Progress vs Execution - 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.
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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.
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The act, manner or style of executing (actions, maneuvers, performances).
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The state of being executed (accomplished).
The act of putting to death or being put to death as a penalty, or actions so associated.
(legal) The carrying into effect of a court judgment, or of a will.
(legal) The formal process by which a contract is made valid and put into binding effect.
(computing) The carrying out of an instruction, program or program segment by a computer.
Progress is a related term of execution.
As nouns the difference between progress and execution
is that progress is movement or advancement through a series of events, or points in time; development through time while execution is execution.As a verb progress
is to move, go, or proceed forward; to advance.progress
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(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 ----execution
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Noun
(en noun)- The battle plan was successfully executed .
- The entire machine slowed down during the execution of the virus checker .
- Whenever the matrix inversion function executed the program crashed.