Time marches on"

Used in print

(Harry Olesker, Impact....)

For fifty-five years he had lived , progressing towards a no-goal , eating , working , breathing without plan , without reason .

6
[ verb ] form or accumulate steadily

Examples

"Resistance to the manager's plan built up quickly" "Pressure is building up at the Indian-Pakistani border"

Related terms

develop develop build_up build

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