progressn.

Brit.

/ˈprəʊɡrɛs/,

/ˈprɒɡrɛs/, U.S.

/ˈprɑɡrəs/

Forms: late Middle English–1600s progres, late Middle English–1600s progresse, 1500s prograsse, 1500s (Scottish) 1600s progrese, 1500s–1600s prograce, 1500s– progress.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin prōgressus.

Etymology: < classical Latin prōgressus forward movement, advance, development, in post-classical Latin also official tour by a monarch (1447, 1547 in British sources) < prōgress- , past participial stem of prōgredī to go forward, proceed, to advance, develop, progress (see progredient adj.) + -tus , suffix forming verbal nouns. Compare Anglo-Norman progres advance (14th cent., with reference to movement through enemy territory), Middle French progres , French progrès development of an action (1546), increase by degrees, improvement (1564), gradual improvement (1588), movement forward in space (1611), (in plural) succession of military successes (1616), advancement in someone's affections (1651), advancement in civilization (1757), Catalan progrés (15th cent.), Spanish progreso (15th cent.), Italian progresso (14th cent.). Compare also ( < classical Latin prōgressiōn- , prōgressiō progression n.) Middle French progresse progression (1513, in apparently isolated use). Compare regress n., progression n.The pronunciation with a long vowel in the first syllable has been found in British English from at least the mid 18th cent.; for 19th-cent. comment compare:1897 H. Tennyson Alfred Ld. Tennyson: Mem. anno 1866 II. ii. 35 Someone spoke of Dīplŏmăcy and Prŏgress. ‘Oh!’, said my father, ‘why do you pronounce the word like that? pray give the ō long.’

I. The course or process of a series of actions, events, etc., through time; advancement through such a course.

1. Progression or advancement through a process, a sequence of events, a period of time, etc.; movement towards an outcome or conclusion. in progress: in the process of happening or being carried out.

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the world > action or operation > continuing > progress, advance, or further continuance > [noun]

progressionc1385

proceeding?c1425

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promotion1649

sailing1827

sledding1839

on-go1870

the world > time > [noun] > course or passage of time

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concoursec1400

coursec1460

successionc1485

passing-by1523

by-passing1526

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continuancea1552

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current1587

decurse1593

passage1596

drifting1610

flux1612

effluxion1621

transcursion1622

decursion1629

devolution1629

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preterition1647

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decurrence1659

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fluxation1710

elapsing1720

currency1726

lapse1758

elapse1793

time-lapse1864

wearing1876

the world > action or operation > doing > a proceeding > in progress [phrase]

in handc1405

in expeditiona1616

on (also upon) the anvil1645

on the wheel1677

in progress1849

in the works1870

in process1906

in the pipeline1945

c1443 R. Pecock Reule of Crysten Religioun (1927) 377 (MED) In oure progresse to outward werkis aftir þese now afore taken preisingis and preiyngis..we ouȝte to dispose vs wiþ holding to gidere of al þe bifore seid inward endewing.

?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1865) I. 395 (MED) The auctor of this presente Cronicle towchethe in his progresse, other processe, rather Wales then Englonde.

1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection ii. sig. Hv^v Of the iewes and their progresse we may lerne.

1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII v. iii. 66 In all the Progresse Both of my Life and Office, I haue labour'd..that [etc.] .

1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. iii. 155 This virtue decayes in progress of Time (as all Odours do).

1681 P. Belon tr. F. Monginot New Myst. Physick Introd. 30 This Allum..will prevent the Progress of a Gangrene.

1785 T. Reid Ess. Intellect. Powers ii. xxi So rapid is the progress of the thought.

1798 M. Wollstonecraft Maria 19 The composition had been in progress for a period of twelve months.

1817 J. H. Curtis Treat. on Ear 72 Even the most difficult of the whole of this class of deafness, that which is termed nervous deafness, may..be arrested in its progress.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. ii. 179 While these changes were in progress.

1949 G. W. Knight Wheel of Fire vii. 143 This blurring and lack of certainty is increased by the heavy proportion of second-hand or vague knowledge reported during the play's progress.

1989 Which? Jan. 5/1 Whether the fungicides on a slice of lemon..could..cause problems, hasn't been proved—tests are in progress.

2003 Smithsonian July 44/1 An oversize screen displays the progress of the game, which is a variation on cyberwarfare.

2. spec. Advancement to a further or higher stage, or to further or higher stages successively; growth; development, usually to a better state or condition; improvement; an instance of this. Frequently to make progress.In later use applied esp. to manifestations of social and economic change or reform.

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the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > [noun]

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profitingc1384

increasec1385

bettering?c1425

progress1457

advancementc1475

service1533

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increment1609

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flowering1629

rise1676

development1756

evolution1796

march1818

headway1832

upgrowth1844

upbuilding1876

the world > action or operation > continuing > progress, advance, or further continuance > [noun] > to a further or higher stage

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movement1866

1457 Acts Parl. Scotl. II. 52/2 Sen Gode..hes send oure souerane lorde sik progres and prosperite, that [etc.].

?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1865) I. 203 (MED) Of the begynnenge of Longobardes and of the progresse [L. De progressu] of theym, Paulus Diacon..rehersethe in his firste boke of the story of Longobardes.

1540 T. Some Treat. Lordis Flayle sig. D4 Nowe therfor by fayth we haue begone owre quiettnes in God, in which also we do dayly make progresse.

a1578 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) I. 132/1 We man..grant thy felicietie and happie progres in all thy doingis.

1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes To Rdr. If you consider the beginning, progresse, and perpetuall felicitie of this the Othoman Empire.

1651 T. Hobbes Philos. Rudim. Dedicatory sig. A8 Not of his progresse in Science, but of his wandrings from it.

1653 Declar. Ld. Gen. & Councell of Officers 2 No considerable effect was produced, nor any such progresse made, as might imply their reall intentions to accomplish what was Petitioned for.

1686 tr. J. Chardin Trav. Persia 24 Having made no farther progress in his Business.

1713 J. Addison in Guardian 10 July 2/1 I am ashamed that I am not able to make a quicker Progress through the French Tongue.

1745 E. Young Consolation 97 Nature delights in Progress; in Advance From Worse to Better: But, when Minds ascend, Progress, in Part, depends upon Themselves.

1780 B. Franklin Let. 8 Feb. The rapid Progress true Science now makes, occasions my regretting sometimes that I was born so soon.

1846 R. C. Trench Notes Miracles Introd. iv. 34 The very idea of God's kingdom is that of progress, of a gradually fuller communication..of himself to men.

a1862 H. T. Buckle Misc. Wks. (1872) I. 349 As civilization advances, the progress of manufactures greatly outstrips the progress of agriculture.

1888 S. Moore tr. K. Marx & F. Engels Manifesto Communist Party i. 14 These also supply the proletariat with fresh elements of enlightenment and progress.

1947 E. E. Cummings Let. 21 Sept. (1969) 179 A Chinese professor who spoke, long ago, at Yale; saying that the East does not want ‘progress’, does not want lipstick & movies.

1967 Canad. Med. Assoc. Jrnl. 97 309 The Beveridge Report on social insurance identified ‘five giants’ in the path of social progress: want, disease, ignorance, squalor and idleness.

1996 Toronto Star (Nexis) 26 Sept. c16 You should try to attend classes at least twice a week... Any less and your progress and advancement to a higher belt level will be slow.

†3. An act of proceeding or coming from a source. Obsolete. rare.

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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > [noun] > from a source

progressionc1385

progressc1530

process1537

emanation1570

c1530 Court of Love 1067 Love is a vertue clere, And from the soule his progress holdeth he.

4. Scots Law. An unbroken series of possessors, tenants, etc., extending over several years, which sufficiently constitutes a valid and effectual title to property or land. Often in progress of (title) deeds (also progress of titles): a series of title deeds extending in such a way. Now historical. heir (and successor, etc.) by progress: an heir who inherits under a progress of title.

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1563 Linlithgow Sheriff Court 23 June in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Progres(s Williame Fischar nepote air & lineall successour be progres to vmquhill Johnne Fischar.

1593 Sc. Acts Jas. VI (1816) IV. 11/2 James lindsay of barcloy pronevoy and air be progres to vmqle Johnne lindsay of wauchoip his grandschir.

c1626 H. Bisset Rolment Courtis (1920) I. 59 That Banchois posteritie suld injoyse the croun of Scotland, be lang possessioun of progres.

1647 Glasgow Univ. Muniments I. 385 Lykwayes my Lady Dutches is oblidgit by band to make furthcumand to the universitie a perfyte progres of her right to the said benefice.

1693 J. Dalrymple Inst. Law Scotl. (ed. 2) iv. xxxviii. §19. 660 Titles by Progress, are either Retours on services of Heirs, or Confirmations of Executors, or Assignations [etc.]..from whence the conclusion of the Summons is justly and legally inferred.

a1722 J. Lauder Decisions (1759) I. 4 In buying of land, men crave a forty years clear progress, and with that think themselves secure, by the grand act of prescription 1617.

1773 J. Erskine Inst. Law Scotl. I. ii. iii. §20 Charters are either original, or by progress;..charters by progress are, in dubious clauses, to be interpreted agreeably to the original one.

1832 W. Scott St. Ronan's Well (new ed.) p. v Removed..from his legal folios and progresses of title deeds, from his counters and shelves.

1868 Act 31 & 32 Victoria c. 101 §9 Any conveyance..forming part of the progress of title deeds of the said lands.

1891 J. Cragie Conveyancing 147 It is, since 1st October 1874, unnecessary for a vassal to obtain, and incompetent for a superior to grant, any charter, precept, or other writ by progress.

1947 Scotsman 8 July The decree of general service formed a valid link of title in a prescriptive progress of titles.

II. The action or an act of journeying or moving onward in space.

a. An official journey, tour, or visit made by a monarch, church dignitary, or person of noble birth or high office. Also: the official tour made by judges and others, a circuit; an official visitation of its estates by an Oxford or Cambridge college.

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society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun] > official visitation

progress?c1450

fog race1689

society > law > administration of justice > judicial body, assembly, or court > a or the session of a court > [noun] > circuit made by judge or sheriff

eyrec1350

justry1420

sheriff tourn1432

tourn1432

progress?c1450

tourney1451

circuit1503

wayc1503

iter1647

?c1450 in W. A. Pantin Docs. Eng. Black Monks (1937) III. 111 (MED) In oure progresses and iorneyes..in sindrey cuntreis of this our royme, we have..parceivid, [etc.].

1461 Rolls of Parl. V. 475/2 The Kyng..beyng in his progresse in the seide Counte.

1503–4 Act 19 Hen. VII c. 7 §1 The justices of assises in ther cyrcuyte or progresse in that shyre.

1575 U. Fulwell Flower of Fame f. 24^v King Henry tooke his Progres towardes the Citie of Yorke.

1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 239 He went in progresse to all parts of his kingdome.

a1648 Ld. Herbert Life Henry VIII (1649) 142 Synodall Judges, going Progresse yeerly under pretext of Visitation.

1659 M. Woodward Memorandum 6 Sept. in R. L. Rickard Progress Notes Warden Woodward (1949) iii. 46 In my 1st Progresse at Kengham I went with some of the Homage to sett out the Bounds between a ffreeholder of Kengham..& a Leaseholder thereof.

1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. ii. iv. 67 The Queen, whom I always attended, never went further when she accompanied the King in his Progresses.

1793 J. Woodforde Diary 13 Oct. (1929) IV. 65 The Warden of New-College Dr. Oglander & another Gentleman of New College..arrived this morning at Bath on their Progress.

1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) II. 99 Comprehended in six circuits, or annual progress of the judges.

1811 Order Magd. Coll. 4 June That the Norfolk Progress do take place this year and at the expiration of three years from this time.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. v. 593 He was President of Wales and lord lieutenant of four English counties. His official tours..were scarcely inferior in pomp to royal progresses.

1920 P. S. Allen Let. 21 Apr. (1939) 164 In July he went on ‘progress’ with the Bursar and two other fellows.

1986 M. George Autobiography Henry VIII 78 Ostensibly these progresses were made to allow the monarch to escape from palace routine.

1999 E. Afr. Standard (Nairobi) 28 July (Midweek section) 8/1 If the Queen hung a string of trade beads on any fence in England today with the hope of retrieving them on her next royal progress, she would need to leave a regiment of guards.

b. A state procession. Also in extended use. Now historical.

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society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun] > state journey or visit

progressa1556

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > a public show or spectacle > type of show or spectacle > [noun] > parade or procession > other parades or processions

progressa1556

Lord Mayor's Show1636

cavalcade1644

perahera1681

bridewain1789

Easter Parade1874

concours d'élégance1950

carcade1964

a1556 T. Cranmer Let. 17 June in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1824) 1st Ser. II. 37 Whyche said Progresse..extendid half a myle in leyngthe by estimacion.

1613 J. Hayward Liues III. Normans Pref. At his returne from the Progresse to his house at S. James, these pieces were delivered unto him.

1681 J. Scott Christian Life: Pt. I iv. 485 The remainder of his March will be all a Triumphal Progress to him.

1859 J. M. Jephson & L. Reeve Narr. Walking Tour Brittany iii. 35 Where the Emperor was about to expose himself in a public hall and progress.

1921 L. Strachey Queen Victoria ix. 306 The splendid procession passed along, escorting Victoria through the thronged re-echoing streets of London on her progress of thanksgiving to St. Paul's cathedral.

1995 Hist. Jrnl. 38 542 This was presented to the king..two days after his triumphal progress through the city from the Tower to Whitehall.

6. In general use.

a. The action of stepping or marching forward or onward; onward march; journeying, travelling, travel; (also) an instance of this; a journey, an expedition. Now rare.

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society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun]

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wayOE

farec1000

sitheOE

gangOE

journey?c1225

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raik?c1350

turna1400

repairc1425

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progressionc1450

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race1513

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travel1559

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ulendo1921

a1460 Knyghthode & Bataile (Pembr. Cambr. 243) 866 (MED) Of him the rolle of wacch and of progresse, Thei crave and haue.

a1500 Partenay (Trin. Cambr.) 3199 ‘Off me the werre the Giaunt doth desire, Anon shall I go hym Assail quikly.’ To thys forth-progresse Geffray made redy.

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. xi. sig. Nn4 So forth they both yfere make their progresse.

1596 J. Norden (title) A progresse of pietie.

c1616 R. C. Times' Whistle (1871) vi. 2600 It was my fortune, with..others..One summers day a progresse for to goe Into the countrie.

1624 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy (ed. 2) ii. ii. iv. 227 The most pleasing of all outward pastimes, is..to make a petty progresse, a merry iourney.

1678 J. Bunyan (title) The pilgrim's progress from this world, to that which is to come.

1745 P. Thomas True Jrnl. Voy. South-Seas 160 The Officers and People made a Progress round the Island.

1782 F. Burney Cecilia III. v. ix. 98 Cecilia's next progress, therefore, was to St James's-square, whither she went in the utmost anxiety.

1838 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece V. xl. 123 Their progress through the Persian provinces was a kind of triumph.

1887 T. Hardy Woodlanders III. xiii. 267 Now Tim began to be struck with these loitering progresses along the garden boundaries in the gloaming, and wondered what they boded.

1903 H. James Ambassadors viii. xx. 265 It had come in the smile with which Sarah..rustled down to them a moment later, fresh and handsome from her cool June progress through the charming land.

1917 V. Woolf Mark on Wall in V. Woolf & L. S. Woolf Two Stories 30 How cold the feet of insects must feel upon it, as they make laborious progresses up the creases of the bark.

b. Onward movement following a prescribed course, in a specific direction, or towards a particular place.

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the world > movement > progressive motion > [noun]

goinga1250

passagec1300

passingc1350

progressiona1460

local motion1551

progress1564

pass1602

traverse1663

locomoving1704

roll1827

onwards1943

1564 W. Bullein Dialogue against Fever Pestilence f. 50 Come sweete hartes, & let vs take our progresse, to the pleasaunt riuer of Tagus.

1593 G. Harvey New Let. in Wks. (1884) I. 278 Not much vnlike the progresse of the resplendent Sunne in the Scorpion.

a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) ii. i. 340 Vnlesse thou let his siluer Water, keepe A peacefull progresse to the Ocean.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xi. 175 For see the Morn..begins Her rosie progress smiling.

1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 59 If the Cheeks of the Press stand wide assunder, the sweep or progress of the..Bar will be greater than if they stand nearer together.

1757 T. Gray Ode I i. i, in Odes 5 A thousand rills their mazy progress take.

1816 W. Scott Antiquary II. ii. 45 These [thoughts]..were not such as resemble the gradual progress of a fertilizing river, but the headlong and precipitous fury of some portentous flood.

1878 R. Browning La Saisiaz 42 Up and up we went... Call progress toilsome?

1942 Jrnl. Amer. Folklore 55 214 As the sancts approach the curtained-off section..in their progress around the table, a hand reaches out from behind the curtains and gives to each sanct a large cake.

1989 D. Leavitt Equal Affections (1990) ii. 203 The weatherman..was describing the progress of a hurricane that was in the process of devastating South Carolina.

2003 BusinessWeek 24 Nov. 96/2 The computer..connects to a global positioning system to map the shopper's progress through the store.

c. Motion forwards, as opposed to rest or regress; advance. Also in figurative contexts.

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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > forward movement > [noun]

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advance1593

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a1599 R. Rollock Lect. Epist. Paul to Colossians (1603) xiv. ii. 147 Thou must not sit downe, thou must not stand still, but thou must goe forward in him [sc. Christ], and make progresse.

1622 (?a1513) W. Dunbar Poems (Reidpeth) (1998) I. 175 Through streittis nane may mak progres, For cry of cruikit, blind and lame.

a1656 J. Ussher Ann. World (1658) vi. 773 Whose progresse and regresse in this journey we here set down out of Strabo.

1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. iv. xvi. 200 After some progress made in your Voyage.

1722 B. Franklin in New-Eng. Courant 17–24 Sept. 1/1 But this Fleet were not less comical or irregular in their Progress than a Company of Females I soon after came up with.

1785 W. Cowper Task i. 330 The folded gates would bar my progress now.

1839 C. Darwin in R. Fitzroy & C. Darwin Narr. Surv. Voy. H.M.S. Adventure & Beagle III. v. 105 When swimming..their [sc. ostriches'] progress is slow.

1877 J. Bryce Transcaucasia & Ararat (1896) 35 The same sense of motion without progress, which those who have crossed the ocean know so well.

1933 Geogr. Jrnl. 81 144 The going was very bad indeed..and progress was best made by walking along the fallen trunks.

1979 J. Rathbone Joseph ii. iii. 208 Once off we made good progress.

1999 Washington Post (Nexis) 13 June a27 The extreme conditions and high terrain make progress slow and difficult.

†d. A region or distance traversed. Obsolete. rare.

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the world > space > distance > [noun] > distance (to be) travelled

wayeOE

progress1601

1601 R. Johnson tr. G. Botero Trauellers Breuiat 159 His dominion..stretcheth from the promontory Bayador to Tanger, and from the Atlantike Ocean to the riuer Muluia. In which progresse [It. nel qual spatio] is conteined the best portion of all Afrike.

Compounds

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a. General attributive with sense ‘of or relating to progress; responsible for checking or monitoring progress’.

progress clerk n.

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society > communication > record > written record > compiler or keeper of written records > [noun] > others

secretary14..

remembrancer1523

rapporteur1653

tally-writer1786

messenger1793

memorandist1866

toll-clerk1878

shorthand typist1901

progress clerk1916

filing clerk1922

secretary bird1969

1916 Ann. Amer. Acad. Polit. & Social Sci. 65 181 He must..have adequate, reliable and immediate knowledge, records and aides (as an order and progress clerk).

1921 Dict. Occup. Terms (1927) §939 Progress clerk,..traces and pushes forward work in its various stages from operation to operation until it is ready for delivery... Keeps a record of output, etc., in works.

1942 A. P. Jephcott Girls growing Up iv. 77 A progress clerk..is conscious of the superiority of her life over that of a girl who does a petty routine job all day.

2005 Derby Evening Tel. (Nexis) 1 Nov. 6 She was, at the start of her service, engaged as a progress clerk in the works' manager's office.

progress committee n.

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1864 Times 11 Jan. 8/2 He receives letters by almost every post from the Secretary of ‘the Progress Committee’ of one or other township of his constituency.

1937 Jrnl. Higher Educ. 8 73/2 The University of Pennsylvania has a progress committee which follows up on estates in which the University may share.

2005 Tulsa (Oklahoma) World (Nexis) 9 Aug. a 12 Commissioners scheduled the election after hearing from..the chairman of a progress committee.

progress department n.

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1920 Times 31 Aug. 3/3 (advt.) Wanted..young men having had practical engineering training..for progress department.

1932 S. E. Thomas Commerce xxvii. 394 It is the duty of the Progress Department to follow up the various processes, to prepare job cards, material charts, etc.

1988 R. Flynn in T. Booth & J. Statham Nature Special Educ. v. 38 As his reading age was below ten years, he was referred to the Progress department.

progress man n.

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1922 G. T. Turner & B. Wood Man. Up-to-date Organisation 171 A progress man responsible for the progress of a job through the factory.

1957 C. Smith Case of Torches ii. 26 The small offices..where the engineers and draughtsmen and progress men pored..over their columns of figures.

2004 Union Leader (Manchester, New Hampsh.) (Nexis) 25 Apr. b6 He worked at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard for more than 20 years, retiring as a progress man.

progress manager n.

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1918 Times 22 Apr. 14/3 Experienced Engineer and Mechanic..seeks post as Foreman or progress manager.

1932 S. E. Thomas Commerce xxvii. 388 The executives under the works manager may include..a Progress Manager, who sees that the plans of the production manager or of the planner are carried into effect and that no unnecessary delays take place as the work passes from one process to another.

1999 Gloucester Citizen (Nexis) 29 Mar. 7 Beale had been a progress manager for a local firm before being made redundant in 1991.

progress payment n.

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1892 Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. 55 412 If any one is prevented attending work through illness, his place is left open until the subsequent progress payment, that is for the month.

1959 Wall St. Jrnl. 12 June 3/1 The change will affect companies that receive ‘progress payments’—funds advanced by the Government, usually monthly, to help offset a company's costs as it carries out major contracts.

1977 Herald (Melbourne) 17 Jan. 2/6 The company had obtained nearly $120,000 in progress payments but had completed only one contract in that period it was alleged.

1991 Connecticut May 80/1 Progress payments based on a percentage of the work actually completed is the standard of the industry.

progress-killing adj.

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1902 Monthly Rev. Oct. 46 A narrow progress-killing formalism.

2004 Courier-Jrnl. (Louisville, Kentucky) (Nexis) 9 Jan. 6 a He has risen to power precisely by jettisoning his once progressive principles in favor of progress-killing partisanship.

progress-loving adj.

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1858 E. S. Dixon in Househ. Words 3 July 61/1 Qualities..estimated at a glance by progress-loving horticulturists.

1908 Daily Chron. Oct. 4/6 I greatly..esteem the progress-loving Government of Austria.

2000 Guardian (Nexis) 17 May 3 The overall picture..is of a harmonious natural world created by God, nourished by the faithful, and betrayed by progress-loving rationalists.

progress-paralysing adj.

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1893 B. O. Flower in Arena Mar. 509 The progress-paralyzing miasma of creeds.

2006 www.iucn.org 20 Mar. (O.E.D. Archive) Some contend that this approach is justified by desires to overcome progress-paralysing resistance to a technology intended to address and resolve the world crises of hunger and poverty.

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† progress-bed n. Obsolete rare (perhaps) a portable bed used on a (royal) progress.

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1586 Will of George Scott (P.R.O.: PROB. 11/69) f. 459 A prograsse bedd.

† progress block n. Obsolete rare (perhaps) the ‘block’ or pattern of hat introduced for a royal progress (cf. block n. 7b).

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a1627 W. Rowley & T. Middleton Wit at Severall Weapons iv. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Llllll2/2 This broad brim'd hat, Of the last progresse block, with the young hat-band.

progress chaser n. an employee responsible for ensuring that work is done efficiently and to schedule (cf. chaser n.¹ 7).

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society > occupation and work > worker > worker according to manner of working > [noun] > ensuring efficiency of work

progress chaser1939

1939 Daily Tel. 18 Dec. 12/6 (advt.) Progress chasers wanted for aircraft work.

1977 Lancashire Life Mar. 49/1 The imminent threat of war found Arthur Lowe, progress chaser with Fairey Aviation, joining the Duke of Lancaster's Own Yeomanry in Manchester.

1993 Independent on Sunday 24 Oct. (Business section) 8/3 After stints as a ‘progress chaser’..and in product planning, he landed the job that ensured he was earmarked for a top company position.

progress-chasing n. the action, process, or fact of ensuring work is done efficiently and to schedule.

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society > occupation and work > business affairs > [noun] > efficiency in business > act of ensuring

progress-chasing1942

1942 Times 26 Aug. 10/2 Good openings exist in Light Engineering Factory for Women over 31 to replace men on such jobs as progress chasing.

1971 ‘R. Lewis’ Fenokee Project i. 10 Pete dealt with the progress chasing on outstanding contracts.

1994 T. Byrne Local Govt. in Brit. (ed. 6) viii. 187 They are expected to..set objectives and establish plans to meet those needs, and subsequently to review achievements (sometimes known as monitoring or ‘progress chasing’).

† progress house n. Obsolete rare a temporary place of shelter erected on a journey.

ΚΠ

a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1955) II. 221 The Tabernacle it selfe was but Mobilis domus, and Ecclesia portatilis, a house without a foundation; a running, a progresse house.

† progress laundress n. Obsolete rare a laundress employed during a royal progress.

ΚΠ

a1640 P. Massinger Parl. of Love (1976) ii. i. 13 I myself shall haue..Of progresse landresses and market women,..a thowsand bills Preferd against mee.

progress report n. an interim report on progress made to date on a job, project, etc.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > information > reporting > [noun] > a report > of situation or progress

progress report1860

status report1883

situation report1892

1860 Times 6 Feb. 6/2 In their last progress report the Executive Council..state that they had done all in their power to bring about an amicable settlement of these and other disputes.

1943 J. B. Priestley Daylight on Sat. xxv. 189 Cheviot was now frowning hard at the progress reports on his desk.

1972 ‘E. Ferrars’ Breath of Suspicion iii. 38 So, if I see her again, you want a sort of progress report.

1996 Big Issue 19 Aug. 20/1 (advt.) We'll send you a photo of the child you sponsor and regular progress reports from our field workers.

† progress time n. Obsolete the time at which a royal progress takes place.

ΚΠ

1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. cclxiiij^v She was vehemently suspected with Thomas Culpeper, whiche was brought to her Chamber at Lyncolne, in August laste, in the Progresse tyme.

c1570 J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1830) 136 [Queen Elizabeth] willed me to tak patience quhill the progres tyme suld be done.

1607 F. Beaumont Woman Hater iii. iii. sig. E4^v To..make fine jests Vpon country people in progresse time.

1658 R. Brathwait Age of Apes in Honest Ghost 181 In Progresse time, I likewise goe to see 'Mongst other Apes, the Universitie.

progress zone n. Embryology a population of rapidly proliferating, undifferentiated cells at the distal tip of a developing vertebrate limb.

ΚΠ

1973 D. Summerbell et al. in Nature 24 Aug. 493/2 A labile region [of a developing limb] where new positional values are successively engendered in the course of growth, we shall call a ‘progress zone’.

1975 Science 24 Jan. 229/1 The tip of a limb bud, which is called the progress zone, contains dividing cells, and the products of division form in strict sequence the various structures of the limb.

2003 New Scientist 29 Mar. 34/1 The new research calls this model into question. It proposes that there is no such thing as the progress zone.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

progressv.

Brit.

/prə(ʊ)ˈɡrɛs/,

/ˈprəʊɡrɛs/, U.S.

/prəˈɡrɛs/,

/proʊˈɡrɛs/

Forms: see progress n.

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: progress n.

Etymology: < progress n. Compare classical Latin prōgress- , past participial stem of prōgredī to go forward, proceed, to advance, develop, progress (see progredient adj.), and also French progresser (1833), Catalan progressar (1839), Spanish progresar (18th cent.).Apparently more common in U.S. than in British use in the 18th cent., as also in sense 3a in the 19th cent.

a. intransitive. To make a progress (progress n. 5a) or journey; to journey, travel; spec. to make a state journey, to travel ceremoniously, as a royal, noble, or official personage. Now chiefly historical, or merged in 2.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > [verb (intransitive)] > make state or official journey

progress1579

1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 1058 Caesar returned out of Africke, and progressed vp and downe Italie.

a1592 R. Greene Frier Bacon (1594) sig. C2 Weele progresse straight to Oxford with our trains.

1607 S. Rowlands Diogines Lanthorne 22 The Owle being weary of the night Would progresse in the Sunne.

1648 Earl of Westmorland Otia Sacra (1879) 62 Pave me a Golden Tract to Progress in.

a1662 P. Heylyn Cyprianus Anglicus (1668) 139 His Majesty progresseth towards the West.

1860 Atlantic Monthly July 17 The king had been progressing: A courtly phrase, when the king was out On a chivalrous bender.

1906 Musical Times Nov. 729/1 When ‘good Queen Bess’ ‘progressed’ to Bristol in August 1574, she visited St. Mary Redcliffe.

1974 Eng. Hist. Rev. 89 351 The king was progressing through the county at the end of June 1215.

1994 L. L. Layne Home & Homeland viii. 147 After the lunch the King progressed by car from north to south, the entire length of the Valley.

†b. transitive. Chiefly poetic. To travel through or traverse (an area), to proceed through; to make a royal progress through (cf. progress n. 5a). Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > [verb (transitive)] > traverse a distance or ground

runeOE

overcomeOE

meteOE

through-gangOE

passc1300

to pass over ——c1300

overpassc1325

tracec1381

travela1393

traverse?a1400

travelc1400

measure?a1425

walkc1450

go1483

journey1531

peragrate1542

trade1548

overspin1553

overtrace1573

tract1579

progress1587

invade1590

waste1590

wear1596

march1606

void1608

recovera1625

expatiate1627

lustrate1721

do1795

slip1817

cover1818

clear1823

track1823

itinerate1830

betravel1852

to roll off1867

1587 R. Holinshed et al. Hist. Scotl. (new ed.) 359/1 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) II After this, the queene leauing Inuernesse, and progressing the prouince of Rosse, she came to Elgine.

1619 M. Drayton Legend Robert Dvke of Normandy in Poems (new ed.) 327 Who should haue progres'd all a Kingdomes space.

1635 F. Quarles Emblemes iv. xii. 230 When my soule had progrest ev'ry place, That love and deare affection could contrive.

1641 J. Milton Of Reformation 90 Progressing the datelesse and irrevoluble Circle of Eternity.

2. intransitive. To go or move forward or onward in space; to proceed, advance (through or along some course, path, etc.).

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > forward movement > move forward or advance [verb (intransitive)]

wadeOE

agoOE

forthganga1000

forthgoOE

syeOE

kenc1275

to-stepc1275

vaunce1303

forthnima1325

passc1330

throc1330

forthpass1382

to pass forthc1384

to carry forthc1390

proceedc1392

to go alongc1400

to be forthwardc1430

get) groundc1436

to set onc1450

avauntc1460

pretend1481

to make way1490

advance?1507

to get forward1523

promove1570

to rid ground (also space)1572

to rid (the) way1581

progressa1586

to gather grounda1593

to make forth1594

to make on1597

to work up1603

perge1607

to work one's (also its) way1609

to pass on1611

to gain ground1625

to make its way1645

vadea1660

propagate1700

to gain one's way1777

further1789

to pull up1829

on1840

to make (up) ground1921

a1586 Sir P. Sidney Astrophel & Stella (1591) 10 In highest way of heauen the Sunne did ride, Progressing then from fayre Twynns golden place, Hauing no maske of Clowdes before his face.

a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) v. ii. 46 Let me wipe off this honourable dewe, That siluerly doth progresse on thy cheekes.

c1639 T. Dekker & J. Ford Sun's-darling (1656) v. 42 Progresse o're the year Again my Raybright, therein like the Sun.

1700 E. Howard Remarks New Philos. Des-Cartes iii. 187 'Tis Ordain'd..that the Sun..should be more Certain in Motion, and usefully computable, by never progressing from his Ecliptick Line.

1749 ‘N. Hackabout’ Lucas Vindicated 3 If the Infection progressed to nobler Parts, then would it be necessary to use more severe Remedies.

1808 C. Schultz Trav. (1810) II. 170 In this manner..the head [of an island] is continually progressing up the [Mississippi] river, while the lower part is proportionably wasting away.

1855 R. Carboni Eureka Stockade 10 The Eureka gutter was fast progressing down hill towards the Eureka gully.

a1862 H. D. Thoreau Maine Woods (1864) iii. 289 We had been busily progressing all day.

1907 J. Conrad Secret Agent iv. 88 Ossipon had a vision of these round black-rimmed spectacles progressing along the streets on the top of an omnibus.

1936 D. McCowan Animals Canad. Rockies xxxi. 265 In some parts of Canada the animal [sc. the Mule Deer] is called Jumping deer, this from its well known habit of progressing when alarmed in a series of immense leaps and bounds.

2002 New Yorker 14 Oct. 82/1 The future President of Turkey..waded into the lake, progressing relentlessly if flinchingly to shorts-soaking depths.

a. intransitive. Of a procedure, action, process, etc., or an agent engaged in such a process: to move forward in time; to go on, proceed, advance; to be carried on, or to carry on; to follow an expected course or pattern.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > doing > a proceeding > proceed or carry on an action [verb (intransitive)] > be carried on or proceed

wharvec888

passa1393

proceed?a1439

stir1526

progress1600

to go on1735

1600 R. Kittowe Loues Load-starre sig. K2^v Whilest the Keeper went to accomplish his highnesse pleasure, he thus progressed in his speech.

1607 J. Day et al. Trauailes Three Eng. Brothers sig. B2^v As sure as day doth progres toward night.

a1631 J. Donne Βιαθανατος (1647) Concl. As farre as I allowed my discourse to progresse in this way.

1764 R. Wallace View Internal Policy Great Brit. i. 45 While England was progressing in that change of its constitution, Ireland as a dependent country was affected with it.

1791 G. Washington Let. in Writings (1891) XII. 52 The business of laying out the city..is progressing.

1837 J. R. Lowell Lett. (1894) I. 17 'Tis a pretty good subject, but I find it enlarging as I progress.

1864 G. W. Dasent Jest & Earnest (1873) II. 41 If the work had progressed as it began, there ought to have been nine.

1906 J. A. Hatton Pilgr. in Region Faith iii. 137 The controversy is progressing.

1989 V. S. Pritchett Chekhov xi. 136 The marriage is disappointing at first, but she grows fonder of her husband as the story progresses.

1995 HealthFacts Oct. 4/1 When surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy fail to keep breast cancer from progressing on a fatal course, autologous bone marrow transplant..is the last resort.

2000 T. May Victorian Workhouse 27/1 The treatment of most inmates of the workhouse became more lenient as the century progressed.

b. intransitive. Music. Of melody or harmony: to proceed from one note or chord to another. Cf. progression n. 7.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > harmony or sounds in combination > harmonize [verb (intransitive)] > movement of parts

move1771

progress1882

1882 Proc. Musical Assoc. (8th Sess., 1881–2) 100 Two parts progressing by fifths are moving in two different scales.

1924 Musical Q. 10 610 A series of dissonant chords progressing almost entirely by chromatic degrees.

1998 Jrnl. Music Theory 42 79 From this point the harmony progresses to a B♭♭ major chord.

a. intransitive. To proceed to a further or higher stage, or to further or higher stages continuously; to develop, increase; (esp.) to advance to a better state or condition; to improve.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > advance, progress, or develop [verb (intransitive)]

climbc1400

ascendc1550

soar1597

progress1612

develop1744

advance1875

bull1928

the world > action or operation > continuing > progress, advance, or further continuance > progress or advance in an action [verb (intransitive)] > make progress or advance (of action or operation)

fremec1000

furtherc1200

profit1340

to go onc1449

grow1487

to commence to, intoa1500

framea1529

to get ground?1529

movec1540

work1566

promove1570

advance1577

devolve1579

to come on1584

progress1612

to gain ground1625

germinate1640

proceed1670

to gather ground1697

march1702

to make its way1711

to come forward1722

develop1744

to turn a wheel1864

shape1865

come1899

1612 B. Jonson Alchemist ii. iii. sig. E^v Nor can this remote Matter, sodainly, Progresse so from extreme, vnto extreme, As to grow Gold, and leape ore all the meanes.

1632 S. Marmion Hollands Leaguer ii. iv I began Betimes, and so progrest from less to bigger.

1788 J. Jackson Thoughts Polit. Situation U.S.A. 97 The countries in Europe have but little chance of progressing much in the practice of such a science.

1796 G. Washington Let. in Writings (1892) XIII. 354 The pleasure of hearing you were well..and progressing..in your studies.

1809 R. Southey Let. 30 Apr. in C. C. Southey Life & Corr. R. Southey (1850) III. 232 Another state of being, in which there shall be no other change than that of progressing in knowledge.

1832 M. R. Mitford Our Village V. 76 In country towns..society has been progressing (if I may borrow that expressive Americanism) at a very rapid rate.

1840 W. E. Gladstone Church Princ. 11 It may..be the case that..we are actually progressing in some particulars while we retrograde in others.

1894 E. Œ. Somerville & ‘M. Ross’ Real Charlotte I. iii. 22 The shop windows..had progressed..to straw hats, tennis shoes, and coloured Summer Numbers.

1912 H. Footner New Rivers of North 235 None of the stopping-houses along this trail have progressed beyond the most primitive stage.

1940 J. Buchan Memory Hold-the-Door viii. 197 As my studies progressed I came to the conclusion that he was the most balanced and prescient mind in Scotland at the time.

2001 H. Gilbert Postcolonial Plays 286/1 Nowra, born..to working-class parents living in an outer-Melbourne housing-commission estate, has progressed to the forefront of Australian theatre.

b. intransitive. Of the terms or items of a series: to proceed from less to greater; to form an advancing series.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > come in due order or course [verb (intransitive)] > form an advancing series

progress1839

climax1861

1839 Times 7 Aug. 7/5 Bullets progress in size according to numbers beginning at No. 1.

1868 Sir J. Herschel in People's Mag. Jan. 62 Squares of clear window-glass..regularly progressing in size by quarter or half inches in the side.

1950 Hispanic Rev. 18 (end matter) Beginning with relatively brief and simple chapters, the assignments progress in length and difficulty.

1974 B. Emecheta Second Class Citizen vii. 87 The intensity of the knocks progressed from the first mild knock to a final thunderous one.

1998 Aerospace Amer. (Nexis) Apr. 24 Distinct models are used, starting with atomistic models..and progressing in size from microscopic to mesoscopic and continuum models.

5. transitive. To cause (something) to advance or move forward; esp. to cause (work, a task, etc.) to make regular progress towards completion, to expedite (originally U.S.).

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > forward movement > move or cause to move forward or advance [verb (transitive)] > move (a thing) forward

to bring onc1230

vaunce1303

advancea1393

to set forward(s)c1430

perduce1563

traila1717

progress1780

the world > action or operation > continuing > progress, advance, or further continuance > furtherance > further [verb (transitive)]

furtherc888

to bring onc1230

advancea1250

speeda1300

nourishc1300

avaunt1393

promotec1433

pasture?a1439

advantage?1459

promove1475

preferc1503

conduce1518

to set forth1528

to set forward(s)1530

to take forth1530

fillip1551

help1559

farther1570

foster1571

shoulder1577

to put forward1579

seconda1586

foment1596

hearten1598

to put on1604

fomentate1613

succeed1613

expeditea1618

producea1618

maturate1623

cultivate1641

encourage1677

push1693

forward1780

progress1780

admove1839

1780 Out-of-Door Parl. 76 A glorious war, commenced in justice and progressed in success.

1814 Q. Rev. 10 528 Nor have there been wanting projects among them [sc. Americans] for getting rid of the English language, not merely by barbarizing it—as when they progress a bill, [etc.].

1867 R. Hunt Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 6) II. 131 The heavier portion is progressed across the table, and passed into an ore bin.

1954 ‘N. Shute’ Slide Rule 184 I was chiefly occupied..in progressing the design and construction of the factory at Portsmouth.

1965 E. Gowers Fowler's Mod. Eng. Usage (ed. 2) 479/2 Progress... Prō′grĕs is usual for the transitive verb, now much used in the manufacturing and building industries in the sense of pushing a job forward by regular stages.

1990 Times Educ. Suppl. 14 Sept. 9/5 The intention..is to progress pupils through the school at levels appropriate to their abilities.

2002 Contract Jrnl. 19 June (CJ2 Suppl.) 4/3 The developer was keen to progress the building programme quickly.

6. intransitive. To come forth or issue out of a source; to stem from. Cf. proceed v. 1c, progress n. 3. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > go or come out [verb (intransitive)]

outgoeOE

to come outOE

forthcomeOE

to go outOE

ishc1330

to take forth one's way (also journey, road, etc.)a1375

proceedc1380

getc1390

exorta1400

issue?a1400

precedec1425

purgea1430

to come forthc1449

suea1450

ushc1475

to call one's way (also course)1488

to turn outa1500

void1558

redound1565

egress1578

outpacea1596

result1598

pursue1651

out1653

pop1770

to get out1835

progress1851

1851 J. M. Neale Mediæval Hymns 179 Holy Ghost, from Both progressing.

1972 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 116 3/1 The memoirs relevant to probabilities are nine in number, progressing out of the internal logic of the mathematical problems.

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单词	progress
释义	progressn. Brit. /ˈprəʊɡrɛs/, /ˈprɒɡrɛs/, U.S. /ˈprɑɡrəs/ Forms: late Middle English–1600s progres, late Middle English–1600s progresse, 1500s prograsse, 1500s (Scottish) 1600s progrese, 1500s–1600s prograce, 1500s– progress. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin prōgressus. Etymology: < classical Latin prōgressus forward movement, advance, development, in post-classical Latin also official tour by a monarch (1447, 1547 in British sources) < prōgress- , past participial stem of prōgredī to go forward, proceed, to advance, develop, progress (see progredient adj.) + -tus , suffix forming verbal nouns. Compare Anglo-Norman progres advance (14th cent., with reference to movement through enemy territory), Middle French progres , French progrès development of an action (1546), increase by degrees, improvement (1564), gradual improvement (1588), movement forward in space (1611), (in plural) succession of military successes (1616), advancement in someone's affections (1651), advancement in civilization (1757), Catalan progrés (15th cent.), Spanish progreso (15th cent.), Italian progresso (14th cent.). Compare also ( < classical Latin prōgressiōn- , prōgressiō progression n.) Middle French progresse progression (1513, in apparently isolated use). Compare regress n., progression n.The pronunciation with a long vowel in the first syllable has been found in British English from at least the mid 18th cent.; for 19th-cent. comment compare:1897 H. Tennyson Alfred Ld. Tennyson: Mem. anno 1866 II. ii. 35 Someone spoke of Dīplŏmăcy and Prŏgress. ‘Oh!’, said my father, ‘why do you pronounce the word like that? pray give the ō long.’ I. The course or process of a series of actions, events, etc., through time; advancement through such a course. 1. Progression or advancement through a process, a sequence of events, a period of time, etc.; movement towards an outcome or conclusion. in progress: in the process of happening or being carried out. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > continuing > progress, advance, or further continuance > [noun] progressionc1385 proceeding?c1425 progressc1443 proceedc1450 procession1585 gate1604 procedure1640 foreholda1642 process1642 promotion1649 sailing1827 sledding1839 on-go1870 the world > time > [noun] > course or passage of time process1357 concoursec1400 coursec1460 successionc1485 passing-by1523 by-passing1526 slacka1533 continuancea1552 race1565 prolapse1585 current1587 decurse1593 passage1596 drifting1610 flux1612 effluxion1621 transcursion1622 decursion1629 devolution1629 progression1646 efflux1647 preterition1647 processus1648 decurrence1659 progress1664 fluxation1710 elapsing1720 currency1726 lapse1758 elapse1793 time-lapse1864 wearing1876 the world > action or operation > doing > a proceeding > in progress [phrase] in handc1405 in expeditiona1616 on (also upon) the anvil1645 on the wheel1677 in progress1849 in the works1870 in process1906 in the pipeline1945 c1443 R. Pecock Reule of Crysten Religioun (1927) 377 (MED) In oure progresse to outward werkis aftir þese now afore taken preisingis and preiyngis..we ouȝte to dispose vs wiþ holding to gidere of al þe bifore seid inward endewing. ?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1865) I. 395 (MED) The auctor of this presente Cronicle towchethe in his progresse, other processe, rather Wales then Englonde. 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection ii. sig. Hv^v Of the iewes and their progresse we may lerne. 1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII v. iii. 66 In all the Progresse Both of my Life and Office, I haue labour'd..that [etc.] . View more context for this quotation 1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. iii. 155 This virtue decayes in progress of Time (as all Odours do). 1681 P. Belon tr. F. Monginot New Myst. Physick Introd. 30 This Allum..will prevent the Progress of a Gangrene. 1785 T. Reid Ess. Intellect. Powers ii. xxi So rapid is the progress of the thought. 1798 M. Wollstonecraft Maria 19 The composition had been in progress for a period of twelve months. 1817 J. H. Curtis Treat. on Ear 72 Even the most difficult of the whole of this class of deafness, that which is termed nervous deafness, may..be arrested in its progress. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. ii. 179 While these changes were in progress. 1949 G. W. Knight Wheel of Fire vii. 143 This blurring and lack of certainty is increased by the heavy proportion of second-hand or vague knowledge reported during the play's progress. 1989 Which? Jan. 5/1 Whether the fungicides on a slice of lemon..could..cause problems, hasn't been proved—tests are in progress. 2003 Smithsonian July 44/1 An oversize screen displays the progress of the game, which is a variation on cyberwarfare. 2. spec. Advancement to a further or higher stage, or to further or higher stages successively; growth; development, usually to a better state or condition; improvement; an instance of this. Frequently to make progress.In later use applied esp. to manifestations of social and economic change or reform. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > [noun] growingc1380 profitingc1384 increasec1385 bettering?c1425 progress1457 advancementc1475 service1533 progression1586 increment1609 upgrowinga1618 flowering1629 rise1676 development1756 evolution1796 march1818 headway1832 upgrowth1844 upbuilding1876 the world > action or operation > continuing > progress, advance, or further continuance > [noun] > to a further or higher stage profitingc1384 progress1457 progression1586 movement1866 1457 Acts Parl. Scotl. II. 52/2 Sen Gode..hes send oure souerane lorde sik progres and prosperite, that [etc.]. ?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1865) I. 203 (MED) Of the begynnenge of Longobardes and of the progresse [L. De progressu] of theym, Paulus Diacon..rehersethe in his firste boke of the story of Longobardes. 1540 T. Some Treat. Lordis Flayle sig. D4 Nowe therfor by fayth we haue begone owre quiettnes in God, in which also we do dayly make progresse. a1578 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) I. 132/1 We man..grant thy felicietie and happie progres in all thy doingis. 1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes To Rdr. If you consider the beginning, progresse, and perpetuall felicitie of this the Othoman Empire. 1651 T. Hobbes Philos. Rudim. Dedicatory sig. A8 Not of his progresse in Science, but of his wandrings from it. 1653 Declar. Ld. Gen. & Councell of Officers 2 No considerable effect was produced, nor any such progresse made, as might imply their reall intentions to accomplish what was Petitioned for. 1686 tr. J. Chardin Trav. Persia 24 Having made no farther progress in his Business. 1713 J. Addison in Guardian 10 July 2/1 I am ashamed that I am not able to make a quicker Progress through the French Tongue. 1745 E. Young Consolation 97 Nature delights in Progress; in Advance From Worse to Better: But, when Minds ascend, Progress, in Part, depends upon Themselves. 1780 B. Franklin Let. 8 Feb. The rapid Progress true Science now makes, occasions my regretting sometimes that I was born so soon. 1846 R. C. Trench Notes Miracles Introd. iv. 34 The very idea of God's kingdom is that of progress, of a gradually fuller communication..of himself to men. a1862 H. T. Buckle Misc. Wks. (1872) I. 349 As civilization advances, the progress of manufactures greatly outstrips the progress of agriculture. 1888 S. Moore tr. K. Marx & F. Engels Manifesto Communist Party i. 14 These also supply the proletariat with fresh elements of enlightenment and progress. 1947 E. E. Cummings Let. 21 Sept. (1969) 179 A Chinese professor who spoke, long ago, at Yale; saying that the East does not want ‘progress’, does not want lipstick & movies. 1967 Canad. Med. Assoc. Jrnl. 97 309 The Beveridge Report on social insurance identified ‘five giants’ in the path of social progress: want, disease, ignorance, squalor and idleness. 1996 Toronto Star (Nexis) 26 Sept. c16 You should try to attend classes at least twice a week... Any less and your progress and advancement to a higher belt level will be slow. †3. An act of proceeding or coming from a source. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > [noun] > from a source progressionc1385 progressc1530 process1537 emanation1570 c1530 Court of Love 1067 Love is a vertue clere, And from the soule his progress holdeth he. 4. Scots Law. An unbroken series of possessors, tenants, etc., extending over several years, which sufficiently constitutes a valid and effectual title to property or land. Often in progress of (title) deeds (also progress of titles): a series of title deeds extending in such a way. Now historical. heir (and successor, etc.) by progress: an heir who inherits under a progress of title. ΚΠ 1563 Linlithgow Sheriff Court 23 June in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Progres(s Williame Fischar nepote air & lineall successour be progres to vmquhill Johnne Fischar. 1593 Sc. Acts Jas. VI (1816) IV. 11/2 James lindsay of barcloy pronevoy and air be progres to vmqle Johnne lindsay of wauchoip his grandschir. c1626 H. Bisset Rolment Courtis (1920) I. 59 That Banchois posteritie suld injoyse the croun of Scotland, be lang possessioun of progres. 1647 Glasgow Univ. Muniments I. 385 Lykwayes my Lady Dutches is oblidgit by band to make furthcumand to the universitie a perfyte progres of her right to the said benefice. 1693 J. Dalrymple Inst. Law Scotl. (ed. 2) iv. xxxviii. §19. 660 Titles by Progress, are either Retours on services of Heirs, or Confirmations of Executors, or Assignations [etc.]..from whence the conclusion of the Summons is justly and legally inferred. a1722 J. Lauder Decisions (1759) I. 4 In buying of land, men crave a forty years clear progress, and with that think themselves secure, by the grand act of prescription 1617. 1773 J. Erskine Inst. Law Scotl. I. ii. iii. §20 Charters are either original, or by progress;..charters by progress are, in dubious clauses, to be interpreted agreeably to the original one. 1832 W. Scott St. Ronan's Well (new ed.) p. v Removed..from his legal folios and progresses of title deeds, from his counters and shelves. 1868 Act 31 & 32 Victoria c. 101 §9 Any conveyance..forming part of the progress of title deeds of the said lands. 1891 J. Cragie Conveyancing 147 It is, since 1st October 1874, unnecessary for a vassal to obtain, and incompetent for a superior to grant, any charter, precept, or other writ by progress. 1947 Scotsman 8 July The decree of general service formed a valid link of title in a prescriptive progress of titles. II. The action or an act of journeying or moving onward in space. 5. a. An official journey, tour, or visit made by a monarch, church dignitary, or person of noble birth or high office. Also: the official tour made by judges and others, a circuit; an official visitation of its estates by an Oxford or Cambridge college. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun] > official visitation progress?c1450 fog race1689 society > law > administration of justice > judicial body, assembly, or court > a or the session of a court > [noun] > circuit made by judge or sheriff eyrec1350 justry1420 sheriff tourn1432 tourn1432 progress?c1450 tourney1451 circuit1503 wayc1503 iter1647 ?c1450 in W. A. Pantin Docs. Eng. Black Monks (1937) III. 111 (MED) In oure progresses and iorneyes..in sindrey cuntreis of this our royme, we have..parceivid, [etc.]. 1461 Rolls of Parl. V. 475/2 The Kyng..beyng in his progresse in the seide Counte. 1503–4 Act 19 Hen. VII c. 7 §1 The justices of assises in ther cyrcuyte or progresse in that shyre. 1575 U. Fulwell Flower of Fame f. 24^v King Henry tooke his Progres towardes the Citie of Yorke. 1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 239 He went in progresse to all parts of his kingdome. a1648 Ld. Herbert Life Henry VIII (1649) 142 Synodall Judges, going Progresse yeerly under pretext of Visitation. 1659 M. Woodward Memorandum 6 Sept. in R. L. Rickard Progress Notes Warden Woodward (1949) iii. 46 In my 1st Progresse at Kengham I went with some of the Homage to sett out the Bounds between a ffreeholder of Kengham..& a Leaseholder thereof. 1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. ii. iv. 67 The Queen, whom I always attended, never went further when she accompanied the King in his Progresses. 1793 J. Woodforde Diary 13 Oct. (1929) IV. 65 The Warden of New-College Dr. Oglander & another Gentleman of New College..arrived this morning at Bath on their Progress. 1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) II. 99 Comprehended in six circuits, or annual progress of the judges. 1811 Order Magd. Coll. 4 June That the Norfolk Progress do take place this year and at the expiration of three years from this time. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. v. 593 He was President of Wales and lord lieutenant of four English counties. His official tours..were scarcely inferior in pomp to royal progresses. 1920 P. S. Allen Let. 21 Apr. (1939) 164 In July he went on ‘progress’ with the Bursar and two other fellows. 1986 M. George Autobiography Henry VIII 78 Ostensibly these progresses were made to allow the monarch to escape from palace routine. 1999 E. Afr. Standard (Nairobi) 28 July (Midweek section) 8/1 If the Queen hung a string of trade beads on any fence in England today with the hope of retrieving them on her next royal progress, she would need to leave a regiment of guards. b. A state procession. Also in extended use. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun] > state journey or visit progressa1556 society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > a public show or spectacle > type of show or spectacle > [noun] > parade or procession > other parades or processions progressa1556 Lord Mayor's Show1636 cavalcade1644 perahera1681 bridewain1789 Easter Parade1874 concours d'élégance1950 carcade1964 a1556 T. Cranmer Let. 17 June in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1824) 1st Ser. II. 37 Whyche said Progresse..extendid half a myle in leyngthe by estimacion. 1613 J. Hayward Liues III. Normans Pref. At his returne from the Progresse to his house at S. James, these pieces were delivered unto him. 1681 J. Scott Christian Life: Pt. I iv. 485 The remainder of his March will be all a Triumphal Progress to him. 1859 J. M. Jephson & L. Reeve Narr. Walking Tour Brittany iii. 35 Where the Emperor was about to expose himself in a public hall and progress. 1921 L. Strachey Queen Victoria ix. 306 The splendid procession passed along, escorting Victoria through the thronged re-echoing streets of London on her progress of thanksgiving to St. Paul's cathedral. 1995 Hist. Jrnl. 38 542 This was presented to the king..two days after his triumphal progress through the city from the Tower to Whitehall. 6. In general use. a. The action of stepping or marching forward or onward; onward march; journeying, travelling, travel; (also) an instance of this; a journey, an expedition. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun] forec900 wayOE farec1000 sitheOE gangOE journey?c1225 gatea1300 pilgrimagec1300 voyage1338 wending1340 raik?c1350 turna1400 repairc1425 went1430 reisea1450 progressionc1450 progressa1460 race1513 peregrination1548 travel1559 passance1580 dogtrot1856 trek1895 ulendo1921 a1460 Knyghthode & Bataile (Pembr. Cambr. 243) 866 (MED) Of him the rolle of wacch and of progresse, Thei crave and haue. a1500 Partenay (Trin. Cambr.) 3199 ‘Off me the werre the Giaunt doth desire, Anon shall I go hym Assail quikly.’ To thys forth-progresse Geffray made redy. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. xi. sig. Nn4 So forth they both yfere make their progresse. 1596 J. Norden (title) A progresse of pietie. c1616 R. C. Times' Whistle (1871) vi. 2600 It was my fortune, with..others..One summers day a progresse for to goe Into the countrie. 1624 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy (ed. 2) ii. ii. iv. 227 The most pleasing of all outward pastimes, is..to make a petty progresse, a merry iourney. 1678 J. Bunyan (title) The pilgrim's progress from this world, to that which is to come. 1745 P. Thomas True Jrnl. Voy. South-Seas 160 The Officers and People made a Progress round the Island. 1782 F. Burney Cecilia III. v. ix. 98 Cecilia's next progress, therefore, was to St James's-square, whither she went in the utmost anxiety. 1838 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece V. xl. 123 Their progress through the Persian provinces was a kind of triumph. 1887 T. Hardy Woodlanders III. xiii. 267 Now Tim began to be struck with these loitering progresses along the garden boundaries in the gloaming, and wondered what they boded. 1903 H. James Ambassadors viii. xx. 265 It had come in the smile with which Sarah..rustled down to them a moment later, fresh and handsome from her cool June progress through the charming land. 1917 V. Woolf Mark on Wall in V. Woolf & L. S. Woolf Two Stories 30 How cold the feet of insects must feel upon it, as they make laborious progresses up the creases of the bark. b. Onward movement following a prescribed course, in a specific direction, or towards a particular place. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > [noun] goinga1250 passagec1300 passingc1350 progressiona1460 local motion1551 progress1564 pass1602 traverse1663 locomoving1704 roll1827 onwards1943 1564 W. Bullein Dialogue against Fever Pestilence f. 50 Come sweete hartes, & let vs take our progresse, to the pleasaunt riuer of Tagus. 1593 G. Harvey New Let. in Wks. (1884) I. 278 Not much vnlike the progresse of the resplendent Sunne in the Scorpion. a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) ii. i. 340 Vnlesse thou let his siluer Water, keepe A peacefull progresse to the Ocean. View more context for this quotation 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xi. 175 For see the Morn..begins Her rosie progress smiling. View more context for this quotation 1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 59 If the Cheeks of the Press stand wide assunder, the sweep or progress of the..Bar will be greater than if they stand nearer together. 1757 T. Gray Ode I i. i, in Odes 5 A thousand rills their mazy progress take. 1816 W. Scott Antiquary II. ii. 45 These [thoughts]..were not such as resemble the gradual progress of a fertilizing river, but the headlong and precipitous fury of some portentous flood. 1878 R. Browning La Saisiaz 42 Up and up we went... Call progress toilsome? 1942 Jrnl. Amer. Folklore 55 214 As the sancts approach the curtained-off section..in their progress around the table, a hand reaches out from behind the curtains and gives to each sanct a large cake. 1989 D. Leavitt Equal Affections (1990) ii. 203 The weatherman..was describing the progress of a hurricane that was in the process of devastating South Carolina. 2003 BusinessWeek 24 Nov. 96/2 The computer..connects to a global positioning system to map the shopper's progress through the store. c. Motion forwards, as opposed to rest or regress; advance. Also in figurative contexts. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > forward movement > [noun] forthgangc900 racea1400 processa1450 remuea1450 profectiona1538 procession1585 advance1593 nod1597 progressa1599 riddance1598 run1626 advancement1637 incession1651 progression1651–3 march1683 progrediency1701 waygate1825 a1599 R. Rollock Lect. Epist. Paul to Colossians (1603) xiv. ii. 147 Thou must not sit downe, thou must not stand still, but thou must goe forward in him [sc. Christ], and make progresse. 1622 (?a1513) W. Dunbar Poems (Reidpeth) (1998) I. 175 Through streittis nane may mak progres, For cry of cruikit, blind and lame. a1656 J. Ussher Ann. World (1658) vi. 773 Whose progresse and regresse in this journey we here set down out of Strabo. 1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. iv. xvi. 200 After some progress made in your Voyage. 1722 B. Franklin in New-Eng. Courant 17–24 Sept. 1/1 But this Fleet were not less comical or irregular in their Progress than a Company of Females I soon after came up with. 1785 W. Cowper Task i. 330 The folded gates would bar my progress now. 1839 C. Darwin in R. Fitzroy & C. Darwin Narr. Surv. Voy. H.M.S. Adventure & Beagle III. v. 105 When swimming..their [sc. ostriches'] progress is slow. 1877 J. Bryce Transcaucasia & Ararat (1896) 35 The same sense of motion without progress, which those who have crossed the ocean know so well. 1933 Geogr. Jrnl. 81 144 The going was very bad indeed..and progress was best made by walking along the fallen trunks. 1979 J. Rathbone Joseph ii. iii. 208 Once off we made good progress. 1999 Washington Post (Nexis) 13 June a27 The extreme conditions and high terrain make progress slow and difficult. †d. A region or distance traversed. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > space > distance > [noun] > distance (to be) travelled wayeOE progress1601 1601 R. Johnson tr. G. Botero Trauellers Breuiat 159 His dominion..stretcheth from the promontory Bayador to Tanger, and from the Atlantike Ocean to the riuer Muluia. In which progresse [It. nel qual spatio] is conteined the best portion of all Afrike. Compounds C1. a. General attributive with sense ‘of or relating to progress; responsible for checking or monitoring progress’. progress clerk n. ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > written record > compiler or keeper of written records > [noun] > others secretary14.. remembrancer1523 rapporteur1653 tally-writer1786 messenger1793 memorandist1866 toll-clerk1878 shorthand typist1901 progress clerk1916 filing clerk1922 secretary bird1969 1916 Ann. Amer. Acad. Polit. & Social Sci. 65 181 He must..have adequate, reliable and immediate knowledge, records and aides (as an order and progress clerk). 1921 Dict. Occup. Terms (1927) §939 Progress clerk,..traces and pushes forward work in its various stages from operation to operation until it is ready for delivery... Keeps a record of output, etc., in works. 1942 A. P. Jephcott Girls growing Up iv. 77 A progress clerk..is conscious of the superiority of her life over that of a girl who does a petty routine job all day. 2005 Derby Evening Tel. (Nexis) 1 Nov. 6 She was, at the start of her service, engaged as a progress clerk in the works' manager's office. progress committee n. ΚΠ 1864 Times 11 Jan. 8/2 He receives letters by almost every post from the Secretary of ‘the Progress Committee’ of one or other township of his constituency. 1937 Jrnl. Higher Educ. 8 73/2 The University of Pennsylvania has a progress committee which follows up on estates in which the University may share. 2005 Tulsa (Oklahoma) World (Nexis) 9 Aug. a 12 Commissioners scheduled the election after hearing from..the chairman of a progress committee. progress department n. ΚΠ 1920 Times 31 Aug. 3/3 (advt.) Wanted..young men having had practical engineering training..for progress department. 1932 S. E. Thomas Commerce xxvii. 394 It is the duty of the Progress Department to follow up the various processes, to prepare job cards, material charts, etc. 1988 R. Flynn in T. Booth & J. Statham Nature Special Educ. v. 38 As his reading age was below ten years, he was referred to the Progress department. progress man n. ΚΠ 1922 G. T. Turner & B. Wood Man. Up-to-date Organisation 171 A progress man responsible for the progress of a job through the factory. 1957 C. Smith Case of Torches ii. 26 The small offices..where the engineers and draughtsmen and progress men pored..over their columns of figures. 2004 Union Leader (Manchester, New Hampsh.) (Nexis) 25 Apr. b6 He worked at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard for more than 20 years, retiring as a progress man. progress manager n. ΚΠ 1918 Times 22 Apr. 14/3 Experienced Engineer and Mechanic..seeks post as Foreman or progress manager. 1932 S. E. Thomas Commerce xxvii. 388 The executives under the works manager may include..a Progress Manager, who sees that the plans of the production manager or of the planner are carried into effect and that no unnecessary delays take place as the work passes from one process to another. 1999 Gloucester Citizen (Nexis) 29 Mar. 7 Beale had been a progress manager for a local firm before being made redundant in 1991. progress payment n. ΚΠ 1892 Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. 55 412 If any one is prevented attending work through illness, his place is left open until the subsequent progress payment, that is for the month. 1959 Wall St. Jrnl. 12 June 3/1 The change will affect companies that receive ‘progress payments’—funds advanced by the Government, usually monthly, to help offset a company's costs as it carries out major contracts. 1977 Herald (Melbourne) 17 Jan. 2/6 The company had obtained nearly $120,000 in progress payments but had completed only one contract in that period it was alleged. 1991 Connecticut May 80/1 Progress payments based on a percentage of the work actually completed is the standard of the industry. b. progress-killing adj. ΚΠ 1902 Monthly Rev. Oct. 46 A narrow progress-killing formalism. 2004 Courier-Jrnl. (Louisville, Kentucky) (Nexis) 9 Jan. 6 a He has risen to power precisely by jettisoning his once progressive principles in favor of progress-killing partisanship. progress-loving adj. ΚΠ 1858 E. S. Dixon in Househ. Words 3 July 61/1 Qualities..estimated at a glance by progress-loving horticulturists. 1908 Daily Chron. Oct. 4/6 I greatly..esteem the progress-loving Government of Austria. 2000 Guardian (Nexis) 17 May 3 The overall picture..is of a harmonious natural world created by God, nourished by the faithful, and betrayed by progress-loving rationalists. progress-paralysing adj. ΚΠ 1893 B. O. Flower in Arena Mar. 509 The progress-paralyzing miasma of creeds. 2006 www.iucn.org 20 Mar. (O.E.D. Archive) Some contend that this approach is justified by desires to overcome progress-paralysing resistance to a technology intended to address and resolve the world crises of hunger and poverty. C2. † progress-bed n. Obsolete rare (perhaps) a portable bed used on a (royal) progress. ΚΠ 1586 Will of George Scott (P.R.O.: PROB. 11/69) f. 459 A prograsse bedd. † progress block n. Obsolete rare (perhaps) the ‘block’ or pattern of hat introduced for a royal progress (cf. block n. 7b). ΚΠ a1627 W. Rowley & T. Middleton Wit at Severall Weapons iv. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Llllll2/2 This broad brim'd hat, Of the last progresse block, with the young hat-band. progress chaser n. an employee responsible for ensuring that work is done efficiently and to schedule (cf. chaser n.¹ 7). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > worker according to manner of working > [noun] > ensuring efficiency of work progress chaser1939 1939 Daily Tel. 18 Dec. 12/6 (advt.) Progress chasers wanted for aircraft work. 1977 Lancashire Life Mar. 49/1 The imminent threat of war found Arthur Lowe, progress chaser with Fairey Aviation, joining the Duke of Lancaster's Own Yeomanry in Manchester. 1993 Independent on Sunday 24 Oct. (Business section) 8/3 After stints as a ‘progress chaser’..and in product planning, he landed the job that ensured he was earmarked for a top company position. progress-chasing n. the action, process, or fact of ensuring work is done efficiently and to schedule. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > business affairs > [noun] > efficiency in business > act of ensuring progress-chasing1942 1942 Times 26 Aug. 10/2 Good openings exist in Light Engineering Factory for Women over 31 to replace men on such jobs as progress chasing. 1971 ‘R. Lewis’ Fenokee Project i. 10 Pete dealt with the progress chasing on outstanding contracts. 1994 T. Byrne Local Govt. in Brit. (ed. 6) viii. 187 They are expected to..set objectives and establish plans to meet those needs, and subsequently to review achievements (sometimes known as monitoring or ‘progress chasing’). † progress house n. Obsolete rare a temporary place of shelter erected on a journey. ΚΠ a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1955) II. 221 The Tabernacle it selfe was but Mobilis domus, and Ecclesia portatilis, a house without a foundation; a running, a progresse house. † progress laundress n. Obsolete rare a laundress employed during a royal progress. ΚΠ a1640 P. Massinger Parl. of Love (1976) ii. i. 13 I myself shall haue..Of progresse landresses and market women,..a thowsand bills Preferd against mee. progress report n. an interim report on progress made to date on a job, project, etc. ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > reporting > [noun] > a report > of situation or progress progress report1860 status report1883 situation report1892 1860 Times 6 Feb. 6/2 In their last progress report the Executive Council..state that they had done all in their power to bring about an amicable settlement of these and other disputes. 1943 J. B. Priestley Daylight on Sat. xxv. 189 Cheviot was now frowning hard at the progress reports on his desk. 1972 ‘E. Ferrars’ Breath of Suspicion iii. 38 So, if I see her again, you want a sort of progress report. 1996 Big Issue 19 Aug. 20/1 (advt.) We'll send you a photo of the child you sponsor and regular progress reports from our field workers. † progress time n. Obsolete the time at which a royal progress takes place. ΚΠ 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. cclxiiij^v She was vehemently suspected with Thomas Culpeper, whiche was brought to her Chamber at Lyncolne, in August laste, in the Progresse tyme. c1570 J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1830) 136 [Queen Elizabeth] willed me to tak patience quhill the progres tyme suld be done. 1607 F. Beaumont Woman Hater iii. iii. sig. E4^v To..make fine jests Vpon country people in progresse time. 1658 R. Brathwait Age of Apes in Honest Ghost 181 In Progresse time, I likewise goe to see 'Mongst other Apes, the Universitie. progress zone n. Embryology a population of rapidly proliferating, undifferentiated cells at the distal tip of a developing vertebrate limb. ΚΠ 1973 D. Summerbell et al. in Nature 24 Aug. 493/2 A labile region [of a developing limb] where new positional values are successively engendered in the course of growth, we shall call a ‘progress zone’. 1975 Science 24 Jan. 229/1 The tip of a limb bud, which is called the progress zone, contains dividing cells, and the products of division form in strict sequence the various structures of the limb. 2003 New Scientist 29 Mar. 34/1 The new research calls this model into question. It proposes that there is no such thing as the progress zone. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). progressv. Brit. /prə(ʊ)ˈɡrɛs/, /ˈprəʊɡrɛs/, U.S. /prəˈɡrɛs/, /proʊˈɡrɛs/ Forms: see progress n. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: progress n. Etymology: < progress n. Compare classical Latin prōgress- , past participial stem of prōgredī to go forward, proceed, to advance, develop, progress (see progredient adj.), and also French progresser (1833), Catalan progressar (1839), Spanish progresar (18th cent.).Apparently more common in U.S. than in British use in the 18th cent., as also in sense 3a in the 19th cent. 1. a. intransitive. To make a progress (progress n. 5a) or journey; to journey, travel; spec. to make a state journey, to travel ceremoniously, as a royal, noble, or official personage. Now chiefly historical, or merged in 2. ΘΚΠ society > travel > [verb (intransitive)] > make state or official journey progress1579 1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 1058 Caesar returned out of Africke, and progressed vp and downe Italie. a1592 R. Greene Frier Bacon (1594) sig. C2 Weele progresse straight to Oxford with our trains. 1607 S. Rowlands Diogines Lanthorne 22 The Owle being weary of the night Would progresse in the Sunne. 1648 Earl of Westmorland Otia Sacra (1879) 62 Pave me a Golden Tract to Progress in. a1662 P. Heylyn Cyprianus Anglicus (1668) 139 His Majesty progresseth towards the West. 1860 Atlantic Monthly July 17 The king had been progressing: A courtly phrase, when the king was out On a chivalrous bender. 1906 Musical Times Nov. 729/1 When ‘good Queen Bess’ ‘progressed’ to Bristol in August 1574, she visited St. Mary Redcliffe. 1974 Eng. Hist. Rev. 89 351 The king was progressing through the county at the end of June 1215. 1994 L. L. Layne Home & Homeland viii. 147 After the lunch the King progressed by car from north to south, the entire length of the Valley. †b. transitive. Chiefly poetic. To travel through or traverse (an area), to proceed through; to make a royal progress through (cf. progress n. 5a). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > travel > [verb (transitive)] > traverse a distance or ground runeOE overcomeOE meteOE through-gangOE passc1300 to pass over ——c1300 overpassc1325 tracec1381 travela1393 traverse?a1400 travelc1400 measure?a1425 walkc1450 go1483 journey1531 peragrate1542 trade1548 overspin1553 overtrace1573 tract1579 progress1587 invade1590 waste1590 wear1596 march1606 void1608 recovera1625 expatiate1627 lustrate1721 do1795 slip1817 cover1818 clear1823 track1823 itinerate1830 betravel1852 to roll off1867 1587 R. Holinshed et al. Hist. Scotl. (new ed.) 359/1 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) II After this, the queene leauing Inuernesse, and progressing the prouince of Rosse, she came to Elgine. 1619 M. Drayton Legend Robert Dvke of Normandy in Poems (new ed.) 327 Who should haue progres'd all a Kingdomes space. 1635 F. Quarles Emblemes iv. xii. 230 When my soule had progrest ev'ry place, That love and deare affection could contrive. 1641 J. Milton Of Reformation 90 Progressing the datelesse and irrevoluble Circle of Eternity. 2. intransitive. To go or move forward or onward in space; to proceed, advance (through or along some course, path, etc.). ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > forward movement > move forward or advance [verb (intransitive)] wadeOE agoOE forthganga1000 forthgoOE syeOE kenc1275 to-stepc1275 vaunce1303 forthnima1325 passc1330 throc1330 forthpass1382 to pass forthc1384 to carry forthc1390 proceedc1392 to go alongc1400 to be forthwardc1430 get) groundc1436 to set onc1450 avauntc1460 pretend1481 to make way1490 advance?1507 to get forward1523 promove1570 to rid ground (also space)1572 to rid (the) way1581 progressa1586 to gather grounda1593 to make forth1594 to make on1597 to work up1603 perge1607 to work one's (also its) way1609 to pass on1611 to gain ground1625 to make its way1645 vadea1660 propagate1700 to gain one's way1777 further1789 to pull up1829 on1840 to make (up) ground1921 a1586 Sir P. Sidney Astrophel & Stella (1591) 10 In highest way of heauen the Sunne did ride, Progressing then from fayre Twynns golden place, Hauing no maske of Clowdes before his face. a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) v. ii. 46 Let me wipe off this honourable dewe, That siluerly doth progresse on thy cheekes. View more context for this quotation c1639 T. Dekker & J. Ford Sun's-darling (1656) v. 42 Progresse o're the year Again my Raybright, therein like the Sun. 1700 E. Howard Remarks New Philos. Des-Cartes iii. 187 'Tis Ordain'd..that the Sun..should be more Certain in Motion, and usefully computable, by never progressing from his Ecliptick Line. 1749 ‘N. Hackabout’ Lucas Vindicated 3 If the Infection progressed to nobler Parts, then would it be necessary to use more severe Remedies. 1808 C. Schultz Trav. (1810) II. 170 In this manner..the head [of an island] is continually progressing up the [Mississippi] river, while the lower part is proportionably wasting away. 1855 R. Carboni Eureka Stockade 10 The Eureka gutter was fast progressing down hill towards the Eureka gully. a1862 H. D. Thoreau Maine Woods (1864) iii. 289 We had been busily progressing all day. 1907 J. Conrad Secret Agent iv. 88 Ossipon had a vision of these round black-rimmed spectacles progressing along the streets on the top of an omnibus. 1936 D. McCowan Animals Canad. Rockies xxxi. 265 In some parts of Canada the animal [sc. the Mule Deer] is called Jumping deer, this from its well known habit of progressing when alarmed in a series of immense leaps and bounds. 2002 New Yorker 14 Oct. 82/1 The future President of Turkey..waded into the lake, progressing relentlessly if flinchingly to shorts-soaking depths. 3. a. intransitive. Of a procedure, action, process, etc., or an agent engaged in such a process: to move forward in time; to go on, proceed, advance; to be carried on, or to carry on; to follow an expected course or pattern. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > doing > a proceeding > proceed or carry on an action [verb (intransitive)] > be carried on or proceed wharvec888 passa1393 proceed?a1439 stir1526 progress1600 to go on1735 1600 R. Kittowe Loues Load-starre sig. K2^v Whilest the Keeper went to accomplish his highnesse pleasure, he thus progressed in his speech. 1607 J. Day et al. Trauailes Three Eng. Brothers sig. B2^v As sure as day doth progres toward night. a1631 J. Donne Βιαθανατος (1647) Concl. As farre as I allowed my discourse to progresse in this way. 1764 R. Wallace View Internal Policy Great Brit. i. 45 While England was progressing in that change of its constitution, Ireland as a dependent country was affected with it. 1791 G. Washington Let. in Writings (1891) XII. 52 The business of laying out the city..is progressing. 1837 J. R. Lowell Lett. (1894) I. 17 'Tis a pretty good subject, but I find it enlarging as I progress. 1864 G. W. Dasent Jest & Earnest (1873) II. 41 If the work had progressed as it began, there ought to have been nine. 1906 J. A. Hatton Pilgr. in Region Faith iii. 137 The controversy is progressing. 1989 V. S. Pritchett Chekhov xi. 136 The marriage is disappointing at first, but she grows fonder of her husband as the story progresses. 1995 HealthFacts Oct. 4/1 When surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy fail to keep breast cancer from progressing on a fatal course, autologous bone marrow transplant..is the last resort. 2000 T. May Victorian Workhouse 27/1 The treatment of most inmates of the workhouse became more lenient as the century progressed. b. intransitive. Music. Of melody or harmony: to proceed from one note or chord to another. Cf. progression n. 7. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > harmony or sounds in combination > harmonize [verb (intransitive)] > movement of parts move1771 progress1882 1882 Proc. Musical Assoc. (8th Sess., 1881–2) 100 Two parts progressing by fifths are moving in two different scales. 1924 Musical Q. 10 610 A series of dissonant chords progressing almost entirely by chromatic degrees. 1998 Jrnl. Music Theory 42 79 From this point the harmony progresses to a B♭♭ major chord. 4. a. intransitive. To proceed to a further or higher stage, or to further or higher stages continuously; to develop, increase; (esp.) to advance to a better state or condition; to improve. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > advance, progress, or develop [verb (intransitive)] climbc1400 ascendc1550 soar1597 progress1612 develop1744 advance1875 bull1928 the world > action or operation > continuing > progress, advance, or further continuance > progress or advance in an action [verb (intransitive)] > make progress or advance (of action or operation) fremec1000 furtherc1200 profit1340 to go onc1449 grow1487 to commence to, intoa1500 framea1529 to get ground?1529 movec1540 work1566 promove1570 advance1577 devolve1579 to come on1584 progress1612 to gain ground1625 germinate1640 proceed1670 to gather ground1697 march1702 to make its way1711 to come forward1722 develop1744 to turn a wheel1864 shape1865 come1899 1612 B. Jonson Alchemist ii. iii. sig. E^v Nor can this remote Matter, sodainly, Progresse so from extreme, vnto extreme, As to grow Gold, and leape ore all the meanes. View more context for this quotation 1632 S. Marmion Hollands Leaguer ii. iv I began Betimes, and so progrest from less to bigger. 1788 J. Jackson Thoughts Polit. Situation U.S.A. 97 The countries in Europe have but little chance of progressing much in the practice of such a science. 1796 G. Washington Let. in Writings (1892) XIII. 354 The pleasure of hearing you were well..and progressing..in your studies. 1809 R. Southey Let. 30 Apr. in C. C. Southey Life & Corr. R. Southey (1850) III. 232 Another state of being, in which there shall be no other change than that of progressing in knowledge. 1832 M. R. Mitford Our Village V. 76 In country towns..society has been progressing (if I may borrow that expressive Americanism) at a very rapid rate. 1840 W. E. Gladstone Church Princ. 11 It may..be the case that..we are actually progressing in some particulars while we retrograde in others. 1894 E. Œ. Somerville & ‘M. Ross’ Real Charlotte I. iii. 22 The shop windows..had progressed..to straw hats, tennis shoes, and coloured Summer Numbers. 1912 H. Footner New Rivers of North 235 None of the stopping-houses along this trail have progressed beyond the most primitive stage. 1940 J. Buchan Memory Hold-the-Door viii. 197 As my studies progressed I came to the conclusion that he was the most balanced and prescient mind in Scotland at the time. 2001 H. Gilbert Postcolonial Plays 286/1 Nowra, born..to working-class parents living in an outer-Melbourne housing-commission estate, has progressed to the forefront of Australian theatre. b. intransitive. Of the terms or items of a series: to proceed from less to greater; to form an advancing series. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > come in due order or course [verb (intransitive)] > form an advancing series progress1839 climax1861 1839 Times 7 Aug. 7/5 Bullets progress in size according to numbers beginning at No. 1. 1868 Sir J. Herschel in People's Mag. Jan. 62 Squares of clear window-glass..regularly progressing in size by quarter or half inches in the side. 1950 Hispanic Rev. 18 (end matter) Beginning with relatively brief and simple chapters, the assignments progress in length and difficulty. 1974 B. Emecheta Second Class Citizen vii. 87 The intensity of the knocks progressed from the first mild knock to a final thunderous one. 1998 Aerospace Amer. (Nexis) Apr. 24 Distinct models are used, starting with atomistic models..and progressing in size from microscopic to mesoscopic and continuum models. 5. transitive. To cause (something) to advance or move forward; esp. to cause (work, a task, etc.) to make regular progress towards completion, to expedite (originally U.S.). ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > forward movement > move or cause to move forward or advance [verb (transitive)] > move (a thing) forward to bring onc1230 vaunce1303 advancea1393 to set forward(s)c1430 perduce1563 traila1717 progress1780 the world > action or operation > continuing > progress, advance, or further continuance > furtherance > further [verb (transitive)] furtherc888 to bring onc1230 advancea1250 speeda1300 nourishc1300 avaunt1393 promotec1433 pasture?a1439 advantage?1459 promove1475 preferc1503 conduce1518 to set forth1528 to set forward(s)1530 to take forth1530 fillip1551 help1559 farther1570 foster1571 shoulder1577 to put forward1579 seconda1586 foment1596 hearten1598 to put on1604 fomentate1613 succeed1613 expeditea1618 producea1618 maturate1623 cultivate1641 encourage1677 push1693 forward1780 progress1780 admove1839 1780 Out-of-Door Parl. 76 A glorious war, commenced in justice and progressed in success. 1814 Q. Rev. 10 528 Nor have there been wanting projects among them [sc. Americans] for getting rid of the English language, not merely by barbarizing it—as when they progress a bill, [etc.]. 1867 R. Hunt Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 6) II. 131 The heavier portion is progressed across the table, and passed into an ore bin. 1954 ‘N. Shute’ Slide Rule 184 I was chiefly occupied..in progressing the design and construction of the factory at Portsmouth. 1965 E. Gowers Fowler's Mod. Eng. Usage (ed. 2) 479/2 Progress... Prō′grĕs is usual for the transitive verb, now much used in the manufacturing and building industries in the sense of pushing a job forward by regular stages. 1990 Times Educ. Suppl. 14 Sept. 9/5 The intention..is to progress pupils through the school at levels appropriate to their abilities. 2002 Contract Jrnl. 19 June (CJ2 Suppl.) 4/3 The developer was keen to progress the building programme quickly. 6. intransitive. To come forth or issue out of a source; to stem from. Cf. proceed v. 1c, progress n. 3. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > go or come out [verb (intransitive)] outgoeOE to come outOE forthcomeOE to go outOE to go outOE ishc1330 to take forth one's way (also journey, road, etc.)a1375 proceedc1380 getc1390 exorta1400 issue?a1400 precedec1425 purgea1430 to come forthc1449 suea1450 ushc1475 to call one's way (also course)1488 to turn outa1500 void1558 redound1565 egress1578 outpacea1596 result1598 pursue1651 out1653 pop1770 to get out1835 progress1851 1851 J. M. Neale Mediæval Hymns 179 Holy Ghost, from Both progressing. 1972 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 116 3/1 The memoirs relevant to probabilities are nine in number, progressing out of the internal logic of the mathematical problems. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1443v.1579
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