progress

progress

Language: EN · Kind: word · Transcription: [/ˈpɹəʊ.ɡɹɛs/]

Senses

1. progress (noun) — sense 1

Definition: Movement or advancement through a series of events, or points in time; development through time.

Example: Testing for the new antidote is currently in progress.

Concept: Прогресс

Polarities of the concept

2. progress (noun) — sense 2

Definition: Specifically, advancement to a higher or more developed state; development, growth.

Example: Science has made extraordinary progress in the last fifty years.

3. progress (noun) — sense 3

Definition: An official journey made by a monarch or other high personage; a state journey, a circuit.

Example: ... 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 ...

Structure of the word

Roots:
  • per (fare, Proto-Indo-European)
  • gʰredʰ (Proto-Indo-European)

Polarities

Improvement ↔ Deterioration — concept «Прогресс»

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