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Improve vs. Progress — What's the Difference?

Improve vs. Progress — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Improve and Progress

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Improve

To raise to a more desirable or more excellent quality or condition; make better
Exercise can improve your health.

Progress

Forward or onward movement, as toward a destination
We made little progress on our way home because of the traffic.

Improve

To increase the productivity or value of (land or property)
Improved the house by adding a bathroom.

Progress

Development, advancement, or improvement, as toward a goal
The math students have shown great progress.

Improve

To become better
Economic conditions are improving.
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Progress

A ceremonial journey made by a sovereign through that sovereign's realm.

Improve

To make beneficial additions or changes
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Progress

To move forward or onward
The ship progressed toward the equator.

Improve

(transitive) To make (something) better; to increase the value or productivity (of something).
Painting the woodwork will improve this house.
Buying more servers would improve performance.

Progress

To develop, advance, or improve
Research progressed on the new vaccine.

Improve

(intransitive) To become better.
I have improved since taking the tablets.
The error messages have improved since the last version, when they were incomprehensible.

Progress

To increase in scope or severity, as a disease taking an unfavorable course.

Improve

(obsolete) To disprove or make void; to refute.

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.

Improve

(obsolete) To disapprove of; to find fault with; to reprove; to censure.

Progress

Specifically, advancement to a higher or more developed state; development, growth.
Science has made extraordinary progress in the last fifty years.

Improve

(dated) To use or employ to good purpose; to turn to profitable account.
To improve one's time;
To improve his means

Progress

An official journey made by a monarch or other high personage; a state journey, a circuit.

Improve

To disprove or make void; to refute.
Neither can any of them make so strong a reason which another can not improve.

Progress

A journey forward; travel.

Improve

To disapprove; to find fault with; to reprove; to censure; as, to improve negligence.
When he rehearsed his preachings and his doing unto the high apostles, they could improve nothing.

Progress

Movement onwards or forwards or towards a specific objective or direction; advance.
The thick branches overhanging the path made progress difficult.

Improve

To make better; to increase the value or good qualities of; to ameliorate by care or cultivation; as, to improve land.
I love not to improve the honor of the living by impairing that of the dead.

Progress

(intransitive) To move, go, or proceed forward; to advance.
Visitors progress through the museum at their own pace.

Improve

To use or employ to good purpose; to make productive; to turn to profitable account; to utilize; as, to improve one's time; to improve his means.
We shall especially honor God by improving diligently the talents which God hath committed to us.
A hint that I do not remember to have seen opened and improved.
The court seldom fails to improve the opportunity.
How doth the little busy beeImprove each shining hour.
Those moments were diligently improved.
True policy, as well as good faith, in my opinion, binds us to improve the occasion.

Progress

(intransitive) To develop.
Societies progress unevenly.

Improve

To advance or increase by use; to augment or add to; - said with reference to what is bad.
We all have, I fear, . . . not a little improved the wretched inheritance of our ancestors.

Progress

(by extension) To improve; to become better or more complete.

Improve

To grow better; to advance or make progress in what is desirable; to make or show improvement; as, to improve in health.
We take care to improve in our frugality and diligence.

Progress

(transitive) To expedite.

Improve

To advance or progress in bad qualities; to grow worse.

Progress

A moving or going forward; a proceeding onward; an advance

Improve

To increase; to be enhanced; to rise in value; as, the price of cotton improves.

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.

Improve

To make better;
The editor improved the manuscript with his changes

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.

Improve

Get better;
The weather improved toward evening

Progress

To make improvement; to advance.
If man progresses, art must progress too.

Progress

To make progress in; to pass through.

Progress

Gradual improvement or growth or development;
Advancement of knowledge
Great progress in the arts

Progress

The act of moving forward toward a goal

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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