Progress vs Adjust - What's the difference?
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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.
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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.
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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:
To modify.
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To settle an insurance claim.
To change to fit circumstances.
In lang=en terms the difference between progress and adjust
is that progress is to move (something) forward; to advance, to expedite while adjust is to change to fit circumstances.As verbs the difference between progress and adjust
is that progress is to move, go, or proceed forward; to advance while adjust is to modify.As a noun progress
is movement or advancement through a series of events, or points in time; development through time.progress
English
(wikipedia progress)Alternative forms
* (archaic)Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
- Testing for the new antidote is currently in progress .
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- 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.
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- 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.
Antonyms
* congress * regress * retrogressExternal links
* * English heteronyms ----adjust
English
Verb
(en verb)A new prescription, passage=As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs. No sooner has a drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one.}}
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