progress

Noun (1)

progress (usually uncountable, plural progresses)

1. (usually) Movement or advancement through a series of events, or points in time; development through time.
   • Testing for the new antidote is currently in progress.
2. (usually) Specifically, advancement to a higher or more developed state; development, growth.
   • 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.1983, Gene Wolfe, chapter XXVIII, in The Citadel of the Autarch (The Book of the New Sun; 4), New York: Timescape, →ISBN, page 239
3. (usually) An official journey made by a monarch or other high personage; a state journey, a circuit.
   • ... 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...1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 7, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC
   • With the king about to go on progress, the trials and executions were deliberately timed.2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin, published 2012, page 124
4. (archaic, usually) A journey forward; travel.
   • Now Tim began to be struck with these loitering progresses along the garden boundaries in the gloaming, and wondered what they boded.1886 May – 1887 April, Thomas Hardy, The Woodlanders […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., published 1887, →OCLC
5. (usually) Movement onwards, forwards, or towards a specific objective or direction; advance.
   • The thick branches overhanging the path made progress difficult.

Verb

UK/pɹəˈɡɹɛs/Australia/pɹəˈɡɹes/

progress (third-person singular simple present progresses, present participle progressing, simple past and past participle progressed)

1. (intransitive) To move, go, or proceed forward; to advance.
   • Visitors progress through the museum at their own pace.
   • 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.2011 October 1, Tom Fordyce, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 16-12 Scotland”, in BBC Sport
2. (intransitive) To develop.
   • Societies progress unevenly.
   1. (broadly, intransitive) To improve; to become better or more complete.
3. (transitive) To expedite.
   • Or […] they came to progress matters in which Dudley had taken a hand, and left defrauded or bound over to the king.2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin, published 2012, page 266

Proper noun capitalized: Progress

Progress

1. A rural municipality of Saskatchewan, Canada.
2. An unincorporated community in Monroe Township, Delaware County, Indiana, United States.
3. An unincorporated community in Pike County, Mississippi, United States.
4. A former unincorporated community and neighborhood of Washington County, Oregon, United States, in the cities of Tigard and Beaverton.
5. An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, United States, lying in Susquehanna Township and Lower Paxton Township.
6. A programming language

Noun (2) capitalized: Progress

Progress (plural Progresses)

1. Any of a series of Soviet, later Russian spacecraft.