Increment vs. Progress

Incrementnoun

The action of increasing or becoming greater.

Progressnoun

Movement or advancement through a series of events, or points in time; development through time.

‘Testing for the new antidote is currently in progress.’;

Incrementnoun

(heraldry) The waxing of the moon.

Progressnoun

Specifically, advancement to a higher or more developed state; development, growth.

‘Science has made extraordinary progress in the last fifty years.’;

Incrementnoun

The amount of increase.

Progressnoun

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

Incrementnoun

(rhetoric) An amplification without strict climax, as in the following passage: "Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report, {{...}} think on these things."

Progressnoun

A journey forward; travel.

Incrementnoun

(chess) The amount of time added to a player's clock after each move.

Progressnoun

Movement onwards or forwards or towards a specific objective or direction; advance.

‘The thick branches overhanging the path made progress difficult.’;

Incrementnoun

(grammar) A syllable in excess of the number of the nominative singular or the second-person singular present indicative.

Progressverb

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

‘They progress through the museum.’;

Incrementverb

To increase by steps or by a step, especially by one.

Progressverb

(intransitive) to improve; to become better or more complete.

‘Societies progress unevenly.’;

Incrementnoun

The act or process of increasing; growth in bulk, guantity, number, value, or amount; augmentation; enlargement.

‘The seminary that furnisheth matter for the formation and increment of animal and vegetable bodies.’; ‘A nation, to be great, ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself.’;

Progressverb

(transitive) To move (something) forward; to advance, to expedite.

Incrementnoun

Matter added; increase; produce; production; - opposed to decrement.

Progressnoun

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

Incrementnoun

The increase of a variable quantity or fraction from its present value to its next ascending value; the finite quantity, generally variable, by which a variable quantity is increased.

Progressnoun

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.’;

Incrementnoun

An amplification without strict climax, as in the following passage:

‘Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report, . . . think on these things.’;

Progressnoun

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.’;

Incrementnoun

a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important;

‘the increase in unemployment’; ‘the growth of population’;

Progressnoun

To make improvement; to advance.

‘If man progresses, art must progress too.’;

Incrementnoun

the amount by which something increases;

‘they proposed an increase of 15 percent in the fare’;

Progressverb

To make progress in; to pass through.

Progressnoun

gradual improvement or growth or development;

‘advancement of knowledge’; ‘great progress in the arts’;

Progressnoun

the act of moving forward toward a goal

Progressnoun

a movement forward;

‘he listened for the progress of the troops’;

Progressverb

develop in a positive way;

‘He progressed well in school’; ‘My plants are coming along’; ‘Plans are shaping up’;

Progressverb

move forward, also in the metaphorical sense;

‘Time marches on’;

Progressverb

form or accumulate steadily;

‘Resistance to the manager's plan built up quickly’; ‘Pressure is building up at the Indian-Pakistani border’;