progress — Английский словарь

Существительное

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

   Употребление

   • неисчисляемое
   • usually

   Примеры

   Testing for the new antidote is currently in progress.

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

   Употребление

   • неисчисляемое
   • usually

   Примеры

   Science has made extraordinary progress in the last fifty years.

   You wish for progress? The Ascians have it. They are deafened by it, crazed by the death of Nature till they are ready to accept Erebus and the rest as gods.

   Другие примеры (1)

   Becoming more aware of the progress that scientists have made on behavioral fronts can reduce the risk that other natural scientists will resort to mystical agential accounts when they exceed the limits of their own disciplinary training.

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

   Употребление

   • неисчисляемое
   • usually

   Примеры

   Другие примеры (1)

   ... Queen Elizabeth in one of her progresses, stopping at Crawley to breakfast, was so delighted with some remarkably fine Hampshire beer which was then presented to her by the Crawley of the day (a handsome gentleman with a trim beard and a good leg), that she forthwith erected Crawley into a borough to send two members to Parliament ...

   With the king about to go on progress, the trials and executions were deliberately timed.

4. A journey forward; travel.

   Употребление

   • архаичное
   • неисчисляемое
   • usually

   Примеры

   Now Tim began to be struck with these loitering progresses along the garden boundaries in the gloaming, and wondered what they boded.

5. Movement onwards, forwards, or towards a specific objective or direction; advance.

   Употребление

   • неисчисляемое
   • usually

   Примеры

   The thick branches overhanging the path made progress difficult.

Глагол

1. To move, go, or proceed forward; to advance.

   Употребление

   • непереходный глагол

   Примеры

   Visitors progress through the museum at their own pace.

   Другие примеры (1)

   Scotland needed a victory by eight points to have a realistic chance of progressing to the knock-out stages, and for long periods of a ferocious contest looked as if they might pull it off.

2. To develop.

   Употребление

   • непереходный глагол

   Примеры

   Societies progress unevenly.

3. To develop. To improve; to become better or more complete.

   Употребление

   • broadly
   • непереходный глагол

4. To expedite.

   Употребление

   • переходный глагол

   Примеры

   Or […] they came to progress matters in which Dudley had taken a hand, and left defrauded or bound over to the king.

Существительное

1. gradual improvement or growth or development

   Синонимы

   advancement

   Более общие понятия

   development

   Примеры

   advancement of knowledge

   great progress in the arts

2. the act of moving forward (as toward a goal)

   Синонимы

   progressionprocessionadvanceadvancementforward motiononward motion

   Более общие понятия

   motionmovementmove

3. a movement forward

   Синонимы

   progressionadvance

   Более общие понятия

   change of locationtravel

   Примеры

   he listened for the progress of the troops

Глагол

1. develop in a positive way

   Синонимы

   come oncome alongadvanceget onget alongshape up

   Антонимы

   regress

   Более общие понятия

   develop

   Примеры

   He progressed well in school

   My plants are coming along

   Другие примеры (1)

   Plans are shaping up

2. move forward, also in the metaphorical sense

   Синонимы

   advancepass onmove onmarch ongo on

   Более общие понятия

   travelgomovelocomote

   Примеры

   Time marches on

3. form or accumulate steadily

   Синонимы

   build upwork upbuild

   Более общие понятия

   develop

   Примеры

   Resistance to the manager's plan built up quickly

   Pressure is building up at the Indian-Pakistani border