prog rock noun

(also progressive rock) a genre of rock music, popular esp in the 1970s, featuring complex and often lengthy compositions incorporating elements of classical music and jazz, with lyrics inspired by science fiction, fantasy and mythology

progress /prōˈgres, sometimes (esp US) proˈ/

noun

1. A forward movement
2. An advance
3. A continuation
4. An advance to something better or higher in development
5. A gain in proficiency
6. A course
7. Movement from place to place
8. A procession
9. An official or state journey made by a dignitary, noble or other person of high rank
10. A circuit

intransitive verb /prə-gresˈ, formerly prōˈ/

1. To go forward
2. To make progress
3. To go on, continue
4. To go on a state or official journey
5. To go

transitive verb

1. To traverse (obsolete)
2. To cause (esp building or manufacturing work) to proceed steadily

progression /prə-greshˈən or prō-greshˈən/ noun

1. Motion onward
2. The act or state of moving onward
3. Progress
4. Movement by successive stages
5. A regular succession of chords (music)
6. Movements of the parts in harmony (music)
7. A change from term to term according to some law (mathematics)
8. A series of terms so related (see arithmetic, geometry, harmony)

progressˈional adjective

progressˈionary adjective

progressˈionism noun

1. Sympathy with or advocacy of progress
2. Belief that social or other evolution is towards higher or better things

progressˈionist noun

1. A believer in progressionism
2. A progressive
3. A person who favours progress or reform

adjective

Of or relating to progressionism or progressionists

progressˈism (or /prōˈ or proˈ/) noun

Progressionism

progressˈist (or /prōˈ or proˈ/) noun

1. A person who advocates a progressive policy
2. A progressionist

progressˈive adjective

1. Moving forward
2. Making progress
3. Modern, esp displaying or applying liberal or enlightened views or practices
4. Of the nature of progress
5. Advancing by successive stages
6. (of a disease, condition, etc) increasing steadily in severity or extent
7. (in games, eg progressive whist) played by several sets of players, some of whom move from one table to the next after each hand according to the rules of the game
8. (of a dance) involving moving on to a new partner at some point in the sequence of movements
9. Advancing towards better and better or higher and higher
10. In favour of social and political progress or reform
11. (usu with cap) applied to a political party with progressive policies
12. (of taxation) in which the rate increases as the amount to be taxed increases
13. Continuous (grammar)

noun

1. Someone who favours progress or reform
2. (usu with cap) a member of a party with ‘progressive’ in its title
3. The progressive aspect or tense (grammar)
4. A verb in this
5. Any of a sequence of printing proofs showing each colour separately and the cumulative effect of each colour upon the other(s)

progressˈively adverb

progressˈiveness noun

progressˈivism noun

progressˈivist noun

progress chaser noun

An employee responsible for monitoring and expediting the progress of work

progressive rock see under prog³

in progress

1. Going on
2. In course of happening or being produced