Growth vs. Progress — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Growth and Progress
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Growth
The process of growing.
Progress
Forward or onward movement, as toward a destination
We made little progress on our way home because of the traffic.
Growth
Full development; maturity.
Progress
Development, advancement, or improvement, as toward a goal
The math students have shown great progress.
Growth
Development from a lower or simpler to a higher or more complex form; evolution.
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Progress
A ceremonial journey made by a sovereign through that sovereign's realm.
Growth
An increase, as in size, number, value, or strength; extension or expansion
Population growth.
Progress
To move forward or onward
The ship progressed toward the equator.
Growth
Something that grows or has grown
A new growth of grass.
Progress
To develop, advance, or improve
Research progressed on the new vaccine.
Growth
An abnormal mass of tissue, such as a tumor, growing in or on a living organism.
Progress
To increase in scope or severity, as a disease taking an unfavorable course.
Growth
A result of growth; a product
Concerns that are a growth of the new responsibilities.
Progress
Movement or advancement through a series of events, or points in time; development through time.
Testing for the new antidote is currently in progress.
Growth
Expected to have or investing in businesses expected to have higher-than-average increases in revenues and returns
A growth stock.
A growth fund.
Progress
Specifically, advancement to a higher or more developed state; development, growth.
Science has made extraordinary progress in the last fifty years.
Growth
An increase in size, number, value, or strength.
Progress
An official journey made by a monarch or other high personage; a state journey, a circuit.
Growth
(economics) economic growth
Growth was dampened by a softening of the global economy in 2001, but picked up in the subsequent years due to strong growth in China.
Progress
A journey forward; travel.
Growth
An increase in psychological strength or resilience; an increased ability to overcome adversity.
Struggle, disappointment, and criticism all contribute to a person's growth.
Progress
Movement onwards or forwards or towards a specific objective or direction; advance.
The thick branches overhanging the path made progress difficult.
Growth
(biology) The act of growing, getting bigger or higher.
Progress
(intransitive) To move, go, or proceed forward; to advance.
Visitors progress through the museum at their own pace.
Growth
(biology) Something that grows or has grown.
Progress
(intransitive) To develop.
Societies progress unevenly.
Growth
(pathology) An abnormal mass such as a tumor.
Progress
(by extension) To improve; to become better or more complete.
Growth
The process of growing; the gradual increase of an animal or a vegetable body; the development from a seed, germ, or root, to full size or maturity; increase in size, number, frequency, strength, etc.; augmentation; advancement; production; prevalence or influence; as, the growth of trade; the growth of power; the growth of intemperance. Idle weeds are fast in growth.
Progress
(transitive) To expedite.
Growth
That which has grown or is growing; anything produced; product; consequence; effect; result.
Nature multiplies her fertile growth.
Progress
A moving or going forward; a proceeding onward; an advance
Growth
(biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level;
He proposed an indicator of osseous development in children
Progress
A journey of state; a circuit; especially, one made by a sovereign through parts of his own dominions.
The king being returned from his progresse.
Growth
A progression from simpler to more complex forms;
The growth of culture
Progress
To make progress; to move forward in space; to continue onward in course; to proceed; to advance; to go on; as, railroads are progressing.
Let me wipe off this honorable dew,That silverly doth progress on thy checks.
They progress in that style in proportion as their pieces are treated with contempt.
The war had progressed for some time.
Growth
A process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important;
The increase in unemployment
The growth of population
Progress
To make improvement; to advance.
If man progresses, art must progress too.
Growth
Vegetation that has grown;
A growth of trees
The only growth was some salt grass
Progress
To make progress in; to pass through.
Growth
The gradual beginning or coming forth;
Figurines presage the emergence of sculpture in Greece
Progress
Gradual improvement or growth or development;
Advancement of knowledge
Great progress in the arts
Growth
(pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor)
Progress
The act of moving forward toward a goal
Growth
Something grown or growing;
A growth of hair
Progress
A movement forward;
He listened for the progress of the troops
Progress
Develop in a positive way;
He progressed well in school
My plants are coming along
Plans are shaping up
Progress
Move forward, also in the metaphorical sense;
Time marches on
Progress
Form or accumulate steadily;
Resistance to the manager's plan built up quickly
Pressure is building up at the Indian-Pakistani border
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