Act vs Proceed - What's the difference?
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A certain standardized college admissions test in the United States, originally called the (term).
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To move, pass, or go forward or onward; to advance; to continue or renew motion begun.
To pass from one point, topic, or stage, to another.
To issue or come forth as from a source or origin; to come from.
To go on in an orderly or regulated manner; to begin and carry on a series of acts or measures; to act by method; to prosecute a design.
* John Locke
To be transacted; to take place; to occur.
* Shakespeare
To have application or effect; to operate.
* Ayliffe
To begin and carry on a legal process. (rfex)
As verbs the difference between act and proceed
is that act is to do something while proceed is to move, pass, or go forward or onward; to advance; to continue or renew motion begun.As a proper noun ACT
is initialism of Australian Capital Territory|lang=en, a federal territory of Australia.As a noun ACT
is a certain standardized college admissions test in the United States, originally called the {{term||American College Test}}.act
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* (American College Test) SAT , GMAT , MCAT , DATAnagrams
* * * * English three-letter wordsproceed
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(Webster 1913)Verb
(en verb)- to proceed on a journey.
- To proceed with a story or argument.
- Light proceeds from the sun.
- he that proceeds upon other Principles in his Enquiry
- He will, after his sour fashion, tell you / What hath proceeded worthy note to-day.
- This rule only proceeds and takes place when a person can not of common law condemn another by his sentence.
