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Learning vs. Progress — What's the Difference?

Learning vs. Progress — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Learning and Progress

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Learning

Learning is the process of acquiring new understanding, knowledge, behaviors, skills, values, attitudes, and preferences. The ability to learn is possessed by humans, animals, and some machines; there is also evidence for some kind of learning in certain plants.

Progress

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

Learning

The acquisition of knowledge or skills through study, experience, or being taught
An important learning process
These children experienced difficulties in learning

Progress

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

Learning

The act, process, or experience of gaining knowledge or skill.
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Progress

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

Learning

Knowledge or skill gained through schooling or study.

Progress

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

Learning

(Psychology) Changes in behavior resulting from experience, especially changes due to conditioning.

Progress

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

Learning

(uncountable) An act in which something is learned.

Progress

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

Learning

(uncountable) Accumulated knowledge.
The department head was also a scholar of great learning.

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.

Learning

(countable) Something that has been learned

Progress

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

Learning

Present participle of learn
I'm learning to ride a unicycle.

Progress

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

Learning

The acquisition of knowledge or skill; as, the learning of languages; the learning of telegraphy.

Progress

A journey forward; travel.

Learning

The knowledge or skill received by instruction or study; acquired knowledge or ideas in any branch of science or literature; erudition; literature; science; as, he is a man of great learning.

Progress

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

Learning

The cognitive process of acquiring skill or knowledge;
The child's acquisition of language

Progress

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

Learning

Profound scholarly knowledge

Progress

(intransitive) To develop.
Societies progress unevenly.

Progress

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

Progress

(transitive) To expedite.

Progress

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

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.

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.

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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