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progression

English

Etymology

From Old French progression.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /p????????n/

Noun

progression (countable and uncountable, plural progressions)

  1. The act of moving from one thing to another.
  2. The act of moving forward or proceeding in a course; motion onward.
    • 2003,T.H. Jafar, et al.. Annals of Internal Medicine 139: 244-252.
      The lowest risk for kidney disease progression seemed to be at levels of current systolic blood pressure of 110 to 129 mm Hg.
  3. (mathematics) A sequence obtained by adding or multiplying each term by a constant.
  4. Development, increase, evolution.
  5. (music) chord progression
  6. (exercise) The making an exercise more exerting by manipulating the details of its performance like loaded weight, range of motion, angle, speed.

Antonyms

  • regress
  • retrogression

Synonyms

  • (mathematics): sequence

Derived terms

Related terms

  • progress

Translations


Finnish

Noun

progression

  1. Genitive singular form of progressio.

French

Etymology

From Latin progressionem (accusative of progressio).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /p??.???.sj??/

Noun

progression f (plural progressions)

  1. progression

Further reading

  • “progression” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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plenty

English

Etymology

From Middle English plentie, plentee, plente, from Anglo-Norman plenté, from Old French plenté, from Latin plenitatem, accusative of plenitas (fullness), from plenus (complete, full), from Proto-Indo-European *pl?h?nós (full), from which English full also comes, via Proto-Germanic. Related to the Latin derivatives complete, deplete, replete.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?pl?nti/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /?pl?nti/, [?pl???i], [?pl?ni]
    • (pinpen merger) IPA(key): [?pl???i], [?pl?ni]
  • Rhymes: -?nti
  • Homophone: Pliny (pin-pen merger, silent 't')

Noun

plenty (countable and uncountable, plural plenties)

  1. A more-than-adequate amount.
    We are lucky to live in a land of peace and plenty.
    • 1798, Thomas Malthus, An Essay on the Principle of Population:
      During this season of distress, the discouragements to marriage, and the difficulty of rearing a family are so great that population is at a stand. In the mean time the cheapness of labour, the plenty of labourers, and the necessity of an increased industry amongst them, encourage cultivators to employ more labour upon their land, to turn up fresh soil, and to manure and improve more completely what is already in tillage

Usage notes

While some dictionaries analyse this word as a noun, others analyse it as a pronoun, or as both a noun and a pronoun.

Synonyms

  • abundance
  • profusion

Derived terms

Translations

Pronoun

plenty

  1. More than enough.
    I think six eggs should be plenty for this recipe.

Usage notes

See the notes about the noun.

Adverb

plenty (not comparable)

  1. More than sufficiently.
    This office is plenty big enough for our needs.
  2. (colloquial) Used as an intensifier, very.
    She was plenty mad at him.

Translations

Determiner

plenty

  1. (nonstandard) much, enough
    There'll be plenty time later for that
  2. (nonstandard) many
    Get a manicure. Plenty men do it.

Adjective

plenty (comparative more plenty, superlative most plenty)

  1. (obsolete) plentiful
    • 1597, Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part I, Act I, Scene IV:
      if reasons were as plenty as blackberries
    • There are, among the Irish, men of as much worth and honour as any among the English: nay, to speak the truth, generosity of spirit is rather more common among them. I have known some examples there, too, of good husbands; and I believe these are not very plenty in England.
    • 1836, The American Gardener's Magazine and Register, volume 2, page 279:
      Radishes are very plenty. Of cabbages a few heads of this year's crop have come to hand this week, and sold readily at quotations; []

Translations

Related terms

  • plenitude
  • plentitude

References

Anagrams

  • pentyl

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