Precede vs. Proceed

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  • Precede (verb)

    To go before, go in front of.

  • Precede (verb)

    To cause to be preceded; to preface; to introduce.

  • Precede (verb)

    To have higher rank than (someone or something else).

  • Precede (noun)

    Brief editorial preface (usually to an article or essay)

  • Proceed (verb)

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

    “To proceed on a journey.”

  • Proceed (verb)

    To pass from one point, topic, or stage, to another.

    “To proceed with a story or argument.”

  • Proceed (verb)

    To come from (have as the source or origin)

    “Light proceeds from the sun.”

  • Proceed (verb)

    To go on in an orderly or regulated manner; to begin and carry on a series of acts or measures; to act methodically

  • Proceed (verb)

    To be transacted; to take place; to occur.

  • Proceed (verb)

    To be applicable or effective; to be valid.

  • Proceed (verb)

    To begin and carry on a legal process. en

Wiktionary
  • Proceed (verb)

    begin a course of action

    “the consortium could proceed with the plan”

  • Proceed (verb)

    do something after something else

    “opposite the front door was a staircase which I proceeded to climb”

  • Proceed (verb)

    (of an action) carry on or continue

    “my studies are proceeding well”

  • Proceed (verb)

    start a lawsuit against someone

    “he may still be able to proceed against the contractor under negligence rules”

  • Proceed (verb)

    move forward

    “from the High Street, proceed over Magdalen Bridge”

  • Proceed (verb)

    advance to a higher rank, status, or education

    “he did not proceed to university in his seventeenth year”

  • Proceed (verb)

    originate from

    “his claim that all power proceeded from God”

Oxford Dictionary

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