Regress vs Disappear - What's the difference?
regress | disappear |
The act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression.
* Frederic Harrison
The power or liberty of passing back.
* Shakespeare
To move backwards to an earlier stage; to devolve.
(statistics) To perform a regression on an explanatory variable.
(label) To vanish.
(label) To make vanish.
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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
(-)- Its bearing on the progress or regress of man is not an inconsiderable question.
- Thou shalt have egress and regress;
Derived terms
* infinite regressVerb
(es)- When we regress Y on X, we use the values of variable X to predict those Y.
Synonyms
* backslideAntonyms
* proceed * progressExternal links
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English
Verb
(en verb)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?"}}
F. E. Penny
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 .}}