Proceed vs Procedural - What's the difference?
proceed | procedural |
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)
Related to procedure.
(computing) Generated by means of a procedure, rather than being designed.
(literature) A type of literature, film, or television program involving a sequence of technical detail.
* 2000 , Gary Hausladen, Places for Dead Bodies (page 35)
As a verb proceed
is to move, pass, or go forward or onward; to advance; to continue or renew motion begun.As an adjective procedural is
procedural.proceed
English
(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.
Usage notes
* This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive . See * Not to be confused with precede. * Many of the other English verbs ultimately derived from Latin are spelled ending in "cede", so the misspelling "procede" is common.Synonyms
* progressAntonyms
* regress * recedeReferences
* *See also
* proceeds (noun)Anagrams
* English control verbsprocedural
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The judge dismissed the case on procedural grounds; it wasn't the facts or the law, it was just they hadn't filed the correct forms.
- a procedural''' texture; '''procedural terrain
Derived terms
* procedurallyNoun
(en noun)- It is only fitting that the investigation of place-based police procedurals begins in America, where the police procedural was invented and turned into a literary art form.