different between progress vs succeed

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English progresse, from Old French progres (“a going forward”), from Latin pr?gressus (“an advance”), from the participle stem of pr?gred? (“to go forward, advance, develop”), from pro- (“forth, before”) +? gradi (“to walk, go”). Displaced native Old English forþgang.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: pr?'gr?s, IPA^(key): /?p??????s/, /?p?????s/
• (US) enPR: prä'gr?s, pr?'gr?s, IPA^(key): /?p?????s/, /?p?o????s/, /-??s/
• Rhymes: -?????s, -????s

Noun

progress (countable and uncountable, plural progresses)

1. Movement or advancement through a series of events, or points in time; development through time. [from 15th c.]

   Testing for the new antidote is currently in progress.

2. Specifically, advancement to a higher or more developed state; development, growth. [from 15th c.]

   Science has made extraordinary progress in the last fifty years.

3. An official journey made by a monarch or other high personage; a state journey, a circuit. [from 15th c.]
   • 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 7:

     ... Queen Elizabeth in one of her progresses, stopping at Crawley to breakfast, was so delighted with some remarkably fine Hampshire beer which was then presented to her by the Crawley of the day (a handsome gentleman with a trim beard and a good leg), that she forthwith erected Crawley into a borough to send two members to Parliament ...

   • 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin 2012, p. 124:

     With the king about to go on progress, the trials and executions were deliberately timed.

4. (now rare) A journey forward; travel. [from 15th c.]
   • 1887, Thomas Hardy, The Woodlanders:

     Now Tim began to be struck with these loitering progresses along the garden boundaries in the gloaming, and wondered what they boded.

5. Movement onwards or forwards or towards a specific objective or direction; advance. [from 16th c.]

   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. See Appendix:Collocations of do, have, make, and take

Derived terms

• work-in-progress

Translations

Etymology 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.

Pronunciation

• enPR: pr?gr?s', IPA^(key): /p??????s/

Verb

progress (third-person singular simple present progresses, present participle progressing, simple past and past participle progressed)

1. (intransitive) to move, go, or proceed forward; to advance.

   They progress through the museum.
2. (intransitive) to improve; to become better or more complete.

   Societies progress unevenly.

3. (transitive) To move (something) forward; to advance, to expedite.
   • 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin 2012, p. 266:

     Or […] they came to progress matters in which Dudley had taken a hand, and left defrauded or bound over to the king.

Antonyms

• regress
• retrogress

Translations

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Further reading

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

Latvian

Etymology

Via other European languages, ultimately borrowed from Latin pr?gressus (“an advance”), from the participle stem of pr?gred? (“to go forward, advance, develop”), from pro- (“forth, before”) + gradi (“to walk, go”).

Pronunciation

Noun

progress m (1st declension)

1. progress (development, esp. to a higher, fuller, more advanced state; transition from a lower to a higher level)

   Synonyms: att?st?ba, evol?cija

Declension

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English

Alternative forms

• succede (dated)

Etymology

From Old French succeder, from Latin succedere (“to go under, go from under, come under, approach, follow, take the place of, receive by succession, prosper, be successful”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?k?si?d/
• Rhymes: -i?d
• Hyphenation: suc?ceed

Verb

succeed (third-person singular simple present succeeds, present participle succeeding, simple past and past participle succeeded)

1. (transitive) To follow something in sequence or time.

2. (transitive) To replace or supplant someone in order vis-à-vis an office, position, or title.

   Synonym: take the place of

3. (intransitive) To prevail in obtaining an intended objective or accomplishment; to prosper as a result or conclusion of a particular effort.

4. (intransitive) To come after or follow; to be subsequent or consequent.
   • 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 49

     Her arms were like legs of mutton, her breasts like giant cabbages; her face, broad and fleshy, gave you an impression of almost indecent nakedness, and vast chin succeeded to vast chin.

5. To support; to prosper; to promote.

   • Succeed my wish and second my design.

6. (intransitive) To come in the place of another person, thing, or event; to come next in the usual, natural, or prescribed course of things; to follow; hence, to come next in the possession of anything; -- often with to.
   1. To ascend the throne after the removal the death of the occupant.

7. To descend, as an estate or an heirloom, in the same family; to devolve.
8. To go under cover.
9. (obsolete, rare) To fall heir to; to inherit.

10. (obsolete, rare) To ensue with an intended consequence or effect.

Synonyms

• (follow in order): come after; see also Thesaurus:succeed
• (support; prosper; promote): do well, flourish; see also Thesaurus:prosper

Antonyms

• (follow in order): precede; see also Thesaurus:precede
• (obtain the object desired; accomplish what is attempted or intended): fail, fall on one's face
• (support; prosper; promote): fail

Derived terms

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Anagrams

• succede