progress
English
Etymology 1
From Old French progres (“a going forward”), from Latin prōgressus (“an advance”), from the participle stem of prōgredī (“to go forward, advance, develop”), from pro- (“forth, before”) + gradi (“to walk, go”).
Pronunciation
Noun
progress (countable and uncountable, plural progresses)
- Movement or advancement through a series of events, or points in time; development through time. [from 15th c.]
- Testing for the new antidote is currently in progress.
- Specifically, advancement to a higher or more developed state; development, growth. [from 15th c.]
- 2012 January 1, Stephen Ledoux, “Behaviorism at 100”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, page 60:
- Becoming more aware of the progress that scientists have made on behavioral fronts can reduce the risk that other natural scientists will resort to mystical agential accounts when they exceed the limits of their own disciplinary training.
- Science has made extraordinary progress in the last fifty years.
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- An official journey made by a monarch or other high personage; a state journey, a circuit. [from 15th c.]
- 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 7:
- ... Queen Elizabeth in one of her progresses, stopping at Crawley to breakfast, was so delighted with some remarkably fine Hampshire beer which was then presented to her by the Crawley of the day (a handsome gentleman with a trim beard and a good leg), that she forthwith erected Crawley into a borough to send two members to Parliament ...
- 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin 2012, p. 124:
- With the king about to go on progress, the trials and executions were deliberately timed.
- 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 7:
- (now rare) A journey forward; travel. [from 15th c.]
- 1887, Thomas Hardy, The Woodlanders:
- Now Tim began to be struck with these loitering progresses along the garden boundaries in the gloaming, and wondered what they boded.
- 1887, Thomas Hardy, The Woodlanders:
- Movement onwards or forwards or towards a specific objective or direction; advance. [from 16th c.]
- The thick branches overhanging the path made progress difficult.
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Etymology 2
From the noun. Lapsed into disuse in the 17th century, except in the US. Considered an Americanism on reintroduction to use in the UK.
Pronunciation
- enPR: prəgrĕs', IPA(key): /pɹəˈɡɹɛs/
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Verb
progress (third-person singular simple present progresses, present participle progressing, simple past and past participle progressed)
- (intransitive) to move, go, or proceed forward; to advance.
- They progress through the museum.
- (intransitive) to improve; to become better or more complete.
- Societies progress unevenly.
- (transitive) To move (something) forward; to advance, to expedite.
- 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin 2012, p. 266:
- Or […] they came to progress matters in which Dudley had taken a hand, and left defrauded or bound over to the king.
- 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin 2012, p. 266:
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Further reading
- progress in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- progress in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Latvian
Etymology
Via other European languages, ultimately borrowed from Latin prōgressus (“an advance”), from the participle stem of prōgredī (“to go forward, advance, develop”), from pro- (“forth, before”) + gradi (“to walk, go”).
Pronunciation
Noun
progress m (1st declension)
- progress (development, esp. to a higher, fuller, more advanced state; transition from a lower to a higher level)
- sociālais progress ― social progress
- cilvēces progress ― humanity's progress
- ražošanas efektivitātes paaugstināšanās pamats ir zinātniski tehniskais progress ― the basis for the increase in production effectivity is scientific and technical progress
- mākslas progress - tā nav vienkārša attīstība ― art progress: this is no simple evolution
- Synonyms: attīstība, evolūcija
Declension
singular (vienskaitlis) | plural (daudzskaitlis) | |
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nominative (nominatīvs) | progress | progresi |
accusative (akuzatīvs) | progresu | progresus |
genitive (ģenitīvs) | progresa | progresu |
dative (datīvs) | progresam | progresiem |
instrumental (instrumentālis) | progresu | progresiem |
locative (lokatīvs) | progresā | progresos |
vocative (vokatīvs) | progress | progresi |
Related terms
- progresija
- progresēt
- progresīvs