Procession vs Generation - What's the difference?
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The act of progressing or proceeding.
* Trench
A group of people or things moving along in an orderly, stately, or solemn manner; a train of persons advancing in order; a retinue.
* Shakespeare
A number of things happening in sequence (in space or in time).
(ecclesiastical, obsolete, in the plural) Litanies which were said in procession and not kneeling.
To take part in a procession
(dated) To honour with a procession.
(transitive, legal, US, North Carolina and Tennessee) To ascertain, mark, and establish the boundary lines of (lands).
* Burrill
The fact of creating something, or bringing something into being; production, creation.
* 1832 , (Charles Lyell), Principles of Geology , II:
The act of creating a living creature or organism; procreation.
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.10:
* 1626 , (Francis Bacon), Sylva Sylvarum :
* c. 1605 , (William Shakespeare), Timon of Athens , First Folio 1623, I.3:
A single step or stage in the succession of natural descent; a rank or degree in genealogy, the members of a family from the same parents, considered as a single unit.
(obsolete) Descendants, progeny; offspring.
The average amount of time needed for children to grow up and have children of their own, generally considered to be a period of around thirty years, used as a measure of time.
* 2008 , Edgar Thorpe, Objective English :
A set stage in the development of computing or of a specific technology.
* 2009 , Paul Deital, Harvey Deital and Abbey Deital, iPhone for Programmers :
(geometry) The formation or production of any geometrical magnitude, as a line, a surface, a solid, by the motion, in accordance with a mathematical law, of a point or a magnitude; as, the generation of a line or curve by the motion of a point, of a surface by a line, a sphere by a semicircle, etc.
A specific age range in which each person in that range can relate culturally to one another.
A version of a form of pop culture which differs from later or earlier versions.
As nouns the difference between procession and generation
is that procession is the act of progressing or proceeding while generation is the fact of creating something, or bringing something into being; production, creation.As a verb procession
is to take part in a procession.procession
English
(wikipedia procession)Noun
(en noun)- (Bishop Pearson)
- That the procession of their life might be / More equable, majestic, pure, and free.
- a procession''' of mourners; the Lord Mayor's '''procession
- the townsmen on procession
- (Shipley)
Derived terms
* proceed * process * processionalSee also
* march-past * fly-past * cavalcade * motorcade * -cade * cortege * paradeVerb
(en verb)- To procession the lands of such persons as desire it.
Synonyms
* processExternal links
* *generation
English
(wikipedia generation)Noun
(en noun)- The generation of peat, when not completely under water, is confined to moist situations.
- So all things else, that nourish vitall blood, / Soone as with fury thou doest them inspire, / In generation seek to quench their inward fire.
- Generation by Copulation (certainly) extendeth not to Plants.
- Thy Mothers of my generation : what's she, if I be a Dogge?
- This is the book of the generations of Adam - Genesis 5:1
- Ye shall remain there [in Babylon] many years, and for a long season, namely, seven generations - Baruch 6:3
- All generations and ages of the Christian church -
- Before the independence of India the books of Dr P. K. Yadav presented a fundamental challenge to the accepted ideas of race relations that, two generations later, will be true of the writings of the radical writers of the 1970s.
- The first-generation iPhone was released in June 2007 and was an instant blockbuster success.
- Generation X grew up in the eighties, whereas the generation known as the millennials grew up in the nineties.
- People sometimes dispute which generation of Star Trek is best, including the original and The Next Generation.