Proceed

/pɹəˈsiːd/ · verb

Meaning

To move, pass, or go forward or onward; to advance; to carry on..

Definitions by Sense

1. To move, pass, or go forward or onward; to advance; to carry on.
2. To pass from one point, topic, or stage, to another.
3. To come from; to have as its source or origin.
4. To go on in an orderly or regulated manner; to begin and carry on a series of acts or measures; to act methodically.
5. To be transacted; to take place; to occur.
6. (of a rule) To be applicable or effective; to be valid.
7. (law) To begin and carry on a legal process.
8. To take an academic degree.

Example Sentences

to proceed on a journey

Having completed their task, Fireman Page telephoned from a lineside box to the next signal cabin, briefly reported the incident and said that, as no high explosive had dropped and the track was safe, they proposed proceeding "at caution".

[...] and on the Saturday heavy seas pounded the W.R. on its exposed coastal stretch between Dawlish and Teignmouth, loosening the ballast and forcing trains to proceed with extreme caution.

to proceed with a story or argument

There the missionaries learned that they were to stay for a longer period, and they were lodged in a shed surrounded by rice fields. This was different from what they had expected, because they had been told in Canton that Father Ts’ai had arranged for a place in Hsiang-t’an. They therefore wished to proceed to Hsiang-t’an, but since that was impossible under the circumstances, they asked Liu Shêng-tuan to be their messenger to Father Liu asking him to come to them.

Light proceeds from the sun.

He that proceeds upon others Principles in his Enquiry into any Sciences, though he be reſolv’d to examine them and judge of them freely, does yet at leaſt put himſelf on that ſide, and poſt himſelf in a Party which he will not quit ’till he be beaten out; […]

And he will (after his ſowre faſhion) tell you What hath proceeded worthy note to day.

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• proceeds
• proceeding
• proceeded
• procede

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