Procession vs Progress - What's the difference?
procession | progress | Synonyms |
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
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.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2012-01
, author=Stephen Ledoux
, title=Behaviorism at 100
, volume=100, issue=1, page=60
, magazine=
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
, work=BBC Sport
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:
Procession is a synonym of progress.
In lang=en terms the difference between procession and progress
is that procession is to take part in a procession while progress is to move (something) forward; to advance, to expedite.As nouns the difference between procession and progress
is that procession is the act of progressing or proceeding while progress is movement or advancement through a series of events, or points in time; development through time.As verbs the difference between procession and progress
is that procession is to take part in a procession while progress is to move, go, or proceed forward; to advance.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
* *progress
English
(wikipedia progress)Alternative forms
* (archaic)Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
- Testing for the new antidote is currently in progress .
citation, passage=Becoming more aware of the progress that scientists have made on behavioral fronts can reduce the risk that other natural scientists will resort to mystical agential accounts when they exceed the limits of their own disciplinary training.}}
- 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.
citation, page= , passage=Scotland needed a victory by eight points to have a realistic chance of progressing to the knock-out stages, and for long periods of a ferocious contest looked as if they might pull it off.}}
- 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.