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Profits vs Proceed - What's the difference?

profits | proceed |

As verbs the difference between profits and proceed

is that profits is third-person singular of profit while proceed is to move, pass, or go forward or onward; to advance; to continue or renew motion begun.

As a noun profits

is plural of lang=en.

profits

English

Noun

(head)
  • (plurale tantum) Collective form of profit.
  • Verb

    (head)
  • (profit)
  • ----

    proceed

    English

    (Webster 1913)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To move, pass, or go forward or onward; to advance; to continue or renew motion begun.
  • to proceed on a journey.
  • To pass from one point, topic, or stage, to another.
  • To proceed with a story or argument.
  • To issue or come forth as from a source or origin; to come from.
  • Light proceeds from the sun.
  • 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
  • he that proceeds upon other Principles in his Enquiry
  • To be transacted; to take place; to occur.
  • * Shakespeare
  • He will, after his sour fashion, tell you / What hath proceeded worthy note to-day.
  • To have application or effect; to operate.
  • * Ayliffe
  • This rule only proceeds and takes place when a person can not of common law condemn another by his sentence.
  • To begin and carry on a legal process. (rfex)
  • 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

    * progress

    Antonyms

    * regress * recede

    References

    * *

    See also

    * proceeds (noun)