PROGRESS


Meaning of PROGRESS in English

I. noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

impeded...progress

Storms at sea impeded our progress .

progress report

rapid progress

Both Tom and Victoria had made rapid progress under his guidance.

steady progress

We're making steady progress in reducing the unemployment rate.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

considerable

Despite considerable progress over the years, the Auditor General's Department consider that there is still much progress to be made.

But they have made considerable progress in a relatively short time.

More immediately, the case study will represent considerable progress .

In an interview Saturday night in Washington, Fujimori said considerable progress has been made in private talks with the rebels.

Even so, by 1941 considerable progress had been made.

He said they would have to make considerable progress if Hearst is to be re-signed before the draft.

These commitments amount to considerable progress , which should offset some of the disappointment felt over debt relief.

Newton himself, faced with a definite programme, that is, guided by a positive heuristic, made considerable progress .

economic

The Association sought to show that the restrictions in the agreement were indeed indispensable to the promotion of technical or economic progress .

The overwhelming reasons cited were the economic progress and develop-ment under his regime, and its relative stability.

It could have defended the frontiers, repressed religious intolerance and done something to accelerate economic and intellectual progress .

These fears were, strongest at a time when great advances in social security were coinciding with great economic progress .

This is our economic argument: a path to personal enrichment from the fruits of economic progress more widely shared.

Dole meant to suggest that if elected he would bring real governmental reform and new national economic progress .

Food is the basic necessity of life and without it economic progress is impossible.

Motor cars are bad. Economic progress is deeply suspect.

further

Government purchasing Public procurement is another area where the 1992 programme calls for further progress .

Research and development and financial services are two further areas where progress is still slow.

Mean while the lift and drag forces are at work, and the kite has achieved the point of no further progress .

The media may well be anti anyway, which may kill any hopes of further progress .

The Committee concluded that a commitment of extra resources was needed if significant further progress was to be made.

A further progress report will be given thereafter.

Economic survival of the enterprise or its further progress depends on managers communicating effectively with employees.

In order to make further progress , we need to specify the savings process.

good

Real convergence Despite the relatively good progress on fiscal and monetary policy, progress on real convergence has been poor.

Children who came to the home unable to walk, talk or feed themselves are making good progress now.

Already they were making good stop-go progress through the traffic lights of the Edgware Road.

We were well pleased with ourselves, for this was the best sustained progress so far.

In her flat and comfortable lace-up shoes, she made good progress on her daily outing.

She was later released from the hospital and is making good progress recovering at home, a hospital spokeswoman said.

Meanwhile, construction of steelwork and major engineering items is making good progress under long lead funding arrangements.

However some branches have managed to make good progress towards meeting their target.

great

In spite of a keen desire to reach greater heights, progress is hindered by poor practice methods which make improvement slow and frustrating.

These fears were, strongest at a time when great advances in social security were coinciding with great economic progress .

Proponents of the Human Genome Project imagine great progress in diagnosis of diseases and in their therapy.

Tom Rice closed the meeting by saying: 1 feel we have made great progress in this meeting.

I expected far greater progress than this.

I believe that great progress will be made.

In particular they made great progress in their attempts to put electromagnetism and the weak nuclear force together within the same theoretical framework.

The great area of progress since the 1970s has been to create a healthy and enterprising economy.

human

For if we accept the possibility of human progress , then we must accept and draw on the lessons of the past.

Aggressivity and violence are essential to human progress and the source of much creativity.

They were Darwinian gradualists who thought of human progress in terms of ever-increasing rationality.

Contrary to such forecasts, nearly all the indices of human progress have improved since the dawn of the industrial age.

And at the same time ethnographers and anthropologists were themselves producing schemes of human progress .

It abhors all violence and relies upon moral education, love and sympathy to secure human progress .

In this way, Spencer's argument about the conditions necessary for human progress was neatly turned on its head.

This, like the argument about human progress , suggests that the universe can have been going only for a finite time.

little

At the conclusion of the meeting, little progress had been made beyond agreeing procedural rules and setting up two working parties.

Since those early years, only a little progress has been made.

It's little bits of progress like that which make riding young horses so much fun.

Getting stuck in the phallic phase is little progress over fixation on the oral phase.

But making even a little progress will be less frustrating than making no progress at all.

However, non-governmental organisations said that little progress over debt was made at the Washington meeting.

But he was making very little progress even though Joe and the others spent time trying to coach him.

rapid

Other projects made more rapid progress that new year.

How rapid was my progress from open door to open arms!

Leaning rather than pulling is a recurrent theme in windsurfing which, once mastered, leads to rapid progress .

The doctors were surprised at his rapid progress .

Thermalling Rapid progress across country is largely a matter of finding and using effectively only the very strongest of thermals.

Mr Holmes a Court is thought to have taken advantage of the share's rapid progress , selling his 2 percent stake.

But if rapid progress in combating poverty was possible in Britain over the past 100 years, then it is possible elsewhere.

After one treatment the fish has made rapid progress and is now able to swim upright.

real

But this is real progress - and the clear result of creating real wealth.

The moment when they no longer fit the facts usually heralds real progress , a turning-point in the general history of science.

It may temporarily enhance production but may not be real progress in the second language.

The heads of civil rights organizations that gathered for the announcement praised Flagstar for making real racial progress .

But in spite of the hardships, real efforts and progress are being made.

N., meet our obligations and continue to spur real progress .

He was making no real progress .

He was a measure of real progress , of a white community able to move into a black and white century.

scientific

Having disposed of one great story which gave coherence to human life, Western culture substituted another called scientific progress .

In short, recent scientific progress has revolutionized the understanding of alcohol and caffeine.

The analogy between scientific progress and genetic evolution by natural selection has been illuminated especially by Sir Karl Popper.

Thus routine science and routine scientific progress occur while, and only while, the governing paradigm copes successfully with apparent exceptions.

Goody, however, retreats from the implications that this more flexible model of scientific progress hold for his claims regarding literacy.

Utopian myths One strain of Utopian thought has stressed scientific and technical progress .

Remarks such as these indicate that Lakatos aimed to propose a universal criterion for judging research programmes in particular and scientific progress in general.

Here was a Protestant vision amenable to an emerging concept of scientific progress .

significant

At the close of the round no significant progress had been achieved.

Virtually everyone in the class had made significant progress in some form of expression.

Alongside the clinical concerns there has been significant progress in our understanding of the molecular genetics.

The company had made significant progress .

The Committee concluded that a commitment of extra resources was needed if significant further progress was to be made.

Both parties have made significant progress .

slow

We are making slow progress today.

As they worked with him, he made slow and steady progress .

It still looked easy but the slow progress of the parties ahead showed it was not.

In the morning a bicycle made its slow progress across the fields.

Like ourselves the Firefly Trust seems to be making slow but steady progress and I wish them well.

Surprisingly, in a society fascinated by technology, the aeroplane made slow progress .

The fact that food and water were running out due to slow progress , demoralized me still further.

Flecks of sunshine dappling fissured bark are a reminder of summers past during the tree's slow progress to maturity.

social

A substantial aid programme aimed at promoting sustainable economic and social progress and good government in developing countries will be maintained.

Their marriage is a partnership for social progress , not an arrangement rooted in electoral ambition.

Both would interfere with the natural process of evolution and natural selection which ensured social progress .

But these processes of social progress are leaving millions behind in the familial ruts of stagnation.

When economic and social progress is hindered by ineffectual and corrupt government, the global polity suffers.

It was a stirring time for social progress .

Until then, there had been a fair measure of economic and social progress .

Is social progress being made because David Williams stayed home and sacrificed $ 111, 000?

steady

We are making steady progress , of which the country should be proud.

Hooker, operating against inferior numbers, made steady progress .

Even in these circumstances we still expect to make steady progress in 1993.

As they worked with him, he made slow and steady progress .

Mr. Waldegrave I believe that steady progress is being made, as my hon. Friend says.

Over the years, researchers made steady progress , creating ever quicker and more sophisticated programs.

All the Fire Protection branches made steady progress .

We are, as I just mentioned, close to that goal and making steady progress toward it.

substantial

As was pointed out in the previous chapter, substantial progress has been made in reducing overcrowding, as of facially defined.

While substantial progress has been made, redlining still exists, and I appreciate the attention you are giving it.

But substantial progress is being made and the most important resources of all, expertise and know-how, are now becoming available.

It is better to strive for slow and gradual, but substantial , progress than a quick fix that may be ephemeral.

The business has made substantial progress in terms of integrating production facilities, warehousing and administration.

Also, a number of companies had made substantial progress .

But we did make substantial progress .

Nevertheless, substantial progress was made toward reaching an agreement on a new strategy.

technical

These very palliatives, however, had also removed the stimulants to technical progress .

The Association sought to show that the restrictions in the agreement were indeed indispensable to the promotion of technical or economic progress .

It is assumed that technical progress is purely labour-augmenting.

Many women now go out to work. Technical progress is altering the demand for labour.

For simplicity. we ignore depreciation and technical progress , so.

The next step is to make technical progress endogenous to the model.

Suppose, for example, the rate of technical progress is a function of expenditure on research.

Utopian myths One strain of Utopian thought has stressed scientific and technical progress .

technological

One is the effect of technological progress on productivity growth.

Nevertheless, telecommuting is destined to increase, he said, pushed along by snowstorms, traffic jams and technological progress .

Aviation is usually forward-looking, bound up with the future and with technological progress .

In other words, the judicial process has never been indifferent to technological progress .

For scientific and technological progress released forces of destruction in equal measure to forces of production.

They follow and brilliantly exploit technological progress , and supply high-quality goods at low prices.

In recent years, a great deal of emphasis has been placed on technological progress as a cause of structural unemployment.

It is equally important to note that the change in attitude and technological progress should not imply the rejection of exogenous technology.

■ NOUN

report

Examination results and progress reports must be forwarded to Sylvia Middlemiss.

The Chairman-in-Office will present a progress report to the next Ministerial Council in 1995 in Budapest.

He completed the revision of his Bengali translation of the Scriptures and received progress reports of the mission's activities.

A progress report had been requested.

Report forms are particularly useful for standard reports such as accident or progress reports.

A further progress report will be given thereafter.

Investigation progress reports were issued to councillors, regulatory authorities and emergency services and public complaints were handled on a one-to-one basis.

■ VERB

achieve

Last year's negotiations, he said, did achieve some progress .

If widely adopted, and steadfastly supported, it could achieve revolutionary progress throughout defense management.

Most importantly, Rose had lost motivation to help herself and achieve progress , and no one around her could help restore it.

They were able to achieve this speedy progress at least in part by following a role model in the business.

assess

Try to assess your progress daily in this way.

However, they also had a nearer-term way of assessing their progress as a team.

How did its authors decide that the past 30 years is the right period for assessing progress ?

The tape measure is a much more accurate way of assessing your progress .

Above all they don't test, assess or measure progress in any way.

In addition to departmental seminars, there are courses in research methodology and practice and regular meetings with a review board to assess progress .

Recording and assessing the child's progress Already many schools are working on various ways of recording attainment targets for individual children.

They said teachers were poor in assessing National Curriculum progress and had low expectations of the pupils.

chart

Kim spends most of her time in the kitchen, charting the progress of her late supper.

Have you charted your progress and changed your course appropriately?

In charting the progress of fans' careers, two types of data have been used.

A nerve-wracking wait added to the mounting psychological pressure as we charted the progress of the sun over the Anglesey seascape.

I don't know why we don't throw them away; perhaps we are charting our progress .

Likewise a business plan should be developed in order to chart the proposed progress .

They had charted their son's progress from afar but had not realised the group's popularity.

check

They hit a good League run after the Cup knock-out, before two successive defeats checked their progress .

She flew to Breckenridge a couple of times a week to check on progress .

Each will be revised regularly to check on progress , and raise standards higher.

When the actual construction began, I detoured daily on my way to school to check out the progress being made.

Central South saw what they'd achieved by 1991, and now we've been back to check on progress .

And for you too, a buddy to check your progress is a good idea.

The Computer Group Manager should regularly check the progress that is being made towards resolving the problems that are under his control.

Bob commuted from Rochester and the Isle of Wight, to check on progress with the wing rebuild.

continue

They will harness those qualities to ensure that we continue to make progress .

He spat and shrugged his shoulder across his lips, wiping his mouth, then he continued his progress across the lawn.

He was given no follow-up treatment to continue the progress he had made in the rehabilitation hospital.

N., meet our obligations and continue to spur real progress .

That requires the Bill to be revived tonight so that it can continue its progress .

The problem of fragmentation continues to hinder progress in most development work in the bantustans.

Animal research has proved of little value in the past and will continue to hinder medical progress in the future.

But now he has to pin his faith on the emerging talent and pray they continue to make progress .

follow

They are now following the progress of a group of outpatients at Westminster Hospital screened for cervical cancer by the new test.

Voice over They've been following the progress of around 150 bats.

The quatrains follow the progress of a child from his fortuitous birth to his first conscious communication with others.

The important point to note as you follow my progress is just how easy it is and how flexible.

You can configure your newsreader to sort threads together to follow the progress of a discussion.

All the minions in the outer office take their eyes off their VDUs, and follow my limping progress up the room.

impede

And since acquisition depends on communication, your deliberate delivery will impede your progress in learning the language as well.

He had no torch, but darkness did not impede his progress .

If Nature herself sought to impede her progress , then resistance was mere pride and folly.

Previously, the shoe had only been tied on and this greatly impeded the animal's progress .

Breaks twigs off trees; generally impedes progress .

make

Those projects already in hand have made progress presentations to the Steering Committee.

I think I was making progress with it.

Even in these circumstances we still expect to make steady progress in 1993.

However, Mr Nasser concedes it has been only recently that he has made real progress in reducing his head count.

If things go wrong Every now and again you will not make the progress that you anticipate.

Before you complete your road map, you should establish specific markers that will tell you whether you are making progress .

Not that he had made much progress on anything else.

Children who came to the home unable to walk, talk or feed themselves are making good progress now.

measure

In this limited way care programming can be used to set targets and measure progress in developing mental health services.

They give you ways to measure progress .

Employment and output represent the different ways of measuring the progress of an economy.

The games have various levels of difficulty, and there is a reporting system to measure progress .

Our proposals are: A better method of measuring economic progress .

monitor

You will however monitor , progress chase, instruct and communicate through paper.

The contents of every breath the patient takes are logged in the computer monitoring his progress .

Mr. Rost Under the Electricity Act 1989, the regulator is directed to monitor the progress of combined heat and power.

Users should be able to monitor the progress of any background tasks they have initiated from submission to completion.

Not only therefore is monitoring for job progress necessary, but review of cash flow predictions must follow.

We must ensure that they receive ample opportunities to improve their skills and monitor their progress .

Although Hendrique was staring at him Graham was more interested in monitoring the progress of the indicator.

review

Two important international conferences in 1988, which reviewed the progress of techniques and controls, reached the same conclusion.

Establish a regular schedule for reviewing progress with your boss or colleagues.

In 1930, a conference in Bedford reviewed the progress of the District's rural scheme.

The conferences may be used not only to plan programs of assistance, but also to review and chart progress .

At the end of each stage the analyst and management have an opportunity to review progress in the development of the application.

Agree a regular schedule of meetings to review progress .

Now is a good time to review training progress .

show

But they had to be shown progress , told when the war would end.

The Club showed another sign of progress - the winning eight at Henley was coxed by a woman, Rachel Foister.

No other line, outside of drinking, can show the progress that robbing has in the last five years.

The table shows the steady progress we have made with tokamaks over the past quarter of a century.

Student and teacher alike may be surprised and positively reinforced by viewing a graph that shows progress .

That shows the progress that we have made in the past 12 years in taking education and training forward.

They always showed a trial in progress .

track

Some Sharp models track the progress of the food as it cooks by assessing the moisture level.

All Jason needs now is another set of braces as well as special X-rays to track his progress .

watch

I will watch its progress with much interest.

Since then it has gained more and more attention as astronomers worldwide watch its progress en route to the sun.

Senior officers were obviously watching her progress with extreme interest.

The language is close to approval, according to officials from several agencies watching its progress .

She can maintain individual contact and watch the progress of the students.

We watched its sedate progress for a while before turning into Grønfjorden and anchoring off Barentsburg.

I shall watch your progress with pride and pleasure.

When they had passed the house he stood in the bay and watched their progress .

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

be a work in progress

the march of time/history/progress etc

At present these are banned, as are crossbows, but will these eventually be admitted with the march of progress?

But in 1874-not ten years earlier or later-city and nation endured a painful pause in the march of progress.

Like Franco, Arrese was trying to hold back the march of history.

New discoveries have opened up all kinds of possibilities for holding back the march of time.

They succeeded because they brought hope to the losers whom the march of progress had left behind.

This little community is still in existence, largely untouched by the march of time.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Progress in technology has changed people's lives dramatically.

a progress report

Any progress in cancer research may help to save lives.

Bad weather has prevented progress on retrieving the plane from the sea.

Spencer insisted that free enterprise was the key to social progress .

Technological progress has allowed people to build immensely tall skyscrapers.

The new national tests are intended to keep a closer check on children's progress .

The older generation is simply afraid of progress .

The two sides are making some progress toward a compromise.

We are making steady progress towards equal status for men and women.

We are very pleased with your son's progress at school.

Yes, we've made progress . But there's so much more to do.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Can anyone identify the driving forces behind such progress ?

Despite all the adversity, when the first report card came out, Casey had actually made some progress .

Having made real progress in establishing democratic governments and free markets, they seek to professionalize their military establishments.

I agree wholeheartedly that parents need to be informed of their children's progress .

I would then return to a classroom where a historically rich conversation was in progress .

In fact, the scientists were making considerable progress .

It is assumed that technical progress is purely labour-augmenting.

We must ensure that they receive ample opportunities to improve their skills and monitor their progress .

II. verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

further

Next day, his confidence should be better, and he will probably progress further .

You may well have to accommodate them, at least to some extent, if you are to progress further .

Beware of becoming so fixated on this one position that you acquire a mental block against progressing further .

Further progress up the unspoilt valley was made next day.

Any such attempt will necessarily result in a segmented Community with some countries further progressing towards integration while others become satellite economies.

rapidly

Understanding of the atomic nucleus was progressing rapidly and awareness was dawning of the awesome energies latent within.

In her late fifties, she lay in the hospital bed with a rapidly progressing pancreatic cancer.

Apart from the exhibits, work has progressed rapidly on restoring the various buildings to make them usable once again.

Her professors at the Washington Theological Union said she was progressing rapidly , and had a firm understanding of the liturgy.

And her swimming is progressing rapidly , too.

Since this ban was relaxed, development is progressing rapidly .

Those whose dementia progresses rapidly or who suddenly become unmanageable because of aggression or death of the carer have no hope of admission.

This rapidly progresses into following the child around the room with a spoon.

slowly

Seam progressed slowly , content to ignore commercial pressures and to concentrate on their contemplative music.

He spent the next two summers playing Double-A at Reading, slowly progressing .

Doctors said last night Watson, 27, whos suffered head injuries was progressing slowly .

Knowledge of the disease progressed slowly .

Ramdoo was suspended from duty, the home was placed under independent control and the case progressed slowly to court.

You progress slowly , gradually adding more details.

The clearance of the portion of the site already authorized was in hand at this stage, but progressing slowly .

On the west lawn a large motor mower progressed slowly across the sward shaving off the last half-millimetre of grass before perfection.

well

But property acquisition, demolition, and relocation activities were progressing well in the Booker Washington project.

It is very much a live issue and is progressing well .

After the honeymoon, Alexia was pregnant and he was progressing well on the film score.

His reading was up to standard for Mrs Hartridge's class and his writing was progressing well .

A proficient rather than brilliant amateur, Johnson went professional in 1968 and progressed well , winning thirty-two of thirty-eight contests.

■ NOUN

century

As the nineteenth century progressed these three groups came closer together.

But as the century progressed , their position became more ornamental than functional.

child

In other words, the child has progressed to the conception of thinking as something mental, behind any verbal expression.

The commission also wants a return to hands-on technology, plus tests to ensure that children progress by ability, not age.

Once accepted, the frail child progressed well both in dancing and general education.

development

However, there are several indicators that supervisory development has not progressed as far as the development of the managerial team.

Since this ban was relaxed, development is progressing rapidly.

disease

The fish become shy, listless, and often stop feeding once the disease has progressed .

Knowledge of the disease progressed slowly.

Be assured that the risks taken now would later on be even greater as the disease progresses .

Self worth diminishes and shame and fear increase as the disease progresses .

As the disease progressed , however, cold became more and more difficult to deny.

As the disease progressed , the denial became easier.

Intracellular and canalicular cholestasis, as well as periportal ductular proliferation always accompanied these cellular changes as the disease progressed .

At first the disease seemed to progress fairly rapidly.

game

There was a card game next door whose progress he could hear through the partition wall.

As the game progressed Portadown gradually regained a steady foothold in C.I. territory but their only reward was another Barnes penalty.

level

For example, applicants do not always progress through the operation levels in a straight forward manner.

As these disorders progress , the level of unconjugated bilirubin in the blood rises.

A concave underwater shape will give superior performance when you progress to an intermediate level .

science

A further condition is connected with the need for science to progress .

They like to see the history of science progressing intellectually by ideas.

As science progressed , so medicine followed producing a medicine of the mind; psychology.

But then, perhaps their story is typical-for although science progresses it rarely proceeds in straight lines.

We learn from our mistakes. Science progresses by trial and error.

student

I've also enjoyed watching furniture students progress with mixed success from college to those ranks of recognised craftspeople.

Do not expect to see short-term results, but be assured that work-inhibited students do progress with nurturing from their teachers.

The students progressed at very different rates, and in ways that reflected their prior experience as well as their training.

things

But we must remember that things have progressed , mustn't we?

As a class, things have progressed nicely from that first rough week.

He says the tests didn't show up originally and that's why things progressed so far.

If it's left to the free market these things will not progress fast enough.

To judge from the smooth and professional way things progressed , organising and running a rally is easy.

Most significant of all there is an interruption in registration in 1206 when things were not progressing well for Innocent.

war

But as the air war progresses , new targets become harder to find.

As the war progressed , Yardley added a variety of subsections to MI-8.

Well, let's see how our private war is progressing .

As the war progressed , this position be-came less and less tenable and was eventually discarded.

As the war progressed the two combatants became increasingly receptive to representations from non-involved powers.

As the war progresses ... How's your platoon doing?

It is striking that there was this shift from principle to aesthetic response as the war progressed .

But as the war progressed he became increasingly preoccupied with understanding the world order.

work

It returned now as an act of re-dedication; and suddenly the work progressed .

The work is progressing ahead of schedule and should be completed within three weeks, she said.

But assistant director of environment, development and transportation, Ken Glew, said preparatory work was progressing .

She appointed officers, kept a watch over financial affairs, and made sure the work was progressing smoothly.

Yet, barring the little mishaps, always a feature of Danu life, the work progressed .

For instance, an employee is asked to send in a regular report on how certain work is progressing .

Apart from the exhibits, work has progressed rapidly on restoring the various buildings to make them usable once again.

Tap in place with the club hammer handle and check with a spirit level as work progresses .

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

As the meeting progressed Jack became more and more bored.

As the war progressed, it became increasingly difficult to buy fresh food.

Bob was a very good football coach, and the team progressed very well.

Both of the men progressed slowly up the stairs.

Repair work has progressed more quickly than expected.

So far the building work has progressed according to plan.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

And her swimming is progressing rapidly, too.

And people rarely progress without setbacks.

As the year progressed and the managers interpersonal judgment improved, we sAw how they gained self-confidence.

Leaving a glowing trail over one thousand kilometers long, it broke into several large pieces as it progressed.

My method throughout was to begin faintly, after which I progressed to more definite drawing in a suitable colour or tone.

Science progresses by learning which similarities are the key to which sequences.

The work is progressing ahead of schedule and should be completed within three weeks, she said.

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