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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
progress
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
impeded...progress
▪ Storms at sea impeded our progress.
progress report
rapid progress
▪ Both Tom and Victoria had made rapid progress under his guidance.
steady progress
▪ We're making steady progress in reducing the unemployment rate.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
considerable
▪ Despite considerable progress over the years, the Auditor General's Department consider that there is still much progress to be made.
▪ But they have made considerable progress in a relatively short time.
▪ More immediately, the case study will represent considerable progress.
▪ In an interview Saturday night in Washington, Fujimori said considerable progress has been made in private talks with the rebels.
▪ Even so, by 1941 considerable progress had been made.
▪ He said they would have to make considerable progress if Hearst is to be re-signed before the draft.
▪ These commitments amount to considerable progress, which should offset some of the disappointment felt over debt relief.
▪ Newton himself, faced with a definite programme, that is, guided by a positive heuristic, made considerable progress.
economic
▪ The Association sought to show that the restrictions in the agreement were indeed indispensable to the promotion of technical or economic progress.
▪ The overwhelming reasons cited were the economic progress and develop-ment under his regime, and its relative stability.
▪ It could have defended the frontiers, repressed religious intolerance and done something to accelerate economic and intellectual progress.
▪ These fears were, strongest at a time when great advances in social security were coinciding with great economic progress.
▪ This is our economic argument: a path to personal enrichment from the fruits of economic progress more widely shared.
▪ Dole meant to suggest that if elected he would bring real governmental reform and new national economic progress.
▪ Food is the basic necessity of life and without it economic progress is impossible.
▪ Motor cars are bad. Economic progress is deeply suspect.
further
▪ Government purchasing Public procurement is another area where the 1992 programme calls for further progress.
▪ Research and development and financial services are two further areas where progress is still slow.
▪ Mean while the lift and drag forces are at work, and the kite has achieved the point of no further progress.
▪ The media may well be anti anyway, which may kill any hopes of further progress.
▪ The Committee concluded that a commitment of extra resources was needed if significant further progress was to be made.
▪ A further progress report will be given thereafter.
▪ Economic survival of the enterprise or its further progress depends on managers communicating effectively with employees.
▪ In order to make further progress, we need to specify the savings process.
good
▪ Real convergence Despite the relatively good progress on fiscal and monetary policy, progress on real convergence has been poor.
▪ Children who came to the home unable to walk, talk or feed themselves are making good progress now.
▪ Already they were making good stop-go progress through the traffic lights of the Edgware Road.
▪ We were well pleased with ourselves, for this was the best sustained progress so far.
▪ In her flat and comfortable lace-up shoes, she made good progress on her daily outing.
▪ She was later released from the hospital and is making good progress recovering at home, a hospital spokeswoman said.
▪ Meanwhile, construction of steelwork and major engineering items is making good progress under long lead funding arrangements.
▪ However some branches have managed to make good progress towards meeting their target.
great
▪ In spite of a keen desire to reach greater heights, progress is hindered by poor practice methods which make improvement slow and frustrating.
▪ These fears were, strongest at a time when great advances in social security were coinciding with great economic progress.
▪ Proponents of the Human Genome Project imagine great progress in diagnosis of diseases and in their therapy.
▪ Tom Rice closed the meeting by saying: 1 feel we have made great progress in this meeting.
▪ I expected far greater progress than this.
▪ I believe that great progress will be made.
▪ In particular they made great progress in their attempts to put electromagnetism and the weak nuclear force together within the same theoretical framework.
▪ The great area of progress since the 1970s has been to create a healthy and enterprising economy.
human
▪ For if we accept the possibility of human progress, then we must accept and draw on the lessons of the past.
▪ Aggressivity and violence are essential to human progress and the source of much creativity.
▪ They were Darwinian gradualists who thought of human progress in terms of ever-increasing rationality.
▪ Contrary to such forecasts, nearly all the indices of human progress have improved since the dawn of the industrial age.
▪ And at the same time ethnographers and anthropologists were themselves producing schemes of human progress.
▪ It abhors all violence and relies upon moral education, love and sympathy to secure human progress.
▪ In this way, Spencer's argument about the conditions necessary for human progress was neatly turned on its head.
▪ This, like the argument about human progress, suggests that the universe can have been going only for a finite time.
little
▪ At the conclusion of the meeting, little progress had been made beyond agreeing procedural rules and setting up two working parties.
▪ Since those early years, only a little progress has been made.
▪ It's little bits of progress like that which make riding young horses so much fun.
▪ Getting stuck in the phallic phase is little progress over fixation on the oral phase.
▪ But making even a little progress will be less frustrating than making no progress at all.
▪ However, non-governmental organisations said that little progress over debt was made at the Washington meeting.
▪ But he was making very little progress even though Joe and the others spent time trying to coach him.
rapid
▪ Other projects made more rapid progress that new year.
▪ How rapid was my progress from open door to open arms!
▪ Leaning rather than pulling is a recurrent theme in windsurfing which, once mastered, leads to rapid progress.
▪ The doctors were surprised at his rapid progress.
▪ Thermalling Rapid progress across country is largely a matter of finding and using effectively only the very strongest of thermals.
▪ Mr Holmes a Court is thought to have taken advantage of the share's rapid progress, selling his 2 percent stake.
▪ But if rapid progress in combating poverty was possible in Britain over the past 100 years, then it is possible elsewhere.
▪ After one treatment the fish has made rapid progress and is now able to swim upright.
real
▪ But this is real progress - and the clear result of creating real wealth.
▪ The moment when they no longer fit the facts usually heralds real progress, a turning-point in the general history of science.
▪ It may temporarily enhance production but may not be real progress in the second language.
▪ The heads of civil rights organizations that gathered for the announcement praised Flagstar for making real racial progress.
▪ But in spite of the hardships, real efforts and progress are being made.
▪ N., meet our obligations and continue to spur real progress.
▪ He was making no real progress.
▪ He was a measure of real progress, of a white community able to move into a black and white century.
scientific
▪ Having disposed of one great story which gave coherence to human life, Western culture substituted another called scientific progress.
▪ In short, recent scientific progress has revolutionized the understanding of alcohol and caffeine.
▪ The analogy between scientific progress and genetic evolution by natural selection has been illuminated especially by Sir Karl Popper.
▪ Thus routine science and routine scientific progress occur while, and only while, the governing paradigm copes successfully with apparent exceptions.
▪ Goody, however, retreats from the implications that this more flexible model of scientific progress hold for his claims regarding literacy.
▪ Utopian myths One strain of Utopian thought has stressed scientific and technical progress.
▪ Remarks such as these indicate that Lakatos aimed to propose a universal criterion for judging research programmes in particular and scientific progress in general.
▪ Here was a Protestant vision amenable to an emerging concept of scientific progress.
significant
▪ At the close of the round no significant progress had been achieved.
▪ Virtually everyone in the class had made significant progress in some form of expression.
▪ Alongside the clinical concerns there has been significant progress in our understanding of the molecular genetics.
▪ The company had made significant progress.
▪ The Committee concluded that a commitment of extra resources was needed if significant further progress was to be made.
▪ Both parties have made significant progress.
slow
▪ We are making slow progress today.
▪ As they worked with him, he made slow and steady progress.
▪ It still looked easy but the slow progress of the parties ahead showed it was not.
▪ In the morning a bicycle made its slow progress across the fields.
▪ Like ourselves the Firefly Trust seems to be making slow but steady progress and I wish them well.
▪ Surprisingly, in a society fascinated by technology, the aeroplane made slow progress.
▪ The fact that food and water were running out due to slow progress, demoralized me still further.
▪ Flecks of sunshine dappling fissured bark are a reminder of summers past during the tree's slow progress to maturity.
social
▪ A substantial aid programme aimed at promoting sustainable economic and social progress and good government in developing countries will be maintained.
▪ Their marriage is a partnership for social progress, not an arrangement rooted in electoral ambition.
▪ Both would interfere with the natural process of evolution and natural selection which ensured social progress.
▪ But these processes of social progress are leaving millions behind in the familial ruts of stagnation.
▪ When economic and social progress is hindered by ineffectual and corrupt government, the global polity suffers.
▪ It was a stirring time for social progress.
▪ Until then, there had been a fair measure of economic and social progress.
▪ Is social progress being made because David Williams stayed home and sacrificed $ 111, 000?
steady
▪ We are making steady progress, of which the country should be proud.
▪ Hooker, operating against inferior numbers, made steady progress.
▪ Even in these circumstances we still expect to make steady progress in 1993.
▪ As they worked with him, he made slow and steady progress.
▪ Mr. Waldegrave I believe that steady progress is being made, as my hon. Friend says.
▪ Over the years, researchers made steady progress, creating ever quicker and more sophisticated programs.
▪ All the Fire Protection branches made steady progress.
▪ We are, as I just mentioned, close to that goal and making steady progress toward it.
substantial
▪ As was pointed out in the previous chapter, substantial progress has been made in reducing overcrowding, as of facially defined.
▪ While substantial progress has been made, redlining still exists, and I appreciate the attention you are giving it.
▪ But substantial progress is being made and the most important resources of all, expertise and know-how, are now becoming available.
▪ It is better to strive for slow and gradual, but substantial, progress than a quick fix that may be ephemeral.
▪ The business has made substantial progress in terms of integrating production facilities, warehousing and administration.
▪ Also, a number of companies had made substantial progress.
▪ But we did make substantial progress.
▪ Nevertheless, substantial progress was made toward reaching an agreement on a new strategy.
technical
▪ These very palliatives, however, had also removed the stimulants to technical progress.
▪ The Association sought to show that the restrictions in the agreement were indeed indispensable to the promotion of technical or economic progress.
▪ It is assumed that technical progress is purely labour-augmenting.
▪ Many women now go out to work. Technical progress is altering the demand for labour.
▪ For simplicity. we ignore depreciation and technical progress, so.
▪ The next step is to make technical progress endogenous to the model.
▪ Suppose, for example, the rate of technical progress is a function of expenditure on research.
▪ Utopian myths One strain of Utopian thought has stressed scientific and technical progress.
technological
▪ One is the effect of technological progress on productivity growth.
▪ Nevertheless, telecommuting is destined to increase, he said, pushed along by snowstorms, traffic jams and technological progress.
▪ Aviation is usually forward-looking, bound up with the future and with technological progress.
▪ In other words, the judicial process has never been indifferent to technological progress.
▪ For scientific and technological progress released forces of destruction in equal measure to forces of production.
▪ They follow and brilliantly exploit technological progress, and supply high-quality goods at low prices.
▪ In recent years, a great deal of emphasis has been placed on technological progress as a cause of structural unemployment.
▪ It is equally important to note that the change in attitude and technological progress should not imply the rejection of exogenous technology.
■ NOUN
report
▪ Examination results and progress reports must be forwarded to Sylvia Middlemiss.
▪ The Chairman-in-Office will present a progress report to the next Ministerial Council in 1995 in Budapest.
▪ He completed the revision of his Bengali translation of the Scriptures and received progress reports of the mission's activities.
▪ A progress report had been requested.
▪ Report forms are particularly useful for standard reports such as accident or progress reports.
▪ A further progress report will be given thereafter.
▪ Investigation progress reports were issued to councillors, regulatory authorities and emergency services and public complaints were handled on a one-to-one basis.
■ VERB
achieve
▪ Last year's negotiations, he said, did achieve some progress.
▪ If widely adopted, and steadfastly supported, it could achieve revolutionary progress throughout defense management.
▪ Most importantly, Rose had lost motivation to help herself and achieve progress, and no one around her could help restore it.
▪ They were able to achieve this speedy progress at least in part by following a role model in the business.
assess
▪ Try to assess your progress daily in this way.
▪ However, they also had a nearer-term way of assessing their progress as a team.
▪ How did its authors decide that the past 30 years is the right period for assessing progress?
▪ The tape measure is a much more accurate way of assessing your progress.
▪ Above all they don't test, assess or measure progress in any way.
▪ In addition to departmental seminars, there are courses in research methodology and practice and regular meetings with a review board to assess progress.
▪ Recording and assessing the child's progress Already many schools are working on various ways of recording attainment targets for individual children.
▪ They said teachers were poor in assessing National Curriculum progress and had low expectations of the pupils.
chart
▪ Kim spends most of her time in the kitchen, charting the progress of her late supper.
▪ Have you charted your progress and changed your course appropriately?
▪ In charting the progress of fans' careers, two types of data have been used.
▪ A nerve-wracking wait added to the mounting psychological pressure as we charted the progress of the sun over the Anglesey seascape.
▪ I don't know why we don't throw them away; perhaps we are charting our progress.
▪ Likewise a business plan should be developed in order to chart the proposed progress.
▪ They had charted their son's progress from afar but had not realised the group's popularity.
check
▪ They hit a good League run after the Cup knock-out, before two successive defeats checked their progress.
▪ She flew to Breckenridge a couple of times a week to check on progress.
▪ Each will be revised regularly to check on progress, and raise standards higher.
▪ When the actual construction began, I detoured daily on my way to school to check out the progress being made.
▪ Central South saw what they'd achieved by 1991, and now we've been back to check on progress.
▪ And for you too, a buddy to check your progress is a good idea.
▪ The Computer Group Manager should regularly check the progress that is being made towards resolving the problems that are under his control.
▪ Bob commuted from Rochester and the Isle of Wight, to check on progress with the wing rebuild.
continue
▪ They will harness those qualities to ensure that we continue to make progress.
▪ He spat and shrugged his shoulder across his lips, wiping his mouth, then he continued his progress across the lawn.
▪ He was given no follow-up treatment to continue the progress he had made in the rehabilitation hospital.
▪ N., meet our obligations and continue to spur real progress.
▪ That requires the Bill to be revived tonight so that it can continue its progress.
▪ The problem of fragmentation continues to hinder progress in most development work in the bantustans.
▪ Animal research has proved of little value in the past and will continue to hinder medical progress in the future.
▪ But now he has to pin his faith on the emerging talent and pray they continue to make progress.
follow
▪ They are now following the progress of a group of outpatients at Westminster Hospital screened for cervical cancer by the new test.
▪ Voice over They've been following the progress of around 150 bats.
▪ The quatrains follow the progress of a child from his fortuitous birth to his first conscious communication with others.
▪ The important point to note as you follow my progress is just how easy it is and how flexible.
▪ You can configure your newsreader to sort threads together to follow the progress of a discussion.
▪ All the minions in the outer office take their eyes off their VDUs, and follow my limping progress up the room.
impede
▪ And since acquisition depends on communication, your deliberate delivery will impede your progress in learning the language as well.
▪ He had no torch, but darkness did not impede his progress.
▪ If Nature herself sought to impede her progress, then resistance was mere pride and folly.
▪ Previously, the shoe had only been tied on and this greatly impeded the animal's progress.
▪ Breaks twigs off trees; generally impedes progress.
make
▪ Those projects already in hand have made progress presentations to the Steering Committee.
▪ I think I was making progress with it.
▪ Even in these circumstances we still expect to make steady progress in 1993.
▪ However, Mr Nasser concedes it has been only recently that he has made real progress in reducing his head count.
▪ If things go wrong Every now and again you will not make the progress that you anticipate.
▪ Before you complete your road map, you should establish specific markers that will tell you whether you are making progress.
▪ Not that he had made much progress on anything else.
▪ Children who came to the home unable to walk, talk or feed themselves are making good progress now.
measure
▪ In this limited way care programming can be used to set targets and measure progress in developing mental health services.
▪ They give you ways to measure progress.
▪ Employment and output represent the different ways of measuring the progress of an economy.
▪ The games have various levels of difficulty, and there is a reporting system to measure progress.
▪ Our proposals are: A better method of measuring economic progress.
monitor
▪ You will however monitor, progress chase, instruct and communicate through paper.
▪ The contents of every breath the patient takes are logged in the computer monitoring his progress.
▪ Mr. Rost Under the Electricity Act 1989, the regulator is directed to monitor the progress of combined heat and power.
▪ Users should be able to monitor the progress of any background tasks they have initiated from submission to completion.
▪ Not only therefore is monitoring for job progress necessary, but review of cash flow predictions must follow.
▪ We must ensure that they receive ample opportunities to improve their skills and monitor their progress.
▪ Although Hendrique was staring at him Graham was more interested in monitoring the progress of the indicator.
review
▪ Two important international conferences in 1988, which reviewed the progress of techniques and controls, reached the same conclusion.
▪ Establish a regular schedule for reviewing progress with your boss or colleagues.
▪ In 1930, a conference in Bedford reviewed the progress of the District's rural scheme.
▪ The conferences may be used not only to plan programs of assistance, but also to review and chart progress.
▪ At the end of each stage the analyst and management have an opportunity to review progress in the development of the application.
▪ Agree a regular schedule of meetings to review progress.
▪ Now is a good time to review training progress.
show
▪ But they had to be shown progress, told when the war would end.
▪ The Club showed another sign of progress - the winning eight at Henley was coxed by a woman, Rachel Foister.
▪ No other line, outside of drinking, can show the progress that robbing has in the last five years.
▪ The table shows the steady progress we have made with tokamaks over the past quarter of a century.
▪ Student and teacher alike may be surprised and positively reinforced by viewing a graph that shows progress.
▪ That shows the progress that we have made in the past 12 years in taking education and training forward.
▪ They always showed a trial in progress.
track
▪ Some Sharp models track the progress of the food as it cooks by assessing the moisture level.
▪ All Jason needs now is another set of braces as well as special X-rays to track his progress.
watch
▪ I will watch its progress with much interest.
▪ Since then it has gained more and more attention as astronomers worldwide watch its progress en route to the sun.
▪ Senior officers were obviously watching her progress with extreme interest.
▪ The language is close to approval, according to officials from several agencies watching its progress.
▪ She can maintain individual contact and watch the progress of the students.
▪ We watched its sedate progress for a while before turning into Grønfjorden and anchoring off Barentsburg.
▪ I shall watch your progress with pride and pleasure.
▪ When they had passed the house he stood in the bay and watched their progress.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be a work in progress
the march of time/history/progress etc
▪ At present these are banned, as are crossbows, but will these eventually be admitted with the march of progress?
▪ But in 1874-not ten years earlier or later-city and nation endured a painful pause in the march of progress.
▪ Like Franco, Arrese was trying to hold back the march of history.
▪ New discoveries have opened up all kinds of possibilities for holding back the march of time.
▪ They succeeded because they brought hope to the losers whom the march of progress had left behind.
▪ This little community is still in existence, largely untouched by the march of time.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Progress in technology has changed people's lives dramatically.
▪ a progress report
▪ Any progress in cancer research may help to save lives.
▪ Bad weather has prevented progress on retrieving the plane from the sea.
▪ Spencer insisted that free enterprise was the key to social progress.
▪ Technological progress has allowed people to build immensely tall skyscrapers.
▪ The new national tests are intended to keep a closer check on children's progress.
▪ The older generation is simply afraid of progress.
▪ The two sides are making some progress toward a compromise.
▪ We are making steady progress towards equal status for men and women.
▪ We are very pleased with your son's progress at school.
▪ Yes, we've made progress. But there's so much more to do.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Can anyone identify the driving forces behind such progress?
▪ Despite all the adversity, when the first report card came out, Casey had actually made some progress.
▪ Having made real progress in establishing democratic governments and free markets, they seek to professionalize their military establishments.
▪ I agree wholeheartedly that parents need to be informed of their children's progress.
▪ I would then return to a classroom where a historically rich conversation was in progress.
▪ In fact, the scientists were making considerable progress.
▪ It is assumed that technical progress is purely labour-augmenting.
▪ We must ensure that they receive ample opportunities to improve their skills and monitor their progress.
II.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
further
▪ Next day, his confidence should be better, and he will probably progress further.
▪ You may well have to accommodate them, at least to some extent, if you are to progress further.
▪ Beware of becoming so fixated on this one position that you acquire a mental block against progressing further.
▪ Further progress up the unspoilt valley was made next day.
▪ Any such attempt will necessarily result in a segmented Community with some countries further progressing towards integration while others become satellite economies.
rapidly
▪ Understanding of the atomic nucleus was progressing rapidly and awareness was dawning of the awesome energies latent within.
▪ In her late fifties, she lay in the hospital bed with a rapidly progressing pancreatic cancer.
▪ Apart from the exhibits, work has progressed rapidly on restoring the various buildings to make them usable once again.
▪ Her professors at the Washington Theological Union said she was progressing rapidly, and had a firm understanding of the liturgy.
▪ And her swimming is progressing rapidly, too.
▪ Since this ban was relaxed, development is progressing rapidly.
▪ Those whose dementia progresses rapidly or who suddenly become unmanageable because of aggression or death of the carer have no hope of admission.
▪ This rapidly progresses into following the child around the room with a spoon.
slowly
▪ Seam progressed slowly, content to ignore commercial pressures and to concentrate on their contemplative music.
▪ He spent the next two summers playing Double-A at Reading, slowly progressing.
▪ Doctors said last night Watson, 27, whos suffered head injuries was progressing slowly.
▪ Knowledge of the disease progressed slowly.
▪ Ramdoo was suspended from duty, the home was placed under independent control and the case progressed slowly to court.
▪ You progress slowly, gradually adding more details.
▪ The clearance of the portion of the site already authorized was in hand at this stage, but progressing slowly.
▪ On the west lawn a large motor mower progressed slowly across the sward shaving off the last half-millimetre of grass before perfection.
well
▪ But property acquisition, demolition, and relocation activities were progressing well in the Booker Washington project.
▪ It is very much a live issue and is progressing well.
▪ After the honeymoon, Alexia was pregnant and he was progressing well on the film score.
▪ His reading was up to standard for Mrs Hartridge's class and his writing was progressing well.
▪ A proficient rather than brilliant amateur, Johnson went professional in 1968 and progressed well, winning thirty-two of thirty-eight contests.
■ NOUN
century
▪ As the nineteenth century progressed these three groups came closer together.
▪ But as the century progressed, their position became more ornamental than functional.
child
▪ In other words, the child has progressed to the conception of thinking as something mental, behind any verbal expression.
▪ The commission also wants a return to hands-on technology, plus tests to ensure that children progress by ability, not age.
▪ Once accepted, the frail child progressed well both in dancing and general education.
development
▪ However, there are several indicators that supervisory development has not progressed as far as the development of the managerial team.
▪ Since this ban was relaxed, development is progressing rapidly.
disease
▪ The fish become shy, listless, and often stop feeding once the disease has progressed.
▪ Knowledge of the disease progressed slowly.
▪ Be assured that the risks taken now would later on be even greater as the disease progresses.
▪ Self worth diminishes and shame and fear increase as the disease progresses.
▪ As the disease progressed, however, cold became more and more difficult to deny.
▪ As the disease progressed, the denial became easier.
▪ Intracellular and canalicular cholestasis, as well as periportal ductular proliferation always accompanied these cellular changes as the disease progressed.
▪ At first the disease seemed to progress fairly rapidly.
game
▪ There was a card game next door whose progress he could hear through the partition wall.
▪ As the game progressed Portadown gradually regained a steady foothold in C.I. territory but their only reward was another Barnes penalty.
level
▪ For example, applicants do not always progress through the operation levels in a straight forward manner.
▪ As these disorders progress, the level of unconjugated bilirubin in the blood rises.
▪ A concave underwater shape will give superior performance when you progress to an intermediate level.
science
▪ A further condition is connected with the need for science to progress.
▪ They like to see the history of science progressing intellectually by ideas.
▪ As science progressed, so medicine followed producing a medicine of the mind; psychology.
▪ But then, perhaps their story is typical-for although science progresses it rarely proceeds in straight lines.
▪ We learn from our mistakes. Science progresses by trial and error.
student
▪ I've also enjoyed watching furniture students progress with mixed success from college to those ranks of recognised craftspeople.
▪ Do not expect to see short-term results, but be assured that work-inhibited students do progress with nurturing from their teachers.
▪ The students progressed at very different rates, and in ways that reflected their prior experience as well as their training.
things
▪ But we must remember that things have progressed, mustn't we?
▪ As a class, things have progressed nicely from that first rough week.
▪ He says the tests didn't show up originally and that's why things progressed so far.
▪ If it's left to the free market these things will not progress fast enough.
▪ To judge from the smooth and professional way things progressed, organising and running a rally is easy.
▪ Most significant of all there is an interruption in registration in 1206 when things were not progressing well for Innocent.
war
▪ But as the air war progresses, new targets become harder to find.
▪ As the war progressed, Yardley added a variety of subsections to MI-8.
▪ Well, let's see how our private war is progressing.
▪ As the war progressed, this position be-came less and less tenable and was eventually discarded.
▪ As the war progressed the two combatants became increasingly receptive to representations from non-involved powers.
▪ As the war progresses ... How's your platoon doing?
▪ It is striking that there was this shift from principle to aesthetic response as the war progressed.
▪ But as the war progressed he became increasingly preoccupied with understanding the world order.
work
▪ It returned now as an act of re-dedication; and suddenly the work progressed.
▪ The work is progressing ahead of schedule and should be completed within three weeks, she said.
▪ But assistant director of environment, development and transportation, Ken Glew, said preparatory work was progressing.
▪ She appointed officers, kept a watch over financial affairs, and made sure the work was progressing smoothly.
▪ Yet, barring the little mishaps, always a feature of Danu life, the work progressed.
▪ For instance, an employee is asked to send in a regular report on how certain work is progressing.
▪ Apart from the exhibits, work has progressed rapidly on restoring the various buildings to make them usable once again.
▪ Tap in place with the club hammer handle and check with a spirit level as work progresses.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ As the meeting progressed Jack became more and more bored.
▪ As the war progressed, it became increasingly difficult to buy fresh food.
▪ Bob was a very good football coach, and the team progressed very well.
▪ Both of the men progressed slowly up the stairs.
▪ Repair work has progressed more quickly than expected.
▪ So far the building work has progressed according to plan.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And her swimming is progressing rapidly, too.
▪ And people rarely progress without setbacks.
▪ As the year progressed and the managers interpersonal judgment improved, we sAw how they gained self-confidence.
▪ Leaving a glowing trail over one thousand kilometers long, it broke into several large pieces as it progressed.
▪ My method throughout was to begin faintly, after which I progressed to more definite drawing in a suitable colour or tone.
▪ Science progresses by learning which similarities are the key to which sequences.
▪ The work is progressing ahead of schedule and should be completed within three weeks, she said.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Progress

Progress \Prog"ress\ (?; 277), n. [L. progressus, from progredi, p. p. progressus, to go forth or forward; pro forward + gradi to step, go: cf. F. progr[`e]s. See Grade.]

  1. A moving or going forward; a proceeding onward; an advance; specifically:

    1. In actual space, as the progress of a ship, carriage, etc.

    2. In the growth of an animal or plant; increase.

    3. In business of any kind; as, the progress of a negotiation; the progress of art.

    4. In knowledge; in proficiency; as, the progress of a child at school.

    5. 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.

  2. 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.
    --Evelyn.

Progress

Progress \Pro*gress"\ (?; formerly pronounced like Progress, n.), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Progressed; p. pr. & vb. n. Progressing.]

  1. 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.''
    --Thackeray.

    Let me wipe off this honorable dew, That silverly doth progress on thy checks.
    --Shak.

    They progress in that style in proportion as their pieces are treated with contempt.
    --Washington.

    The war had progressed for some time.
    --Marshall.

  2. To make improvement; to advance.
    --Bayard.

    If man progresses, art must progress too.
    --Caird.

Progress

Progress \Prog"ress\ (?; see Progress, v. i.), v. t. To make progress in; to pass through. [Obs.]
--Milton.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
progress

1590s in the literal sense; c.1600 in the figurative sense, from progress (n.). OED says the verb was obsolete in English 18c. but was reformed or retained in America and subsequently long regarded in Britain as an Americanism. Related: Progressed; progressing.

progress

late 14c., "a going on, action of walking forward," from Old French progres (Modern French progrès), from Latin progressus "a going forward," from past participle of progredi (see progression).\n

\nIn early use in English especially "a state journey by royalty." Figurative sense of "growth, development, advancement to higher stages" is from c.1600. To be in progress "underway" is attested by 1849. Progress report attested by 1865.

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progress

Etymology 1 n. 1 movement or advancement through a series of events, or points in time; development through time. (from 15th c.) 2 Specifically, advancement to a higher or more developed state; development, growth. (from 15th c.) Etymology 2

vb. (context intransitive English) to move, go, or proceed forward; to advance.

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progress

  1. v. develop in a positive way; "He progressed well in school"; "My plants are coming along"; "Plans are shaping up" [syn: come on, come along, advance, get on, get along, shape up] [ant: regress]

  2. move forward, also in the metaphorical sense; "Time marches on" [syn: advance, pass on, move on, march on, go on] [ant: recede]

  3. form or accumulate steadily; "Resistance to the manager's plan built up quickly"; "Pressure is building up at the Indian-Pakistani border" [syn: build up, work up, build]

progress

  1. n. gradual improvement or growth or development; "advancement of knowledge"; "great progress in the arts" [syn: advancement]

  2. the act of moving forward toward a goal [syn: progression, procession, advance, advancement, forward motion, onward motion]

  3. a movement forward; "he listened for the progress of the troops" [syn: progression, advance]

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Progress, PA -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Pennsylvania
Population (2000): 9647
Housing Units (2000): 4569
Land area (2000): 2.757571 sq. miles (7.142077 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.757571 sq. miles (7.142077 sq. km)
FIPS code: 62736
Located within: Pennsylvania (PA), FIPS 42
Location: 40.288389 N, 76.835543 W
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Progress (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)

__NOTOC__ "Progress" is the 15th episode of the science fiction television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

Kira deals with a stubborn farmer who refuses to leave his home which is slated for destruction; Jake and Nog cooperate in a profit-seeking venture.

Progress (Michael Giles album)

Progress is a solo album recorded by original King Crimson drummer Michael Giles. It was recorded in 1978, but unreleased until 2002.

Progress (EP)

Progress is the third EP by Pedro the Lion. It was released on 27 June 2000 on Suicide Squeeze, a mere three months after their second album Winners Never Quit.

Progress (organisation)

Progress is a ginger group political organisation within the Labour Party in the United Kingdom, founded in 1996. It is broadly viewed as supportive of the New Labour leadership of Tony Blair, a former leader of the party and former prime minister.

Progress publishes a monthly magazine of the same name and occasional pamphlets, and organises conferences and other events.

Progress (Big Youth album)
Progress (Ultraspank album)

Progress is the second and last album by American industrial metal band Ultraspank. This is the only album to feature former Snot drummer James "Fed" Carroll.

Despite anemic sales, Progress nevertheless received near-universal critical acclaim from critics both at the time of its release, and today. Major websites like Sputnikmusic even consider it one of the - if not the - best album in the entire nu-metal genre.

Progress (spacecraft)
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The Progress is a Russian expendable cargo spacecraft. Its purpose is to deliver supplies needed to sustain human presence in orbit. While it does not carry a crew it can be boarded by astronauts when docked with a space station, hence it being classified as manned by its manufacturer. Progress is derived from the manned Soyuz spacecraft and launches on the same vehicle, a Soyuz rocket.

Progress has supported space stations as early as Salyut 6 and as recently as the International Space Station. Each year there are between three and four Progress flights to the ISS. A Progress remains docked until shortly before being replaced with a new one or a Soyuz (which will use the same docking port). Then it is filled with waste, disconnected, and de-orbited, at which point it burns up in the atmosphere. Due to the variation in Progress vehicles flown to the ISS, NASA uses its own nomenclature where "ISS 1P" means the first Progress spacecraft to ISS.

Progress was developed because of the need for a constant source of supplies to make long duration space missions possible. It was determined that cosmonauts needed an inflow of consumables (food, water, air, etc.), plus there was a need for maintenance items and scientific payloads that necessitated a dedicated cargo carrier. Such payloads were impractical to launch with passengers in the restricted space of a Soyuz. As of April 28, 2015 there have been 140 flights with three failures.

Progress (history)

In historiography, progress (from Latin progressus, "an advance") is the study of how specific societies improved over time in terms of science, technology, modernization, liberty, democracy, longevity, quality of life, freedom from pollution and so on. Specific indicators can range from economic data, technical innovations, change in the political or legal system, and questions bearing on individual life chances, such as life expectancy and risk of disease and disability.

Many high-level theories, such as the Idea of Progress are available, such as the Western notion of monotonic change in a straight, linear fashion. Alternative conceptions exist, such as the cyclic theory of eternal return, or the "spiral-shaped" dialectic progress of Hegel, Marx, et al.

Progress (Rx Bandits album)

Progress is an album released by Rx Bandits on July 17, 2001 through Drive-Thru Records.

The LP was originally titled Artificial Intelligence and the Fall of Technology.

The album was recorded during a tumultuous time in the band's lineup. Several members had left the band after the recording of Halfway between Here and There, though former saxophonist Noah Gaffney contributed on the song "Anyone But You." Gaffney's position was eventually filled by saxophonist Steve Borth, formerly of East Bay ska-punk band Link 80.

After the departure of James Salamone on bass, the band had many temporary replacements, including Johnny Tsagakis, drummer Chris Tsagakis' younger brother. Joe Troy, a longtime friend of Embree who helped write the song "What If?", eventually joined the band as a permanent bass player.

Steve Choi, formerly of The Chinkees, also became a full member playing guitar and keyboards. Choi had also played keyboards on the demos that the band made for Progress, but when it came time to record, they decided to have Rich Zahniser of The Hippos play on the album, because at the time he was touring with the band. Former Jeffries Fan Club trombonist Chris Colonnier also played with the band at times in the same role as Zahniser. Progress was ranked #207 on the greatest albums in 2001.

Shortly after the release of Progress, Chris Sheets joined as a second trombone player. Not long after that, Rich Balling quit the band.

The album spawned the band's first music video for the song "Analog Boy." The band wouldn't make a second music video for another 5 years, until the title track of 2006's ...And the Battle Begun.

Progress (train)

Progress was an express train between Prague, then the capital of Czechoslovakia, and the German Democratic Republic (GDR).

Introduced in 1974, Progress went through a number of iterations, and also endured a one-year period off the rails, until it ceased running altogether in about 1990. <!--

Progress (book)

Progress is a book by author Fran Lebowitz that was first excerpted in Vanity Fair in 2004 and which was published in its revised form as an electronic book in 2014.

Progress (song)

"Progress" is a song by Japanese musician Ayumi Hamasaki. It was one of the promotional tracks from her third extended play Five, released on August 31, 2011. The song was used as the theme song for the PlayStation 3 RPG game Tales of Xillia, the thirteenth main entry in the Tales series. The song was a commercial success, certified gold by the RIAJ.

Progress (software)
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Progress (Take That album)

Progress is the sixth studio album by British band Take That. It is the band's first album to feature Robbie Williams since his initial departure from the band in 1995, and the final album to feature Jason Orange due to his departure from the band in 2014. The album was released in the United Kingdom on 15 November 2010.

The album received positive reviews, with most critics commending the influence of electronic music and synthesizers. It debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart, becoming the fastest-selling album of the century and the second fastest-selling album of all-time. Progress also became the biggest-selling album of 2010 by selling over one million copies in 24 days. As of June 2011, the album had sold 2.8 million copies in the UK. The album also became a commercial success in Continental Europe, where it charted within the top ten of twelve countries. Progress has been certified three-times platinum by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry for shipments of three million copies inside Europe. On 10 June 2011, the album was released alongside the EP Progressed, which features eight previously unreleased tracks.

Progress (Faroe Islands)

Progress is a liberal and pro- Faroese independence political party in the Faroe Islands.

Founded on 9 March 2011 by Poul Michelsen and others as a breakaway from the People's Party, the party won two seats in the October 2011 election to the 33-seat Løgting. Its two MPs in this first election were Poul Michelsen and Janus Rein. However, almost a year after the election, on 6 October 2012, Janus Rein left the party and became a non political member of the Faroese Parliament. He didn't give any clear reason to why he left the party, just that there were some disagreements between him and Poul Michelsen. On the following day, the Faroese website aktuelt.fo, which was run by the newspaper Sosialurin at that time, brought an article saying that the two MP's disagreed on whether Janus Rein should be a candidate for the elections for the city council of Tórshavn or not. The elections for the city councils of the Faroe Islands was to be held on 13 November 2012. Poul Michelsen wanted Janus Rein to be a candidate, but Rein refused and finally left the party. A few days later 25 members of Framsókn wrote an open letter to Janus Rein with an appeal for him to leave his seat in the parliament and give it to the next person on the list. The next person was Hanna Jensen, who took active part in establishing the party from the beginning. Rein didn't give up his seat in the Løgting, he continued as a non-political member, which means that Framsókn after 6 October 2012 had only one MP. Rein later joined the People's Party.

In the Løgting election in 2015 Progress got 7.0% and two seats after polling much higher during the campaign. They subsequently formed a coalition government with Republic and the Social Democrats in which Poul Michelsen became Minister of Business and Foreign Affairs. On 17 September the party was joined by Annika Olsen, a former Deputy Prime Minister who was a member of People's Party until she left it nine days after the parliamentary election, on 9 September 2015. However, after a great personal pressure, she chose to leave Framsókn again after only 3 days, on 20 September 2015 and took leave from the Løgting for a month. After that Framsókn continued to have two members of the Løgting.

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Usage examples of "progress".

A great mass of it has been accumulated in the progress of mankind, and, fortunately for different wants and temperaments, it is as varied as the various minds that produced it.

An affray was actually in progress between the Italian Ripaldi and the incriminated man Quadling, but the witness arrived as the last fatal blow was struck by the latter.

But if we attentively reflect how much swifter is the progress of corruption than its cure, and if we remember that the years abandoned to public disorders exceeded the months allotted to the martial reign of Aurelian, we must confess that a few short intervals of peace were insufficient for the arduous work of reformation.

Break your mental fetters, says Anarchism to man, for not until you think and judge for yourself will you get rid of the dominion of darkness, the greatest obstacle to all progress.

A new method of secret ballot abolished the influence of fear and shame, of honor and interest, and the abuse of freedom accelerated the progress of anarchy and despotism.

A specific antibody used against a specific virus should have destroyed the virus or slowed its progress, and there seemed to be no rational explanation for the dreadful response of the uninfected ones who had been inoculated for protection.

Vera Pavlovna and modeled on that apotheosis of nineteenth-century technological progress, the Crystal Palace.

When the principle of apperception is fully applied in teaching, the progress from one point to another is so gradual and clear that it gives pleasure.

President Johnson, however, behaved as an ordinary political speaker in a heated canvass, receiving interruptions from the crowd, answering insolent remarks with undignified repartee, and lowering at every step of his progress the dignity which properly appertains to the great office.

You can note its progress by the applausive smiles and nods it gets as it skims along.

She had been apprized of its rapid and destructive progress in one quarter of the city, but, hitherto, it had existed, with regard to her, chiefly in the form of rumour.

Injected subcutaneously these animal extracts are immediately assimilated and we are often able to stop, at once, the progress of disease and turn the tide towards recovery.

Ireland in respect to crime and outrage, more especially when the exercise of that right by the house of lords does not interfere with any previous proceeding or resolution of the house of commons, nor with the progress of any legislative measure assented to by the house of commons, or at present under its consideration.

After this, the bill was considerably delayed in its progress by a great variety of amendments suggested by members on both sides of the house, to several of which government assented, and one or two of which were carried against the wishes of ministers.

Stanager Rose and her crew, even as it applied to squid of all sizes and species, but the practical effects of the process were abundantly evident in their astoundingly swift progress across the water.