| advancement progress | gradual improvement or growth or development, advancement of knowledge, great progress in the arts |
progress
progression
procession advance
advancement forward motion
onward motion | the act of moving forward (as toward a goal) |
works
deeds | performance of moral or religious acts, salvation by deeds, the reward for good works |
| construction | drawing a figure satisfying certain conditions as part of solving a problem or proving a theorem, the assignment was to make a construction that could be used in proving the Pythagorean theorem |
construction
building | the act of constructing something, during the construction we had to take a detour, his hobby was the building of boats |
| road construction | the construction of roads |
| construction building | the commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones, their main business is home construction, workers in the building trades |
| dye-works | a workshop where dyeing is done |
| plant works industrial plant | buildings for carrying on industrial labor, they built a large plant to manufacture automobiles |
| public works | structures (such as highways or schools or bridges or docks) constructed at government expense for public use |
sewage system
sewer system
sewage works | facility consisting of a system of sewers for carrying off liquid and solid sewage |
structure
construction | a thing constructed, a complex entity constructed of many parts, the structure consisted of a series of arches, she wore her hair in an amazing construction of whirls and ribbons |
| work in progress | a piece of work that is not yet finished |
works
workings | the internal mechanism of a device |
construction
mental synthesis | the creation of a construct, the process of combining ideas into a congruous object of thought |
| works program | a program to provide jobs on public works paid for by government funds |
construction grammatical construction
expression | a group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit, I concluded from his awkward constructions that he was a foreigner |
| Pilgrim's Progress | an allegory written by John Bunyan in |
construction
twist | an interpretation of a text or action, they put an unsympathetic construction on his conduct |
| progress report | a report of work accomplished during a specified time period |
progress
progression
advance | a movement forward, he listened for the progress of the troops |
construction industry
housing industry | an industry that builds housing |
| works council | (chiefly Brit) a council representing employer and employees of a plant or business to discuss working conditions etc, also: a committee representing the workers elected to negotiate with management about grievances and wages etc |
construction worker
hard hat | a worker skilled in building offices or dwellings etc. |
a whole shebang
whole kit and caboodle
kit and caboodle
whole kit and boodle
kit and boodle
whole kit
whole caboodle
whole works
works
full treatment | everything available, usually preceded by `the', we saw the whole shebang, a hotdog with the works, we took on the whole caboodle, for $ you get the full treatment |
| construction paper | paper suitable for drawing and making cutouts |
progress
come on come along advance
get on
get along
shape up | develop in a positive way, He progressed well in school, My plants are coming along, Plans are shaping up |
build up
work up
build
progress | form or accumulate steadily, Resistance to the manager's plan built up quickly, Pressure is building up at the Indian-Pakistani border |
advance
progress
pass on move on
march on
go on | move forward, also in the metaphorical sense, Time marches on |
| reach make get to progress to | reach a goal, e.g., make the first team, We made it!, She may not make the grade |