Progress vs Knowledge - 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.
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(obsolete) Acknowledgement.
The fact of knowing about something; general understanding or familiarity with a subject, place, situation etc.
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, title= Awareness of a particular fact or situation; a state of having been informed or made aware of something.
* 1813 , (Jane Austen), (Pride and Prejudice) :
Intellectual understanding; the state of appreciating truth or information.
Familiarity or understanding of a particular skill, branch of learning etc.
* 1573 , George Gascoigne, "The Adventures of Master F.J.", An Anthology of Elizabethan Prose Fiction :
(obsolete) Information or intelligence about something; notice.
* 1580 , Edward Hayes, "Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage to Newfoundland", Voyages and Travels Ancient and Modern , ed. Charles W Eliot, Cosimo 2005, p. 280:
The total of what is known; all information and products of learning.
(countable) Something that can be known; a branch of learning; a piece of information; a science.
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*:he weakened his braines much, as all men doe, who over nicely and greedily will search out those knowledges , which hang not for their mowing, nor pertaine unto them.
* Francis Bacon
(obsolete) Notice, awareness.
* 1611 , The Bible, Authorized Version, Ruth II.10:
(UK, informal) The deep familiarity with certain routes and places of interest required by taxicab drivers working in London, England.
* Malcolm Bobbitt, Taxi! - The Story of the London Cab
(obsolete) To confess as true; to acknowledge.
* 1526 , Bible , tr. William Tyndale, Matthew 3:
As a noun progress
is movement or advancement through a series of events, or points in time; development through time.As a verb progress
is to move, go, or proceed forward; to advance.As a proper noun knowledge is
a course of study which must be completed by prospective london taxi drivers; consists of 320 routes through central london and many significant places.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 ----knowledge
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(wikipedia knowledge)Alternative forms
* (obsolete) knolege, knowlage, knowleche, knowledg, knowlege, knowliche, knowlych, knowlech * knaulege, knaulage, knawlage * knoleche, knoleige, knowlache, knolych * knawlacheNoun
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- He had always intended to visit him, though to the last always assuring his wife that he should not go; and till the evening after the visit was paid she had no knowledge of it.
- Every time that he had knowledge of her he would leave, either in the bed, or in her cushion-cloth, or by her looking-glass, or in some place where she must needs find it, a piece of money.
- Item, if any ship be in danger, every man to bear towards her, answering her with one light for a short time, and so to put it out again; thereby to give knowledge that they have seen her token.
- There is a great difference in the delivery of the mathematics, which are the most abstracted of knowledges .
- Then she fell on her face, and bowed herself to the ground, and said unto him, Why have I found grace in thine eyes, that thou shouldest take knowledge of me, seeing I am a stranger?
- There is only one sure way to memorise the runs and that is to follow them, either on foot, cycle or motor cycle; hence, the familiar sight of would-be cabbies learning the knowledge during evenings and weekends.
Quotations
* 1996 , Jan Jindy Pettman, Worlding Women: A feminist international politics , pages ix-x: *: There are by now many feminisms (Tong, 1989; Humm, 1992)..Usage notes
* Adjectives often used with “knowledge”: extensive, deep, superficial, theoretical, practical, useful, working, encyclopedic, public, private, scientific, tacit, explicit, general, specialized, special, broad, declarative, procedural, innate, etc.Derived terms
(terms derived from knowledge) * acknowledge * background knowledge * carnal knowledge * common knowledge * foreknowledge * general knowledge * interknowledge * knowledgeable or knowledgable * knowledge base * knowledge domain * knowledge engineer * knowledge is power * knowledge management * knowledge worker * metaknowledge * prior knowledge * protoknowledge * public knowledge * scientific knowledge * self-knowledge * sphere of knowledge * theory of knowledge * traditional knowledge * tree of knowledge * working knowledge * zero-knowledge proofSynonyms
* awareness * cognizance * * knowingness * learningAntonyms
* ignoranceVerb
- Then went oute to hym Jerusalem, and all Jury, and all the region rounde aboute Jordan, and were baptised of hym in Jordan, knoledging their synnes.