different between procedure vs proceed

English

Etymology

From French procédure, from Old French, from Latin procedere (“to go forward, proceed”); see proceed.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /p???si?d??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /p???sid??/
• Hyphenation: pro?ced?ure

Noun

procedure (countable and uncountable, plural procedures)

1. A particular method for performing a task.
2. A series of small tasks or steps taken to accomplish an end.
3. (uncountable) The set of established forms or methods of an organized body for accomplishing a certain task or tasks.

4. The steps taken in an action or other legal proceeding.
   • 1832, Isaac Taylor, Saturday Evening

     Gracious procedures.

5. (obsolete) That which results; issue; product.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)

6. (computing) A subroutine or function coded to perform a specific task.
7. (medicine) A surgical operation.

Synonyms

• (method): algorithm, method, process, routine
• (set of established forms or methods of an organized body): protocol
• (computing): function, routine, sub, subroutine, method (although some of these have slightly differing meanings in some programming languages)
• (medicine): operation

Hyponyms

• administrative procedure
• (computing): stored procedure

Related terms

• proceed
• process
• procession

Translations

Further reading

• procedure in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• procedure in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• reproduce

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French procedure.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pro?s??dy?r?/
• Hyphenation: pro?ce?du?re
• Rhymes: -y?r?

Noun

procedure f (plural procedures)

1. procedure

Derived terms

• afzettingsprocedure

Anagrams

• produceer, producere

Italian

Noun

procedure f

1. plural of procedura

Old French

Noun

procedure f (oblique plural procedures, nominative singular procedure, nominative plural procedures)

1. procedure (particular method for performing a task)

Related terms

• procés, proces
• proceder

Descendants

• ? English: procedure
• French: procédure

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French proceder, from Latin pr?c?d? (“I go forth, go forward, advance”), from pr? (“forth”) + c?d? (“I go”); see cede.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p???si?d/
• Rhymes: -i?d
• Homophone: precede

Verb

proceed (third-person singular simple present proceeds, present participle proceeding, simple past and past participle proceeded)

1. (intransitive) To move, pass, or go forward or onward; to advance; to carry on

   To proceed on a journey.

2. (intransitive) To pass from one point, topic, or stage, to another.

   To proceed with a story or argument.

3. (intransitive) To come from; to have as its source or origin.

   Light proceeds from the sun.

4. (intransitive) To go on in an orderly or regulated manner; to begin and carry on a series of acts or measures; to act methodically

   • He that proceeds upon others’ principles in his enquiry

5. (intransitive) To be transacted; to take place; to occur.
6. (intransitive, of a rule) To be applicable or effective; to be valid.
   • 1726, John Ayliffe, Parergon juris canonici Anglicani

     [This rule] only proceeds and takes place, when a person cannot of common Right condemn or bind another by his Sentence.

7. (law, intransitive) To begin and carry on a legal process. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
8. (intransitive) To take an academic degree.

Usage notes

• When used as a catenative verb, proceed takes the to infinitive (i.e. one says proceed to swing, not proceed swing). See Appendix:English catenative verbs.
• Not to be confused with precede.
• Many of the other English verbs ultimately derived from Latin c?d? are spelled ending in "cede", so the misspelling "procede" is common.

Synonyms

• progress, forthgo

Antonyms

• regress
• recede

Related terms

• procedure
• process

Translations

See also

• proceeds (noun)

References

• proceed in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• proceed in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• pre-Code, precode