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Definition: Progress |
ProgressNoun1. Gradual improvement or growth or development: "advancement of knowledge"; "great progress in the arts"; "their research and development gave them an advantage". 2. The act of moving forward toward a goal. 3. A movement forward; "he listened for the progress of the troops". Verb1. Develop in a positive way; "He progressed well in school"; "My plants are coming along"; "Plans are shaping up". 2. Move forward, also in the metaphorical sense: "Time marches on". 3. Form steadily; "Resistance to the manager's plan built up quickly". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "progress" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
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Biographical Satire | PROGRESS, Pilgrim, an Englishman who made an extensive journey encumbered with a large pack. He visited Paris, had some hairbreadth escapes, was stuck in the mud, but finally returned and became respectable like all other Englishmen. Source: Who was Who: 5000BC - 1914. |
Literature | Progress To report progress, in parliamentary language, is to conclude for the night the business of a bill, and defer the consideration of all subsequent items thereof till the day nominated by the chief Minister of the Crown. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Post & Telecom | Message sent by the user or the network to indicate the progress of a call in the event of interworking or in relation with the provision of in-band information/patterns. Source: European Union. (references) |
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1. The idea of a process, in which societies become more modern (technological and/or social).2. Progress spacecraft
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The Progress freighter is a Soyuz derived spacecraft that has launched fuel and other supplies to all the space stations since Salyut 6. The idea of the Soyuz came from the realisation that for long duration space missions to be possible there would have to be constant resupply of stations. It had been decided that a cosmonaut needed 30 kg of consumables a day. This equates to 5.4 tonnes over a 6 month stay. It was impossible to launch all this with the station or to bring up new supplies in the small space available in the Soyuz.Progress is of much the same size and shape as Soyuz. It consists of three modules:
- A pressurised forward module. This contained the supplies for the crew such as food, scientific equipment, clothes, prepackaged and fresh food, and letters from home. The docking drogue is similar to that of the Soyuz but featured ducting for the UDMH fuel and N2O2 oxidiser.
- The reentry module was replaced with a unpressurized propellant and refueling compartment with ducting along the outside of the spacecraft. This meant that if a leak occurred the poisonous gas would not enter the stations atmosphere. The fuel was carried in two tanks.
- The propulsion module at the rear was unchanged and contained the orientation engines used for the automatic docking.
Weight savings were accomplished by the fact the Progress was designed to be unmanned and unreturnable. This mena that there was no need for bulky life support systems and heat shields. There was also no ability for the spacecraft to seperate into seperate modules. After undocking the spacecraft performed a retrofired and burnt up harmlessly in the atmosphere.
The bureau in charge of designing the freighter was TsKBEM (now RKK Energia). They started designing in mid-1973, given the Progress the highly descriptive designation 11F615A15. The design was complete by February 1974 and the first production model was ready for launch November 1977. Progress 1 launched January 20, 1978 aboard the same rocket used to launch the Soyuz. It still featured the same launch shroud as the Soyuz, though this was for aerodynamic purposes as the launch escape system had been deactivated.
This first version of Progress had a mass of 7,020 kg and took 2,300 kg of cargo or 30% of launch weight. It had the same diameter as the Soyuz at 2.2 metres but was 8 metres in length - a little longer. The automonous flight time was 3 days, the same time as that of the Soyuz ferry. It could spend one month docked. Progress also always docked to the aft port of the station it was resupplying.
This version of the Progress was used right up until 1986 when it was replaced with the Progress M. This was basically the same as the original Progress but featured improvements from the Soyuz T and Soyuz TM. It could spend up to 30 days in autonomous flight and could carry 100 kg more to Mir. Also for the first time it could return items to Earth. This was accomplished by using the Raduga capsule. This could carry items of up to 150 kg back to Earth. It was 1.5 m long and 60 cm in diameter and had a dry weight of 350 kg. For the first time Progress could dock to the forward port of the stations and still transfer fuel. It also used the same rendesvous system as the Soyuz and featured solar panels for the first time.
This spacecraft is still used today for the International Space Station. It is currently the only thing available for transporting large quantities of supplies to the station with the Shuttle grounded after the breakup of Columbia at the end of STS-107. The ESA are planning their own supply freighter called the Automatic Transfer Vehicle. The first of these, Jules Verne, is due for launch sometime in 2004. It will be able to carry up to 7.5 tonnes of cargo into space and will be launched every 12 months by an Ariane 5 rocket. Originally written for Everything2. [1]
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Progress is a town located in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 9,647.Geography
Progress is located at 40°17'18" North, 76°50'8" West (40.288389, -76.835543)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 7.1 km² (2.8 mi²). 7.1 km² (2.8 mi²) of it is land and none of the area is covered with water.Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there are 9,647 people, 4,386 households, and 2,557 families residing in the town. The population density is 1,349.5/km² (3,498.4/mi²). There are 4,569 housing units at an average density of 639.2/km² (1,656.9/mi²). The racial makeup of the town is 75.18% White, 18.97% African American, 0.16% Native American, 1.91% Asian, 0.05% Pacific Islander, 1.29% from other races, and 2.45% from two or more races. 2.86% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 4,386 households out of which 24.3% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 42.5% are married couples living together, 12.7% have a female householder with no husband present, and 41.7% are non-families. 35.3% of all households are made up of individuals and 13.6% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.17 and the average family size is 2.82. In the town the population is spread out with 20.6% under the age of 18, 7.2% from 18 to 24, 29.0% from 25 to 44, 24.2% from 45 to 64, and 19.1% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 41 years. For every 100 females there are 83.9 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 80.0 males. The median income for a household in the town is $41,641, and the median income for a family is $54,177. Males have a median income of $36,407 versus $31,002 for females. The per capita income for the town is $22,533. 7.3% of the population and 6.9% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 9.9% are under the age of 18 and 4.1% are 65 or older.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Progress, Pennsylvania."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
PROGRESS | English | Point-Resolved Rotating Gradient Surface-coil Spectroscopy | Physics |
| PRISM | English | Progress Report "Initiatives in the single market" | European Union, Business |
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Synonyms: ProgressSynonyms: advancement (n), forward motion (n), onward motion (n), progression (n), advance (v), build (v), build up (v), come along (v), come on (v), get along (v), get on (v), go on (v), march on (v), move on (v), pass on (v), shape up (v), work up (v). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: progres (post & telecom). |
| Antonyms: recede (v), regress (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Activity | Verb: be active; Adjective: busy oneself in; stir, stir about, stir one's stumps; bestir oneself, rouse oneself; speed, hasten, peg away, lay about one, bustle, fuss; raise up, kick up a dust; push; make a push, make a fuss, make a stir; go ahead, push forward; fight one's way, elbow one's way; make progress; toll; (labor); plod, persist; (persevere) a; keep up the ball, keep the pot boiling. |
Continuance in action | Chemistry, alchemy; progress, growth, lapse, flux. |
Course | Noun: corridors of time, sweep of time, vesta of time, course of time, progress of time, process of time, succession of time, lapse of time, flow of time, flux of time, stream of time, tract of time, current of time, tide of time, march of time, step of time, flight of time; duration. |
Improvement | Noun: improvement; amelioration, melioration; betterment; mend, amendment, emendation; mending; Verb: advancement; advance; (progress); ascent; promotion, preferment; elevation; increase; cultivation, civilization; culture, march of intellect; menticulture; race-culture, eugenics. |
Incompleteness | In progress, in hand; going on, proceeding. |
Information | Announce, annunciate; report, report progress; bringword, send word, leave word, write word; telegraph, telephone; wire; retail, render an account; give an account; (describe); state; (affirm). |
Knowledge | March of intellect; progress of science, advance of science, advance of learning; schoolmaster abroad. |
Motion | Step, rate, pace, tread, stride, gait, port, footfall, cadence, carriage, velocity, angular velocity; clip, progress, locomotion; journey; voyage; transit. |
News | In progress; live; on the spot; in person. |
Noncompletion | In progress, in hand; ongoing, going on, proceeding; on one's hands; on the anvil; in the fire, in the oven. |
Sequence | Verb: advance; proceed, progress; get on, get along, get over the ground; gain ground; forge ahead; jog on, rub on, wag on; go with the stream; keep one;s course, hold on one's course; go on, move on, come one, get on, pass on, push on, press on, go forward, move forward, come forward, get forward, pass forward, push forward, press forward, go forwards, move forwards, come forwards, get forwards, pass forwards, push forwards, press forwards, go ahead, move ahead, come ahead, get ahead, pass ahead, push ahead, press ahead; make one's way, work one's way, carve one's way, push one's way, force one's way, edge one's way, elbow one's way; make progress, make head, make way, make headway, make advances, make strides, make rapid strides; (velocity); go ahead, shoot ahead; distance; make up leeway. |
Noun: progress, progression, progressiveness; advancing; Verb: advance, advancement; ongoing; flood, tide, headway; march; rise; improvement. | |
Adverb: forward, onward; forth, on, ahead, under way, en route for, on one's way, on the way, on the road, on the high road, on the road to; in progress; in mid progress; in transitu. | |
Success | Speed; make progress; (advance); win one's way, make one's way, work one's way, find one's way; strive to some purpose; prosper; drive a roaring trade; make profit; (acquire); reap the fruits, gather the fruits, reap the benefit of, reap the harvest; strike oil , gain a windfall; make one's fortune, get in the harvest, turn to good account; turn to account; (use). |
Transference | On the way, by the way; on the road, on the wing, under way, in transit, on course; as one goes; in transitu, en route, chemin faisant, en passant, in mid progress, in mid course. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Progress |
| Specialty definitions using "progress": call progress indicator, Cost and Progress ♦ progress clerk, progress queue, progress tones ♦ Satisfactory Academic Progress, stocks and work in progress. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Progress" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. German (progress). |
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Screenplays | That's called progress. (Air Force One; writing credit: Andrew W. Marlowe) Dude, this is a league game, the winner of this gets to progress into the next round robin (The Big Lebowski; writing credit: Ethan Coen; Joel Coen) ' That's progress. (Avalon; writing credit: Barry Levinson) Not yet caught by the whirlwind of Progress. Feed soda pop to the thirsty pigs (The Beast of Yucca Flats; writing credit: Coleman Francis) Progress, George (The Lathe of Heaven; writing credit: Diane English; Ursula K. Le Guin) | |
Lyrics | No struggle no progress (Rhythm Nation; performing artist: Janet Jackson) Straight thuggin' man, I thought we would never progress (Anything; performing artist: Jay-Z) We call it progress, but I just don't know (Grandpa (Tell Me 'Bout The Good Old Days); performing artist: Judds) You could say I lost my faith in science and progress (If I Ever Lose My Faith In You; performing artist: Sting) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Percy's Progress (1974) U.S.A Progress Island (1973) Foundations of Progress (1972) The Shadow of Progress (1970) Private's Progress (1956) | |
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 | Natural history of common acquired nevi. Ordinary moles begin as uniformly tan or brown macules, 1 to 2 mm in diameter (a), expand to a larger macule (b), progress to a pigmented papule that may be minimally (c) or obviously (d) elevated above the surface of the skin, and terminate as a pink or flesh-colored papule (e). These lesions are junctional (a,b), compound (c,d), and dermal (e) nevi, respectively. Note their smooth borders and clear demarcation from the surrounding skin. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |  | Electron micrograph of a negatively stained human papilloma virus (HBV) which occurs in human warts. Warts on the hands and feet have never been known to progress to cancer. However, after many years cervical warts can become cancerous. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |
 | Dr. George Mueller Follows the Progress of the Apollo 11 Mission. Credit: NASA. |  | Probing for crevasses on Skelton Glacier - progress sometimes only a mile/day. Note lifelines on men probing. McMurdo Station to South Pole traverse. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | Restoration in progress. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | A boater observes progress at the clean-up sites. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | NRCS employee Kerry Perkins, and Ted Smidt and landowner Al Moore observing progress of conservation plan on Hurd Creek, Washington. Credit: Gary Wilson. |  | Landowner and Fred Johnson (right), NRCS District Conservationist, inspect the progress of vineyard in Mt. Pleasant, FL. Landowner farms 17 acres with 1/4 acre in grapes and the rest planted in corn and a variety of vegetable crops. [Slide 97CS3078]. Credit: Bob Nichols. |
 | Diatomite Reclamation in progress. Credit: Simontacchi. |  | Cattle grazing showing progress in WSA inventory. Credit: Harmon. |
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| "Church Service" by Sam Segar Commentary: "Service in progress in rural church in Mernerbes, Provence, France." | "Crazy Horse Monument" by Paige Foster Commentary: "In the foreground is a section of the scale model for the Crazy Horse monument. In the distance behind it is the real thing - a work in progress." |
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| Author | Quotation |
Author Unknown | Today's progress was yesterday's plan. |
| Most people are in favor of progress, it's the changes they don't like. | |
George Eliot | Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress. |
James Jeffrey Roche | Planned obsolescence is another word for progress. |
Maimonides | Teach thy tongue to say I do not know and thou shalt progress. |
Oscar Wilde | Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation. |
President William Mckinley | Expositions are the timekeepers of progress. |
Sidney J. Harris | The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress. |
Stanislaw J. Lec | Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork? |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
US Constitution | 1791 | Clause 1: The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States; Clause 2: To borrow Money on the credit of the United States; Clause 3: To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes; Clause 4: To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States; Clause 5: To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures; Clause 6: To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States; Clause 7: To establish Post Offices and post Roads; Clause 8: To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries; Clause 9: To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court; Clause 10: To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offences against the Law of Nations; Clause 11: To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water; Clause 12: To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years; Clause 13: To provide and maintain a Navy; Clause 14: To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces; Clause 15: To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions; Clause 16: To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress; Clause 17: To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, byCession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings;--And Clause 18: To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof. (reference) |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | These also supply the proletariat with fresh elements of enlightenment and progress. (reference) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | In case at the end of the sixth year France shall consider that the progress made in the improvement of the port of Strasburg still requires a prolongation of this temporary regime, she may ask for such prolongation from the Central Rhine Commission, which may grant an extension for a period not exceeding three years. (reference) |
Winston S. Churchill | 1946 | What then is the over-all strategic concept which we should inscribe today? It is nothing less than the safety and welfare, the freedom and progress, of all the homes and families of all the men and women in all the lands. ("Iron Curtain" Speech) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | A mind like hers, once opening to suspicion, made rapid progress. |
Sylvie and Bruno | Carroll, Lewis | She paused, before following him, to watch the progress of the other passenger |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | I have always supported the forward march of the human race towards the light, and I have sometimes resisted a progress which was without pity |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | This progress you will see easily in that old English ballad Turpin Hero which begins in the first person and ends in the third person |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | I had now made good progress in understanding and speaking their language |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | With this more substantial shelter about me, I had made some progress toward settling in the world |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Most progress gradually. (references) | |
Occasionally can progress to sepsis. (references) | ||
Several randomized trials are in progress. (references) | ||
Business | Expansion of the GSM network is also in progress. (references) | |
Saudi Aramco’s payment will be based on a project schedule and work progress. (references) | ||
There is encouraging progress, but China is facing some very difficult problems. (references) | ||
Children | Bangladesh | These joint efforts have allowed the country to begin making significant progress in improving health, nutrition, and education; however, slightly more than half of all children still are chronically malnourished. (references) |
Guatemala | The payment was made in December, but there has been little progress on the additional commitments. (references) | |
Spain | Approximately 60 percent of Romani children do not complete primary school, and only very few progress to middle school and beyond. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Poland | State-run radio broadcasts Catholic mass on Sundays, and the Catholic Church is authorized to relicense radio and television stations to operate on frequencies assigned to the Church, the only body outside the KRRiTV allowed to do so. Progress continued in implementing the laws that permit local religious communities to submit claims for property owned prior to World War II that subsequently was nationalized. (references) |
Angola | On January 24, 25 members of the small opposition Party for Democratic Support and Progress of Angola (PADPA) staged a hunger strike in front of the presidential palace to protest the lack of government accountability and transparency. (references) | |
Chile | The courts may prohibit media coverage of legal cases in progress but do so rarely. (references) | |
Discrimination | Mexico | The Constitution provides that men and women are equal before the law, and that education should avoid "privileges of race, religion, groups, sexes, or individual;" however, these provisions are not enforced effectively, although the Government continues to make progress in efforts to do so. On August 14, a third paragraph was added to Article 1 of the Constitution, which establishes for the first time the constitutional prohibition against any form of discrimination, including discrimination against persons on the basis of: ethnic or national origin, gender, age, different abilities, social condition, health conditions, religion, opinions, preferences, civil status, or any other basis that goes against human dignity and attempts to annul the rights and liberties of persons. (references) |
Economic History | Russia | The process of economic reform is very much a work in progress, and hopes for an acceleration of the process under the Putin administration have been partially realized. (references) |
Pakistan | Various problems have plagued Pakistan's progress. (references) | |
Human Rights | Cameroon | Feasibility studies also were in progress for the construction of new prisons in Yaounde, Douala, and other cities. (references) |
Honduras | Modest progress was made in previous years toward implementing a judicial career system to enhance the qualifications of sitting judges; depoliticize the appointment process; and address problems of corruption, clientism, patronage, and influence-peddling within the judiciary. (references) | |
Brazil | An Institute for Public Security, created in 2000 to reform police organization, recruitment, and training in Rio de Janeiro, has made only limited progress in improving human right performance of the police. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Indonesia | Delegates approved a resolution rejecting the 1969 "Act of Free Choice," which confirmed Papua's incorporation into Indonesia; called on the central Government, along with the U.N. and the U.S. and Dutch governments, to review the process by which the territory became a part of Indonesia and to recognize Papua's sovereignty since 1961; and mandated the Papuan Presidium Council to strive for international recognition and to report back to the congress on December 1 2000, regarding progress toward these goals. (references) |
Paraguay | Lack of access to sufficient land also hinders the ability of indigenous groups to progress economically and maintain their cultural identity. (references) | |
Botswana | Their isolation, ignorance of civil rights, and lack of political representation have stymied their progress. (references) | |
Minorities | Argentina | No progress has been made in the investigation into this attack, nor into the bomb threat reportedly received 2 days later by the San Justo Islamic Cultural Center in Buenos Aires. (references) |
Macedonia | The number of ethnic minority students who receive secondary education in their native languages continued to increase; it was approximately 15 percent in 1999. At the university level, ethnic minorities remained underrepresented, although there has been progress in increasing the number of minority students. (references) | |
Israel and the occupied territories | A planning committee is required to submit a report regarding the progress of these plans to the Court in October 2002. No projects related to the planning committee had begun by year's end. (references) | |
Political Economy | BELGIUM | By 1994, debt was equal to 137 percent of GDP. Since then, however, the country has made substantial progress in reducing the debt and balancing its budget. (references) |
Afghanistan | The U.N. Secretary General's Personal Representative to Afghanistan, Francesco Vendrell, was engaged in extensive discussions with various Afghan parties and interested nations, but made no progress in ending the conflict. (references) | |
MEXICO | However, since the regulations' implementation in February 2000, the U.S. government has seen no progress. (references) | |
Political Rights | Taiwan | Generally free and fair popular elections for the LY have taken place four times since 1992. The Chen administration has made significant progress in its efforts to stamp out corruption and vote buying. (references) |
Mozambique | In March Dhlakama withdrew from the discussions, citing a lack of progress, and canceled his party's participation in bipartisan working groups on constitutional, judicial, defense, security, economic, civil service, and local government matters as well as the 2000 RENAMO demonstrations. (references) | |
Burkina Faso | In part because of the important role that women played in reelecting President Compaore in 1998, the Congress for Democracy and Progress voted at its first ordinary Congress held in 1999 to increase the number of women on its National Executive Council from two to six. (references) | |
Trade | Taiwan | An additional 750 items slated for tariff cuts as well as a comprehensive tariff schedule revision based on the results of Taiwan's bilateral and multilateral WTO consultations with 30 trading partners is being developed for the Executive Yuan's review and is expected to go to the Legislative Yuan for approval in compliance with the progress of Taiwan's WTO accession. (references) |
Indonesia | Established in 1973, the Islamic Development Bank seeks to foster the economic development and social progress of member countries and Muslim communities through participation in equity capital and grant loans for projects, as well as providing other types of financial assistance. (references) | |
Philippines | Our office hopes to continue progress on this front in the near future. (references) | |
Travel | Laos | EVENTS PROGRESS SLOWLY IN LAOS, WHERE THE STEP-BY-STEP APPROACH REVEALS THE CULTURAL PREMIUM PLACED ON CAUTION AND RESTRAINT. (references) |
Russia | Although, the general trends of reforms that are currently in progress or under discussion should lead towards simplification of regulations and more uniform administration. (references) | |
Japan | Recognizing that it takes a longer time to cultivate business relationships in Japan than in the United States, American business executives should not expect to make a deal in just a few days or they will depart in frustration, having made no progress. (references) | |
Women | Switzerland | Parliament directed the Federal Council to report on progress made by the end of 2002. Many cantons and some large cities have "equality services" mandated to handle gender issues. (references) |
Bahrain | Some women have expressed the view that, despite their participation in the work force, women's rights are not advancing significantly and that much of the lack of progress is due to the influence of Islamic religious traditionalists. (references) | |
Chad | Opposition to the elimination of FGM is strong; however, some progress has been made. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Costa Rica | However, Labor Ministry programs to hire additional inspectors and enhance inspector-training programs have resulted in some progress. (references) |
Kuwait | The ILO officials commended the Government for progress in increased freedoms for existing trade unions and improved rights for workers, such as sick leave and end-of-service benefits. (references) | |
Korea | By year's end there had been no further progress. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | DEGRADATION, n. One of the stages of moral and social progress from private station to political preferment. |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Dennis Miller | For many developing countries progress is hobbled by decades of internal strife. |
Senator Carl Levin | Well, I want to be hopeful that progress is possible, but I think it's--I wouldn't predict it as being likely, but I think it's possible. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George Washington | 1789-1797 | Their importance will recall them to your attention, and I trust that the progress already made in the most arduous arrangements of the Government will afford you leisure to resume them to advantage. |
Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | A communication will also be made of our progress in the execution of the law respecting the vessels directed to be sold. |
Herbert C. Hoover | 1929-1933 | From this strength we have contributed to the recovery and progress of the world. |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | Negotiations with other lend-lease countries are in progress. |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | The Alliance for Progress is being rapidly transformed from proposal to program. |
Richard Nixon | 1969-1974 | For all of our people, we will set as our goal the decent order that makes progress possible and our lives secure. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Schools are reporting progress in math and reading skills. |
George Bush | 1989-1993 | Recent data show we are making progress, but much remains to be done. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Let our progress there not mask the peril that remains. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | Freed from the weight of oppression, Iraq's people will be able to share in the progress and prosperity of our time. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Progress" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 90.29% of the time. "Progress" is used about 7,129 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 90.29% | 6,437 | 1,503 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 7.09% | 505 | 11,960 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 2.47% | 176 | 23,410 |
| Noun (plural) | 0.1% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.06% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 7,129 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Greece | Proodos - The Greek Progress Fund S.A. | USA | Florida Progress Corporation |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
1. Progress, PA (CDP, FIPS 62736) |
Expressions using "progress": be in progress ♦ call progress indicator ♦ call progress message ♦ considerable progress ♦ constructions in progress ♦ flight progress board ♦ flight progress display ♦ flight progress strip ♦ human progress ♦ in mid progress ♦ in progress ♦ in the progress of ♦ insensible progress ♦ make no progress ♦ make progress ♦ make progress with ♦ make rapid progress ♦ make slow progress ♦ obstacle to progress ♦ poor progress ♦ progress by leaps and bounds ♦ progress man ♦ progress of combat ♦ progress queue ♦ progress report ♦ progress to ♦ progress tones ♦ progress with giant strides ♦ scientific progress ♦ steady progress ♦ stocks and work in progress ♦ technological progress ♦ unemployment due to technological progress ♦ work in progress. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "progress": progress-based, progress-chasing, progress-gap, progress-how, progress-not, progress-retarded. | |
Ending with "progress": work-in-progress. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "progress"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | progres (advance, advancement, headway), përparoj (advance, carry forward, come along, come on, do, do well, flourish, forge, get along, get on, go ahead, go on, make one's way through), përparim (advance, advancement, furtherance, headway, prosperity), përmirësim (amelioration, amendment, betterment, development, elevation, enhancement, improvement, melioration, pickup, rally, reclamation, refinement, reform, reformation, rise, upswing, upturn), zhvillim (development, elaboration, evolution, growth, make, making, nurse, occurrence, operation, prosecution, treatment), vazhdon (hold, hold out, last, persist, wear on), rritje (accretion, advance, augmentation, boost, breeding, climb, cultivation, development, evolution, expansion, extension, gain, germination, growth, increase, increment, intensification, nurture, raise, upgrowth), ngritje (advance, ascension, boosting, building, cultivation, elevation, erection, flow, hoist, increase, jump, lifting up, projection, prominence, prominency, putting up, raise, rise, rising, setting up, take off, uprise, upswing, uptake), mbarëvajtje (thrift, welfare, well being), gradoj (advance, calibrate, divide, elevate, graduate, make headway, move forward, promote, raise), eci (foot, go, hike, hoof, proceed, step, tread, walk), avancim (advance, progression). (various references) | |
Arabic | تقدم (advance, advanced, advancement, advantage, antecedence, ascent, break through, career, careerist, come on, crowd, descend, development, evolution, forge ahead, forward, gain ground, gain one's destination, get along, get forward, get on, get up, go ahead, go up, going, head, headway, improvement, keep step, lead, make up on, march, move along, move in, onward, precede, priority, proceed, procession, progression, promotion, propulsion, pull ahead, rise, seniority, shape, shoot ahead, speed, stem, step, superiority, take steps, upturn, way, work up to), تحسن (advance, ameliorate, amelioration, become soundly established, betterment, change for the better, get better, get well, improve, improvement, mend, pick me up, rally, recover, refinement, reform, speed up, take a turn for the better), تتحسن حالته, ترقى, سير (course, file, foot, going, impel, march, motion, pan, pass, procession, propel, running, thong, walk), جار مجير, جار (current, cursive, neighbor, neighbour, present, present day, running), إرتقى (up to the mark), إرتقاء, أحرز تقدم, أحدث (breed, brew, bring, bring forth, create, crop, effect, enact, engender, generate, give rise to, hatch, induce, inspire, make, mother, proceed, provoke, send forth, supervene, wreck), رقي تقدم, رحلة ملكية رسمية. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | напредване (headway, lift, progression, way), подем (boom, revival, upgrade, uplift, upsurge, upswing), подобрение (amelioration, amendment, betterment, correction, fertilization, improvement, melioration, pickup, rally, retrieval), подобрявам се (amend, change for the better, gain, pick up), постигам успех, постигам успехи, прогрес (advance, advancement), движение напред (headway, precession, progression), напредвам (advance, develop, forge ahead, gain, get on, go, go ahead, move, move on, move onwards, proceed, push, push forward, push on, push up, roll, walk), успех (advancement, do, fortune, hit, purpose, speed, success, up), напредък (advance, advancement, ascent, betterment, gain, headway, improvement, lift), официално пътуване, вървя (foot, go, gone, move, pass, pike, push on, ride, run, sell, step, track, tread, walk, work), развивам се (come round, flower, germ, grow, quicken, roll off, run out, shape up, turn out), развитие (course, development, evolution, germination, growth, making, movement, process, run, upgrowth), увеличение (accession, accretion, amplification, blowup, enlargement, expansion, gain, increase, increment, magnification, rising, swelling), прогресирам (advance, move). (various references) | |
Chinese | 進步 , 进展 (headway). (various references) | |
Czech | postupovat (act, do, go, go about, proceed), postup (advance, approach, consecution, course, course of action, practice, procedure, process, progression, run, working), pokrok (advance, advancement, progression), ubíhat (roll along). (various references) | |
Danish | fremskridt (advance, advancement). (various references) | |
Dutch | vooruitgang (advance, advancement), verbetering (correction), beterschap (get well). (various references) | |
Esperanto | progreso, progresi (get along, proceed), plibonstatiĝo, pliboniĝo. (various references) | |
Faeroese | hava framgongd (advance), gera framstig (advance), framstig (advance, advancement), framgongd (advance, advancement). (various references) | |
Farsi | پیشرفت کردن (Comealong, Further, Improve, Prosper, Thrive), پیشرفت (Accession, Advance, Beat, Development, Growth, Headway, Improvement, Lift, Progression, Promotion, Rise), پیشروی (Advance, Headway, March, Onrush), گردش (Canter, Circuit, Gyration, Hike, Jaunt, Meander, Movement, Operation, Period, Promenade, Race, Rev, Roll, Stroll, Trip, Twirl, Wrest), حرکت (Behavior, Demeanour, Departure, Gesture, Locomotion, Motion, Move, Movement, Poke, Stir, Stroke), ترقی (Ascent, Boost, Development, Growth, Increase, Increment, Jump, Lift, Pickup, Procession, Promotion, Rise), سفر (Expedition, Journey, Junket, Pilgrimage, Rake, Tour, Trade, Trek, Trip, Voyage), جریان (Circuit, Course, Flow, Fluor, Gush, Income, Inset, Ooze, Outflow, Rede, Stream, Tide). (various references) | |
Finnish | edistyä (advance, get on, get on in the world, improve, proceed). (various references) | |
French | progresser (proceed), progrès (progression), avancer (precede, proceed, protrude). (various references) | |
Frisian | ferbettering. (various references) | |
German | Fortschritt (advance, advancement, headway, improvement, stride), fortschreiten (advance, continue, develop, go on, march on, progression). (various references) | |
Greek | πρόοδος (advance, progress in /with, progression), προοδεύω (advance, come along, go ahead). (various references) | |
Hebrew | להתקדם (advance, come along, cover ground, gain ground, get along, get on, go ahead, move along, onward, proceed, set on, work up to), להתנהל (be conducted, be led, journey, make ones way, proceed, walk), קדמה (eastwards), פרוגרס, התקדמות (advance, advancement, headway, ongoing, progression), התקדם (advance). (various references) | |
Hungarian | haladás (advance, advancement, course, forwardness, getting on, going, going on, head, headway, progression, progressive). (various references) | |
Indonesian | kemajuan (advancement, betterment, headway). (various references) | |
Italian | progresso (advance, advancement, growth, headway, improvement, rise, stride), miglioramento (amelioration, amendment, betterment, gain, improvement, rising), avanzamento (advance, advancement, haulage, headway, preferment, promotion, rise, step, transport). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 運び (carriage, pace, stage, step), 上進 (advance), 向上 (advancement, elevation, improvement, rise), 前進 (advance, drive), 前進 (advance, drive), 成り行き (course of events, development, outcome, result), 成行き (course of events, development, outcome, result), 改進 (bringing up to date), プログラム誘導 (pro shop, procedure, procedure call, proceeding, proceeds, process, process cheese, process control, processing, professional sports, progesterone, program guidance, progressive, progressive rock, project, project method, project team, projector, prospect, prospective, prostaglandin, prostitute, speciality shop), 上達 (advance, improvement), 経過 (expiration, passage), 進化 (evolution), 遅速 (speed), 進み , 進展 (development), 進境 (improvement), 進捗 (under way), 進歩 (development), 進歩 (development), 進度 , 進化 (evolution), 経過 (expiration, passage). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | しんか (apotheosis, deepen, evolution, real worth, retainer, sacred flame, true value), はこび (carriage, pace, stage, step), じょうしん (advance, report to a superior, rise in market prices, upper lip), じょうたつ (advance, improvement), けいか (capital, expiration, flower capital, light of a firefly, passage), こうじょう (advancement, bank of a large river, code of morals, colloid, compromise, concession, constancy, elevation, factory, favour, friendship, hospitality, improvement, intimacy, kindness, mill, moral principles, plant, rise, ruined castle, siege, speech, vocal message, workshop), かいしん (bringing up to date, care, caution, congeniality, conversion, depth of the sea, discretion, doctor's hospital rounds, Neptune, Poseidon, precaution, reform, reformation, satisfaction, sea god, seaquake, transgression), ちそく (speed), しんてん (confidential, development, expansion, extension), すすみ, しんど (depth, elasticity, Japanese earthquake scale, subsoil), しんぽ (development, new futures on the first trading session of the month), しんきょう (creed, divine mirror, faith, improvement, mental state, Protestantism, religious belief, sacred bridge, sacred mirror), なりゆき (course of events, development, outcome, result), プログレス , ぜんしん (advance, ancestor, antecedents, conscience, drive, full-length, gradual progress, moral sense, one's whole heart, predecessor organization, preliminary trials, previous existence, previous position, steady advance, the whole body, virtue), しんちょく (oracle, under way). (various references) | |
Korean | 진도. (various references) | |
Manx | turrys (crossing, crossing of sea, excursion, expedition, itinerary, jaunt, journey, outing, passage, run, tour, transit, transit of planet, trip, walk, walk of postman), jannoo keayrt, immeeaght (act, action, decampment, depart, departure, drift, exit, exodus, flight of time, going, going away, paces of a horse; current, paces of a horse; current of events, procedure, proceeding, procession, progression, start, way), goll er oai (progression). (various references) | |
Papiamen | progreso (advance, advancement), progresá (advance), mehorashon, adelanto (advance, advancement), adelantá (advance). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ogresspray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | progresso (advance, advancement, course, forwardness, headway, improvement, increase, process, promotion), progredir (advance, come on, develop, gain, get along, make headway, make progress, move, prosper). (various references) | |
Romanian | progres (advance, advancement, career, development, furtherance, growth, headway, March, rise), spor (abundance, addition, advancement, benefit, gain, germ, growth, headway, increase, increment, spore, use), se dezvolta (breed, develop, evolve, grow, increase, shape), merge înainte (advance, forge ahead), evoluţie (development, evolution, passage, process), dezvoltare (amplification, development, enlargement, evolution, germination, growth, involution, process, promotion, rise, upsurge), desfãşurare (course, development, display, evolution, fireworks, March, operation, passage, process, spread, unfolding), curs (act, channel, course, current, duration, flow, lapse, lecture, quotation, rate, session, swim, tack, train, trend), avansa (advance, come on, frame, gain, get along with, make way, march on, move, move along, pay in advance, prefer, promote), înainta (advance, enter, forward, gain, get on, go onward, make head, march on, move, prefer, present, promote, refer, remit, send, submit). (various references) | |
Russian | странствие (peregrination, pilgrimage, rove, wayfaring), успеваемость, развиваться прогресс, течение (course, current, drift, flight, flow, flowing, flux, lapse, onflow, passage, run, stream, tenor, trend), прогресс (advancement, go ahead, headway, progression), продвигаться вперед (forge ahead, march on, press ahead, push on), достижение (accomplishment, achievement, attainment, breakthrough). (various references) | |
Scottish | ìre (condition). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | progres (advance), odmaći (move), napredovati (advance, get along, get on, move on, move up, prosper, push on, thrive), napredak (improvement, prosperity, upturn). (various references) | |
Spanish | progreso (advance, advancement, amelioration, breakthrough, development, headway, improvement, lieu, tide). (various references) | |
Swahili | maendeleo (advance, advancement). (various references) | |
Swedish | utveckling (cultivation, development, evolution, fosterage, growth, incubation), framsteg (advance, advances, headway, stride). (various references) | |
Turkish | yükselme (advance, advancement, ascension, ascent, climb, distinction, escalation, flux, gain, hike, increase, pickup, preferment, promotion, promotional, raise, rise, rising, scaling, step up, swell, swelling, upheaval, uprising, upsurge, upthrust), resmi gezi (official trip), kalkınmak, ilerlemek (advance, develop, forge ahead, gain, get along, go ahead, go along, go forward, go on, improve, keep going, make headway, make one's way, make progress, move, move on, proceed, push on, run on), ilerleme (advance, advancement, expansion, forwardness, gain, headway, improvement, progression, rising, upswing, uptrend), ileri gitmek (exaggerate, exceed, gain, go too far), geliştirme (build up, development, growth, improving, refinement), gelişmek (advance, ameliorate, blossom, blossom out, boom, branch out, develop, evolve, expand, flourish, flower, go ahead, grow, grow up, improve, make headway, refine, shape, shape up, thrive, unfold), gelişme (advance, advancement, amelioration, budding, development, expansion, flourish, formative, growing, growth, headway, improvement, inflorescence, pickup, strides), devlet gezisi, devam etmek (attend, carry forward, carry over, continue, draw, endure, follow on, get along, go ahead, go ahead with smth., go along, go on, hang over, hold, keep at, keep going, keep on, keep up, last, pass on, persist, proceed, prosecute, pursue, push, run on, stand, stand to), devam etme (continuance, continuation). (various references) | |
Turkmen | progres (r), яetiюik. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | удосконалюватися (improve, refine), розвиток (amplification, cultivation, development, enlargement, evolution, growth), розвиватися (advance, evolve, maturate, unwind), робити успіхи (advance), хід (burrow, cavalcade, chain, course, motion, move, passage, process, run, running, tide, way), просуватися уперед (advance, steam ahead), просування (ascension, ascent, progression, promotion, propulsion, rise, travel), прогресувати, прогрес (advance, advancement, headway, progression), досягнення (accomplishment, achievement, arrival, attainment, break through, obtaining, obtainment, obtention). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự tiến triển (progression), sự tiến tới (advance, advancement, progression), sự tiến bộ (advancement, headway, progression). (various references) | |
Welsh | taith (journey, trip, voyage), cynnydd (growth, increase). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | actibus, actu, actum, actus, ascensionem, ascensiones, ascensionis, eo ire itum, processus, profectu, profectum, profectus, profectusque, progressio, progressus, tractus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "progress": progressed, progresses, progressing, progression, progressional, progressions, progressive, progressively, progressiveness, progressivenesses, progressives, progressivism, progressivisms, progressivist, progressivistic, progressivists, progressivities, progressivity. (additional references) | |
Words containing "progress": antiprogressive, nonprogressive, nonprogressives, ultraprogressive, ultraprogressives, unprogressive. (additional references) | |
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"Progress" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: progess, prograss, progres, Progresista, Progreso, progrss, prorsus, prowress, rogerses. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "progress" (pronounced prÄ"gre's, prugre"s , or prōgre"s) |
| 3 | -r e' s | address, headdress, letterpress, overdress, watercress. |
| 5 | -u g r e" s | aggress. |
| 4 | -g r e" s | digress, egress, transgress. |
| 3 | -r e" s | cress, depress, distress, dress, ers, express, fluoresce, impress, oppress, press, redress, repress, stress, suppress, tress, undress. |
| 4 | -g r e" s | aggress, digress, egress, transgress. |
| 3 | -r e" s | cress, depress, distress, dress, ers, express, fluoresce, impress, oppress, press, redress, repress, stress, suppress, tress, undress. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-o-p-r-r-s-s" | |
-1 letter: gropers, grosser, pressor, prosers. | |
-2 letters: gorses, groper, gropes, ogress, posers, proser, proses, repros, rogers, ropers, spores. | |
-3 letters: gesso, goers, gores, gorps, gorse, grope, gross, ogres, pesos, pores, poser, poses, posse, press, progs, prose, pross, repos, repro, roger, roper, ropes, roses, segos, sorer, sores, spore. | |
-4 letters: egos, epos, ergo, ergs, eros, errs, goer, goes, gore. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-o-p-r-r-s-s" | |
+2 letters: progressed, progresses. | |
+3 letters: grasshopper, prestorages, progressing, progression, progressive, supercargos, supergroups, superorgasm, superstrong. | |
+4 letters: geopressured, grasshoppers, greaseproofs, progressions, progressives, reprocessing, sonographers, spectrograms, stereographs, supercargoes, supergrowths, superorgasms, supersurgeon. | |
+5 letters: cosmographers, discographers, glossographer, governorships, phrasemongers, preprocessing, progesterones, progressional, progressively, progressivism, progressivist, progressivity, psychosurgery, scenographers, seismographer, spectrographs, stenographers, superorganism, supersurgeons, unprogressive. | |
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