Developement vs Progress - What's the difference?
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* {{quote-book, year=1818, author=, title=Frankenstein or, the modern Prometheus, chapter=2, edition=1831 ed.
, passage="I distinctly discerned how peculiarly fortunate my lot was, and gratitude assisted the developement of filial love." }}
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, passage="Pray, Mr. Truck," inquired S.R.P., "is it commonly thought in the English literary circles, that Byron was a developement of Shakspeare, or Shakspeare a shadowing forth of Byron?" }}
Movement or advancement through a series of events, or points in time; development through time.
Specifically, advancement to a higher or more developed state; development, growth.
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, author=Stephen Ledoux
, title=Behaviorism at 100
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An official journey made by a monarch or other high personage; a state journey, a circuit.
* 2011 , Thomas Penn, Winter King , Penguin 2012, p. 124:
* 1887 , (Thomas Hardy), The Woodlanders :
Movement onwards or forwards or towards a specific objective or direction; advance.
to move, go, or proceed forward; to advance.
* {{quote-news
, year=2011
, date=October 1
, author=Tom Fordyce
, title=Rugby World Cup 2011: England 16-12 Scotland
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to improve; to become better or more complete.
To move (something) forward; to advance, to expedite.
* 2011 , Thomas Penn, Winter King , Penguin 2012, p. 266:
As nouns the difference between developement and progress
is that developement is (development) while progress is movement or advancement through a series of events, or points in time; development through time.As a verb progress is
to move, go, or proceed forward; to advance.developement
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* (archaic)Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
- Testing for the new antidote is currently in progress .
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- Science has made extraordinary progress in the last fifty years.
- With the king about to go on progress , the trials and executions were deliberately timed.
- Now Tim began to be struck with these loitering progresses along the garden boundaries in the gloaming, and wondered what they boded.
- The thick branches overhanging the path made progress difficult.
Usage notes
* To make progress'' is often used instead of the verb ''progress''. This allows complex modification of ''progress in ways that can not be well approximated by adverbs modifying the verb. SeeEtymology 2
From the noun. Lapsed into disuse in the 17th century, except in the US. Considered an Americanism on reintroduction to use in the UK.Verb
(es)- They progress through the museum.
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- Societies progress unevenly.
- Or […] they came to progress matters in which Dudley had taken a hand, and left defrauded or bound over to the king.
