different between proceed vs extend

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

English

Etymology

From Middle English extenden, from Anglo-Norman extendre, estendre, from Latin extend? (“I stretch out”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?st?nd/
• Rhymes: -?nd
• Hyphenation: ex?tend

Verb

extend (third-person singular simple present extends, present participle extending, simple past and past participle extended)

1. (intransitive) To increase in extent.
2. (intransitive) To possess a certain extent; to cover an amount of space.

   The desert extended for miles in all directions.

3. (transitive) To cause to increase in extent.
4. (transitive) To cause to last for a longer period of time.
5. (transitive) To straighten (a limb).
6. (transitive) To bestow; to offer; to impart; to apply.

   to extend sympathy to the suffering

   to extend credit to a valued customer

7. To increase in quantity by weakening or adulterating additions.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of G. P. Burnham to this entry?)

   • 1897, Alonzo Lewis, James Robinson Newhall, History of Lynn, Essex County, Massachusetts (page 155)

     […] the exalted morality of those virtuous brethren in the trade who, with consciences as weak as their own "extended" liquors, sought to convince him that to reduce the drink was a mercy to the poor deluded toper.

8. (Britain, law) To value, as lands taken by a writ of extent in satisfaction of a debt; to assign by writ of extent.
9. (object-oriented programming) Of a class: to be an extension or subtype of, or to be based on, a prototype or a more abstract class.

   Synonym: inherit

10. (intransitive, US, military) To reenlist for a further period.
    • 1993, The Leatherneck (volume 76, page xxxvi)

      Two years later, back to amtracs, this time at Camp Schwab, Okinawa, and I liked it so much I extended.

Synonyms

• enlarge
• expand
• increase
• lengthen
• stretch
• widen

Related terms

Translations

Anagrams

• dentex