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Regress vs Disappear - What's the difference?

regress | disappear |

As verbs the difference between regress and disappear

is that regress is to move backwards to an earlier stage; to devolve while disappear is (label) to vanish.

As a noun regress

is the act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression.

regress

English

Noun

(-)
  • The act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression.
  • * Frederic Harrison
  • Its bearing on the progress or regress of man is not an inconsiderable question.
  • The power or liberty of passing back.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Thou shalt have egress and regress;

    Derived terms

    * infinite regress

    Verb

    (es)
  • To move backwards to an earlier stage; to devolve.
  • (statistics) To perform a regression on an explanatory variable.
  • When we regress Y on X, we use the values of variable X to predict those Y.

    Synonyms

    * backslide

    Antonyms

    * proceed * progress

    disappear

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (label) To vanish.
  • (label) To make vanish.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1973, author=Joseph Heller, chapter=38 Kid Sister
  • , title= Catch 22: A Dramatization , genre=Fiction, publisher=Delacorte Press, passage="Did they disappear' him?" / "I don’t know." / "What will you do if they decide to ' disappear you?"}}
  • (label) To go away; to become lost.
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields
  • *{{quote-book, year=1927, author= F. E. Penny
  • , chapter=4, title= Pulling the Strings , passage=A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also a staff. These properties were known to have belonged to a toddy drawer. He had disappeared .}}

    Synonyms

    * (to vanish) dematerialize, vanish

    Antonyms

    * (to vanish) appear

    Anagrams

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