What's the difference between oncome and progress?

Oncome


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Due to oncoming traffic he couldn’t and swerved in towards me and my child on a bike seat.
  • (2) tritaeniorhynchus, with oncoming darkness they become very active, gradually decreasing in activity toward mid night, but slightly increasing toward dawn.
  • (3) The first shot came back to him off the oncoming Subasic but the ball came back to Giroud and he scored with a right-foot effort that was still rising as it hit the net.
  • (4) The annual retreat to Jackson Hole, Wyoming , which has in previous years been dominated by discussion about the oncoming collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008 and the Greek debt crisis, this year focused on what impact a Chinese slowdown could have on the US economy.
  • (5) The results can be summarized as follows: a. the times of the two main meals show a high stability, both in working and in free-days, at about 1230 for lunch and 1915 for dinner, with a higher variability for the dinner-time; b. there are no relevant differences between men and women; c. there is a progressive advance of the breakfast-time (together with sleeping and waking times) with oncoming age; d. industrial workers advance the breakfast-time, on work days, compared to housewives, clerks, artisans and tradesmen, while the latter delay dinner-time as compared to the others; e. shiftwork breaks up the usual timetables interfering with at least one of the main meals, according to the different shifts (morning, afternoon, night); f. morning types anticipate meal and sleeping times in comparison to evening types, both while working and, above all, on free-days.
  • (6) The debutant slipped a beautifully weighted pass into Oscar's path and the Brazilian was suddenly running through, stretching out his right boot and poking a shot beyond the oncoming McGregor.
  • (7) Attempt to lift the ball over the oncoming keeper and put it wide.
  • (8) Although the majority of pedestrian fatalities to older children have been shown to be due to "dart-outs" into traffic with the child being struck by an oncoming car, pedestrian fatality incident for children less than five tended to occur when the child was backed over in the home driveway by the family van or light truck driven by a parent.
  • (9) The belief that incontinence signals oncoming incompetence is a cultural construction that is apparent in popular culture, such as literature and movies and reflected in the secrecy attendant on much incontinence in later life.
  • (10) Before becoming an MP Davey received awards from the Royal Humane Society and the chief constable of the British Transport police in 1994 for rescuing a woman from the path of an oncoming train at Clapham Junction.
  • (11) Racing back towards the square, Ruqayah saw oncoming armoured bulldozers, with blunt-nosed armoured personnel carriers behind them.
  • (12) As percussion grenades exploded by the Nile, demonstrators chanted "terrorists" at the oncoming police, though also called on them to join their ranks.
  • (13) Bird travelled along the valley road, colliding with oncoming vehicles and a stone wall before turning off the road signposted 'no through road' to Doctor Bridge, Boot.
  • (14) Oncoming car pulled out, flashed his lights to full beam, ignored three “give way” signs on his side, and blasted his way through.
  • (15) She took her own life, aged 19, by lying down on the tracks in front of an oncoming commuter train.
  • (16) Froes fell into the path of an oncoming car driven by a 17-year-old on a learner’s permit.
  • (17) The gradual increase in thyroid hormone concentration in the later half of hibernation may be associated with increased lipolysis and preparation of the oncoming reproductive period.
  • (18) Subjects made estimates with the dominant and nondominant eye closest to the oncoming ball.
  • (19) Statistically significant reduction of leukaemic infiltration in examined myelograms was as s rule the sign of oncoming favourable therapeutic result.
  • (20) Cars still try to overtake with oncoming traffic by passing with a foot or less of my handle bars.

Progress


Definition:

  • (n.) A moving or going forward; a proceeding onward; an advance
  • (n.) In actual space, as the progress of a ship, carriage, etc.
  • (n.) In the growth of an animal or plant; increase.
  • (n.) In business of any kind; as, the progress of a negotiation; the progress of art.
  • (n.) In knowledge; in proficiency; as, the progress of a child at school.
  • (n.) Toward ideal completeness or perfection in respect of quality or condition; -- applied to individuals, communities, or the race; as, social, moral, religious, or political progress.
  • (n.) A journey of state; a circuit; especially, one made by a sovereign through parts of his own dominions.
  • (v. i.) To make progress; to move forward in space; to continue onward in course; to proceed; to advance; to go on; as, railroads are progressing.
  • (v. i.) To make improvement; to advance.
  • (v. t.) To make progress in; to pass through.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) An effective graft-surveillance protocol needs to be applicable to all patients; practical in terms of time, effort, and cost; reliable; and able to detect, grade, and assess progression of lesions.
  • (2) The fine structure of neurofibrillary tangles in the hippocampal gyrus, substantia nigra, pontine nuclei and locus coeruleus of the brain was postmortem studied in a case of progressive supranuclear palsy.
  • (3) A progressively more precise approach to identifying affected individuals involves measuring body weight and height, then energy intake (or expenditure) and finally the basal metabolic rate (BMR).
  • (4) These results suggest that the pelvic floor is affected by progressive denervation but descent during straining tends to decrease with advancing age.
  • (5) The epidemiology of HIV infection among women and hence among children has progressively changed since the onset of the epidemic in Western countries.
  • (6) In this review, we demonstrate that serum creatinine does not provide an adequate estimate of glomerular filtration rate (GFR), and contrary to recent teachings, that the slope of the reciprocal of serum creatinine vs time does not permit an accurate assessment of the rate of progression of renal disease.
  • (7) (ii) A progressive disappearance of the immunoreactive hypendymal cells.
  • (8) DNA in situ is progressively denatured when the cells or nuclei are treated with increasing concentration of acridine orange (AO).
  • (9) This experimental system allows separation of three B lymphocyte developmental stages: early differentiation in vitro, progression to IgM secretion in vivo, and late differentiation dependent upon mature T lymphocytes in vivo.
  • (10) Periodontal disease activity is defined clinically by progressive loss of probing attachment and radiographically by progressive loss of alveolar bone.
  • (11) In the patients who have died or have been classified as slowly progressive the serum 19-9 changes ranged from +13% to +707%.
  • (12) Thus, our results indicate that calbindin-D28k is a useful marker for the projection system from the matrix compartment and that its expression is modified in patients with progressive supranuclear palsy and striatal degeneration.
  • (13) The risk of recurrence and progression in 170 patients presenting with pTa urothelial tumours of the bladder has been estimated so that follow-up can be rationalised.
  • (14) The relative strength of the progressions varies with excitation wavelength and this, together with the absence of a common origin, indicates the existence of two independent emitting states with 0-0' levels separated by either 300 or 1000 cm-1.
  • (15) Progressive sporadic myopathy in association with Down's syndrome has not been reported previously.
  • (16) After local injection of sodium iodoacetate osteoarthritic reactions will progress within 2-4 months.
  • (17) Damage to this innervation is often initiated by childbirth, but appears to progress during a period of many years so that the functional disorder usually presents in middle life.
  • (18) These observations indicate that lipoprotein Lp(a) concentrations can be altered pharmacologically and that the progression of cardiovascular disease may be altered through changes in lipoprotein (a) levels.
  • (19) Interphase death thus involves a discrete, abrupt transition from the normal state and is not merely the consequence of progressive and degenerative changes.
  • (20) Serial measurements demonstrated a good correlation between enolase and NSE serum levels and the progression of the disease.