<B>progression, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the act or process of moving forward; going ahead. <BR> <I>Ex. Creeping is a slow method of progression.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Mathematics.) a series of numbers in which there is always the same relation between each quantity and the one succeeding it. 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 are in arithmetical progression. 2, 4, 8, 16, 32 are in geometric progression. <DD><B> 3. </B>the apparent or actual motion of a planet from west to east. <DD><B> 4. </B>(Music.) <DD><B> a. </B>the act of passing from one tone to another in melody, or from one chord to another in harmony. <DD><B> b. </B><B>=sequence.</B> </DL>
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<B>progressional, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having to do with progression, advance, or improvement. <BR> <I>Ex. ... the progressional force of civilization (American Anthropologist).</I> </DL>
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<B>progressionism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> belief in or devotion to progress. </DL>
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<B>progressionist, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who favors or believes in progress, as in politics or evolution. </DL>
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<B>progressist, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who favors progress; progressive. </DL>
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<B>progressive, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>making progress; advancingto something better; improving. <BR> <I>Ex. a progressive nation.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>favoring progress; wanting improvement or reform in government, religion, or business. <BR> <I>Ex. He is blamed ... for helping to keep the Administration on a progressive course (Time).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>moving forward; going ahead; developing. <BR> <I>Ex. a progressive disease.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>going from one to the next; involving shifts of players or guests from one table to another. <BR> <I>Ex. progressive bridge.</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>of, following, or based on the theories and practices of progressive education. <BR> <I>Ex. a progressive school; ... a progressive curriculum which includes regular courses (Newsweek).</I> <DD><B> 6. </B>(Grammar.) showing the action as going on. <I>Is reading, was reading,</I> and <I>has been reading</I> are progressive forms of <I>read.</I> <DD><B> 7. </B>(Phonetics.) (of assimilation) in which a preceding sound influences one that follows. <DD><B> 8. </B>increasing in proportion to the increase of something else. <BR> <I>Ex. A progressive income tax is one whose rate goes up as a person's earnings increase.</I> <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a person who favors improvement and reform in government, religion, or business. <BR> <I>Ex. Our doctor is a progressive in his beliefs.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=progressivist.</B> adv. <B>progressively.</B> noun <B>progressiveness.</B> </DL>
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<B>Progressive, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> of a Progressive Party. <DD><I>noun </I> a member of a Progressive Party. </DL>
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<B>Progressive Conservative,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a member of the Progressive Conservative Party. <DD><B> 2. </B>of or having to do with the Progressive Conservative Party. </DL>
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<B>Progressive Conservative Party,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the former Conservative Party of Canada. </DL>
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<B>progressive education,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a system of education based on the principles of John Dewey and his followers, characterized by emphasis on fitting a course of study to the abilities and interests of the pupils rather than fitting the pupils to a given curriculum. </DL>
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<B>progressive jazz,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a jazz style closely resembling bebop, but technically more elaborate and experimental. </DL>
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<B>Progressive Party,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a political party formed in 1912 under the leadership of Theodore Roosevelt, advocating direct primaries, the initiative, the referendum, the recall, and woman suffrage. It was also called the Bull Moose Party. <DD><B> 2. </B>a similar political party organized in 1924 and led by Senator Robert M. La Follette. <DD><B> 3. </B>a political party formed in 1948 and led by Henry A. Wallace. </DL>
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<B>progressivism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the principles and practices of progressives. </DL>
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<B>Progressivism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) the doctrines of a Progressive Party. </DL>
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<B>progressivist, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a person who believes in progressive education. <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=progressive.</B> <DD><I>adj. </I> <B>=progressivistic.</B> </DL>
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<B>progressivistic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of progressivists; characterized by progressivism. </DL>
<B>progymnosperm, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> any of the fossil plants believed to be progenitors of the gymnosperms. </DL>
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<B>prohibit, </B>transitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to forbid by law or authority. <BR> <I>Ex. to prohibit the sale of alcoholic beverages. Picking flowers in this park is prohibited.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to prevent; hinder. <BR> <I>Ex. Rainy weather and fog prohibited flying. Good manners prohibit me from so rude an answer.</I> (SYN) preclude, debar. </DL>
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<B>prohibition, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the act of prohibiting or forbidding. <BR> <I>Ex. The prohibition against swimming in the city's reservoirs is sensible.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a law or laws that prohibits. <DD><B> 3. </B>a law or laws against making or selling alcoholic liquors. National prohibition existed in the United States between 1920 and 1933. <DD><B> 4. </B>the period when national prohibition was in force in the United States. </DL>
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<B>prohibitionism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the principles and practices of prohibitionists. <BR> <I>Ex. The bad saloon did more harm to the liquor trade than prohibitionism (North American Review).</I> </DL>
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<B>prohibitionist, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who favors laws against the manufacture and sale of alcoholic liquors. </DL>
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<B>Prohibitionist, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a member of the Prohibition Party. </DL>
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<B>Prohibition Party,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a political party, organized in 1869, advocating the prohibition by law of the manufacture and sale of alcoholic liquor. </DL>
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<B>prohibitive, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> enough to prohibit or prevent something; prohibiting; preventing. <BR> <I>Ex. Gold would make excellent roofs, if the price were not prohibitive.</I> adv. <B>prohibitively.</B> noun <B>prohibitiveness.</B> </DL>
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<B>prohibitor, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who prohibits. </DL>
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<B>prohibitory, </B>adjective. =prohibitive.</DL>
<A NAME="prohormone">
<B>prohormone, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the inactive forerunner of a hormone; substance from which a hormone is built. <BR> <I>Ex. In the body, the molecule is first synthesized in the parathyroid gland as a prohormone, a long chain of 106 amino acids that are chemically linked together (Earl A. Evans).</I> </DL>
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<B>proinsulin, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a single-chain protein that is a precursor of insulin in the pancreas and converted by an enzyme into insulin. </DL>
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<B>project, </B>noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a plan; scheme. <BR> <I>Ex. Flying in a heavy machine was once thought an impossible project.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>an undertaking; enterprise. <BR> <I>Ex. to grant funds for a research project.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>a special assignment planned and carried out by a student, a group of students, or an entire class. <DD><B> 4. </B>(U.S.) a group of apartment buildings built and run as a unit; a housing project. <BR> <I>Ex. Lucretia ... lives in the same project, one flight up (New Yorker).</I> <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1a. </B>to plan; scheme. <BR> <I>Ex. The government projected a tax decrease. I projected and drew up a plan for the union (Benjamin Franklin).</I> (SYN) devise, contrive. <DD><B> b. </B>to make a forecast for (something) on the basis of past performance. <BR> <I>Ex. to project a population increase of 20 per cent in ten years.</I> (SYN) foresee, forecast. <DD><B> 2. </B>to throw or cast forward. <BR> <I>Ex. to project a missile into space. A cannon projects shells.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>to cause to fall on a surface or into space. <BR> <I>Ex. Motion pictures are projected on the screen. The tree projects a shadow on the grass.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>to cause to stick out or protrude. <BR> <I>Ex. to project a pier out into the lake.</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>to draw lines through (a point, line or figure) and reproduce it on a line, plane, or surface. <DD><B> 6. </B>(Psychology.) to treat as objective and external (what is essentially subjective). <DD><I>v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>to stick out. <BR> <I>Ex. The rocky point projects far into the water.</I> (SYN) protrude. <DD><B> 2. </B>(U.S. Dialect.) to make plans, especially in an ineffective way. adj. <B>projectable.</B> </DL>
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<B>projectile, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> an object that can be thrown, hurled, or shot, such as a stone, spear, or bullet. <BR> <I>Ex. In this chapter we shall discuss the motion of a projectile, such as a baseball or golf ball, a bomb released from a plane, a rifle bullet, or the shell of a gun (Sears and Zemansky).</I> <DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>that can be thrown, hurled, or shot. <BR> <I>Ex. Bullets and arrows are projectile weapons.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>forcing forward; impelling. <BR> <I>Ex. a projectile force.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>that can be thrust forward. <BR> <I>Ex. the projectile jaws of a fish.</I> </DL>
